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How To Help Your Team Focus & Eliminate Distractions.

Rich Gee Group

Send the team home early on Friday, take them out to lunch, and go for a walk instead of meeting in a conference room. Implement time management strategies. Teaching time management strategies to your team can help them stay focused and on task. Acknowledgment is THE key attribute most employees long for from their manager.

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Why Your Company’s Culture Should Go Far Beyond a Mission Statement

CEO Insider

During my company’s first six years, my only exposure to culture was a boring session on the subject at a minor conference. I thought we were mature enough to self-manage. To me, culture seemed like so much marketing fluff. I didn’t see the point—my people and I were all grown adults, after all. It wasn’t […].

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Three Management Styles

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Great Leadership regular contributor Paul Thornton: Management style greatly affects employees’ motivation and capacity to learn. The most effective managers vary their styles depending on the employee’s knowledge and skills, the nature of the task, time constraints, and other factors. The Three Ds.

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How to Stop a Workplace Bully (Without Losing Your Lunch Money)

Let's Grow Leaders

Do I feel sick or nauseous when working with a particular colleague or manager? If you have a cocktail of the above going on, chances are you’re dealing with some degree of workplace bullying, or at the very least toxic management or bad team culture. with part of the client team in the conference room.

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How Your Employee Recognition Program Can Destroy Morale

Let's Grow Leaders

One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. Be sure the managers participating in your employee recognition program can offer a sincere celebration with no “yeah, buts.” If showing up is the best behavior you can find to recognize, keep looking.

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Front Line Leadership: The Keys To Managing Millenials, Part 1

Terry Starbucker

Rather than radio, television, automobiles, or wars defining their worldview, the Millennials matured in the age of the internet, social networking, and the pursuit of individualism via consumerism (more on this later). Millennials matured during the era of super-celebrities and reality television.

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When Transparency Goes Too Far

Let's Grow Leaders

I see examples of pre-mature disclosure wreaking havoc all the time. If you’re like most managers there are times you didn’t shared enough and your team made crap up, and there are times you said too much and your team freaked out. This week, the Winning Well tour stopped in CA for the ICMI conference.