Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2017

Much of the adopted research on the field of strategic management and leadership depicts the successful leader as planner, decision maker, and instigator of structure and sustainable processes. There is a profound difference between information and meaning”. The four gears of success include: a team consensus in the shared vision.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 8, 2024

Adept portfolio management is paramount for sustained growth and competitiveness, especially in today’s difficult and volatile economic environment. Performance Measurement and Management Perspective Central to the PR process is the scrutiny of performance measures. The keywords are valid and achievable.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re sharing information, include everyone who needs that information. What will be the order of information? For all that people complain about meetings, they’re still one of the best ways to share information, gain consensus, assign accountability, and get things done. Be thoughtful about who you invite.

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How To Consensus Follow-up Document 215

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The authors highlight how the pandemic has often meant that leaders have both incomplete and rapidly changing information upon which to make their decisions. “Even if you have the same information (or lack information) you can frame the message in different ways,” the researchers say. ” Clear communication.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Just as great coaches don’t win many games without great players, great managers aren’t successful without the right people on their team. Finding, hiring, and developing great performers is the most important part of every manager’s job. Look for unanimous consensus from all the people who participated in the interviews.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Ineffective engagement with an organization’s stakeholders can lead to blind spots for managers and executives , and these can have a dire effect on an organization’s growth. For more than a year, he and his senior management team have been trying to encourage patient groups to adopt his organization’s innovative medical equipment.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Instead, they have learned to gauge how they should behave and perform by becoming aware of informal (and unspoken) rules that exist just below the surface. Informal Social Network – the people you turn to for encouragement, support, or help with professional or personal challenges. getting support for your next promotion. Michelle P.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”. Your Title Makes You A Manager, Your People Make You A Leader. Best Idea, Not Consensus.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. Do they inform their staff that they are not to be interrupted during the team meetings with functional activities and issues? If consensus is not being reached, do all members engage in the discussion to reach consensus quickly?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2015

I asked a group of managers (coming from a variety of industries and positions) “what do you think most bosses want from their employees?” ” They reached quick consensus: responsiveness, self-sufficiency, creativity, and candor topped the list (with a beautiful argument about the pros and cons of compliance).

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Compliance Consensus Learning-by-Doing Travel 180

The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. If we’re going to maintain this transition, we need to be deliberate about how we manage the process. For creative idea generation, narrowed focus is a problem.”.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

It also means that leaders whose ego is not in the driving seat will have the humility to appreciate that in a crisis (especially), they do not have all the answers and that Leadership and decision-making needs to be distributed to those who have the best knowledge and information. The Transpersonal Touchstone Explored.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2015

Instead, employees self-manage and belong to different decision-making circles that keep the company operating.” But if we simply eliminate hierarchy altogether, we find that “flat-management” alternatives … well, they fall flat. No one reports to anyone anymore,” explains The Washington Post about Zappos.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Be concise but make sure the essentials are clearly defined: how often the team will connect and meet and who will manage the agenda, how delays and snags will be handled, and how people working from outside the team will be managed. A great team charter keeps everyone informed and working toward the same goal. Ask your team.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 5, 2022

Hiring people who are overqualified for their role is usually framed in negative terms, with the consensus being that they will quickly grow bored in their role and jump ship. ” Incomplete information. The researchers argue that the key is to surround people with peers of similar abilities.

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Leading Blog

JULY 9, 2012

Communication is managed as a business process. Many business people think of communication as information dissemination to people rather than communication among people, “telling them what they need to know” versus creating clarity and building shared meaning. Real communication is an attitude, an environment.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Gradually over time, America has become overly obsessed about managing tasks. When managers invest time to develop connections with and among people they become real leaders who people want to follow. Do you get people together to inform them about matters that are important to them? What can be done? We have hopes and dreams.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 21, 2016

Consensus takes time and effort. The longer we go, the more difficult it becomes to gain the consensus we need. The more collaborative your role is, the more you will inevitably come into contact with information that hasn’t been made public yet. Herein lies that challenge. Wasted Time & Resources.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2018

They withhold information, fail to communicate and can’t be trusted. Death by consensus. Consensus is great, but it often takes a bad turn. When a team member’s in it only for themselves, they do real damage. It doesn’t take them long to erode the team’s fiber.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 26, 2019

There are three basic ways along the “3 C continuum” for a team or group to make a decision: Command – made by the manager, project, or team leader with little input from other team members. Consensus – made by the entire team as a group through either “majority rules” or unanimous agreement.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2021

Here are some guidelines to follow for a healthy and safe work environment: Staying informed on the latest news and health guidance from your area is essential. These should include representatives from the management, legal department, payroll/HR, facilities and the IT department.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ensure employees get real-time feedback to help assess their performance There’s a common consensus amongst the various studies on employee engagement that leaders need to be giving more feedback to their employees. So don’t try and wipe slate clean, but use past experiences to inform and guide future decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2018

In building ownership, seek a group consensus as best you can. Provide information and feedback, even if the process is slow. It works well because it helps people, and you avoid surprises. You will not please everyone. We are human, after all, filled will all the foibles, idiosyncrasies, and opinions that go with it.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 86

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Many of the issues we face will require collaboration at some level to solve or even manage them. If committed leaders can consistently achieve consensus, they will move the alliance forward. Finding consensus is an art form that alliance leaders must master.” Defining Common Ground. Collaborations are not easy.

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Consensus Participative Commitment Teamwork 284

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 27, 2012

Chris, the leader of the planning committee for the next District Managers Meeting, sent an email to the company’s leadership team describing two possible venues. As a practical matter, most decisions will be at the Inform or Consult level of involvement). Emails flew around as people weighed in.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 11, 2021

Coaching and mentoring have seldom been more popular, with a growing consensus that it can be vital to our career development. The allure of such products is that they’re capable of crunching the huge quantities of data generated during the course of this kind of work to provide informed feedback to employees and employers alike.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 17, 2012

Managing and working on teams the procedures being used must be known , shared and understood. In order for the decision to be made all the people on the team must know; The Type of Meeting They are Attending: Informational: Manager just shares information with the team. BUT the manager will make the final decision.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

I N AN IBM global survey of CEOs, the overwhelming consensus was that more than rigor, management discipline, integrity or even vision, successfully navigating an increasing complex world will require creativity. Managers often resort to changes in organizational structure as a means of stimulating creativity and improving performance.”

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Creativity Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Construction 267

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 26, 2018

Keenly aware that while your title makes you manager, only your team makes you leader. They may be easier to manage, but a lot less effective. Lead investors, the investors who price a round and set the terms, can help manage the syndicate of shareholders. Then make the best-informed decision you can, regardless of unanimity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2014

Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Leadership Micromanagement Consensus Drucker 298

Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Mentor Micromanagement Consensus Policies 123

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

These projects may have you work with people you don’t normally work with and be managed by a project manager and / or team leader that are not your direct manager. If you are or have ever been a project manager / team leader of this mixed person project team I am sure you have had some struggles. Are these sufficient?

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