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Five Steps to Adopting a Beginner’s Mindset for Your Business

Strategy Driven

Through that understanding the team and I can then develop new solutions that save time and money or create greater efficiencies or develop better processes. Nobody has ever created a perfect company, nor trained a perfect employee. During her tenure as Marsh Global Sales COO, the company’s annual new sales topped more than $1.2

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

Developing a leadership training program and increased trust in the competence of leadership. Working with an organization that employs over 2000 employees that was in need of a Managerial Leadership Training Program for their Director Level Staff. Organizational Development Work.

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Leadership Lessons On Listening, Questioning, And Moving Others To Act

Tanveer Naseer

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg’s hugely successful Lean In complements both by providing a clear example of a leader who demonstrates in action the managerial practices that both men advocate. Schein and Daniel H. Pink being the standouts. The first is our preference for telling rather than asking.

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7 Essentials to Successfully Coach Virtual Teams

Skip Prichard

Excerpted with permission from TEAMS UNLEASHED: how to Release the Power and Human Potential of Work Teams (Nicholas Brealey, 2019) by Phillip Sandahl, bestselling author of Co-Active Coaching and the CEO of Team Coaching International and Founding Partner, COO of TCI, Alexis Phillips. How to Coach Virtual Teams. 7 Essentials.

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How an Ownership Mentality Supports Cultural Transformation

Center for Creative Leadership

“When we work with C-suite executives and with senior teams in our organizational practice, we often hear concerns about the disconnections between the current organizational culture and the needed culture to implement the future-proof strategy,” our COO David Altman says. The message is clear: Leadership matters most.

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Why a Gen-X CEO Hired a Millennial to Help Him Keep a Learning Mindset

Harvard Business Review

At age 41, I am where I want to be in my career: running my own sales-training business, with enough clients lined up that I can probably live comfortably for the next several years. Traditionally, I’ve geared my training toward groups rather than individuals, showing entire sales teams various tips and techniques of the trade.

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The Main Thing: How to Keep Organizations Centered on What Matters Most

Leading Blog

We loved that expression when we first heard it from Jim Barksdale, then the COO of FedEx. Without it, it's not possible to align the four elements that produce organizational efficiency and effectiveness: strategy, people, customers, and processes. The main thing is to keep the Main Thing the main thing!" Do your people understand it?