The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

When it’s clearly beyond lip service, this inspires trust, cooperation, and forgiveness in the people who’ll help take us there. Inflexible Technomanagers oversee rigid systems and processes while trying to encourage risk-taking and innovation. Nobody expects us to be the perfect role model.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 11, 2010

skip to main | skip to sidebar Sunday, April 11, 2010 Cooperation - Work with Others to Achieve a Common Purpose. But a shared goal will make it easier for everyone to work together. Thank you so much for your positive feedback and additional insights about cooperation, Gabriella. February 4, 2011 5:14 AM Meredith Bell said.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Once a system is kicked in a right direction and with a sufficient push, the deviation-amplifying mutual positive feedbacks take over the process, and the resulting development will be disproportionally large compared with the initial kick. Hoping that together we can kick the system in a new, better direction. What do you think?

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 2, 2012

NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Women have unique skills and abilities that make them innately great leaders, but women are still very much in the minority in the world of business leadership. The first step toward overcoming any challenge is awareness. . ” Read the full interview: How Women Can Build Careers via humanresources.about.com.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Tanveer Naseer wrote a wonderful post recently where he asked, “ Is Leadership an Art or a Science? Great leadership behaviors require a lot of blending and the ability to balance seemingly contrasting behaviors; a lot of this’s and that’s. Collaboration is necessary to get buy in and cooperation.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 31, 2011

I had the pleasure of working with Creative Themes facilitating a team building and leadership program with Nazareth College in Rochester NY. From these strengths find people with different skills and develop a method of cooperation to make each other and the dorm better. It ended up raining so I got to be under this large tent.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 30, 2014

The system is created to drive behaviors that supply achievement and through processing + reflection the team recognizes and builds upon those achievements. Create-Learning works with you to develop that system of progress & recognition within your day to day work. This is why people feel good in team building workshops.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 23, 2011

People are often not welcoming of change unless it is implemented by leadership correctly. That doesn’t have to be the scenario if employees understand the change, the strategies that will be used, and their role in accomplishing the goals. Management and leadership are not synonymous. By Kaity Nakagoshi.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

The report concludes, “Investing in wellbeing is often seen as a trade-off with other organizational goals. Union and Management Cooperation — making psychological health and safety a shared objective, psychologically safe collective bargaining, and 20 questions for unions on psychological safety. Are you having fun?

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

This – why am I here? or why are you here or why does this team exist? – is often the first step in team performance and leadership. From the steps above you and the team can review your documented goals (possibly on your project charter) and what is getting done. The term map is used purposely, as opposed to model.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Adversaries into Allies is Leadership 101. Leadership is intentional influence. Manipulation aims at control, not cooperation. Burg presents what leadership looks like when it isn’t about you; when the focus is others. Understand the clash of belief systems. Influence becomes manipulation when it is about you.

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Influence Emotional Intelligence Belief Systems Long-term 280

Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 23, 2013

Nobody listening to you makes it difficult, or even impossible, to achieve your shared goal. Today we are going see how to apply these skills to real-world situations to master the art of leadership. There is no worse feeling then when you are trying to lead a group and no one on the team is taking you seriously.

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HR Digest

JULY 5, 2021

Lawmakers working with education providers and organizations themselves could do more to improve fundamental STEM abilities through the educational systems and improved on-the-job training. Retraining workers across all generations for the coming difficulties will be a goal. EVOLVING LEARNING FOR A TRANSFORMED WORKPLACE.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 9, 2013

We met again shared their ideas and created changes to how the work gets done, plus the performance appraisal and reinforcement system , numbers went up in two weeks. Management must be OK with the team changing the steps, as long as the change goal is met you cannot micromanage the process. Informal training of teams and groups.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

Sometimes people in leadership think that constant tinkering with an organization’s structure is the way to fix any issues. When those who know how to play the game can work the system to get undeserved promotions, it builds resentment and decreases respect. Leadership that cannot initiate procedures cannot create progress.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 18, 2012

This is real work while your team is solving real problems and accomplishing real goals. While developing team systems that will drive the behavior needed for continued success. While developing team systems that will drive the behavior needed for continued success. This system has created significant results for many teams.

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Deming Institute

AUGUST 29, 2016

Instead the reason so many organizations suffer from the costs of significant barriers between departments is that the overall management system results in behavior that creates barriers between departments. Just telling people to work together doesn’t do much good if the management system drives them to different behavior.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

Unassumingly, they steer the team closer and closer to the goal. They find purpose in uncommon places and aren’t afraid to share their vision about the perfect customer, a new streamlined process, a better onboarding system. This is the team member who intuitively understands your agenda. 2- Sincerity. 3- Purposely Engage Others.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 3, 2018

These people are discriminated and excluded from the mainstream system. As a leader, you don’t want your leadership to be ephemeral; you want it to last. It focuses on deep and shared goals for the future. This happened to Galileo, to Copernicus and to many other people thanks to whom we are less ignorant today.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 10, 2010

I have over 200 books on leadership on my shelves. Leadership has always been one of my favorite topics. But most of these books talk about leadership in lofty terms, as if it's something only the head of an organization does. Then help them satisfy their needs and achieve their goals through their jobs. Empower them.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Continually I see a ideas hap-hazardly put into organizational practice and managerial-leadership ONLY to make matters worse. Everyone acts “autonomously” doing what is right and everyone cooperates, without being clear of who is accountable or for what. Matrix Based Organizations. The walk about and everything will work out.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Learn More and Purchase Just Ask Leadership: Why Great Managers Always Ask the Right Questions by Gary B. This book uncovers an important leadership skill – that of asking questions. The whole book can be read in a very short time (only about 90 easy reading pages), but the lessons will last far longer.

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 14, 2014

In a Capitalist society, there are those that have great leadership abilities. There is no caste system in this country to hold anyone back. It is important to emphasize that an economic and political system that embraces the concept of Enlightened Capitalism requires the cooperation and participation of all Americans to succeed.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

Integrity: An Essential Component of Servant Leadership. Strive to provide facts, not smokescreens, speak up even when it may be risky to do so, and challenge any system that encourages or rewards dishonesty and unethical behavior. These people then become dedicated employees, trusted friends, and strong supporters of shared goals.

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Building Personal Strength

JANUARY 4, 2011

On CHARACTER - “What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.&# On COOPERATION - "Individuals score points, but teams win games." On VISION - “If you want to reach a goal, you must "see the reaching" in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.&#

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Deming Institute

APRIL 3, 2020

Guest blog post by Doug Stilwell, Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership at Drake University. Deming’s “Appreciation for a System,” one of the four components of his System of Profound Knowledge. A system is a whole with interrelated parts that work to achieve the aim of the system.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 7, 2010

Cooperation – You won’t see any of the Duke players trying to outshine their team members. Ive been doing that as president of Performance Support Systems and as an entrepreneur for the past 27 years. So my goal in this blog is to share encouraging insights Ive gained in my lifes journey that may help you on your own.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.&# - Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) On COOPERATION - “The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.&# - Dwight D. Posted by Denny Coates at 8:37 AM Labels: Inspirational Quotes , Leadership , Personal Strength 1 comments: Sarcastic Bastard said.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 25, 2016

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. By gaming the system for short-term gains, they destroyed decades of trust overnight.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JULY 27, 2010

They set the stage early on by showing us what a loving relationship looks like and teaching us the core values essential to a fulfilling life – integrity, self-discipline, cooperation and responsibility. Ive been doing that as president of Performance Support Systems and as an entrepreneur for the past 27 years.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 16, 2011

The underlying “why” turns out to be a key in gaining cooperation or collaboration from others. If you want more information on how you can overcome people, processes or systems that get in the way, please download a free chapter from my new book, Workarounds That Work. You’ll be glad you did.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some of the worst corporate disasters of the past two decades were heralded by whistleblowers: Sherron Watkins raised the red flag internally at Enron, Cynthia Cooper let management know of major accounting problems at WorldCom, and Matthew Lee brought problems to his management team at Lehman Brothers. Barbara Chase/Getty Images.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Cooperation – willingness to collaborate. Systems intelligence – sensing the big picture and how things connect. Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Set career goals and understand salary benchmarks. Learn all you can. This will keep you competitive and relevant.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

When we work together to achieve a common, mutually beneficial goal, it is often the case that impatience will raise its’ ugly head and start goading us into saying things we might not otherwise entertain. Successful collaboration is not possible without it. Collaboration is a key word in today’s workplace. The world is watching.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

To achieve its goals and remain competitive, the organization must maximize on the capability and knowledge of its people. Performance assessment is a cooperative thing In order for a performance assessment to be effective, both the leader and the individual must participate. What has to be present for a PR system to actually work?

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2014

The 1970s, 1980s, and even the 1990s were dominated by legendary players such as Pelé, Franz Beckenbauer, and Diego Maradona, who, thanks to their skill and speed, found empty spaces in midfield, created the time to take the ball to the box, and then decided to pass or shoot at the goal.

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