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How to Know if Your Boss is a Micromanager (or if you just need help)

Let's Grow Leaders

Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. Interestingly, we hear an equally common frustration from these over-involved managers. This leads to a negative feedback loop where the manager causes some of the very outcomes that lead them to micromanage.

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

Podcast: @jamesstrock interviews Richard Norton Smith author of An Ordinary Man: The Surprising Life and Historic Presidency of Gerald R.

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February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Diana Peterson-More shared The Dialogue of Delegation: Be Focused and Intentional. Diana explains: “The ability to delegate is a key leadership competency. Yet many supervisors and managers on the road to becoming valuable and valued leaders fail to do so. Bernd Geropp provided How to become a better manager at work.

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

We can choose to open ourselves up to others and invite them to share their observations, feelings, and opinions about us and the way we interact as we move through the world. Some coaching clients receive recipes to try to help them give more resonant praise, apply more skillful delegation, or approach a conflict constructively.

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12 Core Competencies For Great Leadership

Lead Change Blog

Read through and ask yourself how you measure up. Great leaders are ethical and trustworthy. They follow through and persist through obstacles and opposition, uncertainty and risk, pressure and adversity. Toward that end, they move with purpose and speed when it’s time to set a priority, choose a direction, or delegate a task.

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Guest Post: The “General” Manager – Soldier Lessons for the.

Lead on Purpose

As you wait behind the door, you hear your team line up, boots scuffing the ground, weapons cocked. You still set goals for others to follow and make sure everyone performs to the best of their abilities. Some may need specific instructions and constant follow up, whereas others are able to work independently and take initiative.

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A Simple Phrase That Will Change Your Life. | Rich Gee Group

Rich Gee Group

Stop trying to keep up with the Joneses in your career. Who can you delegate to? Also, put up an electric fence around your property — if they decide to go driving again, they will get a real shock! I really appreciate the time you and Tim spent today – I write these and have a small but loyal following.

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