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How to Lead When Your Team Lacks a Sense of Urgency

Let's Grow Leaders

I must follow up on everything or we miss deadlines. Schedule the Finish for Delegated Assignments. You probably won’t have success by telling people “We need to have a sense of urgency.” (And by using the tools that follow, you’ll find you need less emotional energy to get things done.). I’m tired of babysitting!

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5 Simple Reasons Delegation Often Fails

Ron Edmondson

Most leaders know they need to delegate more, but there are some simple reasons when delegation fails. I encounter leaders who claim to want delegation to be a part of their leadership. They know the value, but they are often frustrated with the results they receive on delegated projects. What’s the goal?

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5 Necessary Ingredients In Healthy Delegation

Ron Edmondson

I have seen dumping responsibilities on people and calling it delegation. This form of delegation does more harm than good for an organization. Healthy delegation achieves the opposite results. . Delegation involves more than ridding oneself of responsibility. It leaves projects undone or completed mediocre at best.

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2 Reasons for Follow-Up, and Why Managers / Team Leaders Need to Follow-Up

Mike Cardus

Follow-up is a mantra amongst Team, Management and Leadership Development everywhere…While we all talk about how important it is, many of us don’t do it. We confuse following-up with negative terms of management – Micro-Managing ; NOT trusting people ; Causing people to be Other-Directed ; Dis-Engagement ….

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Turn Your Managers Into Leaders — Teach Them To Coach.

Rich Gee Group

They get projects from their boss and then delegate each one to their staff. Most of all, they listened when you failed and celebrated when you won. And they were someone you remember fondly for making you who you are today. Many managers today are task masters. That’s how it’s supposed to run.

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Healthy Delegation – Simplified in 4 Easy Steps

Ron Edmondson

Even a potential control freak leader like me knows healthy delegating actually improves the organization. Healthy delegation is critical to effective leadership, but I know so many leaders who struggle to delegate. I think simple works, so I years ago I identified four easy steps to healthy delegation. . Selfishness.

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Ready, Set, GOals!

Women on Business

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. Add into the mix, the approaching season of resolutions and goal-setting, and suddenly 3, 6 & 9—all divisors of 12 and standard monthly intervals—popped into my head. From there it was an instantaneous leap to thinking about business goals for the coming year.

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