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New Year’s Leadership Development Goals 2017 Edition

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For many leaders, it’s a time to reflect on accomplishments for the past year and establish goals for the upcoming New Year. It’s also a good time to set leadership development goals, either as part of a formal development planning process, or just because it’s a proven way to continuously improve as a leader. Delegate more.

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Leadership and Work Teams

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If this premise and the figures above are accepted it would suggest that only 10% of team leaders are high performing, enabling their teams, whilst 40% of leaders are failing in their leadership tasks, whilst the remaining 50% are barely holding in there! Sounds complicated? Not really. Are you leading your team with the appropriate style?

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Having the Courage to Trust Your Team

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Guest post by Bill Treasurer : Leadership is typically associated with action—with trying, doing, and achieving. However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. While this sounds simple, it’s often a hard task for those of us who are goal-oriented.

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Do you have these 5 leadership traits?

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Guest post from Ron Schutz : Confidence is my #1 trait for leadership as an entrepreneur. As a leader, he had a clear vision of what he wanted to accomplish, yet he was willing to get off his white stallion and take a place of an MP directing traffic to keep his vision moving forward toward his goal. #3 4 Delegation.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

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Shamis: One of the most gratifying experiences in writing a leadership book is the introspection youallow yourself in the process. Inept managers were responsible for losing talent with leadership potential. Few, if any, have had soft-skill training in actual management topics such as difficult conversations and delegation.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

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A few years ago, I was asked to facilitate a leadership retreat for a tech company. It’s not about replacing action, which we know is a necessary leadership ingredient. We still need to reach our goals, meet deadlines, and produce results. But what if our bias for action, our quest for pushing harder, won’t work anymore?

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11 Steps for Effective Delegating

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Delegation, put most simply, involves the assignment of a specific task or project by one person to another, and the person’s commitment to complete the task or project. Effective delegators spend time planning work assignments and organizing resources to achieve business goals in the most productive way possible.