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Five Meaningful Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged

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Delegate – You may be thinking, β€œDelegate? If it’s the latter, help them clear the decks and then delegate some of the meaningful work on your list that would be interesting and developmental for them. For a checklist on effective delegation, check out my TRACK framework. My people are already overloaded!”

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How to Create Time in a Packed Schedule

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Every Friday, they take a look at the calendar for the next two weeks with the goal of eliminating at least 20 percent of the scheduled appointments. They’re looking for meetings that can be cancelled, shortened, pushed out or delegated to someone else. Do what only you can do.

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How to Get Ten Hours of Your Week Back

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They would spend around 15 minutes reviewing her two-weeks-out calendar for meetings she could cancel, decline, delegate or postpone. The goal each Friday was to cancel 20% of the meetings two weeks out.

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How Much Time Do You Need to Not Feel Stupid?

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A few months ago my client was in a leadership workshop I conducted where I talked about an executive I interviewed for Overworked and Overwhelmed who has a weekly calendar reduction ritual with her assistant. They’re looking for meetings that can be cancelled, shortened, pushed out or delegated to someone else.

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Seven First Steps for New Members of Congress (That Apply to New.

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    Set strategic goals and use them to guide critical early decisions such as budgeting and staffing.     Learn to delegate – do the things only you can do and delegate the rest.    I haven’t heard whether or not this year’s class is headed to the Kennedy School. 

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Requirements for Earning Your Leadership Merit Badge

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Magazine | Main | 2010 Has Been A Pretty Good Year for Elon Musk » December 08, 2010 Requirements for Earning Your Leadership Merit Badge Last week, while teaching at Georgetown’s leadership coaching program ,  I was reminded of something that shaped me as a kid and a leader that I haven’t thought of in a long time.