Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

How to Avoid the Most Common Mistakes New Managers Make. So many new managers don’t receive the training or skills they need to be effective, lead their teams, and achieve meaningful results. Here are the common mistakes new managers make: Avoid Accountability Conversations. 10 Mistakes New Managers Make. Be a Push Over.

Management 591

Management Follow-up Motivation Goal 591

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

While many wise businesses will have a crisis management strategy in place, it’s a situation few could have directly planned for. The situation has forced many to pivot their approach in order to survive – but effective crisis management could allow some to emerge stronger. The hospitality sector has been among the hardest hit.

Crisis 121

Crisis Industry Strategy Tourism 121

Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This is sort of a team building , project management , goal-setting , communication kind of idea. The team already knew the Goal , has defined Roles , and we were continually re-working and adjusting it’s procedures …and they created a visual progress chart, that the team can look at and measure success and completion.

Team Building 137

Team Building Project Team Management 137

Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The work of managers and employees has increased in complexity due to globalization, a faster work and life pace, and instability in the world’s economy. Managers, when asked, tell you that employee engagement is a must for the survival of their company. Competent Manager. Competent Manager. By Michael Cardus.

Metrics 161

Metrics Objective System Resources 161

Mike Cardus

JANUARY 2, 2012

Contact Mike and we will create this standard and develop metrics, coaching and feedback to make you teams and leaders better. For example, a new manager who has to set-goals, develop plans and delegate tasks BUT was never taught a method for how to do this. First you copy, Then Understand, Finally you master.

Innovation 131

Innovation Delegation Learning-by-Doing Metrics 131

Strategy Driven

MAY 14, 2021

There are several essentials of a good project plan and they are: Common project goals. Appropriate success metrics. Talk to your team members individually and find out about their career goals, immediate project interests, and anything else that they would like to share with you. What are the essentials of a project plan?

Efficiency 65

Efficiency Team Project Planning 65

Mike Cardus

AUGUST 1, 2012

For example, consider a new manager who has to set-goals, develop plans and delegate tasks BUT was never taught a method for how to do this. It was just assumed that once you become a manager you know these things. The manager freaks out ( learning by drowning) YELLS at someone, and poorly delegates the work.

Delegation 130

Delegation Innovation Retail Objective 130

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

According to a research by MIT Sloan Management Review titled “ Why Leadership Development Efforts Fail ”, the key reasons identified were: Executives approach leadership development efforts with a control, ownership and power-oriented mindsets rather than an understanding of shared accountability.

Training 172

Training Development McKinsey Long-term 172

HR Digest

OCTOBER 3, 2023

With an overreliance on positive phrases and an absolute paranoia about anything that could be construed as negative, it might be the right time to help managers out with some useful things to say in a performance review. Link Performance to Goals It might be easier to convey a perspective with fixed start and end points in mind.

Performance Review 98

Performance Review Review Project Positioning 98

Mike Cardus

MARCH 15, 2011

The staff now had clear and distinct goals and tasks to be completed within time frames, allowing for great work and customer service. Create metrics for feedback loops of success and failure. Specific Exponent Leadership Process content sections were used: Goal Setting and Time Span. Managing Time: Managing Yourself.

Succession 102

Succession Case Study Delegation Metrics 102

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

You've gotten feedback from your manager as well as word of rumblings within your team: You're seen as a micromanager who tends to get into the weeds — and stay there. You produce great results but senior management sees you as an operational manager and questions your ability to let go and operate at a strategic level.

Delegation 17

Delegation Micromanagement Learning Curve Metrics 17

Leadership Freak

APRIL 30, 2012

Freedom ignites passion, imagination, and initiative; control destroys it. Freedom feeds vitality; control oppresses and limits. Freedom, however, is dangerous. Freedom is essential because their expertise exceeds yours, in their area. If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. Effective leaders set people free.

Team 216

Team Metrics Delegation Goal 216

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2015

Managers can have a powerful, positive impact on their employees’ performance, engagement and development through coaching. When skillfully done, it can help employees clarify meaningful goals and make progress toward achieving them. These activities and metrics help build structure, accountability, and results into the process.

Metrics 8

Metrics Learning-by-Doing Goal Project 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2014

At a priority-setting meeting of their Shareholder Council, Charles got fed up listening to all the talk about how to convince managers to do things the way that the owners wanted. Why are we cow-towing to the managers?” They are to: Set the goals for the business. Define the metrics to measure the business’s success.

Micromanagement 8

Micromanagement Policies Delegation Metrics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2014

Employees are more likely to follow through on goals set by a manager they trust and to be more forthcoming about the challenges they see on their level. That’s why it’s so critical for managers to constantly reinforce their trustworthiness. That’s why it’s so critical for managers to constantly reinforce their trustworthiness.

Survey 12

Survey Case Study Metrics Goal 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2017

And the whole system, not just primary care, is responsible for quality metrics related to prevention and chronic care (e.g., Delegate Responsibility. customized weight-loss calendars and healthy recipes), and manage complex schedules (e.g., the percentage of eligible patients who received a mammogram). million members.

Health Care 8

Health Care Compliance Licensing System 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

One CEO, for example, excelled at communicating to small groups, delegating and team-building. FACT : New CEOs should find out what makes a company tick and work with this reality to achieve goals. MYTH #4 : New CEOs must promptly define and communicate performance metrics. That's often not the case.

CEO 14

CEO First-mover Advantage Leadership Styles Execution 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2013

It's a great moment in literature — and an extremely useful image for managers intent on ferreting out the feedback they need for career advancement. Managers, like Odysseus, need to hear what people have to say — and be able to filter the messages. To succeed, as Odysseus did, keep three things in mind.

360-Degree Feedback 8

360-Degree Feedback Delegation Career Execution 8

Leadership Freak

APRIL 30, 2012

Freedom ignites passion, imagination, and initiative; control destroys it. Freedom feeds vitality; control oppresses and limits. Freedom, however, is dangerous. Freedom is essential because their expertise exceeds yours, in their area. If you know more than everyone on your team, you have a weak team. Effective leaders set people free.

Team 100

Team Metrics Delegation Environment 100

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2018

At the same time, our prediction is that AI will also lead to a greater emphasis on the “soft” elements of leadership — the personality traits, attitudes, and behaviors that allow individuals to help others achieve a common goal or shared purpose. Engagement in an AI age can increasingly be accomplished using digital means.

Leadership 8

Leadership Short-term Agility Emotional Intelligence 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In big companies, management teams focus on achieving the right level of vertical integration. Today, your management team should be giving more thought to horizontal integration. Managers describe their workflows as "waterfalls" but for the customers interacting with the company, the handoffs don't seem so fluid.

Horizontal Integration 8

Horizontal Integration Company Engineering Brand 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2015

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The HBS team has been using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC), an approach initially proposed by one of us (Bob Kaplan) and Michael Porter, to help providers pursue the value-based delivery of care.

Mayo 8

Mayo Health Care Committee Project 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Many of those 14 variables are challenging for front-line employees or even individual managers to influence on their own – like the perception that top managers support creativity and innovation, or creating a culture where risk-taking is accepted and encouraged. Remember that challenge trumps capacity. Aim for 70%.

Innovation 8

Innovation Delegation Creativity Project 8