Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Guest post by Jen Shirkani : I write about the damage done when, as leaders, we don’t fully allow employees to have control over their tasks, projects or budgets. And it’s not just the nemesis of new, inexperience managers who are nervous and learning to use their delegation skills. But no one will admit to being one of them.

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Micromanagement Emotional Intelligence Delegation Servant Leader 252

Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

At your level of work a certain time-span for completing goals is expected. Time-span management , the ability to match the length of goals to specific roles within an organization is requisite for getting work done. What is the longest goal time-span (period of proposed completion of the goal) that you are asked to complete?

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Planning Delegation Goal Proposal 126

HR Digest

OCTOBER 24, 2023

More than just a trendy topic, it is important for us to learn how to improve our work-life balance if we want to achieve any of the goals we have planned in our lives. It also allows them to prioritize their personal goals on their own time. The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports that 1 in 5 adults in the U.S.

Tips 119

Tips Learning-by-Doing Stress Long-term 119

Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Feedback helps ensure that leaders are aligned with organizational goals and values. Team-Based Feedback: Direct reports or team members give feedback on a leader’s style, effectiveness, and impact on the team. Project or Task-Based Feedback: Feedback specific to a task or project the leader was responsible for.

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Examples Team Succession 360-Degree Feedback 52

Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Managers usually have a good grip on what their boss thinks, and at least an inkling of the pain points for their direct reports, but for some reason peer feedback tends to feel like stepping on a lego in the middle of the night– yikes, where did THAT come from? Set clear expectations―delegating outcomes rather than focusing on process.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2016

As Springsteen puts it, “if I’m going to project an individuality, it’s going to have to be in my writing.’… That is, what do your colleagues – direct reports, peers and bosses – expect from you. The goal is to optimize your leadership self – to deliver the best version of you. Are you a delegator, or a do it yourselfer?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For years, HR teams have largely been delegated to admin tasks and rote hiring activities, but there are innumerable ways by which HR can contribute to business success. reported that 63 percent of global workers would begin looking for a new job if they were not allowed to work remotely. In addition, Remote.co

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Succession Metrics Strategy Trends 105

Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2017

Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading – planning, organizing, budgeting, or content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management, and giving feedback. Thus, you have to constantly be stretching people toward higher goals and standards. Your reputation is always on the line.

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Tips Succession Handbook Learning-by-Doing 266

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

A study by The Predictive Index found that employees believed the top 5 skills lacking in managers included team building, providing feedback, time management, delegation, and communication. Delegating Among the many qualities of a good manager, we find delegation to be a noteworthy mention. percent of them did so weekly.

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Quality Management Delegation Skills 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

In psychology and most fields of science, students are assigned to a project early on in their studies and learn key skills through an apprenticeship model. Many go onto to take on projects related to more specific research goals, and are eventually taught to design their own studies — a slow and painstaking process.

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Delegation How To Training Learning-by-Doing 15

Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

The reason is because you have to start managing people, leading a team, delegate tasks and communicate constantly. We are all on a team, working on projects to accomplish goals that will push our companies forward. This was confirmed in the research I did with American Express for the book.

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Management Teamwork Skills Career 267

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

A Science article reports on an experiment by Timothy Wilson, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. ” Don’t load new projects and goals on top of existing workloads without rigorous “stop doing” pruning to make room for them. It’s become routine.

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Kaplan Porter Absenteeism Participative 52

CO2

OCTOBER 9, 2015

But first you should gather more information about how much time each task might take, when projects are due, and ways the task might impact the business—directly and indirectly—based upon how it’s completed and when. Questions to ask when prioritizing: How does this task relate to larger organizational goals or actions? Related Posts.

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Execution Cooper Delegation Document 60

HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Gallup’s State of the Global Workplace: 2023 Report found that only 23 percent of employees are actively engaged. This conversation with yourself might lead to the realization that the problem is temporary, such as a bad week with your personal health or a bad month on a specific project that should end soon.

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Short-term Self-aware Review Report 59

The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

That may seem like a blinding flash of the obvious, but it is sometimes lost in the mix because the attrition reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics is done so in aggregate. By the same token, when employees receive no guidance or support, especially on projects of significance, it can have a similar impact.

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Attrition Micromanagement Short-term Situational Leadership 52

ExactHire - Leadership

MARCH 7, 2018

Your culture may be the culprit if your organization is not meeting goals and growing. Tell me about a time when others abandoned a task or project, but you knew that it was important to complete. As you build a culture of accountability, rate your people on a 1-10 scale in terms of the percentage of goals met well and on time.

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Core Competence Bottom-up Micromanagement Absenteeism 52

QAspire

JUNE 1, 2014

Susan Mazza of Random Acts Of Leadership says, “ Most "to do" lists are often more a compilation of "should do" lists rather than "must do" lists – and the difference between the two determines whether you are clear about your goals and able to achieve them.” Read more in this post “ Do You Bail Your People Out?

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Jason Womack

MARCH 31, 2015

Did you create a list of “Goals and Objectives” for 2015? Remember when you created your “Goals and Objectives” for 2015? on the professional and personal goals I’ve set, it works. Can you reflect back on how you felt at the end of last year? Today is the 90th day of 2015. I have a question I hope you’ll ask. a better leader.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 26, 2012

But there is: delegation. Delegation is a critical skill. Delegation benefits managers, direct reports, and organizations. A 2007 study on time management found that close to half of the 332 companies surveyed were concerned about their employees' delegation skills. Understand why you're not delegating.

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Delegation Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing Self-aware 17

Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 27, 2010

This goal isn’t just a nice thing to do, or a delegation tool. Five Keys to Better Decision Making in Meetings Nine Steps for Creating and Maintaining Team Ownership of Ideas and Goals Blogs I Like Get Uncomfortable! Set the expectations, set the boundaries, provide coaching and let them do it.

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Workshop Learning-by-Doing Blog Video 186

Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2019

According to the Gallup Wellbeing Index, 45% of entrepreneurs report being stressed compared to 42% of “other workers.” Entrepreneurs also report being more likely to have “worried a lot” — 34% vs. 30%. What you don’t hear as much about is what they do every day to move towards those long term goals.

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Entrepreneur Productivity Products Long-term 67

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Delegation sounds great on paper, but you're responsible for some major projects, and management expects flawless execution. Managers prone to micromanagement fall prey to several misconceptions about delegating to staff. The first is the assumption that delegation has an on and off switch. Who are they trying to kid?

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Delegation Micromanagement Learning Curve Metrics 17

HR Digest

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Earning stacks of money, starting a family, and going on expensive vacations are goals that we can all probably relate to but they are not the right answer when asked about career goal examples. Professional development goals are an entirely separate category of aspirations and they need to be prioritized if you aim to succeed in them.

Examples 52

Examples Goal Career Short-term 52

Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

MARCH 16, 2017

The ability to select team members, set objectives, delegate responsibility and finally, get the job done, is central to success in management. Here are two things you can do immediately to put these ideas into action: First, project forward 3-5 years and imagine your ideal future vision. All work is ultimately done by teams.

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Planning Development Chief Executive Officer Crisis 57

Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. What is your goal? What will you need to do to get there?

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Career Greenleaf Maslow Executive Coaching 186

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

A lot of discussions about how to achieve significant goals focus on grit, that combination of resilience and persistence that is required to stick with a big goal and see it to completion. But there are two aspects of achieving big goals that don’t get as much attention despite their importance for success. Goal Setting.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2012

For the past few years, I've had an annual ritual that helps me make good on my goals for each year or quarter. Using Excel, I evaluate all my current activities and whittle out everything that doesn't advance my key goals. Dump all your current and upcoming tasks or projects into the spreadsheet. Cull your deprecated tasks.

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Goal Process Delegation Project 16

Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Dropbox gave us access to project-folder-related data, which we aggregated and anonymized, for all the scientists using its platform over the period from May 2015 to May 2017 — a group that represented 1,000 universities. Overall, we analyzed data for roughly 400,000 unique users working on about 500,000 separate projects.

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Project Team Succession Bottom-up 13

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

When exploring these strengths discussions and process development of existing customer and stakeholder interactions will evolve and create increased commitment to the values and goals for the product launch.

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Team Building Retail Process Operations 103

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

Stop letting my expense reports pile up? Identify a few areas where you’ve seen little-to-no behavioral change despite your best efforts — for example, blocking out whole days for big projects or going to the gym first thing in the morning. Then zoom out to determine your real goal. Why am I so bad at changing?

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Tactics Goal Outsourcing Project 13

Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Count up how many times you’ve met with: - your direct reports - your peers - people in your other relationship networks (customers,clients, suppliers, and yes, even family and friends) What are you missing by not being intentional about those relationships? I dare you to open up your own calendar and take a look at the last month.

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Blog Greenleaf Maslow Follow-up 124

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 30, 2016

His direct report, Susan , was enormously productive. While he admired her attention to detail and ability to multitask, Tony saw the flip side of these strengths as a tendency to get bogged down in the minutia of a project and an inability to delegate. Give goal-oriented feedback. Tony was baffled.

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Delegation Consensus Committee Benchmarking 10

Deming Institute

JANUARY 30, 2017

Lean methods, such as value stream mapping and improvement projects carried out by cross-functional teams can break down barriers and increase understanding. I’ve seen many organizations progress from blaming those nameless jerks in another department to working together toward the goal of better patient care. The lesson learned?

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Deming Kaizen System Quality 28

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

It’s tempting to give the workhorse more projects than others (especially if she’ll get them done the fastest) or to ease up on someone who is struggling, but you also need to be fair. Delegating work to your team may sound like a straightforward task of management, but, in fact, it’s complicated. Who are my players?

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Delegation Project Team Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

. •Evaluate sales force strategies, plans, goals, and objectives. Operations: •Oversee sales performance analyses and reporting, territory alignment, and customer profiling and targeting activities. •Administer quarterly sales incentive compensation plans and the goal setting process.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2016

But whenever she was asked about the status of any project, all she could ever say was, “I’m working on it.” She calmed herself by working on each project a little. This scattered, shallow approach to managing multiple projects derailed Tara. Create a daily report of what you completed to close the loop.

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Team Delegation FAQ Project 8

Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

The key is to create “intelligent autonomy” that gives employees the independence and influence they crave, but does so in a manner that thoughtfully avoids the contradictions and pitfalls of a poorly executed delegation of power. 2) Have an Agreement for Autonomy in Place. 3) Facilitate Recipient Readiness.

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Delegation Construction Fashion Report 173