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How to be a Damn Good Developmental Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

It helps with recruiting and retaining the best employees, allows you to delegate so you can focus on what you’re being paid to do, or even take a vacation now and then. It’s what leadership is all about – making a difference in the lives of others. Most importantly, it’s rewarding. Treat every day as a development day.

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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post By John Sweeney: Innovation is foundational to business leadership. Many leaders may consider empowerment a handoff – a simple process of delegating work. But for innovation, responsibility begins and remains at the highest levels of leadership. For the most process-oriented tasks, that assumption may be true.

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Demotivation: 7 Ways You Might Be Killing Your Team’s Spirit

RapidStart Leadership

So before getting out the big hammer, think about what you really want to achieve. Leadership: Be the first to take the blame, and the last to take the credit. Your teammate’s faces are like windows into their minds and are one of the ways you can get immediate feedback on your leadership. Raise your leadership game.

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Are You Inflexible and Stuck in Your Ways?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

Learn how to delegate. If you’re using a hammer when the job requires a screwdriver, you’re going to face troubled times ahead. When you constantly seek approval, you give more weight to another person’s opinion than to your own. Enlist support. Do you try to do everything yourself? Have faith in others. Just say “no.”

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Responsibility Is Not A Gift

Tim Milburn

If you’re going to serve others in a leadership role, you will have the choice to accept it or to take it. . Leadership is characterized by responsibility. The hammer is going to fall hard on you. Related posts: The Right Kind Of Leadership Currency. How To Become A Delegating Master. Accusation.

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When a Leader Is Causing Conflict, Start by Asking Why

Harvard Business Review

His previous coaches had focused on various interpersonal techniques, like how to give constructive feedback, work with different personality styles, and delegate effectively. It’s not uncommon to inaccurately diagnosis bad leadership behavior. Every hammer looks like a nail, as the saying goes.

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Recruiting is Broken, Succession Planning is The Future

Strategy Driven

Recruiting is like a hammer. If you’re building a house and the only tool you’ve supplied your framer is a hammer, then then don’t blame the framer if it takes five times longer than you’d like, and costs a bundle more than it should. Executive leadership and buy-in. Recruiting Is Overused and Misapplied. Keep it simple.