Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 17, 2018

But what’s important to explain to your managers is that coaching doesn’t have to take more time, it doesn’t have to be an added task to a seemingly never-ending to-do list. Instead, it can be something done in passing, nothing more than a daily interaction that’s as easy as catching up by the water cooler.

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QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

Formal and informal forums like water-cooler conversations, one-on-ones, all hands meetings, and internal newsletters are a great way to reinforce the message. Choices made up in start-up phase often end up building culture. Be the example others want to follow. If you want excellence, be excellent first.

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Miles Anthony Smith

APRIL 1, 2019

Assuming this not only leads to a breakdown in the delivery of your message but also the interpretation on the receiving end. Next, ensure that your call is taking place in an area that avoids picking up any distracting sounds; you don’t want background noise to be picked up on the receiving end of your call.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2015

What happens all too often is that people get on virtual calls with a point of view, but because they haven’t done any real homework before the call, they end up reversing their opinions once the call has ended and they’ve learned new information that they could have easily obtained in advance.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The next time a water-cooler conversation threatens to barrel out of control into Complaint Central, step in and ask the complainees how they would make things better. By talking about ways to improve, you can end the conversation on a positive and encouraging note. DO: Push for solutions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2013

If you can''t do it, it''s not the end of the world (focus on doing some virtual team building). Create a "virtual water cooler." The image of co-workers gathering around a water cooler is a metaphor for informal interactions that share information and reinforce social bonds. Foster shared leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

While managers may be tempted to respond to these findings by ending remote work programs and bringing everyone back to the office, we don’t recommend that. They designate team meeting time for “water cooler” conversation so that the whole team can create personal connections and strengthen relationships.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2013

The guiding principle is the content itself — any hope of conversation around that creative is mitigated by a marketing (not consumer) defined hashtag burned into the spot. You need a savvier approach, striking up a conversation about something you may have in common with the prospective friend. Be my friend!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

” Put simply, politics often doesn’t make for good workplace conversation. In fact, he says, learning how to talk about politics in a productive manner can help you “manage other difficult conversations at work ,” including peer performance reviews or disagreements over strategy and policy.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

If your initial conversation goes well, “present your boss with a one-page proposal — nothing elaborate — that details your plan.” ” After the trial ends, she recommends having “a calibration conversation” to discuss whether “ your mutual expectations were met.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

Instead of focusing on the work you have to do together, you may end up wasting time and energy trying to keep your emotions in check and attempting to manage the person's behavior. Don't corner someone by the water cooler and say, "There's something about Jessica I don't like, don't you agree?" Keep your distaste to yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

In the end, we are only vulnerable to digital information threats because we are so dependent on digital information. Not to mention petty spats between employees; now those are presumably carried out the old-fashioned way, in whispered hushes at the water cooler. There are organisms that avoid security problems altogether.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

What follows is an edited version of our conversation. Then there are the processes that you use for managing team interactions—without carefully managing communication, team interactions can end up as a dialogue of the deaf. HBR: What is the biggest challenge of leading a global team?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 17, 2015

Invite them to important meetings, bring them into water-cooler conversations, and add them to the team email list. It can be as simple as spending five minutes at the end of an engagement discussing what went right and what went wrong but King says continuous feedback is even better. ” Pay them well.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2015

’ But there are steps you can take to make the conversation go as well as possible.” “If you’re saying you’re too busy to help, don’t cut out early and don’t be seen taking long, chatty breaks at the water cooler.” “People say, ‘There is no good way to give bad news.’

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2015

The answer is often no—particularly if you’re at the end of your career and want to slow down,” he says. Once he finished those projects, he had a conversation with Casey about Linode’s overarching marketing need: to extend its brand beyond its bread-and-butter developer clientele.

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