RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 14, 2021

To delegate better, it helps to put more energy into the start of the process. With the help of a story about a naturalist stranded on a frozen lake in the Canadian sub-arctic, here are three ways to begin so that we get what we need at the end.

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RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The mice didn’t really have to expend any energy thinking about what they had to do any more. It wasn’t spending energy making decisions any more, it was just acting. Instead, all the brain activity focused in on the basal ganglia, which had essentially memorized the pattern the mouse needed to follow.

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RapidStart Leadership

OCTOBER 24, 2017

In doing so, they reflect positive energy back to the team. One study found that on high-performing teams, for every negative comment made, there are four to five comments that are positive. Leaders look for the good in what their teammates are doing and find ways positively reinforce them. Click To Tweet.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 6, 2017

Of course you have to be clear about requirements, but when you give people more input into a project at the front end, more latitude to execute it as it progresses, and a say in the decision-making process along the way you are making room for their energies to dissipate constructively. Reduce the pressure. Deflect the blast.

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RapidStart Leadership

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Theories vary as to why, but a fear of being evaluated, coupled with the mental energy required to master a new task appear to overload the brain. People got better at doing what they already knew how to do. However, when the task was new or complex, the presence of someone else made things worse.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 5, 2017

Not knowing what to expect, I had to run more cautiously and attempt to save some energy. pounds, and my energy and speed both improved over the weeks. We plummeted down when were supposed to be going up, and scrambled steep embankments when it was supposed to be flat. I had only a general sense of where we were until mile 10.

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 28, 2017

Somehow the idea of new gives energy, enthusiasm, focus. There’s something about “new.” Yet so often we find ourselves stuck in “old.” Same job, same house, same routine. Just as winter transitions to spring and the world outside renews itself, maybe it’s time to look at your leadership and your team and take a moment to renew, too.

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