Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2019

Simply put, leadership is the art of inspiring, motivating, empowering, supporting, and assuring a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. Since joining the workforce more than 25 years ago, and serving as a leader for numerous organizations, it’s apparent that leadership means very different things to different people.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 4, 2012

It will take energy and effort, but no one said that being a leader was easy. Make sure that everyone sees the way back to the common goal, and that the impact their work will have on it is clear to them. Purpose fathers that final burst of energy that carries your team over the line, with the broken tape fluttering at their feet.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 3, 2012

How much time are you spending on activities that lead to your goals versus those that are urgent and unexpected? In fact, I have worked with some leaders who get their “energy” from working in crisis mode. Failing to Define Clear Goals. Defining clear goals provides a roadmap for the employee. And it is a trap.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 27, 2017

Throughout history, people coming together, pursuing a common goal have, time and time again, made the inconceivable believable. A poorly led team is a colossal waste of time, talent, energy and opportunity. Although the time and energy required can be staggering, the effort pales in light of the possibilities.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2020

Vibrant culture leaders are a force of positive energy and see the good in everyone with whom they interact. List the things that you (or others) don’t like about your approach, whether it’s the way you communicate, how you run meetings or the time that you try to motivate your team to meet goals.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

They realize, by building a culture where all team members feel valued and actively support one another, the goals of the organization will be reached more efficiently and not at the expense of wearing out all who are involved. The goal of appreciation is what is good for the company and what is good for the person. Paul White, Ph.D.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

But rapid realignment needs energy that is focused, that drives continuous improvement and works to achieve the organization's purpose. This energy comes when an employee is engaged, so let's take a look at what engagement is all about. Energizing the system from top to bottom is a key task of leadership. Engaged Versus Aligned.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Guest post from Susanna Camp and Jonathan Littman As a leader, you shape the ideas, provide the direction, set the goals. Accidentals bring passion to your company and that energy can be contagious. You’re great at focusing the journey and laying a course, especially when winds are uncertain.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

How can new leaders at organizations large and small help stir things up in a positive way that produces new innovations, generates new energy and engages staff? While this doesn’t necessarily mean wiping the slate clean, it’s important that the relied-upon employees are rallied around the same cause and focused on the same goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 11, 2016

Another option could be, “I’ve noticed a decreased energy between us in our last few sessions. Professional coaches have set goals and timelines for the client along with scheduled, periodic reviews. However, these measures do not preclude a decline in energy required for coaching success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

Goal clarity helps you minimize distractions and gives you confidence to make the necessary—and sometimes difficult—decisions that will allow you and your team to remain focused on your desired outcomes and remember why those outcomes matter. Failure to act saps time, money and energy. And what you don’t want. But choose you must.

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MAY 28, 2019

We still need to reach our goals, meet deadlines, and produce results. They discovered that the “resting brain” is actually quite busy with absorbing and evaluating information, but we curtail that function when we allow the “active brain” to hijack all the mental energy. This is different. It involves a strategic pause.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In my dual role as President/CEO and first sales representative, my goal was to generate revenue one customer at a time. Setting Goals Now! Once you know your strengths, you can channel your energies into the things that you do naturally. Examples include: Achieve Now! Celebrate Now!

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 18, 2013

Put your team members into new situations : New situations often draw out untapped energy and thought patterns. Goals and objectives get met with enthusiasm and a desire to do the best job possible. This includes finding their talents and helping them develop the skills that make them great. What can you do to discover the talents?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Many colleagues are sleep-deprived due to travel or having young children and this gives them a chance to refresh their brains and gain the energy boost from a short nap. The co-head of investment banking at Goldman Sachs said, “The goal is for our analysts to want to be here for a career. This is a marathon, not a sprint.”

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

They must design their desired culture through an organizational constitution , which specifies their team or department or company’s present day purpose, values and behaviors, strategies, and goals. Once defined, leaders must align all plans, decisions, and actions to that constitution.

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APRIL 20, 2017

Make sure that your subordinates and colleagues perceive your own goal as a leader to be the achievement of positive team results, not personal gain. THE ZOMBIES This approach to leadership is thoughtless, passionless, and lacking in energy. A leader needs to keep the energy of a team focused and driven. Change is a constant.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

If you are in a business culture that is resistant to change, instead of wasting energy on frustration follow this formula. Put in place measurable goals to track success. In the next couple of weeks, research a change that you want to make happen. Create consensus by presenting your plan to colleagues and stakeholders.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 6, 2017

They’re on the ground, in the midst of the action, and are best at coming up with their own strategies for how to accomplish those goals.” Kathy was the first person to connect conative behavior to instinctive drives, which she postulated as the source of the patterns of mental energy commonly known as a person's MO.

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JANUARY 30, 2014

By making strategic differentiation the goal of all business renovation activities, organizations will begin to push for the right kinds of changes in the way work is performed and in the way the enterprise is run.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

In fact, 82 percent of the Best Companies for Leadership use rewards or reprimands that are based on rigorous measurements of performance against goals, compared to only 58 percent of all other companies. Leadership development programs better enable employees to deliver on my company’s goals/strategies. 85 percent. 55 percent.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

These mental maps are shortcuts that save us the time, energy and risk that we would otherwise have to face if we tackled each problem from scratch without relying on the benefit of our accumulated experiences. A surgeon, for instance, accumulates mental maps that help him or her pre-plan which actions to take in various patient scenarios.

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MAY 16, 2013

Taking stock of their qualifications will focus their energy and build confidence. Phil Buckley is a senior change management professional with nearly twenty-five years of experience developing and executing change strategies to achieve aggressive business goals.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. Unassumingly, they steer the team closer and closer to the goal. Or as the leader, I have so much more on my plate that I can’t be involved in every detail and they keep dragging me in. Already you are spending valuable time thinking about it. You know the project is starting to stall.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

1-2 of these is usually enough for any routine team meeting, given the amount of energy required to work through meaty issues. This is when the manager asks each team member to bring status reports or goal updates to the meeting. If not, take it “off-line” with a sub-set of your team. Allow enough time – at least an hour.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Matching direct reports’ interests, values, and skills to growth opportunities requires energy and careful consideration. The Return on Management ratio ROM can be expressed as the following equation: ROM = Productive energy released divided by management time and attention invested. Developing employees can be time-intensive.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2012

Meeting with your manager prior to a program to set learning goals and expectations, and after a program to review learnings and action plans – helps you hold yourself accountable. Maintain your energy level. More energy = more learning = more ROI.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

High energy levels to adequately accommodate the increase in time demands that occurs between ascending levels of leadership. · Leaders should instead seek to lead by influence and be transparent about their goals. Manipulation , which is a tactic for trying to get others to take action by using a hidden agenda.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Your goal as a coach is to get your coachee to a point where they interpret whatever setbacks they experience in less permanent, pervasive and personal terms. Great leaders work hard to bend over backward for honesty as they realize truth and honesty are the pillars upon which relationships, teamwork, and positive energy are built.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2015

Examples: “A list of 3-5 three year goals”, “A shared vision”, “a shared understanding of each other’s concerns”. This down time is a great way to informally build the team and keep the energy high. Ask: “What are the desired outcomes?” Desired outcomes give you a target to shoot for and a way to evaluate the success of the meeting.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 17, 2007

To define their own team behaviors and goals, then rate themselves and choose what they want to work on to improve? I’ve tried this, and it seems to create more buy-in and positive energy. Would a better approach be for a team to simply ask themselves to define what kind of a team they would like to be?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 5, 2016

We say we’re going to lose that 10 pounds, quit smoking, change jobs, read more, be more positive, be more productive, etc… and start off all Tigger-like with energy and great intentions. Let’s set our yearly leadership development goals and put some best practices in place to help us achieve those goals. Write them down.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2013

If you are wrestling with where you are right now, this may help you clarify where you need to focus your energy and your effort.”. A great story about the four C’s of Shared Goals: Criteria, Communication, Change and Collaboration.”. “When it comes to making career and leadership changes, there are three variables that come into play.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2011

A plan is a judgment about the best way to go about achieving an intended goal.". It’s much more effective to direct our creative energy by Brainsteering. No technology or rote process can give you the “correct” plan – BUT a solid process for planning can guide you to the best plan for your team and you.

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DECEMBER 11, 2007

Examples: “A list of 3-5 three year goals”, “A shared vision”, “a shared understanding of each other’s concerns”. Activities are a great way to informally build the team and keep the energy high. What’s the “desired outcomes”? Desired outcomes give you a target to shoot for and a way to evaluate the success of the meeting.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

I firmly believe that if we redeployed even a fraction of the time and energy we spend focusing on failure toward learning from success, we'd get a lot farther faster.". This article helps you set a new goal for the next 12 months. "It may not have been my most popular. but I think it's 'best' because it's a simple message.

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JULY 24, 2018

The fourth skill is to chunk overwhelming tasks into micro goals. It brings you more energy and improves your relationships. Do I have strategies to transmute negative emotions into positive energy? So ask yourself: Do I know my purpose, and am I directing my energy toward it? Emotional Get emotionally balanced.

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