Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.” An “ optimist’s telescope ” so to speak.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

Their new book, Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and Unrivaled Success , combines practice and theory and mixes in numerous soccer stories at the same time. Powerhouse is defined as “a team having great energy, strength, and potential for success.” It’s an invitation for all of us to build powerhouse teams.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: lose the word change “management.” You can’t manage change any more than you can manage the cycles of the tide and the phases of the moon. This move will allow the utility to expand other energy resources, respond to community needs, and offer sustainability.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Not only that but how we manage and reward work, and how our culture recognizes hard work. The typical inside-out view, by contrast, measures work according to whether we have completed our tasks and goals, regardless of whether they produce any benefits.” The goal isn’t collaboration, but better performance. Hunt for value.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But, what is real is the successful management of the two? Once you know what you want, you have to set expectations in the workplace to achieve these goals. Sheryl Sandberg has said a survival tactic of hers was accepting that her husband may not have been doing things around the house like she would, but at least he was helping.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

Since there are lots of high potential and frustrated individual contributors out there who want more along with lots of managers who want to help them do and be more, here are some of the from/to distinctions I’ve been sharing the past few weeks. If you want to get the nod, work on striking a balance between the two.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. The trick is to be focused.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2011

For this reason, actions that are highly acceptable to or desired by one individual will cause some to pause and appear entirely counterproductive to others.

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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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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Set Small Goals at the Outset. While planning savings goals can keep you motivated, setting too large of a marker may frustrate you and cause you to toss your savings plans completely, especially once you first start out. For example, if you want to ultimately save $1,000, set a goal of $250, which is one-quarter of that amount.

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Lead on Purpose

AUGUST 4, 2012

Focus on uncovering their passions and goals. Even if these goals are unrelated to work, this knowledge will provide insight into the activities and skills that captivate your employees’ free time and energy. Don’t manage from behind a desk, but instead get out there and mingle with people when possible.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. Motivation is the Energy to Act. Motivation is the energy to act. Motivation, like energy, depends on the how you fuel it. Do I feel the goal or situation was imposed on me?

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. Identify strategic objectives and goals. Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Sales is a tactic, one of dozens of tactics which an organization must pursue.

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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. This is the manager who embodies the soul of the effort and emerges as the glue that binds. Pay attention to the managers who promote engagement. Already you are spending valuable time thinking about it.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The key goal of any business is to maximize profits and minimize costs hence the need for long-term goals prioritization. Energy saving. Energy-saving roof systems are becoming popular because of their efficiency. They can recycle toxins that are hazardous to the environment hence leading to energy bills savings.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

A big excuse managers have for not having a conversation is “I already know what they’re going to say.” You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

The achievement of current goals and objectives free up the time & create the resources to move on to bigger and better things…Trying to do too many things at once will impede progress, dilute effort & energy, add to chaos and lead to burn-out.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Every leadership journey progresses from individual contributor, to manager, and then leader. For me, the journey of leadership has gone from managing people to guiding them and helping them reach their full potential. Unlike management, which involves tactical decisions, leadership is about enabling and facilitating growth.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

To help leaders break free from the obsolete traditions holding our workplaces back, Jim and Rich share five blind spots keeping your people on the bench and suggest tactics that will help align work with modern day society. Art Petty submitted Proper Care and Feeding of Your First-Time Managers. Team Building.

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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. · Micro-management , which leaders should avoid by focusing on managing outcomes, rather than the details along the way.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2014

As a time coach, I see this happen when clients become so fixated on specific tactics — getting up at 5 am, say, to make time for the gym, or a hard-and-fast rule that they never check email before 10 am — that they lose sight of the fact that many methods could lead to achieving their larger strategic goals.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

If we look around and see that people are disengaged, that leaders are driving toward tactical outcomes and short-term wins, and that organizations are blindly driving ahead. With input from their managers, peers, and teams, leaders know what they need to focus on when it comes to their development.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 21, 2010

While project schedules should assign individuals or groups of individuals to each task, the schedule itself is not likely to include minute tasks or to clearly assign the very specific nuanced contribution of each individual within a group assigned to a task.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Citing experts who took the example of AT&T’s RTO policies as “covert layoff tactics,” the page stated that we could see an increase in such unpleasant strategies. Consider Goals and Alternatives Before rushing the implementation of your return-to-office policies, consider why you’re making the move.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Ethics and profits are not conflicting goals. We must learn to benefit from change management, not to become victims of it. It is during the downturns that strong, committed and ethical businesses renew their energies to move forward. It helps to manage relations with stakeholders. Change is 90% beneficial.

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HR Digest

MARCH 19, 2024

Being a career-oriented individual doesn’t automatically mean you’re an expert on the top professional goals you need to prioritize for your growth. Image: Freepik Top Professional Goals to Embrace in Your Career Many strategies for professional growth seem obvious at first glance but it takes some active planning to make them achievable.

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Miles Anthony Smith

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Even if you manage to find what appears to be solid leadership advice, does it actually help you advance your career and become a better leader? shares the secrets to how executives and managers can become the leaders their company needs. Leadership Is an Art Max DePree, the former CEO of Herman Miller, Inc.,

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In the CEO Afterlife

AUGUST 29, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The mentor requests pro-active changes of mentee, evaluates realism of goals and offers truths about path to success and shortcomings of mentee’s approaches. If you cannot take the dirtiest job in any company and do it yourself, then you will never become ‘management.’ Planning, tactics, organizational development.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

Within the leadership and management field, there is also much interest in discovering insights that can help us to better understand how to inspire the best in our employees. With the latest edition of the Summer Olympic Games now well under way in Rio, there is naturally much interest in the outcomes of various sporting events.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 5, 2016

If the manager looks only at hard skills it’s difficult to determine if there is a good fit because they are looking only looking at one dimension, when they really want to look at the full dimension, including the “nuances” of team dynamics and company culture. Managers don’t get that full dimension until the actual interview process.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

Emotional management – leaders are able to maintain their cool. Your employees also have diverse skills, talents, and knowledge that could be beneficial to your overall goals. Develop creative ways to manage stress Stress can lead to your employees getting burned out, as well as harm their overall health.

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LDRLB

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Strategy is a plan of action designed to achieve a defined goal. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. Tactics are often misconstrued as strategies. So are goals.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

How to SPARK employee engagement in your organization: S et High Goals. Provide employees with the latest information to enable them to set important goals. A lign Individual Goals with Organizational Goals. Share information about organizational goals and resources to enable staff to set realistic individual goals.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 30, 2015

Although he had never been a manager , Paul had considerable know-how as a banker and Latin America was his specialty. Waldroop and Butler stress that setting goals and working hard to achieve them is never a bad thing. 3) Doing Too Much, Pushing Too Hard. They focus only on how to get the biggest piece of the pie — if not all of it.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 29, 2010

How to SPARK employee engagement in your organization: S et High Goals. Provide employees with the latest information to enable them to set important goals. A lign Individual Goals with Organizational Goals. Share information about organizational goals and resources to enable staff to set realistic individual goals.

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