Great Leadership By Dan

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Are You Managing Penguins or Polar Bears?

Great Leadership By Dan

"Leadership is about managing energy, first in yourself and then in those around you.". In a recent UNH Executive Development Program , the instructor, Professor Jim Clawson, challenged a group a senior managers to reflect on how they are managing their personal energy, and as leaders, the impact they are having on their employee’s energy.

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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

Great Leadership By Dan

you might put your energies into time-consuming campus outreach programs, complicated recruitment campaigns, or expensive technology. may shift your focus to internal motivation and performance management strategies. When we ask broad questions, we invite a lot of wasted energy.

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Unwrapping and Managing Difficult Employees

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Generally, a loss is more of a motivator than a gain. Determine what will motivate them. Don’t spend all your time and energy on the difficult person, just enough to know that you provided the person with the opportunity to make the needed changes. If you ultimately let the employee go, don’t look back.

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Effective Leadership Begins with a Strong Foundation

Great Leadership By Dan

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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Three Ways to Improve Retention on Your Team

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When team members lose interest and motivation, they soon start to look for a new opportunity that fills this void. When team members are not clear about their responsibilities and objectives, they become frustrated and lose motivation. Positive acknowledgement is a form of energy for team members.

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Beyond Self Awareness: Leadership’s Next Frontier

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Manage Your Energy For the past twenty years, we’ve spent a lot of time talking about working to strengths but not enough time thinking about how we manage energy. To manage in a complex, challenging workplace, we need to pay attention to how we keep the energy that fuels our passion buoyant. Or nice and deep in your belly?

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Leadership: Leveraging Your Soft Skills

Great Leadership By Dan

Before I knew it, my role became that of a coach, inspiring them to give their best, teaching them how to be customer-focused, understand their customers’ needs, wants and desires, and demonstrating how to present, motivate and engage the customer. Tupperware was where I learned how recognition can be an important motivator.

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