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Management: Communication and Accountability In One-On-Ones

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They are particularly important during one-on-ones with your employees and offer a couple of great examples of development opportunities. To be present and focused and know what key question to ask at the right time add value to any relationship and discussion.

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The Complexity of Business Communication

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Is change communication in your organisation more like the first example or the second? Unfortunately, most organisations are closer to the second example. This explains why research indicates that a large number of organisational change attempts either fail outright or fail to reap significant return on their investment.

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The Leader / Employee Divide: Who’s Managing Who?

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This cannot be achieved by meeting with someone once every 3 months, for example! Along with trust, empathy and other attributes detailed in this blog and my other writing, you must ‘earn the right’ to have whatever conversation is required. The responsibility to own development sits with each of us individually.

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Listen up! Listening Matters at Work and Home

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Each of the levels builds on the others; thus, if you’ve been criticized (for example) for offering solutions rather than listening, it may mean you need to attend to some of the other levels (such as clearing away distractions or empathizing) before your proffered suggestions can be appreciated.

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Leadership Benefits: Self-Awareness and ROI

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1) As an example, I have seen the challenge of holding yourself accountable as a leader when participating in performance appraisal calibration sessions within several organisations. In an M&A involving a flailing target, the average firms pays 40+% more for the target acquisition than the current stock price.

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Remote Working and Management: Accepted or Not?

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Recent increases in remote working examples have highlighted this point. Not all roles or employees are suited to the remote environment. It has always been and will always be critical to review these opportunities on a case-by case basis. Put another way; good leaders, employees and cultures seem to thrive within remote environments.

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Your Roles, Your Time, Your Choices

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Each role could be as a parent, employee, boss, friend, hobby or member of the local sports team as examples. Deciding to spend more time at home, for example, will have a natural and direct impact on all of your other levers or roles. I have seen many examples where a person has only 2 or 3 roles.