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Does Your Team Have a #1 Priority?

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Guest post from Mike McHargue: Does your team have one clearly stated priority? And, is everyone on your team crystal clear about what that priority is? When teams have more than one top priority there often isn’t unity and clarity about what actually is important. The HR team is focused on HR issues. They were wrong.

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Six Things Great Leadership Teams Do

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Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc.

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Executive Presence – A 2-Sided Definition

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Guest post By Karen Hough When I ask people to define executive presence, they pause, and usually hold out their arms as they search for words. Why is finding executive presence so stressful right now? If we’re going to fill the gaps, improve profitability and become global, we need to see executive presence in a very large way.

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Engaging Your Team in Three Steps

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This team member is fully invested and enthusiastic in their work because they identify with the company’s overall vision and feel their job responsibilities contribute to the company goals. So, you need a “great” vision that your team can willingly buy into, adopt and turn it into reality. What is an engaged employee?

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Learn Leadership

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Guest post from Leo Bottary: Leadership lessons exist all around us, all the time. One of my favorite fictional characters provides a profound lesson in leadership in a wonderful book called The Offsite by Robert H. The groundskeeper, however, serves as the perfect metaphor for servant leadership. This is how we grow.

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Executive Presence: What’s Your “Talk Track”?

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Elizabeth is one of the instructors in our upcoming UNH Woman''s Leadership Development program. In my work as an executive coach, I meet at least once a month with each of my coaching clients. For better or worse, this talk track ends up becoming part of their executive presence and their brand as a leader.

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Cheerleadership is not Leadership. Cheerleadership creates fake believers

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A sufferer of Corner Office Syndrome he or she continues to make command decisions without consulting the team. These are the questions that need to be openly talked about with your teams. I have a major gripe with the word leadership. However, I’ve seen too many poor leaders turn leadership into cheerleadership.

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