Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Listen here: Ever played a sport in school? They taught you how to be effective in that sport. They didn’t run the course, execute the play, or swing the club — they showed you how to do it better. No time to read? You had a coach — what were they like? They pushed you out of your comfort zone.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

In a world that grows more complex every day, executives often face scrutiny as they lead through uncertainty. To manage these challenges, executives are called on to adopt a long-term perspective on organizational strategy while staying in tune with the present-day needs of clients, customers and team members.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Chief Executive Officer, N2Growth. Only the strongest teams will survive and while their defensive pressure, explosive running game or deep shooting might define their style, their success rests on five obsessions. These obsessions are common to champions and may very well help your team in your competitive endeavor. .

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As an executive coach and advisor to senior executives in a wide range of industries, pattern recognition is vital to my work as well. Effective pattern recognition is a key learning strategy component for any executive leader. Keep Them in the Loop : Pattern recognition should be a team sport.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 25, 2017

Chris Edmonds: Two key indicators of a healthy team are that they are productive (getting tasks done to standards, on budget and on time) and effective (working together with a minimum of drama.) A 2013 University of Phoenix survey revealed that nearly 7 in 10 American workers have served on dysfunctional teams. every day.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. make sure you make space to consider how team members experienced the process, how relationships were affected, and how much people learned.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Helping executives and entrepreneurs solve their toughest problems over the past decade, Frei and Morriss learned that the trade-off between speed and excellence is false.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

Winning Team. Playing midfielder for the United States Women’s National Soccer Team for over twenty-three years, Kristine Lilly knows a thing or two about winning teams. It’s an invitation for all of us to build powerhouse teams. What makes a “powerhouse” team? Transform: How do you best align a team?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This may sound daunting, but many organizations are embarking on the journey — from nonprofits, to professional sports teams, to healthcare organizations, to financial institutions, and more. Bill Furlong is an executive in residence at the Ivey Business School, a co-founder with Mary Crossan of Leader Character Associates Inc.,

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. You have to enlist their support as you do your best to develop yourself, your people, and your teams – even them! What does it mean?

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

Guest post by Bonnie Marcus : I earned my certification as an executive coach in 2006. At that time most people still assumed that coaching was done primarily in sports not business. Coaching for executives was a relatively unknown field and untapped resource.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The improving economy has prompted many companies to reinvest in their employees through team building activities. With the purse-strings less tight, leaders try to create a fun atmosphere and help team members bond with each other. The reality is that team building will not likely have beneficial impact on your day-to-day operations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post by Ben Fanning , the Burnout Specialist: Let me share with you what happened when I started my job at the largest sporting goods retailer in the world. I took over a supply chain team just a few months before the largest sales day of the year…Black Friday. The team burnout was obvious and couldn’t be denied.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Winning Teams. There’s something very powerful about sports metaphors. Bob Rathbun has worked with and around some of the greatest sports stars in history, and he makes a really good point during our interview in this episode of “Aim Higher.” And yet, only one team will win the championship. Why is that?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

I lash out, and within seconds we have a crisis of miscommunication on our hands that can stop teams, departments, and organizations from functioning well. Marshall was the highest rated executive coach on the Thinkers50 List in both 2011 and 2013. You say something – I get mad.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The N2Growth Leaders25 Awards are considered to be the Oscars of professional excellence for Board and C-level executives. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for. CEO Lance Fritz rests easier at night knowing Beth is looking out for his team. “Great CHROs are worth their weight in gold.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Leading the long view takes place by engaging team members in creating co-ownership of the future-state vision and strategy that brings the vision to life. Vision is distilled into actionable priorities, which become the day-to-day operating plan guiding all team members in performing their work.

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CO2

JANUARY 19, 2015

In team sports, coaches try to put their players in a position to succeed. They draw up plays that maximize their team’s strengths and take advantage of the opponents’ weaknesses. Each player on the team has a role, and they should know what’s expected of them, when, and why. They act as if they’re working in a vacuum.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. One of the most important things you can do is create margin for yourself and margin for your team.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. Great leaders empower others to success by setting the GPS for the business and then rallying the team members to follow. However, team members will only follow if they: are aligned with the vision.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

For several months, he and his team have been working behind closed doors on a new employee appreciation and recognition program. Tom’s team borrowed an idea from their health insurance company and created a rewards program that allows employees to earn points for demonstrating behaviors that contribute to a positive work environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. So how do you assemble a great team? What’s perhaps most valuable about understanding someone’s type is how their behavior plays out in the dynamics of a team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Not everyone shares in your enthusiasm, and the culture of your team seems to have changed. Your team is easily distracted and anxious. Professional sports are not even immune to this as players are electing to sit out the abbreviated seasons as a result of the fear that their team will not be able to keep them safe.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As someone who absolutely loves sports, I follow the fortunes of various teams and often wonder what makes some more successful than others. Louis Cardinals all come to mind as teams that were built to last in this manner. The more important, decisive question is whether they will fit in the culture you want for your team.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 20, 2023

Why not run a sports injury rehab clinic? It streamlines the process, saves paper, and reduces the workload of your admin team. You can partner with local sports teams and gyms to offer free injury screenings and injury prevention seminars. Execute these strategies to deliver on both fronts.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

In The Unlocked Leader veteran executive leadership coach Hortense le Gentil explains how superhero leaders can become effective human leaders. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. That a certain amount of wreckage is the price we have to pay for inventing the future.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

My sports coach advised me not to train for three days after experiencing a sharp pain, and to go see him if the pain didn’t go away. The practice of restraint in endurance training is often the difference between an athlete who is still going at 60 and one who burns out or injures herself to the point of quitting the sport.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As a team leader, project manager and team member the work is just not getting done. This problem occurs on any team ( from sports to corporate), I find it is most common with cross-functional project teams. What might be causing this lack of team results? Everyone on the team WANTS to do great work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2019

Communication Practices of High-Performance Management Teams by @artpetty. 4 Things You can Give Your Team from @wallybock. The Decline of Teamwork in Sports by @patricklencioni. How Executives Can Inspire A Culture That Motivates Millennial Sales Leaders by @DanitaBye. Conform to the Culture Just Enough by @edbatista.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

The decision to become an entrepreneur comes with many responsibilities, challenges, and positive or negative financial consequences, depending on how well your planning and execution did. Entrepreneurs need to be able to lead their teams and motivate their employees. So, relying entirely on what customers tell you is not a good idea.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Greg Harden spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan and gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as "Michigan's Secret Weapon." Champions aren't born. They're built. How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

The solution is not balance, says sports executive Scott O’Neil in Be Where Your Feet Are. Hold the team above self. We miss out on the richness of being in the moment. To counteract this, we try to find balance. But balance doesn’t create greatness. Be interested versus interesting. #5 5 Be The Purple Water Buffalo.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Marina shares: “ While trust is the foundation for productive relationships and high-performing teams, it’s not something that can be achieved overnight.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 22, 2010

This is especially true for the kind of meeting where you want to have your team engaged and involved in decisions, or the kind where you need to have a heart to heart dialog with them. How you and your team are seated is important: The best way of encouraging dialog is to sit in a circle or to be seated at a round or oval table.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

It means that you are setting your team up to win more often than not. There are many other examples of sports teams and company teams around the globe that had talent, leadership, and heart, but were unable to finish. Few leaders would admit their team is built to lose or is built for mediocrity, right?

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Women on Business

AUGUST 10, 2012

Reporters from all over have had some type of sound bite regarding the t-shirts the US Women’s soccer team. The shirts said ‘Greatness has been found’ and sports writers and enthusiasts are lining up to take aim at the perceived lack of humility. Here’s what I have been able to take away from the hoopla.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up. Leadership is a participation sport and never works well in absentia. ” He went on to say, “it takes no talent to hustle and your team deserves better.” It requires zero talent to be present mentally and physically.

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