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Why Follow Up Matters

Marshall Goldsmith

In this week’s interview, Chester shares with us his personal experience with why following up with others matters when we are trying to change our “bad habits”. ” So it was this idea of checking in, following up, because if you just change your behavior, the perception doesn’t change. How am I doing?”

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Ask, Learn, Follow Up and Grow

Marshall Goldsmith

Next, if the person was skilled and/or lucky, more promotions followed until he or she eventually became an executive who could tell lots of people what to do. No one person will be smart enough to keep up. ” If leaders will not be able to keep up with the rapidly changing world, detailed policy manuals don’t have a chance!

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Why Didn???t You Get Better? You Didn???t Follow-up!

Marshall Goldsmith

Clearly, affirmatively, I can tell you that you will not get better if you do not follow-up. Once youve mastered the subtleties of asking, listening, thanking, apologizing, involving, and initiating change in your behavior, you must follow-up relentlessly! Follow-up is how you measure your progress.

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Leadership Effectiveness

Marshall Goldsmith

By asking for feedback, analyzing the results, developing a focused action plan for change and following-up, leaders are perceived as more effective. ” He was then asked, “How much do you spend on follow-up?” Follow Up or Fail. Even a little follow-up has a positive impact.

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The Best of Marshall Goldsmith 2014

Marshall Goldsmith

You Didn’t Follow Up? More than anything, follow-up makes us change. It gives us the momentum, even the courage, to go beyond understanding what we need to do to change and actually doing what we need to do to change,because in engaging in the follow-up process, we are changing! Why Didn’t You Get Better?

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Stop! Don’t Make the #1 Mistake in Business

Marshall Goldsmith

M: I believe the #1 mistake in business is the failure to follow up. In one of the largest studies ever done on the effects of executive coaching–over 70,000 respondents, we learned that the biggest mistake coaches make is in not following up. Failing to follow up made any approach to coaching ineffective.

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Does Anyone Ever Really Change?

Marshall Goldsmith

I became Mr. Follow-Up. That's when I realized the missing link was follow-up, not only in my training concepts, but also in getting people to change. Tracing five of my eight companies to measure the level of follow-up among the executives, I found the results were astonishingly consistent. Think about it.

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