Mike Cardus

MARCH 31, 2019

Follow up is what good managers do, you follow up for 2 reasons : People are doing what they are supposed to be doing. The purpose of follow-up is to maintain performance and notice what is happening that you would like to continue o r amplified. 8 Questions for better follow up as a manager.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win. How are we going to work together to achieve our goals?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

.” Weak managers don’t leverage the strengths of their teams. In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.”

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If you’ve recently attended an interview and now you’re spending your time glancing at your phone and refreshing your email, then let us suggest taking matters into your own hands with a follow-up email after an interview. Should I Send a Follow-up Email after an Interview?

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Lead from Within

MAY 22, 2023

Conflict is inevitable in any team. The best leaders know how to navigate team conflict successfully and emerge stronger as a result. Once the root cause has been identified, it’s easier to come up with a solution. Leaders can create an environment where team members feel comfortable sharing their thoughts and feelings.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, that happens a lot including as recently as a few weeks ago when I was talking with Rishi, a country manager on a leadership team I’m coaching. In a prep conversation for an upcoming team coaching session, I asked Rishi what’s been working lately with the team he leads.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 25, 2022

To be a leader, you need to have followers. Leaders inspire trust from others and provide people with value to continue to follow and stay loyal to them. Many musicians had to find other innovative techniques to continue to share their music, and without the support of fans or a following, they could not have sustained their careers.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 26, 2013

Follow-up is a mantra amongst Team, Management and Leadership Development everywhere…While we all talk about how important it is, many of us don’t do it. We confuse following-up with negative terms of management – Micro-Managing ; NOT trusting people ; Causing people to be Other-Directed ; Dis-Engagement ….

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 14, 2021

How do you determine your personal-professional development goals? . As a manager , do you ask the people on your teams to identify personal-professional development goals? . Does your performance appraisal ask you to list some personal-professional development goals? . From Indicators to documentation and follow-up.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 31, 2021

The quality of your communication determines how successful your team will be. That is why we meet – whether remotely or in-person, whether daily or weekly, every team needs to share and discuss ideas that will move people forward together. The problem is that many team meeting agenda templates suck.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

Here are ten ideas for rearranging your brain to achieve “big goals in turbulent environments where conventional thinking often fails.” Fast-paced business environments swing between ups and downs, with many stressful interactions. If I can just figure out how to solve this problem, I’ll be much closer to my goal.’” We tried it.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Teams go through mood changes. No doubt you’ve felt it after a great team success or alternatively, the gloom and doom when things do not go as planned. It’s a team experience. It’s mostly invisible, but it affects team performance. Team leader as coach is not new. On your team, is it loose? It’s in the air.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

This month’s festival is all about team time. Next month’s Frontline Festival follows up on this month’s with a theme all about growth and change. Try steps for leaders to take for building teamwork in the workplace from Amanda Cameron of Patriot Software, LLC Follow Amanda. Follow Susan.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Former Navy SEAL commander Mark Divine trains athletes, SWAT teams, first responders, and aspiring SEALS to combine mental toughness with intuition and heart.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

the team leader acknowledges the team’s steady progress, but fails to understand the deep personal sacrifices of her team. a team member resents the promotion of a coworker, and overlooks all the ways he has grown himself in the past year. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 13, 2024

No one intentionally sets out to create unhealthy team environments, but I’ve seen it done so many times. There are things which injure the health of a team. Just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy team environment often happens – though perhaps unintentional – by things we do as leaders.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 4, 2021

But with virtual or blended teams, communication and connection are even more of a challenge – and you need to have an effective way to check in on your people to know what is going on in their life. As I have shared many times in my teamwork keynotes and conference events: “ High Performing teams build RELATIONSHIPS.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2021

Almost all successful organizations are grounded by a skillful and talented leadership team. But how can you ensure that your team leaders are hitting their full potential? If you want to get more out of your business, you have to get more out of your team. Set smart and achievable goals. Acknowledge your best leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2017

This month’s festival is about team building. Leaders need to adjust to the skill and abilities of the people, and don’t expect new people to fit into the team exactly as those doing the job previously. Follow John. Follow Sean. Follow David. In Are You a Team Player ? Follow Jesse.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Guest post from Simon Mac Rory: If you work in an organization today as a leader you will lead a team. 90% of what we do in an organization happens through collaborative effort, making the team the most important production unit. In 2016 they termed this the ‘Rise of Teams’ and 2017 ‘The Organization of the Future – Arriving Now’.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

If you think you’re inherently bad (I am a failure), rather than a normal person who makes mistakes or bad decisions (I occasionally fail), you’ve essentially given up before even trying. Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. As leaders, we need to actively trust our followers, teams, and employees. While this sounds simple, it’s often a hard task for those of us who are goal-oriented. If an employee screws up, it reflects on the manager, not the employee.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

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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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 22, 2013

Although they are often mistakenly used interchangeably, there is a huge difference between team expectations and team goals. Most leaders are quite familiar with goal setting. There are dozens of programs and books and suggested methods of setting smart and compelling goals for your organization.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Innovation had become the goal, and that wasn’t enough. That’s a myth. Nadella changed that.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The content areas in the Supervisory Leadership Workshop: The Foundation of Team Leadership. Below are some of the supervisor’s responses from the learning and application follow-up: . a different point of view The highly structured team performance model and coaching analysis steps. Tune-up your team.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the most difficult parts of any team leader’s job is to have positive and effective feedback conversations. I = IDENTIFY THE IMPACT ON TEAM Third, clarify the impact their actions had on the team to inspire empathy. What is the effect their actions had on others on team members or on clients?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Most senior leadership teams consist of accomplished leaders with a wealth of experience, and the last thing the majority of them will want to do is shift their leadership style or change how they have done things for the past ten to twenty years.” Take a bottom-up approach. Nothing makes up for poor leadership.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

This is the time of the year when I spend a day with my C-suite clients to give them some space to get up on the balcony to consider what success will look like 12 months from now and what they and their teams need to focus on to make those outcomes more likely. How do you want to leverage and enable your leadership team this year?

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 12, 2012

People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. Add into the mix, the approaching season of resolutions and goal-setting, and suddenly 3, 6 & 9—all divisors of 12 and standard monthly intervals—popped into my head. From there it was an instantaneous leap to thinking about business goals for the coming year.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To Change Your Reputation Set Human-Centered Goals and Stick With It It can be super challenging to move beyond the stories of the past that affect your leadership reputation. Whatever your leadership reputation holds, you can change your reputation with clear goals and persistent effort. Leadership is never handled.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. You can achieve these outcomes when you recognize the challenges and focus on four dimensions of team collaboration.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 14, 2013

The following is a guest post by Doug Sundheim. When I talk to clients about effective goal setting someone invariably mentions that good goals are SMART goals – specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. I agree these are critically important to strengthening goals. I followed up. “OK,

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive. Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 16, 2021

It has been tough for many organizational leadership teams. This was spiced up by employees and leadership team members getting and dealing with Covid. Today many leadership teams have not been with each other physically for over a year. I have found it useful to distinguish leadership groups from leadership teams.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 18, 2023

Being dependable and following through on your commitments is essential to building trust and credibility in your personal and professional life. Hold yourself accountable: Take responsibility for your actions and hold yourself responsible for following through on your commitments. This will help to manage expectations and build trust.

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