Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In this final installment of our “Great Teamwork Series” we share 12 collaboration habits to create commitment and build momentum with follow through and results. Can everyone find the information, tools, and data they need to do their work? But one person has ownership and responsibility to follow through.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2024

Avoid making yourself a choke point for decisions by ensuring people have the information and criteria they need to make an effective decision. Provide Context for Decisions When you begin a discussion, empower your team by giving them the information that’s relevant to the decision. Avoid corporate jargon.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 19, 2013

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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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

You’ve got to have enough input into your life, enough ideas circulating, and enough channels of information, that there’s a constant flow.” Follow humans around to understand why they do what they do. Keep asking. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 21, 2016

Do you attempt to follow up with prospective buyers because they haven’t contacted you when you thought they should? Were they just seeking information to share at a planning session? Use your follow up contact to help them figure out how to resolve any of these issues that might cause them to be stuck.

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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. They can inform all three in return. What kind of qualities and skills does the job require?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 28, 2021

A follow-up blog on leading up included five ways to deal with a bad boss. These include external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, external assessments, informal networking, and so on. You likely don’t mean to be “that boss.”

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I’m talking about informational emails. These are emails which have information in them I probably need. I know it’s probably vital information. How can we write better informational emails? Here are 5 suggestions for informational emails: Personalize the email to your intended audience.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 29, 2024

To make these discussions a bit less painful, follow these strategic steps to effectively communicate with your team. Determine whether everyone should hear the news simultaneously or if some individuals need to be informed first. Outline specific actions and associated timing for employees to follow.

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CEO Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

There are way too many sources of good information. We could spend many more than 24 hours per day just trying to keep up. One way to "keep up" is to let others whom you respect do the filtering. Follow some people who tweet/point out interesting articles. I find this is a great way to use Twitter.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

10:10 Step up, step back. “While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.” ” It’s not only about how willing people are to lead, but how they are to follow. Impact people are also willing to step back and follow as energetic participants. They are comfortable in both roles.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 23, 2019

Such is the volume of information at our disposal today, a common analogy is that it’s like trying to drink from a fire hose. A recent study suggests that this volume of information is having a profoundly negative impact on our attention span. ” the authors explain. Attention spans.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

Gather Information with Three Quick Questions. As we waited for our food to arrive, I got up to wash my hands. I followed his strange instructions and when I returned to the table, Jim said, “Of the conversations you heard, how many of them were complaining–about their boss, a co-worker, or a problem at work?”.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot. People also tend to give up too early or to not try because of an assumption that may not be valid. A conversation with each stakeholder concerning pressure points and interests can inform any influence attempts.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

by @JenniferVMiller Never Give Up Hope: The Detroit Lions Community from @JohnBaldoni See more on Twitter. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. The 30 Best Pieces of Advice we Heard in 2023 via @firstround Reaching for the executive ranks?

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

If you’re sharing information, include everyone who needs that information. What will be the order of information? What process will you follow? Following up after the meeting is important too. Once it’s all clearly defined, document everything in a follow-up email to the team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 28, 2022

They’re defensive, it’s like they have a wall up. 6:05 – When you’re wrong (it happens) and what to do to ensure people can still hear you, even when you make a mistake or don’t have all the information. Have you heard this from your managers (or said it yourself)? “My people aren’t coachable.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Four key drivers propel companies, teams, and human beings at work: Drive, Excellence, Information, and Activity. Associated with perfectionism) We go too deep into dashboards and data because we want to be informed. Information – when it turns into overload – needs to hear: What do I truly need to know? associated with frenzy).

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 24, 2015

Many of us feel that we are receiving too much information already. From teachers at school encouraging students to share the workload on a group project to parents helping their kids divide up toys, sharing is one of life's first lessons. There's a balance to achieve between sharing style and frequency.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They share information only with their inner circle, keeping everyone else in the dark. Meanwhile, the leader is so wrapped up in their own agenda that they’re entirely out of touch with their team. Give informal talks. Give informal talks. Communication should make up a large part of your day. 1: Secrecy.

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HR Digest

MARCH 20, 2024

Sometimes colleagues genuinely get caught up with other tasks and forget to handle your request, and a polite follow-up email can set them back on track. Sending out polite follow-up emails is a part of the corporate set-up so before you send out your next update request, here are some things to keep in mind.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2019

Every business owner needs to remain informed in several fields should they hunt success. But it is also quite essential to consider how, and why being informed matters, and how to ensure that even in the midst of success, you are able to keep your eye on the ball. Staying informed is the way to get there.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

As I write about in The Next Level , as a designated leader in your organization, you have a unique perspective that is informed by the information flows, decision making chains, and relationships that you’re exposed to simply because you’re in the role you’re in. That perspective informs your priorities and your decisions.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 16, 2024

Strategy' follows, acting as the blueprint, laying out the pathways to realize these ambitions. Action' is the execution phase, where plans are put into motion through decisive and informed steps. Decisiveness: The ability to make timely, well-informed decisions is a hallmark of successful executives.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 15, 2021

A friend mentioned that company XYZ was ripe for a takeover, targeted to be snatched up any day. But if we hesitate because we are being careful and wise, then people will follow our lead. Careful is fueled by information; fearful by imagination. My first deal was awesome. A month or so later I had a similar opportunity.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

But you can be prepared and follow a method to futureproof your business against the next crisis. In crises, winning organizations act like start-ups. During a crisis, people have a heightened need for good, honest communication that gives them information, guidance, helps them adjust and cope emotionally.” Act like a start-up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Growing up: “With a childhood like his in South Africa, I think you have to shut yourself down emotionally in some ways,” says his first wife, Justine, the mother of five of his surviving ten children. “If It made me realize how difficult it is not to be shaped by what we grew up with, even when that’s not what we want.”

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. Using overly demanding or aggressive tones can create a hostile environment that customers will pick up on, resulting in poor customer service. This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. Photo by Headway on Unsplash. In Closing.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 21, 2023

As a leader, the ability to make sound, informed, and beneficial decisions is your fundamental job requirement. Antagonists help leaders see their decision in a different light and can lead to more informed decisions. Leadership relies heavily on the ability to make well-informed and unbiased decisions.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 25, 2022

You’d push yourself up, stumble around, and then fall flat on your bum. Whatever the case, in those early days of growing up, we experienced failure regularly in our lives. The information is still there, it is only underutilized. Maybe you even cried a bit. Or maybe it was teaching your niece or nephew.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

What follows is a mix of lesson on process and content. From there, I do a pattern analysis to come up with a draft agenda that addresses the most relevant and frequently mentioned topics. Set the Table – Then move to a quick recap of how the group’s input informed the agenda.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For more information on contributing a post, please see our contributing policies. Make sure you give your team the tools, information, and budget they need to complete their tasks successfully. If your employees feel like they’re being set up for failure, it will reflect in their work.

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CO2

AUGUST 1, 2012

Be Informed about Informational Interviews: 4 Key Tips. The purpose of an informational interview is to get information about a field of work from someone who has firsthand knowledge. Unfortunately, some people approach informational interviews as informal interviews and don’t do enough advance preparation.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 8, 2022

Fortunately, a brilliant friend and colleague of mine has shared with me the process she uses to keep her senior executives informed of what her team is working on and accomplishing. As she told me, the process ends up “being a virtuous circle.”. sharing important information that senior executives need to know.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 7, 2020

Guest post by Jason Richmond : Leaders are, by definition, role models, and employees naturally follow their lead. Transparency also means keeping people informed and updated regularly with facts, actions taken, risks, and progress. Providing them talking points and keeping them up-to-date will help create consistent messaging.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 23, 2020

I’m talking about informational emails. The emails which have information in them I probably need. I know it’s probably vital information. If it’s multiple pieces of information, say that up front too. People can often read lists easier than paragraphs when dissecting detailed information.

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