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How Smart Leaders Help a Team Work Better Together: Plan Breakdowns

Let's Grow Leaders

You can prepare and make your team work better together by planning for these breakdowns and turning them into opportunities for growth and connection. 4 Ways to Make a Team Work Better Together by Planning for Breakdowns. Plan for and Train Recovery. Planned Failure. So how do you implement planned recovery on your team?

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. succeeded in meeting the original planned resource expenditure.

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How To Develop A Full Business Security Plan

Joseph Lalonde

Protecting your business should always be one of your main priorities, but figuring out how to develop a full business security plan can often seem like a particularly tricky task. One of the best steps that you can follow to help protect your business is to get some CCTV. Image Source – Pexels . Get Some CCTV.

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Two Weeks and No Updates? Time to Write a Follow-up Email after an Interview

HR Digest

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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From Fiasco to Opportunity: How to Reframe a Team Setback With Better Words

Let's Grow Leaders

. “Let’s Consider This a Learning Opportunity” Instead of singing the “Woe Is Us” blues, why not jazz things up by turning team setbacks into learning jams or post-project celebrations where you celebrate the effort and the learning? “This Didn’t Go as Planned. Anybody got a metal detector?”

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How to Have a Great Personal Planning Retreat

Next Level Blog

This is the week when Diane and I are taking our annual personal planning retreat together. Take Time to Review and Reflect – When we get down to the planning part, Diane and I each have our favorite approaches for reviewing and reflecting on the year that’s ending. This year, it’s a crisp November week on a South Carolina beach.

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Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

Let's Grow Leaders

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. Guarantee that any conversation requiring action ends with a specific person taking responsibility to follow through on an assignment. But are they really?