Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 19, 2014

#55 Create Personal Development Plans – People are more engaged when they are striving and progressing toward goals. Help them discover wise goals to advance their careers. Put disciplines in place to help them achieve these goals. Work with your direct reports to create personal development plans.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 3, 2017

Vision Sessions – Share your vision with core employees, why it’s important, how you plan to get there, what your top 3-5 goals for the year are, and what their role is to help achieve those goals. This creates a win-win for your core employees, for you and for your organization.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 10, 2017

Here are three tips for leading your team into a new year of goals. Review progress toward current year goals and define the top five priorities you want your team to accomplish in the coming year. As the current year draws to a close, now is the time to establish your plan to begin the new year on a strong note. STEP 1: REFOCUS.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 5, 2014

100 Ways to Connect intentional connectors Attitude character Commitment connection Courage E Pluribus Partners Goals Intentional Connectors michael lee stallard Michael Stallard Perseverance Rejection Social Pain' The post Connection Requires the Right Attitude appeared first on Michael Lee Stallard.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

However, managers who focus on task and relationship excellence inspire their teams to work together to reach their goal. When the team does reach the goal, the resulting sense of pride inspires, engages and energizes the team to keep performing at the top of their game.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 3, 2011

We should also recognize that employee engagement affects strategic alignment i.e. disengaged employees show up for the paycheck but they don’t tend to put extra effort in aligning their behavior with organizational goals. Here are two data points to consider.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 13, 2014

#41 Celebrate Team Successes – When your team accomplishes a major goal, celebrate as a group with a party, meal, or outing. Ask people for suggestions about how to celebrate. If you can afford it, invite them to bring a significant other to join in the celebration. This is the forty-first post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 5, 2015

How do those who achieve their goals keep going, even when they feel like giving up? Some programs, such as Weight Watchers, recognize this and tap into the power of human connection, encouragement, support and accountability to increase participants’ likelihood of achieving their goals. So what’s the secret to success?

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Connecting Personally and with Goals. The secret to George’s success, and the success of hostage negotiators in general, is that he learned how to connect with people and connect with a common goal. As they walked out of the hospital together, Sam thanked George for reminding him how important his children were to him.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

A recent survey of millennials asked them what their most important life goals are. Over 80 percent stated that a major life goal is to get rich and 50 percent said it is to be famous, but a major study demonstrates that other factors lead to a fulfilled life.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

In the current environment, you’ll need to do more than present the goals and expect execution. If you are a leader, by the time you read this, you will have already communicated the priorities for 2022 to the people you are responsible for leading.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

They lose motivation to give their best efforts, align their behavior with organizational goals, proactively communicate, collaborate and cooperate. Employees align their behavior with organizational goals, 3. When Value is weak, people are more likely to feel unsupported, left out, lonely and disconnected.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 22, 2014

At BPR meetings, leaders present updates on progress to achieve their goals. Goals are color-coded green for on target, yellow for at risk, and red for off target. One process to do this is the weekly “Business Plan Review” (or “BPR”) meeting attended by the global leadership team, and all business and functional leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

When Admiral Clark became the Chief of Naval Operations in 2000, the Navy was not meeting its first term enlisted sailor reenlistment goal. Within 18 months of Admiral Clark’s becoming the chief, first term reenlistment soared from under 38 percent (the Navy’s goal) to near 57 percent. Both are necessary for an organization to thrive.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

The goals of the site are: Collect High Quality Content – The goal of a content community is to provide a high quality destination that highlights the most recent and best content as defined by the community.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2011

As a result they don’t give their best efforts or align their behavior with organizational goals. Research consistently shows that on average, 75 percent of employees feel disconnected at work. Employers need to develop Connection Cultures so that employees thrive, individually and collectively.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 9, 2019

While it is a good and useful thing to have an internal spark to pursue a goal and persevere on your quest to attain it, too much dopamine is a cause for concern. They continuously push people to achieve unrealistic goals in pursuit of boosting their own personal wealth, power and/or status.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Armed with this knowledge, the best leaders find jobs, ongoing responsibilities or temporary projects that help their employees progress toward their career goals. The best leaders take time to get to know their employees and find out what their employees hope to achieve in their careers. Employees appreciate this.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As an effective leader, she excelled at management tasks such as communicating an inspiring vision and mission, and setting goals and aligning people and tasks to accomplish them. Frances thought about it for a minute, then, in dramatic fashion, leaned forward toward me, saying, “He cared for people first.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 19, 2015

Another moment of truth in Puyol’s career came when he stopped two teammates from excessive celebrating following a goal. Lionel Messi needs to prove he is a leader who cares about the people he is responsible for leading and that he values relationship excellence in addition to skill, agility, and goal-making.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2011

It has become a means or vehicle for appropriate change rather than a goal or end in itself (i.e. Kubicek observes that leadership has moved from a noun to a verb. to become the leader who exerts power over others). Peggy Noonan, President Ronald Reagan’s speechwriter, once stated it this way: “Poor leaders want to be great.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Continuous improvement to reach perfection is Belichick’s and his players’ relentless goal. Instead, he focuses on statistics such as fumbles, interceptions, sacks, pass completion percentages, and other forms of objective, unambiguous performance measurement.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 26, 2016

They align their behavior with the leaders’ goals, 4. People perform better in terms of decision-making and creativity when they feel connected versus feeling disconnected, left out or lonely, 2. They give greater effort, 3. They communicate more so that decision-makers have better information to make optimal decisions, and 5.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 29, 2011

World Vision is more effective because they are intentional about connecting people to a cause greater than self and in doing so the people who are part of World Vision to want to give their best efforts and align their behavior with the organizations goals.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 21, 2011

Another well-respected organization, the Corporate Executive Board, released research last year that concluded 75 percent of the employees were not engaged and giving their best efforts and of the 25 percent who were engaged, 60 percent were not aligned with organizational goals. This common sense approach is all too uncommon in practice.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 30, 2014

It may be reflected by managers in a variety of settings from corporate suites, where accountants meet with CEOs to make decisions about financial statement reporting, to research departments, where scientists review research findings to secure important regulatory approvals, to the front lines, where sales people labor to meet monthly goals.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In the book Connection Culture , I describe 5 benefits to organizations: Employees who feel connected perform at the top of their game; Employees who feel connected give their best efforts; Employees who feel connected align their behavior with organizational goals; Employees who feel connected help improve the quality of decisions; and.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 21, 2014

AA encourages a patient, problem-solving process by allowing members to take gradual steps toward the goal of sobriety. When reviewing suggestions, leaders should keep in mind that brilliant ideas frequently come from those on the front lines. Plan for a Patient Problem-Solving Process.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 18, 2010

Another well-respected organization, the Corporate Executive Board, released research last year that concluded 75 percent of the employees were not engaged and giving their best efforts and of the 25 percent who were engaged, 60 percent were not aligned with organizational goals. This common sense approach is all too uncommon in practice.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 31, 2021

The goal is for each individual to truly disconnect from work for sufficient stretches of time. As we see the end of the pandemic in sight, we hope leaders will reexamine their “time on the clock” expectations and give people they are responsible for leading sufficient margin that enables them to protect their emotional health.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 5, 2015

They also align their behavior with the leader’s goals so everyone is pulling in the same direction. A connection culture affects the bottom line in four ways. When people feel connected they give their best efforts at work. Additionally, they communicate more, which gives decision-makers the best information to make optimal decisions.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 5, 2018

When relationships in the workplace are not excellent, people don’t give their best efforts, they don’t align their behavior with the team’s goals, they don’t communicate or collaborate as well as they should, and they tend not to make the effort to be creative and innovate. This failure sabotages task excellence every time.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is a good time to be laser-focused on identifying, or re-evaluating, your top 3-5 priorities for the year and making progress toward achieving those goals. Thrivers through the pandemic will maintain focus on what’s important and what they can do well in the current environment. Again, pace yourself. Don’t try to do too much.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 22, 2015

It shows that connection makes people perform better, give greater discretionary effort, better align their behavior with their leader’s goals, communicate better, cooperate more and contribute to the organization’s marketplace of ideas that fuel innovation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 17, 2016

Armed with that understanding, the leader will look for ways to align each individual’s interests and goals with the organization’s so that the individual’s work is a “win-win” for the individual and the organization. They also expect leaders who report to them to follow their example.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 9, 2010

is on Steve’s team as she carries the ball toward the goal line with Do Feelings Have a Place in Business ? Michael Cardus at Create Learning cultivates some thought with Goal Setting: Solving Problems in Line with Values and Commitment. Jane Perdue of Get Your Leadership Big On! She deserves a game ball for this beautiful play.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 27, 2011

A leader whose character is missing these strengths may have power over others but will never lead from influence that moves people to give their best efforts and align their behavior with the leader’s goals.

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