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Have You Tied Your Organization’s Goals To Your Noble Cause?

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Why do the goals that you’ve set out for your team to accomplish matter? So how can you make sure the goals you’ve set out for your organization are aligned with your noble cause? Is your focus solely on how to achieve goals and not addressing why they matter?

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How Do You Inspire Others Through Your Leadership?

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That we move beyond simply evaluating our leadership in terms of various established metrics like goal achievement, productivity, and efficiency ratings, in order to ask ourselves what seeds are we planting in the hearts and minds of those we lead? And this, of course, is what makes these achievements extraordinary.

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What Does Success Really Look Like?

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Granted, most of us are rather effective at developing strategies and goal-setting. What would it take for us to feel successful in the long run beyond simply achieving our goals or targets? Success should also be something that’s not transitory, as is the case with most external metrics. Why will this success matter?

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What Does It Take To Be A Connected Leader?

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In terms of volume, they are the world’s largest trees and the biggest is none other than 2,300 year-old-ish General Sherman, a tree weighing over 5,400 metric tons, spanning 83 meters in height and 1,486 mÂł in volume. Giant Sequoias are one of nature’s finest gifts.

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Is Your Leadership Based On Influence Or Authority?

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One example is the choice between the command-and-control style of leadership and one that’s more collaborative and inclusive in how we rally people around a common cause or goal. Namely, that while we want to show authority, it’s our influence that encourages people to believe in us [ Share on Twitter ].

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Into The Storm: 4 Lessons In Teamwork From The High Seas

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Because a team’s focus should be on its ability to recover from mistakes, the amount of time needed for recovery is a key metric for judging performance. In spite of his passion to win, skipper Ed Psaltis understood that it was important to “never lose sight of the ultimate goal.”

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Fear Of Change And 5 Ways To Overcome It

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Put in place testing procedures, and measurable goals to track success. With preparation, contingency planning, buy-in, testing and metrics, you’ll find that bringing about change is far easier than you thought. Anticipate all possible objections and create contingency plans for anything that could go wrong.