Lead from Within

MARCH 31, 2023

Here are six common leadership mistakes that hold back employee growth and how to avoid them: Playing favoritism: It’s natural to have a few team members that you work well with or feel a closer connection to, but it’s important to treat all team members fairly and equally. Avoid the temptation to play favorites.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you want to improve your people management skills, you need to move away from micromanaging in the direction of guidance and coaching. The more you get to know your team members, the better you can assign tasks and manage your projects. Step Two: Inclusion . Work with your employees to develop in those weaker areas. .

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Lead from Within

MARCH 29, 2022

What started as an accommodation is becoming business as usual, with remote work and global teams now the norm. Set achievable goals. Micromanagement is even more of a temptation with a remote workforce, but if anything it’s even less effective. If you have the resources, bring teams together in person occasionally.

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Lead from Within

MAY 25, 2023

As a leader, it’s important to recognize that your actions and decisions have a ripple effect on your team. If you’re making mistakes, it’s likely that your team will struggle as well. There are common leadership mistakes that can derail your team’s success.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 16, 2020

Open your mind and make hearing their point of view your only goal, then let them know they were heard by repeating and summarizing what was said. Without being intrusive, make a point of talking with people on your team about things in their life that aren’t related to work. Be interested. Provide opportunities. Exhibit trust.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

How to manage remote teams effectively? You juggle video calls, instant messages, and project updates from a team scattered across the globe. Here are some hard-won lessons I’ve learned to manage a remote team and turn that scattered crew into a high-performing unit. The question gnaws at you. Absolutely.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

An organization’s culture ripples out from the team leading it. Many leadership teams don’t recognize their own behavior reflected back to them in their culture. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Championship teams cite playing together as the key to success. Successful brands have high-performing teams working cohesively together to achieve their company’s goal. The big question is, ‘how can I bring a winning team together?’ Winning teams don’t just happen when you bring in qualified employees.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

One of the great challenges of teammates who care or team leaders who are struggling to inspire commitment is the question. The short answer is what I usually give – you need to connect people to a compelling common goal and you need to connect them to each other. Include your team in team decisions.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Similarly, only half the team members surveyed for the same study said that their leaders effectively create vision for the future of their team. What will improve it is focused and thoughtful action to ensure leaders are equipped to lead, and just as importantly, have the confidence of the teams they’re leading. Confidence.

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Mike Cardus

MAY 31, 2013

Contextual Goals Matter. If the goals are too small people feel micromanaged. If the goals are too large people are lost and unsure what to do, macromanaged. Properly delegated Contextual Goals are Goldilocks Goals …They cannot be too big or too small. Anthony, Frank and contextual goals.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

There are probably few if any people in leadership who don’t aspire to have a happy team. Especially these days, when most people are working long hours and have so much to do, there are steps you can take to help ensure your team is happy (and, since the two go hand in hand, motivated). A happy team has a supportive leader.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They have a deep understanding of themselves, including their values, ambitions, and goals. They also lead with generosity: they care about others and empower their teams to fulfill their own ambitions. Genuine leaders have a deep understanding of their values, ambitions, and goals, and project their true selves for all to see.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2017

Include us in goal setting. You work hard to set our department’s annual goals and achieve them. We want you to include us in planning our department’s goals. Share what you have in mind in terms of goals for our department, and then have the humility to ask us what’s right, what’s wrong and what’s missing from your thinking.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2024

Hopefully, you've mastered or are achieving good progress with your New Year's resolution(s) for 2024. If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Here are things that great leaders can never afford to forget if they want to succeed in leading: Stop micromanaging: As a leader, it can be tempting to want to control every aspect of your team’s work, but this can lead to a demotivated and disengaged workforce.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 1, 2014

That means I try to cast the vision for a team and get out of the way, releasing each team member to do his or her work in their own individual way. Here are 5 times to consider some micromanagement: When a team member is new to the organization. When a team or team leader has been severely crippled by injury or stress.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To be an effective leader, you need to be able to motivate and inspire your team to do their best work. Therefore, ensure you are clear and concise when communicating deadlines, objectives, and goals. If your team is unclear about what they are supposed to be doing, it will be difficult for them to do their best work.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Leaders are too hard to find, we certainly want to keep leaders on our teams when we have them. The goal then is to find ways to keep a leader energized to stay with the team – so I thought a companion post was appropriate. Here are a few suggestions to keep leaders on your team: Give them an unsolved challenge.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Sometimes when I’m under the gun at work and feeling the pressure of all my responsibilities, I can get tunnel vision about accomplishing my own goals and forget how my behavior is influencing others. We all have an innate need to be appreciated and it doesn’t take much for leaders to acknowledge the efforts of team members.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Toxic leadership happens at every level in every type of organization, leaving employees, teams and organizations demoralized and ineffective. When you lead with micromanagement. And that means your team is almost certainly feeling undermined and uninspired—which, in turn, means they’re less effective and productive than they could be.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Prior to being a manager, the odds are that you were a top performer on your team. Now that you’re the boss, you relish the opportunity to help team members solve problems. You’re also creating a sense of learned helplessness among your team members.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 2, 2022

An important part of leadership, then, is giving each member of your team a sense of ownership in that purpose and their role in making it happen. Prioritize investing in your team to make sure you’re getting—and keeping—the most talented people in your field. They delegate effectively. They align and assess.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 30, 2022

When you tell people not just what to do but how to do it, you’re micromanaging. And few things leave people and teams feeling more demoralized and demotivated than micromanagement. Give focused attention to the things you say to your team—and if those words aren’t serving you well, make the changes you need to make.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

I was recently chatting with my colleague, Jack, about how each of our teams were adapting to the new ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system our company implemented six months ago. Coaching is not a match for a team member who has little to no competence on the goal or task.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 21, 2021

The researchers found that managers who value being respected tend to use empowerment initiatives to subsequently empower their team. By contrast, those who instead value being in charge tend to use empowerment initiatives to try and control and dominate their team.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 20, 2023

1 The challenges are amplified with remote team members who are likely scattered across time zones of states and provinces, regions and continents. Use the next few minutes to grapple with some do’s and don’ts toward improving your remote leadership and better engaging your entire team. Also, don’t micromanage their time or tasks.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

To get you started, how about selecting one or more of these 70 New Year's resolutions for leaders? Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2024.

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Lead from Within

JULY 19, 2023

As a leadership coach, I often work with clients who are struggling to effectively lead their teams. Here are 10 things that leaders should stop doing immediately in order to become more effective: Stop not setting goals: Clearly defined goals help to focus effort and provide a sense of purpose and direction.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 4, 2019

Sometimes our need to control and micromanage everything erodes our confidence in ourselves and others. How can I instill confidence in my employees to get the best results from my team? Develop a plan for how to help employees reach the goals you’ve set together during your performance review s. Go ahead, have faith.”.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 30, 2019

One of the things I learned is there are some things I had to micromanage – some things of which I needed to retain control. I have a problem focusing on small issues, so I really do control very little which happens on our team. Plus, I love the team process. Therefore, I micromanaged some things.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 28, 2016

One of the things I’ve learned is there are some things I have to micromanage – some things of which I need to retain control. I have a problem focusing on small issues, so I really do control very little which happens on our team. Plus, I love the team process. Therefore, I micromanaged some things.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 19, 2023

This means allowing them to set their own goals and objectives, and giving them the autonomy to work towards them in the way that they see fit. Give feedback and recognition: The best leaders provide feedback and recognition to their employees to help them understand how their work contributes to the organization’s goals.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Workplace stress assessments are often carried out to help teams perform at an optimal level. Much can be achieved when organizations identify possible sources of stress, which can include a controlling management style, lack of job security, or an excess of responsibility matched with little control over goals, roles, or procedures.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 3, 2015

This post was recently published on SmartBlog on Leadership No one wants to work for a micromanager. Micromanagers are control freaks, always breathing down their employee’s, telling them how to do everything and inspecting every move they make. Employees that work for micromanagers probably wish their bosses would just disappear.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

One of them for me has been ways I help creative people on our teams flourish. Help them draw a box around certain end goals or objectives. Once the end product is defined, creatives like limited micromanagement and maximum empowerment. If you think if I can help you or your team I would be happy to talk with you.

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