Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 28, 2020

My goal is to gain a fresh perspective on the environment. First, I list out all the significant assumptions I am making that underpin how businesses operate. In general, people don’t like to change. So, I developed a list of questions I try to answer whenever I enter a new market.

Brand 233

Brand Marketing Price Globalization 233

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I have found that when you set goals and expectations for the important conversations you tend to get better results. After 10 years of owning and operating a successful Sandler Training center, he was recruited by Sandler corporate to handle the bulk of national and international training through the Global Accounts division.

Self-aware 228

Self-aware Skills Positioning Training 228

Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Kennedy proclaimed, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.”1 Football has the aptly named goal line. Revise your goals until they are clear, concise, and achievable. Golf counts strokes.

Armstrong 142

Armstrong Engineering Industry Sports 142

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2020

Great leaders operate using similar principles to guide their actions. Great leaders know that the goal of act of communication isn’t communicating, it’s to create shared understanding. On the surface, each team and company’s situation and issues were unique. However, over time, I started to see patterns emerge- patterns of behavior.

Leadership 283

Leadership Parcell Seminar Quality 283

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2013

Bob is a 17 year employee, hard worker, never calls in sick, and over the last year has consistently gone above and beyond to help Marty meet his goals and take care of the customers. I’ll talk to the operations manager.”. He recently did a performance evaluation for one of his assistant managers, “Bob”. What should I do?”.

Company 272

Company Sharpe Policies Bottom-up 272

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 5, 2019

In any organization, leaders have a choice, they can concentrate on urgent short-term goals, or they can equip themselves with the relationship sensing and building skills they need to balance priority tensions. Building balanced relationships through trust is at the heart of the IFB Model of leadership.

Leadership 239

Leadership Emotional Intelligence Short-term Policies 239

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It is only as a result of leaders’ executing PPM with unwavering character and purpose that an organization—your organization—can lay the groundwork for achieving breakthrough-operating performance. You and your employees need to focus on indicators of whether goals will be exceeded or not met. What If the Truth Is Not Told?

PPM 250

PPM Positioning Management Performance Review 250

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In order to achieve our lofty goals, we had to be willing to change. After developing a clear strategy and setting its direction throughout the organization, we quickly evaluated our operations and moved to reorganize around the client into one company. By asking ourselves “How can we do this better?”

System 228

System Chief Executive Officer Innovation CEO 228

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

Because no matter how much more complex the world seems to become and no matter how much more quickly we race to outrun others, great leaders operate from a set of principles they use daily as filters for making decisions. At the heart of sound decision-making is being crystal clear about what you stand for. And what you don’t want.

Objective 254

Objective Guidelines Fashion Leadership Styles 254

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 8, 2019

This mentality creates a lack of trust, collaboration, and common ownership for a greater goal—and ultimately greatly slows down execution speed. Many leaders believe that to be effective and successful, they need to be smarter than the next guy, fight for their area of the business, and not show vulnerability.

Open-book 242

Open-book CEO Follow-up Execution 242

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

“To excel in today’s highly complex and competitive business environment, the Best Companies are taking deliberate steps to develop and reward these competencies to enable their organizations to achieve operational excellence today, while driving innovation for tomorrow.”. Actively manages a pool of successors for mission-critical roles.

Company 241

Company Leadership Press Release Innovation 241

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2012

I’ll bet the work you’re doing to strategically aligned, you’re contributing to achieving the goals of your organization, and you’re seen as a valued resource by your company’s senior management. Business Goals and Challenges: - What are your most important goals, objectives, and/or challenges you’re working on now and in the next few years?

Leadership Development 229

Leadership Development Development Chief Financial Officer Chief Operating Officer 229

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 16, 2012

to “How do I attain enterprise goals by working effectively within a very fluid and complex networked environment?” Often these relationships do end up helping the leaders to achieve business goals, but the relationships are typically formed before the business rationale becomes clear. Matrix Competencies in Short Supply. Be resilient.

Environment 250

Environment Self-aware Leadership Emotional Intelligence 250

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 31, 2017

When we feel connected, we operate with a sense of purpose and utilize our many talents and abilities to advance that purpose, consciously as well as subconsciously. The goal is to land a man on the moon before the end of the decade (1960’s). The need for connection at work is perhaps stronger today than ever before.

Tips 203

Tips Armstrong Storytelling Education 203

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Typical executive education courses operate on some combination of lectures, exercises, and an interactive group-based learning environment. Does your course foster a group-based learning environment? Is there professional diversity among participants?

Education 120

Education Course Execution Godin 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2014

By making strategic differentiation the goal of all business renovation activities, organizations will begin to push for the right kinds of changes in the way work is performed and in the way the enterprise is run.

Management 236

Management Price Strategy Definition 236

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

You’re responsible for the cumulative goals of your team, and you’re under pressure to deliver. What are their big goals both professionally and personally? Take what you learn and build out a simple operating plan for your team. Even the smallest of wins can help build momentum to achieve bigger goals.

Execution 251

Execution Stress Supply Chain Absenteeism 251

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 5, 2014

The leader’s role here is to point towards a common goal, motivating people to learn from each other so that they can achieve this new opportunity. Others are working hand-in-glove with community colleges to train operators for their plants. To boot, each must learn the other department’s skills while not fighting over turf.

Human Capital 230

Human Capital CEO Management Skills 230

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

Research by the Corporate Executive Board has found that 40 percent of "engaged" employees do not align their behavior with organizational goals. Help people to understand what must be accomplished, why their work is worthwhile, and how they can accomplish their goals. Create a Common Purpose. We recommend the following: 1.

Participative 249

Participative Energy Bottom-up Organizational Behavior 249

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 19, 2016

Most high-performing leaders are committed to using a combination of all three to accomplish their goal to be the best. Executives are now learning what professional athletes have always known: a great coach is an invaluable resource when pursuing a goal. What is ONE traditional operating principle you have relied on for growth?

Development 159

Development Tactics Training Executive Coaching 159

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 26, 2012

Leadership is the "glue" that connects the WMACs' business strategy, operations and program changes, and ultimately, their commitment to human capital. And most importantly, their collective development efforts are critically aligned with the organizations strategic goals. In fact, I mean quite the opposite.

Company 237

Company Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Leadership 237

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 16, 2018

I wondered if the conductor would lead differently in the presence of a star but it sounded as if she and the conductor were almost operating as one as she played her solo with the conductor bringing the orchestra in to provide background and harmony. This piece featured a world-famous violinist.

Leadership 137

Leadership Handbook Delegation Books 137

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 6, 2012

I myself was a young manager, working with a team of much older and more experienced sales people in my role as Head Of Operational Planning at only 21 years old! Make it clear that you are there to help them do their job better and make it easier for them to achieve their goals. Get to know your team as individuals.

Management 268

Management Team Learning-by-Doing Tips 268

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

How can we break free from the limitations of that old trail and blaze new trails, writing new mental maps that are better able to get us to our new goals? Change the context in which you operate. Broadly speaking, there are three primary ways in which you can redraw a mental map. You can: 1. Change the way you think about yourself.

Travel 250

Travel Execution Planning Software 250

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Transforming an organization while keeping day-to-day operations running is like fixing a car as it is being driven; it’s complicated, risky, and it’s not clear whether the team can pull it off. For each change, leaders must define it, create a vision of the post-change world, and mobilize their teams to make it.

Project 257

Project Learning-by-Doing Skills Environment 257

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

Unassumingly, they steer the team closer and closer to the goal. Institutionally, they believe in success and understand the millions of tiny steps it takes for your vision to become a plan, for the plan to be put into action and those actions to become a benchmark operation. They take time to reflect and note the insights gleaned.

Team 120

Team Benchmarking Long-term Influence 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2016

All of these tools and programs are high-tech, high-touch variations on the theme of getting people to work harder, work smarter, establish goals, measure progress, share results and receive accolades, encouragement and advice from those around them in the pursuit of ever-greater productivity.

Technology 120

Technology Motivation Mentor Resistance 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 17, 2018

But that doesn’t mean you can’t alter it to best suit your organization’s goals. To improve operations budgets and procedures? That definition comes from Sir John Whitmore, and I think it’s a perfect way to introduce coaching. Don’t Turn Coaching into a Big Deal “Don’t turn coaching into a big deal.” To better track website metrics?

How To 134

How To Learning-by-Doing Advice Definition 134

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 26, 2011

Your goal as a coach is to get your coachee to a point where they interpret whatever setbacks they experience in less permanent, pervasive and personal terms. Modest leaders see fiscal and operational constraints as safeguards—not hindrances. Modesty is also a key counter-balancing mechanism that keeps a leader’s emotions in balance.

Loyalty 256

Loyalty Reference Maturity Human Capital 256

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 3, 2014

Could Thomas Cromwell or Cardinal Richelieu have operated as effectively in the dark if their spies had all been on LinkedIn? Unless you are asked by your leader to be the front man or the spokeswoman, management’s elected mouthpiece for the media, you must reside in the shadows and your contribution should be largely anonymous.

Influence 229

Influence Media Health Care Follow-up 229

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2015

The operative term here is “my motivation.” Being right or getting your way or winning the argument is not the goal, it’s not the path to success. Myth #1: I can use my motivation to help others be motivated Make no mistake! One of a leader’s key responsibilities is to motivate others, to “rally the troops.”

Executive Coaching 120

Executive Coaching Leadership Franchising Motivation 120

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 14, 2015

The focus of leaders is on utilizing people as a company’s most important product, to establish missions, strategies and goals for the organization. He is the vice president of global human resources operations for Amgen Biotechnical Corporation, the world’s largest biotechnical company.

Leadership 120

Leadership Attrition Human Capital System 120

Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 6, 2012

No matter the arena, business, political, religious or role models in general, the operative question these days is ‘What were he/she/they thinking’. When your personal readiness and the coaching process are aligned, your goals can be reached. Lynn Dessert from Elephants at Work presents Why does executive coaching take so long?

Leadership Development 244

Leadership Development Development Leadership Blog 244

Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 3, 2008

A primary goal of active listening is to set a comfortable tone and allow time and opportunity for the other person to think and speak. Be present, focused on the moment and operate from a place of respect. Each skill includes various techniques or behaviors. Paying attention. Holding judgment.

Active Listening 120

Active Listening Open-book Leadership Styles Learning-by-Doing 120

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2018

Special Operators have thrived in these environments because of how they think. The fourth skill is to chunk overwhelming tasks into micro goals. Fortunately for you, these skills can be trained. However, you need to know your starting point to customize your training. This is a good skill to learn.

Training 227

Training Planning Self-aware Learning-by-Doing 227

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 7, 2018

With One Ford, he put the purpose and values of the Ford brand at the center of the organization and unified the company’s people, plans, operations, and products to restore the brand to automotive leadership. But one angle that hasn't yet been covered is the brand-inspired cultural revolution he led inside the organization.

Brand 193

Brand BPR FOB Automotive 193

Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Open lines of communication – Does your company have a hotline that operates 24/7/365 and is staffed by competent individuals who know how to properly intake and triage emergency reports or concerns? How are risk assessment, and more specifically -- enterprise risk management ("ERM") implemented in your organization?

CEO 240

CEO Compliance Organization Report 240