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How to Keep Your Team Focused on What Matters Most

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My suggestion was to use the grid as a template for a monthly meeting where they take a near-term look at the highest and best uses of their time and attention against the goals they’re trying to accomplish.

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Five Ways for Leaders to Get Out of Chronic Fight or Flight

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Pretty much every senior leader I work with has a plate that is overflowing with big issues – return to office initiatives, higher performance goals, huge investments, achieving operational excellence, you name it. He’s not the only one that feels like the beginning of 2024 has been overstuffed with things to do and deal with.

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Five Must-Do’s to Lead Like an Ambassador

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That’s a starting point for senior leaders, but, for them, leading like an ambassador is much more like operating as if they were an actual ambassador to another country. I first started thinking about this when I helped run a leadership development program for country general managers of a global company.

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Are You Triaging or Prioritizing Your Work?

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Just about every leader I work with is operating in an environment where they and their teams have more to accomplish than the time available to do it all. But if triage is all you ever do, you’re never going to get to the strategic priorities that will enable you to achieve your goals.

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How to Make the Move to Enterprise-Wide Leader

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These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. It’s actually pretty simple and not that complex to operate that way.

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How to Develop Your Team Like a Real Estate Investor

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Successful investors in real estate or any other sector think through their goals and then develop a portfolio of investments to align with them. Recruiting new talent from outside the organization can be the right move when you need to rapidly accelerate your performance to meet your goals in a given timeframe.

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Who Do You Need to Be This Year?

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These are the qualities that represent you when you’re operating in the sweet spot that leads to positive outcomes. Words that might come to mind could include qualities like supportive, encouraging, clear, calm, inspiring, directive, engaged, open, generous or any number of others that fit their needs. So, who do you need to be this year?

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