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AUGUST 5, 2014

The “Why” of Everyday Work People do not have just one way of operating. Schemas reflect these changes of context; thus, when a call center employee is operating in a help-a-family schema, the kinds of behaviors that are appropriate are quite different from those in a deal-with-a-customer schema.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

You should also know that this year brings with it new taxation and new regulations that may add expenses and affect the way you operate your business. Start with a post-mortem of how your business operated last year. Set some realistic, specific goals for the year ahead and really go for it In other words, aim high but be specific.

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JUNE 24, 2014

In several cases, I noted how problems arose not simply because team members disagreed on a particular point or issue, but because they were operating from different perspectives of what they should be expected to do, and what they saw as being their team mates’ responsibility to address.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Growth Leaders – The CEO of a multi-billion dollar industrial products company boldly sets an ambitious growth goal of growing revenue by 40% over a three-year period. He has a Board-approved strategy, a solid operating plan with targets, and a newly developed business unit organization structure to implement it.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Set realistic goals From there set measurable, realistic goals that will help you track your strategy’s process. You should have a goal to mark each milestone in your strategy. Goals can take the form of reduced customer complaints, increased monthly revenue, or just better customer interactions.

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AUGUST 7, 2012

Set realistic goals From there set measurable, realistic goals that will help you track your strategy’s process. You should have a goal to mark each milestone in your strategy. Goals can take the form of reduced customer complaints, increased monthly revenue, or just better customer interactions.

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APRIL 22, 2014

It is also the result of the actions and words of the group’s leader who understands how to tap into the collective talents, insights, and experiences of the various team members, and direct those elements towards a common goal or shared purpose.

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JUNE 27, 2017

And what we’ve learned over the last twenty-five years of implementing change projects is that the work doesn’t end when you’ve reached your goal. So this step ensures that the business operating team is ready to take ownership of the change and continue implementing the plan.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

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? Some other posts you may enjoy: This Year, Be Ready Have You Tied Your Organization’s Goals To Your Noble Cause?

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DECEMBER 27, 2016

Of course, in today’s faster-paced and always-on digital work environment that we all operate within, it’s easy to gloss over these differences and to focus instead on simply handing out new tasks and new goals as a way to move past these feelings of discouragement, if not also to just keep things moving along.

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JULY 15, 2014

At the time we were writing this piece, Chris was stationed at Kabul, Afghanistan as the Chief of Staff/Chief Operating Officer for the NATO Air Training Command. Your first goal in taking over an established team is to keep the fire burning toward success. Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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OCTOBER 9, 2012

While I might be familiar with the goals and challenges we’ll have to address, the team itself has changed as more than half of the members are both new to the team and new to the process of governing an educational institution. Rather, your goal should be to empower everyone at the table to be full contributors and participants.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Becoming a Connected Leader Attributes Trusting Involving Empathizing Developing Communicating Being attributes are the 5 leadership behaviours that ensure the leader can effectively work with the team to accomplish goals in a manner that is precise yet coupled by collective participation.

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APRIL 25, 2017

Leadership programs often emphasize the operational mechanics of leading – planning, organizing, budgeting, or content that leans more toward management, such as delegating, time management, and giving feedback. Thus, you have to constantly be stretching people toward higher goals and standards. Doing otherwise breeds complacency.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

While the research team knew that it would take them years to unravel the structure of the DNA molecule, they nonetheless understood that achieving this goal would be a defining moment. In other words, a goal which can serve to define the purpose behind your shared efforts.

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DECEMBER 31, 2013

Our failures can also reveal misguiding thinking on our part of what it is we need to accomplish to achieve our goals or even what’s the best route to reach that target. business communication leadership Recent Posts community conflict decision-making failure fear goals learning motivation perception relationships shared purpose'

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JANUARY 12, 2016

There is a change happening at the very top of the organizational hierarchy that, like a weather vane, reflects some of the fundamental changes happening across every organization and the marketplace they operate in. Trust is the key requirement for any relational exchange to take place.

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DECEMBER 1, 2015

As Fizzle CEO, Corbett Barr, told me: I stay productive by developing and maintaining what I call a personal “operating system”, which is a set of processes, tools and checkpoints that define how I get work done every day. The specifics of an operating system differ from person to person, but the important thing is that you have one.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Of course, in these conversations about my book, the focus is not on the relevance of community-building in today’s organizations, but rather how do we go about doing this in light of the numerous demands on a leader’s time, attention and resources while operating in a doing-more-with-less environment.

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OCTOBER 4, 2016

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. Now to be clear, leaders by default do operate with some form of authority, usually as a result of their position within their organization.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

As such, the absence of team members during the summer time can actually provide leaders with a welcome break to do a more in-depth review of where they are in reaching their shared goals and consequently, developing a better understanding of where to focus their team’s efforts when they return to full force at the end of summer.

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JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. The truth, however, is that we don’t need work to be exciting for us to derive a sense of value or meaning from it.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In other words, break down your big picture into realistic and measurable goals with dates for completion, then celebrate the success by reporting back to the group the impact of their contribution. The solution: Go ahead and share the big picture, then manage the change by breaking it down.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

However, as the crows demonstrate, even when change is forced upon us externally through unexpected or uncontrollable factors, we can still transform these disruptions in how we operate into opportunities that can provide us with a beneficial advantage over our competitors.

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JULY 29, 2014

The work routines employed by many of these leaders leave them operating more in a reactive, instead of reflective mode, so spending any time on pondering the long-view can seem almost like a luxury.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Frame criticism so it motivates people to stretch themselves and not shrink away As I mentioned above, Malaika was one of two co-ordinators who were responsible in managing how this orientation camp operated.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Finally, I ask, “How many of you are operating in a constantly changing competitive environment?” Beginning with the Financial Crisis of 2008, most organizations have adopted a do more with less approach to their operations. That’s usually about 100 percent of the hands. That is most definitely 100 percent of the hands.

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DECEMBER 22, 2015

It’s little surprise, then, that soon after the start of this upcoming new year, many of us will be left feeling as if those plans and goals we set for ourselves to achieve were simply an adult version of calling out “do-over!”, hoping that the chance to start over will somehow lead us to a better reality than the one we have right now.

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Specifically, how do we keep employees invested in the long-term goals of our organization? The researchers refer to this behaviour as the “small area hypothesis” which states that “how people monitor their progress toward goal completion influences their motivation”.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Indeed, we have to recognize that while some constraints can challenge our assumptions of what’s possible, others only serve to restrict our movements and capacity to envision alternatives that can help us to achieve our goals.

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DECEMBER 9, 2014

Although I sympathize with the challenges they face, and the complexities that now dot the landscape of operating in this 24/7 global environment, the reality that we all have to own up to is that leadership is hard. Rather, it is a natural part of the landscape of those human endeavours, of those lofty goals that are worth pursuing.

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JULY 30, 2013

business communication culture leadership Recent Posts change collaboration competence control fear focus goals listening negativity neuroscience opportunities perception shared purpose skills' The Role Leaders Play In Developing Great Teams.

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MAY 20, 2014

As is often the case when we write about leadership, the focus tends to be on what we can do today to improve how our organization operates going forward and hopefully, achieve the kind of success we envisioned when we first took on this leadership role.

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JULY 25, 2017

One of my favourite insights from her book – “Without realizing it you – like everyone else – are very likely operating under two very flawed assumptions: first, that other people see you objectively as you are, and, second, that other people see you as you see yourself.”

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MAY 13, 2014

After all, given the fact that many organizations have been operating in survivalist mode for the past couple of years, it’s understandable that leaders will want to make sure that they’re not putting their current or future successes at risk by seemingly leaving things up to chance.

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AUGUST 13, 2013

People have trouble reaching goals and pursuing dreams for one (or many) of the following pride-related reasons: They are too prideful to risk appearing “stupid.” Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

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