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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In today’s #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock , serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author of several books including Plan D. Once you know what you’re chasing and why you can make better choices and plans. After all, that’s the point of a blind spot, right?

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JANUARY 3, 2014

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To Change Your Reputation Set Human-Centered Goals and Stick With It It can be super challenging to move beyond the stories of the past that affect your leadership reputation. Whatever your leadership reputation holds, you can change your reputation with clear goals and persistent effort. Leadership is never handled.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2013

She’s got big plans for her large hypothetical family. Callings Change Creativity Fear and Courage Help People to Grow career goals life goals life map persistance tenacity vision' .” Dale Carnegie Kerri knows exactly what she wants in her “some day” husband.

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DECEMBER 11, 2023

They take time to describe the desired future with specific goals, expectations, and measurements of success. Communicate Consistently: Vary communication to break through distractions Habit: I build a proactive communication plan to get everyone on the same page. Your plan is going to get interrupted.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

How are you planning to organize your week? Do they need help, planning, and holding a courageous performance conversation (see also how to be a more courageous manager). Have them turn the conversation into a practical plan. Getting it on the calendar is a great way to ensure they stay focused on the plan. ” 5.

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JULY 21, 2023

Connect your ideas to the bigger picture – goals, values, long-term vision– and also consider the technical nuances and challenges for implementation. Foster collaboration by taking time to learn from your colleagues and include them in your planning. Do you understand the mission, vision, and values?

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

You might discover your leaders or your team have a very different set of values and you should start planning a change. To ask questions, understand the goals, and help your leaders understand the realities confronting your team. You may gain a strategic insight, a longer-term focus than you had. The answer is “no, they don’t.”

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FEBRUARY 20, 2023

What are you planning as your key message?” You might take a walk and start an exercise plan that includes some yoga and stress reduction. And your business metrics matter – a balanced scorecard, with well-selected key performance indicators, will reinforce your strategy and align actions with goals. Ninety-four,” she said.

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MAY 3, 2021

The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. Rather, they put their energy into working on the right set of problems–the ones that, once solved, get them closer to their goals. Here’s the plan…” Create Calm – there is a tendency during uncertainty to react. But you don’t.

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JANUARY 6, 2016

If you’re like me, at this point, the holiday hoopla already feels like a distant memory; you’re invigorated by the possibilities for the year ahead; and perhaps just a bit overwhelmed by the the stretch-goals in front of you. You’re neck-deep in planning and goal setting. Then tell someone about your plan.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

For more on connecting your team to the “why” in your work, check out Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation. Once you’ve clarified the strategic goal, then focus on how you will achieve it and the leadership practices that help the team operate smoothly. Where are we going?

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DECEMBER 19, 2014

You may have goals and aspirations, but do you know the things deep down inside that drive you? Jesse Lyn Stoner of Seapoint Center shares that if you’re not clear about what you really want, you are likely to set goals that will not be truly satisfying once accomplished. Examining Our Dreams and Callings. ” – Socrates.

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DECEMBER 15, 2016

Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about goal setting. Please submit your very best links to your goal setting posts. The question for the month is: “What your best practice for helping teams set meaningful goals?” ” Submit your answers and blog posts related to this question: here! Follow Jon.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Seek New Approaches Habit: I explore possibilities and look for alternative paths to achieve goals. What would happen if we did the opposite of our plan? Part 2: Great Teams: 12 Practical Collaboration Habits to Create Clarity 12 Habits to Foster More Curiosity and Creativity on Your Team 1.

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MAY 22, 2023

If you’re at a stalemate about something you can’t leave alone, it might be time for a carefully planned exit. Is there an alternative path to accomplish my goal? What do I gain or lose by quitting? If the conflicts seem to follow you, quitting is likely not the answer.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

This meeting’s goal is to reach a decision on xxxx, and to begin to define how we will achieve this, we need your best thinking on _. ” Of course, the most important part of this approach is to make a plan and stick to it. .”People want to know that something will be accomplished with their time.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

With the right planning and attitude, you can avoid all of these leadership failures. Privately, how often do you think about your annual bonus versus the organization’s growth goals? Action: review your organization’s goals weekly to ensure your actions are contributing to the organization rather than building an empire.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

According to Michelle Pallas of MichellePallas.com , having a vision and setting goals enables realization of our dreams. Skip Prichard of Leadership Insights posits that the same strategy, the same goals, the same execution may result in different outcomes. Follow Jon. Follow Michelle. Follow Alli. George Washington Carver.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

” “That’s not a stretch goal, that’s a delusion.” I’m a big believer in isolating the variables, and making the big goals feel small. Any diads that makes the joint goal win a prize. Builders make stretch goals feel easy by breaking it down. His math was brilliant. Everyone wins.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. We now build that question into the strategic planning work we do with teams. The End of Year Letter.

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JULY 3, 2017

Yesterday “Doug,” a participant in one of our Winning Well workshops, asked, “Karin, if I were to walk into your office right now with the goal of convincing you I’m a rock star, what behaviors would get your attention?”. I want to know what you’re eager to do and how you’re planning to do it.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We’ve designed this guide to help your team members think more deeply about their development goals and key actions. Development discussions always go better when your employee comes prepared to engage in conversation. Give it to them in advance and ask them […].

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

With that will come more work, new project plans, and of course new metrics and reporting. The new initiatives will come [.] You had a great year… you worked hard, you achieved results, and learned along the way. Great… now what can you discard? 2013 will bring new challenges, exciting initiatives and inspiring ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2014

Many such programs involve meetings, action plans, tracking spreadsheets, and other additional work for the Frontline Leader. Tip 2: Ensure any programs and tools are directly tied into the core mission and goals of the team. You can’t inspire engagement as an overlay.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Celebrate Optimal Outcomes As part of your 5 x 5 Communication Plan , you will probably already have scheduled celebrations of people living out the values. Don’t shy away from that truth. Senior leader stories help everyone see what it means to make those choices in their work.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2015

It’s tempting to build action plans with lots of activity to show you are trying. Acknowledge conflicting goals and competing priorities. Think about peripheral players that must understand your plan. Test it, “What do you think I most want to talk about today?” Activity: Make big work small. Less is more.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

My plate is already full, but I also want to ensure our team meets our goals. ” “I’m concerned about our team’s performance and I’ve noticed that you’re really running behind on the project plan.” I care deeply about this team and our performance.

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

An important component to achieve your vision and accomplish your goals, is identifying the right behaviors at every level. If you are just tuning in this week, we are in the midst of a series on Building Results That Last Beyond Your Tenure. Just as with creating the vision, you have choices. You can identify the [.]

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JULY 14, 2023

Hopefully, you have a five-by-five communication plan we’ve talked about in past episodes, communicating key messages, and your value rollouts five times, five different ways. And hopefully, you’ve already got scheduled celebrations of people living out the values as part of that plan.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

I did, and found myself backward mapping my entrepreneurial journey and found the START before SMART goal process. I was recently asked to give a workshop for the National Speakers Association on SMART goals to help entrepreneurs launch their businesses. Sure I could talk SMART goals, almost every leadership development person can.

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MARCH 9, 2015

” “What are you planning as your key message?” A balanced scorecard, with well-selected KPIs, will reinforce your strategy and align actions with goals. ” Sarah interrupted my painful flashback. “I’m sorry, but I’ve got to huddle the team. We’ve got to get to 94 by the end of the day.”

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Which are vital toward accomplishing your goals for the future? Having each team member pick one competency they really want to work on this year and create an action plan around it. If a formal model exists, use that for additional input and invite participants to update their cards if desired. What’s missing? An Example.

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MAY 20, 2016

Sticking with this realistic goal has helped her be continuously successful at it for a number of years. Coaching is a critical skill and, unless you are an expert, coaching as a competency should be in your personal development plan. Follow Michelle. How do you invest in your professional development on a regular basis?

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JULY 27, 2015

She planned to leave my book on his desk the next day as a conversation starter. (I Set a Clear Goal: Be clear about what must happen next and by when. Close…but by that time that jerk surfaced her ugly head, I was too seasoned for that crap. This was “Carrie’s” first serious job and she knew it was wrong.

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APRIL 4, 2016

You can have all the great plans, Six Sigma quality programs, and brilliant competitive positioning in the universe, but if the human beings doing the real work lack the competence, confidence and creativity to pull it off, you’re finished. They build teams that will produce results today as well as next year.

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DECEMBER 9, 2015

Executives set impossible goals, so managers drive their teams to burnout trying to deliver. Winning Well offers a quick, practical action plan―complete with examples, stories, online assessments, and more―for getting the results you need. Now Available For Pre-Order (click here). It can feel like a rigged game. And more.

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