Michael Lee Stallard

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3 Practices to Improve the Contribution of Your Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

Organizations need to treat everyone with dignity and respect within a meritocracy that allocates important projects to stars while giving core employees opportunities to prove that they can be stars too. Here are three practices that will help engage and improve the contribution of your core employees.

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Your career will soar if you avoid leaders’ #1 blind spot

Michael Lee Stallard

Armed with this knowledge, the best leaders find jobs, ongoing responsibilities or temporary projects that help their employees progress toward their career goals. The best leaders take time to get to know their employees and find out what their employees hope to achieve in their careers. Employees appreciate this.

Career 363
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Thriving Through the Ongoing Pandemic

Michael Lee Stallard

This is a good time to be laser-focused on identifying, or re-evaluating, your top 3-5 priorities for the year and making progress toward achieving those goals. Does your project list need a fresh look and greater focus? Again, pace yourself. Don’t try to do too much. Think about quality over quantity. ? Stay Connected.

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June Leadership Carnival

Michael Lee Stallard

How would you inspire people to work together for a certain goal? Richard Cummings presents Project Management: Creating Self-Managed Employees posted at Richard Cummings where he talks about how to create self-managed employees and motivate them to get the job done by having the employees tell you what they are going to get done.

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Addicted to Your Smartphone, To-do List or Busyness?

Michael Lee Stallard

While it is a good and useful thing to have an internal spark to pursue a goal and persevere on your quest to attain it, too much dopamine is a cause for concern. They continuously push people to achieve unrealistic goals in pursuit of boosting their own personal wealth, power and/or status. Reward is yours and yours alone.

Chemicals 207
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3 Lessons from the Attack on Amazon

Michael Lee Stallard

It shows that connection makes people perform better, give greater discretionary effort, better align their behavior with their leader’s goals, communicate better, cooperate more and contribute to the organization’s marketplace of ideas that fuel innovation. Becoming Intentional.