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DECEMBER 5, 2017

At our school’s Governing Board meeting last week, we had two teachers who shared a new project they run for students who are at-risk of dropping out of high school. One of the latest projects involves rebuilding and restoring bikes confiscated by the police.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Recently, Dave started a new web project titled “100 Days of Humility” in the hopes of drawing more attention to the need for greater humility in today’s leadership. Click on the player below to listen to the podcast: [Visit my website to listen to this podcast] Noteworthy links : Visit the 100 Days of Humility project website.

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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”. And yet, anecdotally, we all know this to be untrue.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

If you’re like most team leaders, you go into your team’s season or project or quarterly sales period with a goal. Goals are important – but setting a goal, like writing a book, is only part of the recipe. So what are the two parts to creating a compelling common goal? Keep it simple, but clear.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Communicate a shared and meaningful purpose to your team One of the more interesting observations Wujec shared during his TED talk was how, unlike most of the adult teams, the kindergarten children didn’t spend the first portion of their project time jostling to figure out who would be the “CEO of Spaghetti Inc”.

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MAY 23, 2011

Have you ever worked on a team project where you had concerns that the limited efforts being made by some team members was going to negatively impact the final outcome? It’s a situation my younger daughter found herself in a few weeks ago while rehearsing with her skating group for their end-of-season figure skating show.

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APRIL 25, 2017

No matter how well you do this quarter, or with this project, or with this customer, you’ll be expected to do more and better next time. Thus, you have to constantly be stretching people toward higher goals and standards. Demands are relentless and unforgiving You’re only deemed successful as a leader if you get results.

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JANUARY 1, 2013

Regardless of whether we actually commit to achieving these goals beyond the next few weeks or not, there’s something about the start of the new year that motivates us to embrace change and with it, a willingness to roll up our sleeves to improve the status quo. The post This Year, Be Ready appeared first on TanveerNaseer.com.

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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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MAY 26, 2011

A partnership initially created between two companies to allow them to land a large-scale project ends up becoming a source of distrust between the collaborating businesses, leading to costly delays as each side questions the real motives of the other firm. You can buy “Workarounds That Work” on Amazon.com or Amazon.ca for Canadian readers.

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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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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. Goal orientation – the facility to find a way to get results, especially when there are obstacles. What are CEOs looking for in the next generation of C-Suite leaders?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

We are all on a team, working on projects to accomplish goals that will push our companies forward. This is even important in job interviews where recruiters are trying to see if you would fit into the corporate culture. Teamwork skills will only become more important in the workplace.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

Similarly, when it comes to building a team, it’s only natural that we want to bring people on board who we have an easy time collaborating with or who we feel would be a good fit with our team’s goals.

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MAY 6, 2014

Michael is a website designer who works on many high profile online projects. Peldi’s major goal in business was to learn. “I This goal was the foundation for success of the business.” A former student asked if I could help her brother with his first publication. We met and I gave him some tips.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Interestingly, it’s a problem that my two oldest daughters also experience in high school where teachers assign them projects to collaborate on without providing any guidance or support on how to do this effectively.

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

This scenario can breed resentment and disagreement, possibly dooming a project to failure. What are his or her professional goals and do they fit with your vision for the company? Team members can sense right away when someone isn’t a good fit, and they are often the ones who must pick up the slack.

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AUGUST 4, 2015

Over the last few years, I’ve had the pleasure of being invited to participate in a number of projects and initiatives looking at collecting the thoughts and perspectives from a diverse set of experts, thought leaders, and personalities. For some of these projects, the contributions being sought were straight-forward and to the point.

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JULY 25, 2017

One of my favourite insights from their book – “If people do not perceive that they and their work are valued by a trustworthy organization, if they derive no pride or happiness from their work, they will have little drive to dig into a project.”

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JUNE 23, 2015

Lisa Mininni reminds leaders that we can consciously choose to pass through the fear and picture what we will feel like, accomplish, and gain when we take a step toward our goals. Acknowledge and be thankful for what you have We all know that living with an attitude of gratitude has its benefits, but how many of us really practice it?

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

What the crows’ example reveals is the concrete value we can gain from instilling a learning culture within our organization so we can stretch our creativity and insights, and in the process, develop innovative approaches for how we can reach our shared goals.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Recaps, core lessons, results, learning, and themes of 2015 have likely been captured; solutions, goals, intentions, planning, and strategy for 2016 is likely in action… Now what? What do you want to have happen as a result of this meeting, conversation, or project? The following is a guest piece by Inc. columnist Anese Cavanaugh.

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JANUARY 13, 2015

They aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty, work long hours or getting into the nitty-gritty details of a project. I call this point of view looking at the world through “goal-colored glasses.” These characteristics make them wonderful entrepreneurs. Along with this sense of purpose, comes dedication.

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JULY 10, 2012

Vacations allow your employees to pursue other interests/needs Consider how much is written about programs like the one at Google, where employees are given time during the work week to work on whatever project they want, the only condition being that after a given set of time, they present to the rest of the team what they’ve been working on.

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JULY 10, 2012

Vacations allow your employees to pursue other interests/needs Consider how much is written about programs like the one at Google, where employees are given time during the work week to work on whatever project they want, the only condition being that after a given set of time, they present to the rest of the team what they’ve been working on.

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JANUARY 14, 2014

Find some “out of the way” department or project to experiment on where the variables are controllable, the investment is minimal, and results are easily measured. Put in place testing procedures, and measurable goals to track success. In the next couple of weeks, research a change that you want to make happen.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2011

One of the responsibilities that comes with leadership is not only to communicate the vision or purpose behind your employees’ shared efforts, but to ensure that your team stays motivated and on track to achieving their goals. I’m a firm believer that you treat others they way you want to be treated.

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JULY 19, 2016

Your employees also have diverse skills, talents, and knowledge that could be beneficial to your overall goals. Preferably, you should learn to know more about them outside of a project so that you can see what they can bring to the table outside of their traditional job role or title.

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APRIL 14, 2015

The best place to start decluttering the way we work and reconnect with why we do what we do is by first examining those processes, projects, and tasks that we should stop doing. Remember, that the goal in simplifying the way we work is to better connect what we do with why we do what we do [ Share on Twitter ].

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JUNE 21, 2016

Granted, at times these feelings might have been because you felt that your teachers were asking too much of you; that the assignments and projects were too demanding or that they didn’t give you enough time to get things done. That’s why going forward, don’t settle for the safe and practical.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Indeed, findings like those from Google’s Project Oxygen have proven conclusively that the key to succeeding in leadership today is not in those hard skills of yesteryear, but in the so-called soft skills of empathy, compassion, and self-awareness.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Rather, the goal should be to help them understand what unique strengths they bring to the team and consequently, the value they’ve created for the organization. I walked out of his office feeling a mixture of disappointment in myself and frustration with his leadership.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

When it comes to delegation in today’s organizations, the common tendency leaders have is to simply delegate those tasks or projects that we don’t want to do. As the title of this piece points out, what I’m referring to here is the process of delegation.

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MARCH 15, 2016

After all, when you spend much of your time discussing school budget issues, funding projects, approving various school policies and the like, having the opportunity to talk with students to learn about their accomplishments really helps to provide a context for the collective efforts of my team.

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Does that information impel you to invest more time at the office, on your project, focused on your sales goals? Travel Association’s “Project Time Off.” We all know that time flies… The issue isn’t knowing… it is what are you doing with that information?

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MAY 31, 2016

Your goal in reflection is to raise your game in double-loop learning. Their thirst for learning also gives potential strategists the space to be open to less obvious career opportunities — new industries, different types of roles, lateral moves, stretch assignments, secondments, or project roles — that may help them fulfill their potential.

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APRIL 7, 2015

Sometimes putting the overarching goals of the partnership above individual goals leads to working in ways you didn’t plan and with which you may not feel comfortable, but the demonstrated ability to undertake the partnership anyway goes a long way toward solidifying collaboration on both sides.

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