Sales Wolf Blog

OCTOBER 15, 2010

 Enjoy!   The Resource:    The Happiness Project What it is:   The Happiness Project began in March of 2006 when Gretchen Rubin embarked upon a personal journey to find greater happiness in her life and decided to share that journey with others via her blog and eventually a best-selling book.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

A great way to think about this is to consider how a sports team works together to achieve a common goal. Rather, they care about the end result because they feel a sense of shared ownership in what the team achieves, regardless of who might score the winning goal.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 4, 2020

Whether it is in sports or business, the better each individual buys into their role, the more successful the organization can become. This article will, hopefully, shed some light on this dynamic and how it can be maximized in a sports or business setting. Along with writing, he enjoys sports, coaching, and business.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Guest post from Susanna Camp and Jonathan Littman As a leader, you shape the ideas, provide the direction, set the goals. Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. The Accidental infuses a project or company with authenticity.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Living 13 miles away from Loudon, New Hampshire, places me next door to New England’s largest sporting venue, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Do you create opportunities, projects, and positions for all of your people to grow professionally and in turn grow your company? Yellow flag. A red flag means to stop the race immediately.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

There is a direct relationship between leadership and project success. Transformational leadership will drive the achievements of your project, but it is team building that makes it happen. Think of team building as the truck that carries the leadership to the project’s success — it is the No. Craft a Vision Statement.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2023

Or to play for a professional sports team, write a novel, or perform with a well-regarded symphony or ballet company. to new projects. Stories are great, but what they need are specific ways to harness that ambition today, as opposed to a far-off goal and generalized advice. If you want to advance, say Yes! Ask, What can I do?

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It comes from Caroline Starner who, when I interviewed her for my book, Overworked and Overwhelmed , was the head of human resources for the sunglass and sports apparel company, Oakley. The goal each Friday was to cancel 20% of the meetings two weeks out. It was then that I shared one of my favorite tactics for getting your time back.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 13, 2023

IBM is one of the leaders in agile adoption and has multiple articles that encourage the early inclusion of agile HR project planning and enterprise agility at all levels of the business. It encourages immediate, internal interaction and a change-centric approach to work across projects and teams.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 24, 2012

The sport of Curling makes an excellent analogy for servant leadership. In this sport, each player must lead in a way, but the Sweeper is like the servant leader. In contrast to the toxic leader, the servant leader may alter directions for the project, but seeks to serve the team in accomplishing the organization’s goals.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

As a team leader, project manager and team member the work is just not getting done. This problem occurs on any team ( from sports to corporate), I find it is most common with cross-functional project teams. The project manager / team leader is lacking the authority to be effective with the team.

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Lead on Purpose

OCTOBER 27, 2012

Sports metaphors are everywhere in the workplace, but there’s no denying that the leadership and teamwork skills found in the sports setting teach important lessons. Perhaps it’s a little more time off, more responsibility, more rewarding work, or the chance to work collaboratively on a new project.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 24, 2017

Today, 40% of Nike’s revenue comes from apparel and sporting goods. What’s left in apparel and sporting goods is a good strategic fit with Nike’s operations. Prioritize project lists. More projects run the risk of more people. The goal isn’t more people; it’s less. They are kidding themselves.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s great to be together as a team at the end of a project. Sometimes I find myself thinking about my next goal in life such as a better job, better house, etc. Endurance sports are a great way to realize and experience leadership lessons in life. Endurance sports are a physical manifestation of leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

You rationalize, we have just been spending too much time on this project. You know the project is starting to stall. What we value in them is also what starts to irritate us as the project stalls. Unassumingly, they steer the team closer and closer to the goal. Already you are spending valuable time thinking about it.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Address any performance issues quickly and transparently, connecting their personal and professional goals with outlined expectations for each task Listen well, summarizing what you hear in your own words to confirm you have heard correctly. What elements do you foresee as possible derailers? How can I best support you?

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

Define the right metrics to measure individual goals and collective goals of the team. These ought to fall in line with the overall goals of the company. Depending on your goals — and the goals of your business — your data must serve to give you what not’s so obvious. Management isn’t just about goals.

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In the CEO Afterlife

APRIL 23, 2012

As a kid in sports, I played my heart out, hated my opponents and cried when I lost. The late French author Andre Maurois once said, “Business is a combination of sport and war.” Clearly define your goals. Like a sports scorecard, competitive spirit demands measurement and accountability of performance.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If employees think the goal is to win at a team-building event, then they may feel more pressure to learn the rules which will help them win against their opponent instead of getting into the spirit of doing something together as a group with no ‘Win’ (or ‘Lose’) as the defining outcome. Shop For A Company Charity.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2015

It could be any kind of team – sports, work, project, or community. Knowing the characteristics of a highly effective team gives you as a leader a goal to shoot for as you work with teams and the ability to identify gaps where the team may need work. Knowing your goal is so important.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

This is a guest post by Kona Shen , Founder of GOALS Haiti , mentioned here. I don’t have internet on my phone, don’t work on projects late at night or on weekends, and almost always take a real lunch hour. I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 25, 2017

On occasion, even experienced employees will act childish, like grown-up toddlers wearing bigger clothes and sporting larger and more fragile egos. 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. The problem is the unpredictability. But guess what?

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Chris Brady

MARCH 22, 2010

| Main | Teach Me What to Think » March 22, 2010 Brazil and the MORE Project  Just getting back from a whirl-wind tour of the MORE Project in Brazil. What MonaVie , Sergio Ponce, and the MORE Project are doing in Brazil is incredible. One of my goals is to go to Brazil and meet all those children myself one day!

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Team-building holidays are a great way to build camaraderie, boost morale, and get your team members working together to achieve goals. The goal is to see which team can come up with the most interesting answers while collaborating as a team. 20) Sports party. Let them have a runway session to display their creativity too.

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Lead by Adventure

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

My 9-year old son loves sports and works hard at each of them and is very naturally gifted in the athletic arena. She accomplished her goal chunk by chunk, bit by bit. You should have seen her face when we counted the money and she was only $10 shy of reaching her goal. Stay on that goal until you achieve it. Bit by bit.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Beth Miller of Executive Velocity submitted If You Aren’t Revisiting Your Employees’ Goals, How Are You Helping Them Grow? Beth writes, “Organizations often have to shift their goals due to the rapidly changing landscape.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 11, 2011

Executive coaching has become as accepted (in Fortune 1000 businesses) as sports coaching is on the athletic field. Developing goals that can lead an organization. Creating initiatives and projects that support the goals. What is the ROI of executive coaching? Manchester Inc. Cultivating innovation.

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QAspire

JUNE 29, 2010

Sure, goals are important and attaining them is even more important. My point is – if we constantly keep our goal in perspective (and get overwhelmed by it), we become less efficient. It is easy to get overwhelmed by the enormity of our goals - but we need to remember that an elephant can only be eaten one piece at a time!

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2015

With football season well underway as well as the upcoming World Series (along with many other sports), it’s a great month for sports analogies! Bruce Harpham of Project Management Hacks submitted How To Lead Virtual Teams. Welcome to the October 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Let’s Get Started.

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Design by 12GrainStudio Characteristics of Effective Teams & TeamWork Sunday, October 31st, 2010 Posted by: mike Friends Avi & Dov from Project Ascent posted a discussion question on their facebook page ; Characteristics of Effective Teams and Teamwork : Have you ever been a member of a team before? How about the teams’ goals?

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ExactHire - Leadership

JANUARY 21, 2020

The goal should be to get back into the practice of setting and achieving goals, teaching and learning from peers, and experiencing success. Often times there are leadership opportunities at our churches, our child’s school or sports leagues, or at our favorite non-profits. It requires disciplined action and an open mind.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 21, 2023

If the game is played by a team currently working together, they can frame their sentences around their project or a team. Companies that have team-building activities for work move one step closer to their employees and towards their productivity goals. Their colleagues then have to try and figure out which statement is false.

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Jason Womack

AUGUST 15, 2014

It’s important to stay balanced between overwhelmed and uber-productive; getting things done can’t be the only goal, you’ve got to experience the feeling that momentum provides. Instead, you reflect back on accomplishing a project, a presenting information effectively and making a sale, or even hearing back about a budget issue, etc.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. What is your goal? What will you need to do to get there?

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 19, 2014

Then implement a few projects that align with the values you have or would like to have in your business. Someone who specializes in projects that support the values you want in your business. Be transparent with your company goals & financials. Set goals and give away money as a company when goals are achieved.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

My parents taught me this concept at a young age, and it was reinforced through sports. That gave us roughly four months to get the project done and edited (while also running a fast growing software company). What leadership skills did you learn while playing sports in high school and college do you use today in the workplace?

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Tim Milburn

MAY 14, 2012

I create appointments to work on projects. One calendar for sports team schedules (I’m a big San Francisco Giants & 49ers fan). The goal here is accessibility wherever I’m at. Incorporate blocks of time to get the projects and work done. The best tool I’ve found to manage my time is the calendar. One calendar.

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