QAspire

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Specific, measurable and time bound goals are important to set expectations on results and drive performance in short term. Goals is like math; they address the head. Goals have an end date. Goals however, are not sufficient. A disengaged workforce that just complies to goals, and that too – dispassionately.

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Short-term Bottom-up Team Building Goal 128

QAspire

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

Leadership development efforts are not aligned with strategic goals and leadership development programs are oriented around commercial products that have limited relevance to actual needs or an organization. Improvement & Development Leadership Leading People Team Building HR Leadership Development Training Training and Development'

Training 172

Training Development McKinsey Long-term 172

QAspire

JULY 31, 2013

Coaching is the subset of mentoring and focuses on specific goal or task at hand. - – - – -. Not having clear objective of coaching exercise OR not aligning the coaching goals with business objectives. - – - – -. Coaching addresses specific purpose or task and is time bound. start getting ready. (RT

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Mentor Succession Short-term ROI 148

QAspire

JULY 22, 2013

In all situations bad and good, always be transparent about what is really going on and how will it impact the team. When you encounter an ego situation , quiz your goals. Someone rightly said, “We always get more from people by building a ‘fire within them’ than we do by building ‘fire under them.’. Be graceful , always!

Team 191

Team How To Mentor Bottom-up 191

QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2013

Drawing the same analogy for an organization’s leadership, cohesion is the degree to which senior leaders belong to each other and to the collective goal as a team. If senior leadership team is not cohesive, organization runs in different directions and becomes difficult to just sustain, forget about growing further.

Team 156

Team Leadership Software Objective 156

QAspire

JANUARY 29, 2013

Keeping People Uninformed: The more people in your team know what your goals are, the more buy-in you will get – and hence better results. You cannot expect your team to perform if they are not informed about the vision, context, goals and progress. Team also needs your guidance on how something can be accomplished.

Bottom-up 171

Bottom-up Information Definition Team 171

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JANUARY 22, 2012

In agile terms, a strong purpose that is bought in by all in the team is also referred to as “shared vision”. Strong purpose and clear goals automatically establishes a demand for performance. A leader’s role in building a self-organized team is that of a catalyst who ensures that team is aligned to organization goals.

Team 178

Team Delegation Agility Constraint 178