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JULY 18, 2013

Guest post by Joseph Lalonde: One of the best things we can do for our team is to discover our team member''s talents. The talents of our team members are usually what drives them to excel. Your team will find purpose and meaning when they begin putting their skills to work. Your team will be excited to come to work.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

If you manage 2 or more employees, it’s a good idea to have regular team meetings. Team meetings encourage collaboration, a sense of belonging and identity, help coordinate interdependent work, and from the employee’s perspective, are a good opportunity to get fed and break up the routine of the day. Timing is important here.

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MARCH 2, 2017

Your team is on overdrive. A team member with a trait, a quirk that gets under your skin. And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. Team engagement is always critical. It is natural to go for the obvious team drivers: the alpha, the verbalizer, the workhorse. What is so special about this team member?

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Within the first two months, host a 30-minute 1:1 meeting with team members across multiple levels in your organization plus cross-functional colleagues. 3) What are your professional goals? Give yourself 60-90 days to determine if you have the right mix of talent to achieve the goals and objectives. 2) What motivates you?

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DECEMBER 6, 2012

Guest post by Sean McPheat : With more and more graduates finding themselves in a managerial role fresh out of university, it’s interesting to analyse the way that young managers are able to manage and interact with their older team members. Get to know your team as individuals. Steer clear of any “Big Boss” talk.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

Moreover, once the procrastinators pull everything together as the deadline is looming, non-procrastinators may become resentful that procrastinating team members always “get away with it,” especially if the procrastinators are perceived as equally-valued in the organization or receive accolades from management for their contributions.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

In my work with senior leaders and executive teams across a wide variety of industries, one of the most important questions I ask is to learn what those leaders pay attention to. Also, leaders must ensure that all staff proactively commit to their performance and values goals. So, you need to put the right stuff in front of you.

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JUNE 11, 2019

However, when these concepts are expressed clearly and concisely and relayed to the company, your business will be more focused on its future goals. With the aid of the ‘Why We Exist’ Canvas, you’ll be able to assess business problems standing in the way of achieving your goals and map out the steps in order to reach them.

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MAY 5, 2016

Now if you asked John if he trusted his team, he would say “of course.” HOW TO SHOW YOUR EMPLOYEES YOU TRUST THEM It takes more than words to demonstrate your trust in your team. Set audacious goals. I know what this team is capable of. She worked hard, but her team wasn’t satisfied with her performance.

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AUGUST 29, 2019

Guest post from David Nielson : As a leader, taking on a new challenge, making a change, or leading a team can be challenging. What we should be doing is committing to taking action ourselves and holding ourselves accountable for the goals we set out to do. Next, you must have 2 or 3 actions every day to do to achieve this goal.

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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. So how do you assemble a great team? Our biggest takeaway?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

John Wooden, one of the greatest college basketball coaches in history, never talked about beating the other team. Vince Lombardi was known as a strict disciplinarian, but the reason behind the success of the great Green Bay Packers teams was Lombardi’s ability to get each player to believe in his own abilities and to exceed them.

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DECEMBER 14, 2017

Motive is the goal or object of one’s action. It is not a goal that motivates, but internalized reasons behind a goal that propels action. Organizations are only as strong as their team members’ personal goals and the team members’ belief that the organization’s progress helps them progress toward those goals.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

They are capable of aligning themselves to their higher purpose and inspiration, aligning others to a shared goal, and to aligning resources to get the job done. What is important about each and every team member’s contribution? As a leader, it’s your job to bring people back to why they are working in the first place.

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MAY 21, 2020

Bridge divides with team bonding. Harmful gossip and hostile cliques can’t take hold when your workforce feels like a team. Make sure your employees know each other professionally, by sharing individuals’ roles and goals, and socially, by including ice-breakers in meetings or company get-togethers. Redefine problem solving.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

One common question they ask is “As an individual contributor, how can I be a leader, if I don’t ‘lead’ a team?” It certainly would be nice if you have a team that you can lead, but it’s not absolutely necessary. I tell them that the pre-requisite of leadership is not having a team to “lead.”

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Career development is the cool calling card––a powerful tease to job seekers you’d like to have join your team. Today’s employees want personalized career plans that fits their goals, dreams, and lifestyle. In this understaffed, deadline-driven climate, developing team members simply drops to the bottom of a leader’s to-do list.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The reason they do this is high-performance leaders understand that their number one goal is to create more high-performance leaders so they can move up to their next position and create more value. One of the most important things you can do is create margin for yourself and margin for your team. If you want to go far, get a team”.

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OCTOBER 7, 2013

For this month’s Carnival, leadership bloggers responded to the following question: As we move towards the end of the year, what can a leader/manager do to best prepare their team/organization for greater success in the New Year? goals leadership development carnival success planning team 2014'

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Guest post from Barbara Bruno : Would your current team or new hires describe you as a leader who supports, teaches, and encourages them? This type of nurturing often determines whether the members of your team become engaged and retained employees or end up as a costly turnover statistic. Can I trust you? Will you do what you promise?

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MAY 3, 2012

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: The Top 5 Leadership Mistakes: which one would your team members say you make? How much time are you spending on activities that lead to your goals versus those that are urgent and unexpected? Failing to Define Clear Goals. And it is a trap.

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DECEMBER 17, 2007

It seems like every time I administer an off-the-shelf leadership team assessment, the results are horrendous! I’ve been through a gauntlet of team assessments as a leader, team member, and facilitator, with a variety of companies and teams, and the results always seem to be the same.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

His name is Sam Arthur, and he is the groundskeeper at Tucson, Arizona’s La Mariposa Resort & Spa – the location of an offsite meeting for two high-powered teams from competing pharmaceutical companies. Set that as your goal. When you do that, you’re engaging in a mental exercise of repeated failure. Run to it and declare victory.

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MARCH 5, 2019

In any organization, leaders have a choice, they can concentrate on urgent short-term goals, or they can equip themselves with the relationship sensing and building skills they need to balance priority tensions. When new members join your team, normative behaviours can shift if there is no accountability to sustainable cultural design.

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MAY 15, 2018

If we think of what these experiences have in common, we might think of this quote by Harold Koontz and Cyril O’Donnell: “Leadership molds individuals into a team.” Leaders, wherever they are in the organization, can build great teams using these characteristics. There are more generations in the workplace than ever before.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

They realize, by building a culture where all team members feel valued and actively support one another, the goals of the organization will be reached more efficiently and not at the expense of wearing out all who are involved. As a result, team members can be valued and receive appreciation even when they don't perform well.

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

Guest Post from Paul Cummings : Leave No Doubt Leaders focus on people, not power, as they build and develop their teams. Leaders who empower others consider empathy an essential competency to develop high-performance teams. Do you know your team member’s most important individual dreams?

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Develop a charter for my team or organization. The charter will include our purpose (or mission), our vision, our values, long term (2-3 years) goals, objectives, and action plans. Schedule and hold regular one-on-ones with each of my team members. For 2013, I’m going to: 1.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

So, if you have more than 7 values, it’s time to bring your team together and narrow your values down to the top 7 or less of your most important values. Works with and supports other team members to drive results 2. You don’t want someone joining your team who won’t live your values. I’m curious can you name all of your values?”

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Reflecting on the Past During the time of reflection, members will journal their successes and shortcomings as a leader as well as their teams success and failure. Looking toward the Future The future is about setting goals. These are goals that will stretch a leader past his or her comfort zone while at the same time being achievable.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

This mentality creates a lack of trust, collaboration, and common ownership for a greater goal—and ultimately greatly slows down execution speed. We can’t overstate the impact that truth telling can have on the engagement, optimism, and hope people feel about their organization and their team. Ask the following questions: a.

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JULY 24, 2014

It’s a clear, simple drumbeat that his team can rally around. Get the right team together In any organization that needs to make a break with the past, the new leader will need to work quickly to ensure the team at the top shares a vision for the organization’s future.

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DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. In order to achieve our lofty goals, we had to be willing to change. Previously, the leadership team had only met on a monthly basis. By asking ourselves “How can we do this better?”

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APRIL 19, 2018

Why are some leaders effective at truly engaging with their teams? And why do many, despite their best efforts, manage to motivate top performers but can’t get the whole team rowing in the same direction? We found that to create a common goal, it’s vital to ramp up your purpose as an organization. Guest post from John Izzo Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

His Eudaimonia Machine has the lofty goal of helping workers reach their full potential. It happens in those temporal places that cater best to the technological, creative, and intellectual needs of the individual and team. When there isn’t a clear goal or a shared language, it’s near impossible for a culture to gel.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I first became aware of the need for soft skills when I was a Tupperware Executive Manager, teaching members of my team about the products, how to best present the line and explaining how effective use could make customers’ lives more efficient. Also, how to potentially transform an excited customer into a recruit for the team.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

This week's Thursday guest post by Jeremy Kingsley: As the leader of your team, you must clearly understand and be able to pass on the purpose of your organization and your team’s role within that organization. If you don’t know the purpose of your efforts, you certainly won’t be able to inspire your team to success.

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