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How to REALLY Listen

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Do you know how to REALLY listen? … The REAL listening skills. → Read More: How to REALLY Listen. The post How to REALLY Listen appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership. . → Read More: How to REALLY Listen. to listen without feeling responsible to help the person find a solution?

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How to Delegate So the Gain Outweighs the Pain

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

If you are doing their work, you are denying them the opportunity to grow and develop new skills and experiences. → Read More: How to Delegate So the Gain Outweighs the Pain The post How to Delegate So the Gain Outweighs the Pain appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership. It hurts your team.

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How to Influence Without Authority

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Leading without relying on authority is a higher evolutionary skill. Worse yet, authority-based systems are a breeding ground for abuse of power and are prone to creating oppressive work environments. It supports the development of adult-adult relationships based on mutual objectives. 8 Ways to Influence Without Relying on Authority.

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How to Keep Your Team Goals on Track

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Rewards, recognition and compensation – How will you reward and celebrate team accomplishments as well as individual contribution? Training – In order to implement your goals, what skills are needed? Do you need to develop team skills such as conflict management or giving feedback?

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Teams Do Not Drift to Greatness

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Leaders make sure their team understands what they want to achieve, how they’re going to accomplish it and what they want to become. They establish the norms of behavior for the team, how to approach the work, how to think about customers, what behaviors will be rewarded and which ones will not be tolerated.

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1001 Mid-Course Corrections

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

This 2 minute video explains the trap and how to avoid it: Your vision will expand and become more clear the closer you get to it, but its fundamental essence will not change. Do you have the skills you need? If you know where you’re going, why not just set the trajectory and plot the course, like they do on Star Trek?

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Embrace Struggle as an Art to be Mastered

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

When facing a new challenge, be honest with yourself about what new skills you need. Do you recommit to previous goals, albeit with renewed vigor, a new attitude and newly acquired skills? My friend and former Microsoft CFO Frank Gaudette (now deceased) used to say: “I reserve the right to wake up smarter every day.”