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Informal Coaching and Feedback

Great Leadership By Dan

In order to create real, measurable, and meaningful change, it is also important to supplement those formal, documented meetings with continuous, informal coaching that is delivered as things happen." "Performance feedback and coaching shouldn’t just happen once a year during a formal performance review.

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How to Build Trust with Your Employees

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Organizations that communicate on an ad-hoc basis are creating a vacuum of information – and employees will fill those gaps with misinformation and rumors. You naturally build trust with employees when they have opportunities to ask questions, state their opinions and drive for more clarity in the information they receive.

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Seven Subconscious Habits That Sabotage Your Ability to Listen – And Lead

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Our ability to think comes from our prefrontal cortex lobe where information processes serially – where each new piece of information processes individually. Our brains cannot take in multiple bits of information simultaneously. Most of us can process information very rapidly, but not simultaneously.

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Successful Leaders Are Great Communicators: How to Connect with Your Employees

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After all, when employees are well informed and feel included in company strategies and activities, they are more productive and engaged – and all of your stakeholders (especially your customers) benefit. To be clear, being transparent doesn’t mean opening the information floodgates. Be authentic.

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5 Principles for Ethical Leadership in Times of Crisis

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Transparency also means keeping people informed and updated regularly with facts, actions taken, risks, and progress. This does not mean withholding new information, but rather, letting people know you have updates or new data. Information is a powerful antidote to panic. Consistency in tone is also critical.

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Playbook for a New Leader’s First 90 Days on the Job

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During your first 90 days, absorb as much information and insight as possible. Share this information with your manager as a head start to your performance review. Forming conclusions and making decisions too early in your role can be disastrous.

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Leadership Irony: To Accomplish More, Do Less

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Space for their brains to percolate and process the mounds of the information they’ve been packing in. To connect the dots between information in different ways and to look at challenges from a fresh angle. A mental time-out. We can’t possibly do that when we are in constant motion. That’s a pivotal finding.