The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

They’re a textbook example of effectively using the COVID crisis to renew and refocus their leadership and culture development. Their “strategic framework” succinctly cascades from vision, mission, and values to strategic goals, key initiatives, and key performance indicators. Why do we exist (our purpose or mission)?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2017

Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about handling conflict in your team. John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement discusses why the lack of confidence is more problematic than having confidence. Building a Great Software Development Team Follow John. How Many Mission Statements Does Your Team Have?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. All slogans and no action.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

What do the Ramones, the Clash, and the Sex Pistols have to do with leadership? Dale and his team had performed the impossible and Bono said, “They are the punk rock of business: no long introductions, three beats and you’re in. Find something you’re passionate about and then inspire your team to deliver it. O K, I’ll bite.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. All slogans and no action.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This should come from the CEO or, at least, the hiring manager. Ensuring your employees understand and believe in your company’s mission statement : Meet with you team to analyze your mission statement. Send a gift or a handwritten note to every new hire as soon as you make the job offer. Is it accessible?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Durkin brings servant leadership to all that he does. His WOW chapter titled Leadership and People is on–target. Coach Vermeil coached three different NFL teams. Coach Vermeil revealed his “Seven Common Sense Coaching Points” that make the foundation for any team, business, company, or family. In any sport. In any sport.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 18, 2022

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Blanchard coauthored the legendary, The One Minute Manager. Mentoring tips from the authors include : Successful mentoring starts with a powerful mission statement. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

But to be fair, managing time is a difficult task that increases exponentially with each promotion. Regardless, senior executives who cannot manage themselves are incredibly disruptive to their organizations and the best leaders work hard to get it right. Don’t let your team wade in uncertainty. Give clear guidance.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Knowing what''s important to the leadership of the organization and what they want to see happen allows the leadership team to focus its energy and achieve sustained high performance in taking action. Energy isn''t wasted in the politics of the team, organization or community because there aren''t different rules for everybody.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 23, 2024

” Some managers are badly out of sync. For example, a manager once hired me to speak to their organization about the work-life balance themes in Growing the Distance. If I aspire to be a leader, my authenticity stems from aligning who I am with where I am trying to take my team or organization.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Write Down Your “Rules of The Road” – This is another “put it on paper” exercise; 7-10 personal rules to guide your leadership and your life going forward. In my case, there were 4 : Quality, Service, Leadership, and Accountability. It’s a very powerful exercise well worth doing.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. All slogans and no action.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Purpose Is Not Just A Mission Statement. And while a strong sense of working for a positive outcome or cause is important, many organizations feel like re-writing the mission statement will do the trick. Your purpose as an organization is bigger than your mission statement. Audible Amazon iTunes.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 12, 2021

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Blanchard coauthored the legendary, The One Minute Manager. Mentoring tips from the authors include : Successful mentoring starts with a powerful mission statement. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 31, 2023

Mayberry, former linebacker for the Chicago Bears and now keynote speaker and global expert in leadership development, culture change, and organizational performance, took the lessons he learned on the field and in the locker room straight to the boardroom. Don’t just manage people, coach your people. All slogans and no action.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Their research emphasizes the role of perceived integrity among top managers and highlights the strong correlation between an organization’s culture and its success (Guiso et al., I wrote how the challenge was not the lack of core values but the “paternalistic and confusing messages sent by senior management.”

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 30, 2022

Raise your hand if your organization has a mission statement. When I do that survey during leadership/culture presentations, almost every hand goes up. Mission statements are as common as a logo, website, or budget. Many mission statements sound like they were written by bureaucrats and lawyers.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I’ve been fortunate enough over the course of my 34-year career to have arrived at what I call the leadership summit – a high place of great business success and personal satisfaction, and a fulfilling culmination of years of effort, determination, and dedication. It’s a very powerful exercise well worth doing.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

In today’s increasingly cynical climate, it’s easy to think that enterprise-wide team-building exercises are useless. And with good reason: many companies have made the mistake in confusing team-building with team competing. But cooking in teams allows for communication, camaraderie, and corporate bonding.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Leaders charge the teams or organizational culture they lead with electromagnetic forces that attract or repel. Most organizations have some form of vision, mission statement, and/or values. It energizes the heart, soul, and spirit of teams and organizations. We felt the vibes of the place. Bad Vibes and Weak Connections.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2020

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Blanchard coauthored the legendary, The One Minute Manager. Mentoring tips from the authors include : Successful mentoring starts with a powerful mission statement. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 3, 2020

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Blanchard coauthored the legendary, The One Minute Manager. Mentoring tips from the authors include : Successful mentoring starts with a powerful mission statement. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2011

That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition. All that vision, all that inspiration, all that process, all that teaching, all that alignment, all that mission statement – all that everything – comes into play right then and there. It’s the moment of truth.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 14, 2020

Unfortunately, most organizations have a vision and a mission statement, but few know how to align everyone in the organization around that vision to achieve results. This book is for leaders and managers in organizations of all sizes," explain authors Riaz and Linda Khadem. Even fewer measure and reward alignment.

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LDRLB

APRIL 27, 2020

Purpose Is Not Just A Mission Statement. And while a strong sense of working for a positive outcome or cause is important, many organizations feel like re-writing the mission statement will do the trick. Your purpose as an organization is bigger than your mission statement. Audible Amazon iTunes.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 9, 2012

David McCuistion is a Modern Servant Leader subscriber and fellow Servant Leadership advocate. When I heard of his military background, Servant Leadership experience and his platform in Vanguard Organizational Leadership , I asked him for an interview. He kindly obliged, below… Servant Leadership Questions and Answers.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 19, 2015

Here is some great advice from the authors of the book, Light A Fire Under Your Business , about high-performance teams: Once you have developed teamwork within a group, synergy is born. But it is the mission that creates motivation, an essential ingredient in high-performance teamwork.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Over the next 90 days, you can build not only your business but also your personal leadership beyond what you may have thought possible. Create a personal mission statement. As a leader is it important to have a personal sense of mission crafted into something you can reflect on daily and measure your performance against.

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Leading with Trust

MAY 6, 2019

One study showed that firms led by a CEO who scored high in humility developed management teams that were more likely to collaborate and make joint decisions, share information openly, and possess a shared vision. So how can we develop humility in our leadership? That doesn’t mean they let their team walk all over them.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 12, 2019

Do managers talk about “their people?” ” Managers who see others as an “it” or property, might make perfect donors for heart transplants — their hearts have had such little use! This includes listening to, investing in, and actively managing the trends that are shaping today’s world.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

” Some managers have developed mission statements, visions, or slogans. I have a closet full of shirts from numerous management conferences, adorned with snazzy logos and clever catchphrases. Some of the aspirational statements were actually believed by the participants (at the time, anyway).

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Coaching Tip

JANUARY 3, 2014

Getting the people side right in leadership communication can make all the difference. All successful leaders are clear that leadership communication is about inspiring others to achieve great things. The fundamentals of effective leadership communication are: Learn to be yourself, better Authenticity in a leader is crucial.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Aren’t we supposed to formulate lofty core values, a vision and mission statement? But the majority of organizations seems to muddle through, now and then halfheartedly embarking on a culture project where they define their core values, vision, and mission statement – and then return to business as usual.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Here’s a collection of the best blog posts over the last month written by top leadership bloggers. Thanks to Dan McCarthy over at Great Leadership for organizing it. Welcome to the November 7, 2010, early bird edition of leadership development carnival! Simmons gives us Power: The Heart Of Leadership | Bret L.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

teamed up with Claire Diaz-Ortiz to write One Minute Mentoring. Blanchard coauthored the legendary, The One Minute Manager. Mentoring tips from the authors include : Successful mentoring starts with a powerful mission statement. Articulate your mission in a simple statement you can really call upon.

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Experience to Lead

JUNE 23, 2023

With so many changes in the world this year, we asked the WDHB team for their top picks spanning topics like AI, sustainability and more. The Six Types Of Working Genius” by Patrick Lencioni The book could revolutionize the way you understand and structure your teams.

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