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How to Encourage More Courage on Your Team (Team-Building Activity)

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If you want your team to feel more courageous, remind them of times they’ve been courageous before. This team-building activity gives your team a chance to reflect on their micro-moments of courage. And, to share these moments with one another as they build trust and connection. Markers or pens.

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Fuel Your Career: 17 Critical Skills When You’re a Young Leader Hungry for Success

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There are several areas of your leadership and work where you can invest to give yourself the best chance at that bigger responsibility: your knowledge and wisdom, the results you achieve now, relationships you build, and opportunities to speak up. Are there additional skills or experiences they recommend you gain? Give it time.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share About Team Building (with video)

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This month’s festival is about team building. Leaders need to adjust to the skill and abilities of the people, and don’t expect new people to fit into the team exactly as those doing the job previously. He also shares ways to strengthen your team even if you aren’t ready to schedule a team building event.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share Team Building Ideas

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If you find yourself on a dysfunctional team, or just want to get a new team off to a great start, ask yourself the following three questions from Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership. You may discover that your team is nothing more than a committee in disguise. Follow Susan. Follow Skip. Fred Wilson. Follow Jesse.

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Leadership Visibility: How to Ensure Your Team Gets the Attention They Deserve

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Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. How do I ensure that management knows of our achievements and realizes how much work the team does?

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Career Development: Develop Employees With Limited Time (Video)

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An important part of many of our longer-term leadership development programs is to ensure that managers have a robust development plan in place for every team member. Which skills would you like to learn or improve? What are your best practices for helping your team build a career development plan when time is limited?

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Human Resources: How Leaders Partner to Transform Results

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Recently, I interviewed three human resources professionals from organizations where we partner to deliver long-term leadership development. Marc-Charles describes how many leaders limit their thinking to the “assumption that HR professionals are only transactional” (eg: hiring, firing, or skill training). Abdicating Leadership.