Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 25, 2017

Peter Drucker, often considered the father of modern management, described time as a “unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.” What prevents us from managing our time. The post How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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JULY 7, 2015

→ Read More: Manage Your Polarities or They Will Manage You. The post Manage Your Polarities or They Will Manage You appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership. The pole you listen to depends on the family and cultural values you learned and the temperament you were born with. You can’t teach.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Jerome said his biggest problem was time management. When I asked how his team was doing, Jerome said that managing them was a huge time drain. He was overloaded with work and was starting to get stressed. Jerome was the head of his department and considered a “high potential” and had been referred for coaching by his boss.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Management is about implementation. Management behaviors include: Goal setting. In 1986 I set out to determine which leadership or management behaviors create high performance teams. High performance teams need both management and leadership. Managers need to lead and leaders need to manage. Planning work.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

What I particularly like about this approach is it puts the responsibility for retention in the hands of the people who are in the best position to make a difference – the direct managers. And it is something managers can easily incorporate into their job. I had the privilege of catching up.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

He showed me it is possible for a manager to focus on results and develop their people at the same time. My reward for being a good manager is that the people who report to me move on. Here’s what I’ve learned about coaching as a manager: It’s easy to be a coach when it means providing direction, giving advice and solving problems.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The registration form said: → Read More: Are Your Millennial Employees Turning You Into a Helicopter Manager? The post Are Your Millennial Employees Turning You Into a Helicopter Manager? She shares this example of how it works, “When my daughter was eight, we signed her up for recreational soccer.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 15, 2016

The jump from the role of individual contributor to a first-time manager is one of the the most dramatic and most challenging leaps one can make. The post The Biggest Leap You’ll Ever Make: From Team Member to First-Time Manager appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership. A common mistake organizations […].

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

One of the top reasons leaders fail to implement their vision is because they don’t manage the “mid-space.”. The biggest failure in implementing vision successfully is in not effectively managing the airspace between the 3000 ft view from the hot air balloon and the on-the-ground view of day-to-day activity.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

If they had involved wide representation of management and front-line workers during the earlier planning process, their people would have joined them on the journey from the beginning. 7 tips to manage for both results and process. They had the courage to ask their employees, “Do you think this plan is a good idea?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 22, 2019

These 15 quotes by Mary Parker Follett "the mother of modern management" each stand alone but together point the way to creating a world that benefits all. The post 15 Quotes by Mary Parker Follett – Guidance for Today’s World appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 6, 2017

As district manager of a large retail chain, she was responsible for ten stores. The problem was that her boss, the regional manager, was a micromanager. Marissa was frustrated. Her district was doing well, meeting sales goals and store operations were generally smooth.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Guest Post by Dave Crenshaw Do you manage a team of racers galloping at full speed in the chase for success? Often managers view time off as a […]. Well, heed my warning: they may be racing towards complete burnout and a total collapse at the finish line. It might seem counterintuitive to encourage employee vacations.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Anyone can be collaborative leader — no matter whether you are the president, a mid-level manager or a front-line supervisor… no matter whether you are in government, a large corporation, a small business, or a non-profit. Just because you’ve been elected or assigned the role of leader, does not mean you are providing leadership.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 18, 2017

It takes time to weather the insecurities of being a new manager, learn from your mistakes, and get to the point where you feel competent and comfortable in the role of leader. When it comes to learning to be a leader, there’s a real learning curve.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 22, 2017

One of the most common complaints I hear from managers is, “I want to re-energize […]. We’ve all heard stories of individuals who wake up one morning and wonder how they had drifted so far from their original hopes and dreams. The same thing can happen to teams.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 1, 2017

When managers are coaches, everyone benefits – you, your team and your company. Your ability to develop a high performance team lies in your ability to recognize the space between coaching and delegating. You get a lot of positive feedback for giving great advice and helping solve problems.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 25, 2017

Too many talented individuals get overlooked when managers don’t view development as their responsibility. Unfortunately, there’s a common misbelief that the best way to get talent is to go out and hire “winners.” Or perhaps you heard you need to “get the right people on the bus” and think you need to find them. Truth is, […].

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Managers don’t have to wait for senior management to start a process of organizational revitalization. Leadership is more than just good management practices. The assumption that change has to start at the top is wrong. You don’t have to wait for senior leaders to make it a better place. Most likely within your own team.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 29, 2018

Often in coaching, managers work on changing their behaviors. But there’s another area you need to pay attention to also – other’s perceptions of you. Or you can end up in a situation where people don’t notice you’ve changed – where you’ve become a butterfly, but others still see a caterpillar.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

I felt at the time that this was an unusual request as, after having spent the first 12 years of my working life as a “techie” (Programmer to Analyst to IT Manager), I had spent the next 25 years in sales and business management, my last such role as the President and CEO of a 15,000 person, €5 Billion EMEA based business unit across 25 countries.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Because development is an important business issue, it needs to be “owned” by management. According to Les Hayman , managers should be responsible for their people. “Recruitment, talent and performance management, succession planning are issues for management (not HR).”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Personal Effectiveness Full Steam Ahead Goals Managing Energy Multi-tasking' The post How to Maximize Your Energy When You Don’t Have a Lot appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 11, 2018

Your new book shows how managers can use these ideas […]. I read your new book Build an A Team with interest because it’s a natural progression of the work you have been doing with personal disruption and career disruption. In your last two books you showed how disruption applies to individuals and in their careers.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 12, 2014

Michael Beer of Harvard Business School agrees. Managers dont have to wait for senior management to start a process of organizational revitalization.. Peter Senge says to give up traditional notions that visions are always announced from on high or come from an organizations institutionalized planning process..

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Are you an absentee manager? Are you a seagull manager? Where Do You Sit On the Scale? Do you over-delegate? Are you a control freak? Do you delegate too much? Are you erratic in doing both? If you under-delegate, you will eventually become over-worked and stressed.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2012

Because leaders cannot be physically present to manage and control, the only way they can be sure their people are working in a concerted effort is to create a shared vision, guiding values and clearly articulated strategies. Managing the Mid-Space. Using technology to manage at a distance. Silos didn’t work well before.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2011

What a great term to describe the fatal flaw that kept this boss from being effective: a New England Weather manager. (In Here are some actual things I’ve heard people say: Microwave Manager : “You have to be careful around Bob. He’s a microwave manager.” My Way or the Highway Manager : “Susan won’t let go of control.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 1, 2015

Once upon a time, in a land called Industrial Age, the leaders of organizations resided at the top of a hierarchy, managers were in the middle, and workers were supervised. It was the job of leaders to do the important thinking and the job of managers and supervisors to make sure it was implemented.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 4, 2017

Some are problems in your life, like staying healthy or managing relationships. Guest Post by Nat Greene Humans have done a good enough job solving problems throughout the ages–otherwise we would not have made it to 7 billion people on the planet. But countless problems still plague humankind.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Tony wanted to shift out of a management role in a specialized field where he’d been for decades into a broader general manager role. He needed to rebrand himself from a specialty line manager into a general manager. Work this equation backwards: Tony wanted general manager opportunities.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 29, 2016

Real leaders already know how to effectively manage millennials. Guest post by Dan Negroni The generation gap in the workplace appears daunting. All sorts of reports describe how huge it is. But bridging the generation gap is not as difficult as it might seem. Because what millennials want matches up with what successful leaders provide.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 27, 2015

During the course of any given workday, issues arise such as how to handle certain personalities, how to navigate becoming a new manager, or how to manage across departments. Now Millennials are leading the way in expanding collaboration in three new ways: individual challenges, team problem-solving, and community difference-making.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

Leadership Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership Blog points out that “even decent managers sometimes say things to their employees, with good intentions, that may come across as condescending.” We all need to pay attention to these 8 Condescending Things a Manager Should Avoid Saying to an Employee. The carnival has begun!

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 3, 2015

Delegating is often one of the hardest things for a manager to do. Often managers don’t delegate because they hold one or more of these beliefs. You give away your authority to make decisions but are still responsible for the outcome if something goes wrong. Do any sound familiar? ” “They don’t want extra responsibilities.”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

If you are a manager, these numbers should alarm you. John Gabarro and John Kotter give good advice in their Harvard Business Review article Managing Your Boss. But the news is not good. The results of The 2012 Towers Watson Global Workforce Study indicate that 43% of the global workforce is either detached or actively disengaged.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

Most managers spend about 35% to 50% of their time in meetings. And most team members report it is a waste of time. This is because they are meetings that don’t matter to anyone other than the team leader. Although it is not clearly stated, the purpose of most meetings is to share information, primarily with the […].

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