The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

After the heavily disrupted sporting year in 2020, 2021 has offered up a glut of competitions, from the Euro and Copa America football tournaments to the Tour de France and Olympics. It has seemingly been a non-stop stream of sporting events to enjoy. Building on past success. Tense teams. A good team.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

The Ultimate Guide to Female Teams. She explains that “productive conflict” allows female athletes to address disagreement and resolve the conflicts that inevitably arise on teams so team members can work together more effectively and realize their full potential on and off the field. Silence does not mean agreement.”

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

It’s commonly seen in a sporting context, but brands have also capitalized on it to help communicate their journey. Research from the University of South Florida shows how leaders can also cultivate this underdog spirit within their organizations to help give teams the confidence to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, I ran a poll on LinkedIn on one of the biggest things I coach executives about – making the shift from being the go-to person to building and leading a team of go to people. Being a go-to person or building a team of go-to people?”, 84% of the respondents answered building a team of go-to people. Make the Roles Clear.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2021

Sports Analytics. Despite an abundance of usable statistical information, it took a while for sports to follow in the footsteps of business in the use of analytics. Once they started using analytics to improve individual and team performance, however, they began to quickly perfect its usage.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2023

The use of underdog narratives is a popular leadership tactic that has been proven effective in motivating teams and organizations. Leaders in various industries, such as telecommunications and sports, often employ these narratives to create a compelling story of overcoming adversity and achieving success against the odds.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

There are two significant problems with this approach to managing accountability. But there is another way a leader can manage accountability and that is by setting up their team to be accountable. To many this sounds Pollyanna but more than likely you have been on accountable team at some point in your life.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Objectives must be realistic, easily understood, meaningful, and the result of every member of the team getting together to set them. Recording Keeping score is a motivator in business as it is in sports. What do you do to motivate your team? It takes time for a participative approach to get off the ground (have patience!),

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2023

Or to play for a professional sports team, write a novel, or perform with a well-regarded symphony or ballet company. Ambition should also be for the team—it’s the job of a great leader to make others shine. So, what does a good leader or manager do? Someone may have “an ambition” to become a CEO or entrepreneur.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. But sometimes, that stack rank was an hourly reminder of all the work I, and my team, had to do.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Managing this dilemma can be extremely challenging for those outside of the core in-group of an organization or team. Some of these biases are aptly illustrated in a recent study from McGill, which looks at how the media cover women who manage to break through the glass ceiling and scale the heights of their organization.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

Winning Team. Playing midfielder for the United States Women’s National Soccer Team for over twenty-three years, Kristine Lilly knows a thing or two about winning teams. It’s an invitation for all of us to build powerhouse teams. What makes a “powerhouse” team? Transform: How do you best align a team?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

I had coached many groups of mid-level managers who were on the verge of success, but never an individual who was already very successful and needed to make a change to be blasted into the stratosphere. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There are rich leadership lessons to be learned from politics and sports. Given that I try to avoid politics in this blog, please allow me the indulgence of referencing a headline from my favorite sport to make a point about leadership: Chiefs' Romeo Crennel fires himself. as team's defensive coordinator.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 17, 2016

As football season begins, millions of fans are excited about cheering on their favorite high school, college or NFL teams. The best teams, those that are competitive over time, benefit from having a winning team spirit. A winning team spirit is a mood that fills an individual or group with life.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

I have grown up around high-performance sport. High-performance in the context of sport covers a process that goes like this. It is the same in every sport where high-performance is the ticket to the dance. One of the most important things you can do is create margin for yourself and margin for your team.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

As change becomes ubiquitous in the workplace, more organizations are developing internal change management capability to help keep the pace. Rather than leaving change implementation up to individual departments and projects, some organizations are opting for a more structured process and a standardized set of tools to help ensure success.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Are there mental structures for failure and success? In Mind Shift , McManus brings together twelve mental frameworks that have helped some of the most accomplished people on earth create internal structures of success.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. However, team members will only follow if they: are aligned with the vision.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Team bonding activities are one way to bring employees together on a personal level. Team bonding activities have also gained more popularity post-pandemic as employers are grappling to rebuild positive organization cultures. For example, Organizing team bonding activities in Singapore is now more than just fun.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

Your team is on overdrive. A team member with a trait, a quirk that gets under your skin. And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. Team engagement is always critical. It is natural to go for the obvious team drivers: the alpha, the verbalizer, the workhorse. What is so special about this team member?

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 22, 2019

Research has shown that emotional intelligence is a key component of being a successful maverick, as this enables one to pick their battles and appreciate when it’s wise to force your ideas through and when it’s more sensible to step back. Managing a team of mavericks. Encouraging quirkiness. Encouraging quirkiness.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

Did you know that 80 percent of our success in learning from other people is based on how well we listen? In other words, our success or failure is determined before we do anything. I lash out, and within seconds we have a crisis of miscommunication on our hands that can stop teams, departments, and organizations from functioning well.

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Being successful as a leader can be hard. You have to enlist their support as you do your best to develop yourself, your people, and your teams. And, this is why I call leadership a “contact sport”. Leadership Is a Contact Sport is a leadership development model that has worked for hundreds of thousands of people.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Here’s how change communication can drive your success or failure. Team Building. Welcome to the August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival!

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The 2020 Leaders25 Top CHRO Award is a list curated by a panel of N2Growth team members ( co-led by Jeffrey Cohn and Mike Myatt ), as well as outside advisory members to ensure objectivity and rigor in our selection process. He is the total package – a team player people love to work with and for. Selection Methodology.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 16, 2020

Managing Through COVID-19: Going Remote. These things were unimaginable 10 days ago: All major college and professional sporting events have been cancelled or postponed. This week is not a time for success; this is a time for engagement. If this has always been important to you as a manager, that’s great.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

It can be a long, strange trip indeed – and your success depends on attracting the right talent. Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. So how do you assemble a great team? Our biggest takeaway?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 30, 2020

Llewellyn , PhD is a sports psychology consultant who has helped a major league baseball pitcher become a Cy Young Award winner, A NASCAR driver go from number six overall to number one and with the Winston Cup Series Championship, and countless leaders at Fortune 500 companies. 7 – Leaders communicate with team members, not to team members.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 14, 2013

I’m sure you’ve heard statements like these before: “My team is exceptionally strong. While you might hear these statements from any manager, they all have one thing in common: the lack of specificity. How strong is the team? How exactly – and based on what specific parameters – is your team improving? Measure again.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2017

When companies talk about talent development, retention, and succession planning, words like “cross-training,” “knowledge transfer,” and “redundancy” tend to crop-up. Think about professional sports teams, for instance. Pro sports teams constantly take risks based on transferable skills, so why doesn’t corporate America?

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 29, 2010

home about rich our team news our fans services executive coach business coach speaking inspire media knowledge books affiliates contact Rich Gee Group 203.500.2421 3 Ways To Successfully Attain Any Goal In Life. In addition, look at your goal, if it is too big or unwieldy, break it up into manageable steps. Why does that happen?

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

As someone who absolutely loves sports, I follow the fortunes of various teams and often wonder what makes some more successful than others. Louis Cardinals all come to mind as teams that were built to last in this manner. The following is a guest piece from former Microsoft President and Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie Bach.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Edmondson - (September 2023) We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Are there mental structures for failure and success? Decisions about Decisions explores how people do, and should, make decisions about decisions.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 8, 2022

This is a challenging decision for most 17- to 18-year-old kids that I believe is made more difficult if the kid in question aspires to play a sport professionally. As the Bersin Report reveals, right alongside meaningful work, the e mployee experience is defined by strong management. A Focus on Management Development.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The newest book from New York Times bestselling author Patrick Lencioni is, The 6 Types of Working Genius : A Better Way To Understand Your Gifts, Your Frustrations, And Your Team. People who utilize their natural God-given talents are much more fulfilled and successful than those who don’t,” shares Lencioni.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

2 they can be and is committed to both you and the organization’s success. Be methodical, slow and purposeful when hiring your leadership team. In the world of sports, botched plays are typically a result of miscommunication. Teams win because they have an internal communication strategy.

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