Mike Cardus

JANUARY 23, 2012

I am not a sports fan, and when I am leading team building & leadership retreats for Corporate Teams the topic comes up. I have lead programs with professional and college level sports teams, and learned a great deal about the similarities and differences. Are you a sports fan? What do you think?

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In the realm of facilities management, the twin pillars of efficiency and sustainability are increasingly becoming inseparable. Understanding the Synergy First off, let’s unpack the idea behind sustainable facilities management. Engage Your Team: Sustainability is a team sport. That’s the goal.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 9, 2022

Every year, for those who follow sports, there ae key dates on the calendar that fans of college football or basketball get excited about. Athletes across the country choose a school and are celebrated on sports talk radio… They are applauded on ESPN for their choice of a new place to work… It is very exciting. Connection.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 27, 2012

Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. Hard work, efficient management, and knowledge can only bring us so far.” ” Here are 7 ways that leadership and sports are alike: 1. Sports and leadership are no exception.

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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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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Only the strongest teams will survive and while their defensive pressure, explosive running game or deep shooting might define their style, their success rests on five obsessions. These obsessions are common to champions and may very well help your team in your competitive endeavor. . The teams that do this best will move on.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

F1 racing has historically been a male-dominated sport, but that is changing rapidly. Currently, no rules prevent women from competing in the sport, but the current grid of drivers is exclusively male. The sport has recognized the importance of engaging with fans and providing them with an unforgettable experience.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 18, 2014

Are there any leadership or management lessons to be gleaned from fantasy football? May a few, but read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out Why You Shouldn’t Lead Your Real Team Like You Manage Your Fantasy Football Team. fantasy football fantasy sports leadership management'

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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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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2021

When you are in a leadership role, one of your jobs is to make sure that the morale is good within your teams. This is why you need to be creative and make sure that your teams are kept happy at work and allow them to have a little fun in the office rather than it being all work and no play. Betting on Sporting Events.

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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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Curious Cat

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sports provides visible examples of the futility of accurate performance appraisal. Teams are constantly paying free agents tens of millions that completely flop. We have athletes who thousands of people devote a huge amount of time to dissecting their strengths and weaknesses and those evaluations are constantly shown to be wrong.

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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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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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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

As a manager you may have never thought of it this way, but there are times when you cheat your employees. Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Here are four common ways manager’s cheat their team members: 1. Solving their problems. Not giving honest feedback.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 4, 2018

Yet, it also speaks volumes about Kerr’s sharp understanding of team dynamics, and his acceptance of the new-age role of a coach. In days gone by, sports coaches took a more hard-line, militaristic approach to leading. As Kokoskov says, “there is no such things as a perfect coach, only a perfect coach for a particular team.”.

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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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Leading Blog

APRIL 25, 2011

Olympic hockey team did the unthinkable. They beat the unbeatable Russian team. But team goalie Jim Craig says is was not a miracle. It was the result of hard work and one of the “best demonstrations of team chemistry in sports history.” We needed to manage through ego and conflict. We weren’t stars.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Whether you’re talking about governments, companies, sports teams, or families, accountability is what ensures that things run smoothly and that progress continues. make sure you make space to consider how team members experienced the process, how relationships were affected, and how much people learned.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

It’s September, and for sports fans that means the NFL season is starting, and the Major League Baseball pennant races are heating up as they head to the postseason. It was a profile of Baltimore Orioles manager Buck Showalter , whose team is in a great battle with the mighty New York Yankees for first place in their division.

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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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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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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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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

AUGUST 22, 2019

Just as it’s beholden on mavericks to understand how best to operate in a world that may not share their unique perspective, so to is it beholden on managers to adapt their style to get the best out of these free thinkers. Managing a team of mavericks. “It’s one of the big reasons why I’m on the team.

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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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HR Digest

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Companies love saying it but employees dread hearing it— it’s time for some team-building activities ! We’d be lying if we said companies loved them either as the process of organizing and scheduling team activities for work can be quite laborious. Let us look at some examples.

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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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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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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

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. Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was selected as one of the 10 Most Influential Management Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50 in both 2011 and 2013. You say something – I get mad.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 14, 2013

Everyone could benefit from a daily dose of the best team leadership that podcasts offer. That said, if you have tired of top 40 music and sports talk radio and would like to motivate yourself with a varied collection of interesting ideas, experiment for a few days with using your drive time as an opportunity to expand on your education.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Winning Teams. There’s something very powerful about sports metaphors. Bob Rathbun has worked with and around some of the greatest sports stars in history, and he makes a really good point during our interview in this episode of “Aim Higher.” And yet, only one team will win the championship. Why is that?

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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. People need direction and support which is what the following list was designed to help you do: Inform yourself and your team. Go back one week.

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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. Great leaders empower others to success by setting the GPS for the business and then rallying the team members to follow. However, team members will only follow if they: are aligned with the vision.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. He offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn't end in the boardroom.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 23, 2017

Think about professional sports teams, for instance. In these instances, the teams recruiting these players saw their transferable skills as assets they could apply and improve upon. In these instances, the teams recruiting these players saw their transferable skills as assets they could apply and improve upon.

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