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Why Leaders Need To Develop Their Middle Managers

Eric Jacobson

The book, Power To The Middle , shows how managers are the crucial link between a company’s ground floor and top brass. However, new KcKinsey research reveals that this outdated perspective needs to change and that well-developed managers are the strategy that companies must prioritize to succeed today,” they add.

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How To Build An Extreme Team

Eric Jacobson

Extreme Teams is a fascinating book by Robert Bruce Shaw , where he takes you inside top companies and examines not just great teams (your more “conventional” teams), but extreme teams. According to Shaw, extreme teams : View work as a calling —even an obsession. What specific results do you want/need to see?

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How To Optimize Talent To Lead A Dream Team

Eric Jacobson

Why do some teams succeed while others stumble? In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts.

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How To Build Resilient And Thriving Teams

Eric Jacobson

How net thriving teams can improve businesses, neighborhoods, and governments. Why wellbeing initiatives work substantially better when people have great managers who engage them in their work first and establish trust. Thriving individuals are 20% more likely to have thriving team members. Remove abusive managers.

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Don't Spin Your Team In Circles

Eric Jacobson

A manager who can't make a decision or who can't make a timely decision will frustrate his/her employees. Equally bad, a lack of decision will impede the progress of the manager's team. Some managers make endless requests for data as a way to postpone their having to make a decision.

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How To Connect With Your Team Members

Eric Jacobson

Here, from the book, Be A Network Marketing Leader , are some tips on how, as a leader, you can connect with your individual team members: Send cards on their birthdays and anniversary-of-joining dates. Schedule monthly whole team meetings. Keep yourself updated with what's happening in their personal lives. Pay attention.

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Seven Important Questions To Ask Your Team

Eric Jacobson

High-functioning teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results. Where can you take greater ownership on this team?

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