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Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

Let's Grow Leaders

You connect with one another, establish clear success criteria, get curious, and build on one another’s suggestions, but nothing happens. Respect Confidentiality: Build trust with appropriate discretion and privacy Habit: I protect sensitive information. Commitment is vital to effective teamwork, collaboration, and results.

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How to Avoid Delivering the Dreaded Feedback Sandwich

Next Level Blog

Your manager wants to give you some performance feedback and wraps it up in so much blah, blah, blah that you aren’t really sure what the message is or what you’re supposed to do with it. No one gets better, performance suffers and dissatisfaction simmers. We’ve all been there. As a result, nothing much changes.

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Leadership is 360 degrees and 365 days

Lead Change Blog

But as a presenter coming in we could get by with pushing the envelope without calling people out. As an organization, our goal is to be the best, serve others with high levels of respect and support each other to accomplish our goals. Lead Self first- to lead in all directions, begin with mastering self-management.

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Leadership is a Process!

Lead Change Blog

Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. Get feedback from multiple points of view. Bring in new employees, consultants and use secret shoppers to get a fresh perspective. Get everyone on the same page pursuing a set common set of goals. Always be respectful.

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Informal networks: Strategies for middle managers to boost their influence

Chartered Management Institute

Managers no longer simply pass orders down the hierarchy and pass information back up it. Instead, they have to make things happen through other departments which have different agendas, different priorities and needs, and are competing for the same limited pot of management time, support, budget and promotions.

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Letting Go of the Big Chief Motif

Great Leadership By Dan

Now get over it. Forget the CEO or Executive or Senior Whatever title you have and get down in the trenches. I was sitting in a meeting during which we were trying to find a way to overcome the challenge of getting other churches and pastors to come together. I drew a circle and put myself in the middle. You did it.

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How Healthy Is Your Organization’s Culture?

Tanveer Naseer

He asked a question and then went around the table in an orderly fashion getting input from the attendees. Culture happens everywhere people get together. The CEO communicated that lower-ranking folks should be in respectful listen-only mode. They valued compliance, agreeableness, and respect for positions.