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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yes, yes, talk about the plan, but also tell stories that reveal who you are as a leader to build deeper connection. You’re out there with the right motives, connecting and doing the right thing, but they’ve been burned before. They don’t understand why this matters.

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JUNE 28, 2021

As You Return to the Office, Make a Deliberate Plan. Talk with your team and make a plan to support one another. How to Build Your Return to the Office Plan. Talk with your team and make a plan to support one another. You’ve learned a lot about how you work and what makes you most productive over the last year.

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JUNE 25, 2021

Lead your team with a planned recovery and equip them with the skills to overcome these setbacks. 2:53 – How engineers plan for things to break to avoid more damage and minimize time to repair. 3:44 – As leaders, you can deny that things will ever go wrong or you can plan for it. So how do you plan for it?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Get your team back on track by planning ahead with these five steps. Last-minute fire drills, interruptions, and real emergencies can become a permanent way of life. It’s a common lament: “It’s so crazy around here. We never know what’s going to […].

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JUNE 18, 2021

6:18 – Step 3 is to plan your response for the most common and most disruptive interruptions, distractions, and emergencies. You know it’s coming, so create a game plan to get everyone through it, help your team regain their focus, and get back to the big picture as efficiently as possible.

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APRIL 22, 2021

And, ensuring that every member of your team has an active career development plan as part of your talent strategy. An important part of many of our longer-term leadership development programs is to ensure that managers have a robust development plan in place for every team member. Development Discussion Planner.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Then we look at how to develop that personal professional development plan, to love and own the direction you’re heading. Carson outlines this plan here as well and gives us where to find several other tools and resources that support this either on her website or LinkedIn. (29:08).

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DECEMBER 1, 2023

Create Commitment Ensuring Understanding and Agreement Recap the Plan : Summarize the key points of the decision and the plan moving forward. Encourage Creativity : Challenge your team to think creatively about how they can turn this situation to their advantage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 9, 2020

This week we’ve received so many calls from leaders trying to figure out remote working contingency plans and from managers faced with implementing these new work from home policies. If you’re also trying to make the best of a new work-from-home scene, perhaps […].

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JUNE 25, 2020

Our company’s insurance provider had restructured all their plans, and the numbers didn’t look good. Your Team’s Best Thinking Won’t Always Raise Its Hand Medical insurance rates had gone up again. Three days after we got the news, the CEO, Director of […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

In today’s #AskingForaFriend, I bring you an interview with Mike Maddock , serial entrepreneur, and best-selling author of several books including Plan D. Once you know what you’re chasing and why you can make better choices and plans. After all, that’s the point of a blind spot, right?

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APRIL 1, 2021

As you’re making plans think beyond the new normal, and focus on helping your team thrive […]. There’s Nothing Normal About Where We’re Headed Next- Time to Embrace the New Abnormal Your team is looking to you for guidance on what happens next.

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APRIL 12, 2024

” To keep the dialogue productive, he suggests planning follow-ups with, “Let’s schedule time to talk about this again and see how our solution is working.” .” He encourages you to seek understanding with questions such as, “What would a successful outcome do for you?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

You might be “right” in telling her everything is under control, but you become “effective” when you present her with a contingency plan. Let me walk you through a few of our contingency plans. This eases her anxieties and wins you a cooperative stakeholder. For someone like Linda.

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AUGUST 2, 2021

When I came back from maternity leave, the first thing I did was to build a clear development plan for each member of my team with a clear focus on critical thinking. Build a highly integrated communication plan. Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan.

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AUGUST 15, 2022

Explain your plan and what you need next). Have a plan. And, alerted our social media team in case the customer goes to Twitter with this. I’ve given the supervisor a final written warning.”. N- Next Steps. This is where you really shine when giving your boss bad news.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Every creation deemed successful is composed of the aggregated results of things not going exactly as planned. And as leaders, how can we help our teams to be making the most of all the learning that’s available, whether it’s from success or from failure of things not going as planned. Stumbling is not failure as well.

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JULY 8, 2021

Talk with your team and make a plan to support one another. In today’s episode of Asking For a Friend , I offer 7 tips for keeping productive while supporting your team. Inventory what made your work from home time so productive. Leverage your commute. Be deliberate about what work you do where. Consider quiet hours for focused work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

15:06-17:06: They explore a three-step methodology to embrace the future of work: recognizing the shift, changing mindsets, and putting plans into action to navigate through these changes effectively. A couple of examples are the role of insecurity as a driving force behind striving for excellence and the importance of self-evaluation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

By asking questions in this way you’re not just telling them about you and your plan…you’re giving them the power to ask about what they think is important. What can they expect around the short and long-term plan with the team and the company? What do you want to know ABOUT ME? What’s staying the same?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

When Your Team Resists Change, It’s an Opportunity for Ownership You’ve noticed a problem, spent the last four days meeting with finance, strategizing, and building an action plan. You’re energized about what your team will achieve, your boss and peers are on […].

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AUGUST 14, 2023

Encourage People to Talk About the Tough Stuff Asking For a Friend Panel One of the biggest complaints we hear about all-hands meetings and company offsites is that executives don’t seem to be in touch with the realities of actually implementing the plans that are presented. Of course, you want to weave Q&A into your day.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Build a highly integrated communication plan. I’ve learned that to scale your leadership, one of the best approaches is to ensure that every manager on the team has a closely aligned and integrated 5×5 communication plan. Even better when your direct reports are all amplifying and supporting your messages with their own 5×5 plan.

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DECEMBER 2, 2022

In this episode, Patrick Thean, author of Rhythm: How to Achieve Breakthrough Execution and Accelerate Growth , equips you with the tools to identify the signs of setbacks before they occur, track those signs, and make adjustments to keep your plan on track and accelerate growth. The process of think, plan and do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2019

You’ve done your talent assessment work, completed the nine-box grid, and now it’s time to create specific plans to develop your managers. You’ll want to ensure everyone has a solid foundation of leadership training, and consider cross-functional moves, but what other developmental […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 10, 2020

If you’re neck-deep in planning your virtual kick-off meeting like so many of our clients, great! Your team needs this moment more than ever. In this extraordinary year, a virtual kick-off meeting is a great way to close this chapter and give […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2024

This helps them choose the right communication channel and plan the key messages they need to deliver. One way to do this is to set up a workshop where they can work through realistic scenarios using the three questions mentioned above.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ignite Action: Turn intentions into activities Habit: I get things going—moving the conversation to create specific plans When your team has tight conversations that lead to meaningful results, trust and morale improve along with the team’s capacity to make even more meaningful decisions. You’ve got more to do than time to do it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

How are you planning to organize your week? Do they need help, planning, and holding a courageous performance conversation (see also how to be a more courageous manager). Have them turn the conversation into a practical plan. Getting it on the calendar is a great way to ensure they stay focused on the plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We see a renewed commitment to strategic planning groups. Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation. And now, they’re adding in-person time. We’re seeing more offsites, leadership training kickoffs, executive leadership workshops, and team innovation events. What are you noticing right now?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2019

When Karin was in her sales exec role at Verizon, she would often walk into the back door of a store to find her highest performing team huddled just before the store opened, talking about their plans for the day. When she […]. The post How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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OCTOBER 16, 2022

After talking through each of these questions, you can then focus the conversation on meaningful next steps to take action and build contingency plans. And then, give them a chance to consider the wild cards. For a robust look at creating clarity, you won’t want to miss this article.

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JULY 24, 2023

” If the answer is, “and then we pray for a break like that again,” you probably need a bit more planning to ensure sustained success. An important part of celebrating a win is to ask “Why did we win, and what can we learn from that in the future?”

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JANUARY 1, 2024

What would happen if we did the opposite of our initial plan?” It allows the team to think without barriers and then work backward, scaling grand visions to match our resource constraints. ” This question invites the team to view the problem from an entirely different angle, potentially revealing unexpected solutions.

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MAY 8, 2013

Both nailed the Behavior Based Interview, and we moved on to talk about their planned approach. grow your career 30-60-90 day plan candidates feedback interview interviewing job search michael watkins plan self-development strategy the first 90 days vision' 4 Ways to Set Yourself Apart appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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AUGUST 4, 2023

It’s not a surprise, not in the way that like societally, the need for new internet access grew over the past 20 years that kind of crept up and it’s like, okay, we weren’t planning for this, but it’s gonna need to happen. And once it’s done, yes, it’s going to need to be maintained.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Development plans, check. And YES, it’s so important to track if your managers are doing key tasks like one-on-ones or development plans. When HR checks the performance management system, this manager looks like they’re on top of their game. They’ve check all the boxes. Weekly one-on-ones, check.

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