Engaging Leader

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s an opportunity to work and lead in ways that provide great operational and productivity results for the organization, as well as to be a part of a great team while finding individual meaning and purpose too. But there is a big difference between working from home … and feeling like and being an effective member of a remote team.

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Engaging Leader

JUNE 14, 2013

The post GC17: Can Gamification Truly Drive and Measure Sales Productivity? Mike has more than 25 years of experience in the technology industry as a sales executive at several startups, and as a leader of a variety of teams at larger companies. Mike has more […]. with Mike Smalls from Hoopla appeared first on Engaging Leader.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Recognizing that for yourself, creating boundaries that help you shift into appropriate gears, and helping others do the same will help you be more present in the moment, more productive, and more emotionally intelligent as you recognize when other people are in a different gear. 5th Gear: Get "In the Zone.” 4th Gear: Lead in a Task World.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The post 060: Leading the Starbucks Way: 5 Principles for Connecting with Your Customers, Your Products and Your People | with Joseph Michelli appeared first on Engaging Leader. How do leaders at Starbucks steward products and people to build customer engagement, loyalty, advocacy and even brand love? Please submit your comments below!

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Engaging Leader

JULY 20, 2020

A team that trusts its leader is typically more productive, innovative, and successful. Team meetings provide an opportunity for a leader to practice and demonstrate the following four behaviors that build trust: Plan ahead. Communicate in advance of meetings by providing an agenda and the list of who’s invited.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 5, 2020

You’re attempting to discern whether candidates would be successful on your team, while struggling to prevent the massive headache and wasted resources of a poor decision. Interviewing job candidates can feel like wading through a foggy swamp. Interviewing job candidates can feel like wading through a foggy swamp.

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Vince Lombardi, arguably the greatest football coach of all time Extraordinarily successful people, companies, and teams always have one product/service/idea they’re most known for or that makes them the most money. Success demands singleness of purpose. Having clarity […] Success demands singleness of purpose.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 17, 2020

What steps can remote workers and their leaders take to keep work fulfilling and productive for the whole team? And yet over time, dissatisfaction, disconnection, and burnout tend to creep in.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

“Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. And […]

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, where he helps teams and creatives be prolific, brilliant and healthy. Todd Henry is the founder and CEO of Accidental Creative, where he helps teams and creatives be prolific, brilliant and healthy. Engaging Leader™ Creativity Productivity' Guardedness.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 22, 2016

Even the most engaged, productive, and passionate people can experience burnout — in fact, their dedication may cause them to be even more susceptible than others. In Engaging Leader episode 019, How to Help Your Team Have More Great Days at […] One of the surprising things about workplace burnout is that no one is immune.

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Engaging Leader

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Have you or your team ever come up with a big idea that you thought would be very cool, but didn’t take any action because you thought it would be too risky? Perhaps it was an idea for a new product or service, or a process change to solve a complex problem.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 11, 2014

Conventional wisdom says creativity is the realm of advertising, and innovation the job of product development. But Google could never have grown from a startup in 1998 to the market dominator, with over one million servers, without an IT team that was […]. Blog Creativity Influence 3.0 Innovation'

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 2, 2015

The things you and your team want most—peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work—are surprisingly straightforward to achieve. Let Peter Bregman help you learn quick, counter-intuitive actions that save time, boost energy, and increase productivity to get the results you want. Engaging Leader™ Productivity'

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Engaging Leader

MAY 8, 2014

It turns out, our brains are more engaged, creative, productive, and resilient when in a positive state. It turns out, our brains are more engaged, creative, productive, and resilient when in a positive state. How can we as leaders model and teach those habits to our team? How can we […].

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Engaging Leader

MAY 1, 2015

Five years ago, Jesse had given up on the umpteenth system he’d tried for organization and productivity. Five years ago, Jesse had given up on the umpteenth system he’d tried for organization and productivity. The book is Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen.

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Engaging Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2012

How do you get both production workers and knowledge workers to implement continuous improvement? How do you get both production workers and knowledge workers to implement continuous improvement? Engaging Leader™ Communication skills Team leadership' How do you get employees to believe in continuous improvement?

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Does it seem like every day you and your team have more and more that “simply must get done”? Does it seem like every day you and your team have more and more that “simply must get done”? Do you […] Instead of a to-do list, you need a success list — a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 15, 2016

Great leaders don’t innovate products, they innovate the factory. From Frederick Taylor to Henry Ford, the industrial age was made by people who could envision the best way to design the organization around the product. Today, much of the world has moved […] Great leaders don’t innovate products, they innovate the factory.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 27, 2018

It allows you (and your team) to accomplish what matters most to you — solving a business problem, losing weight, cornering the market, getting out of debt, etc. It allows you (and your team) to accomplish what matters most to you — solving a business problem, losing weight, cornering the market, getting out of debt, etc.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 6, 2018

Achieving extraordinary results doesn’t require you to be a full-time disciplined person or team, where your every action is trained and where control is the solution to every situation. Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

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Engaging Leader

JANUARY 9, 2018

What’s the ONE Thing you (or your team) can do this week such that by doing it, everything else would be easier or unnecessary? Behind every successful person is their ONE Thing.

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Engaging Leader

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Find someone to blame for every mistake Even better, second-guess every decision and work product — in other words, consider everything they do is a mistake. Keep people putting out fires (Flip it: Plan for longer-term outcomes the team will be proud of. Instead of being a firefighter or firestarter, be a cultivator.).

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Today we’ll dig into the data behind this mega-trend, and talk about how you can use mobile to improve the knowledge, decision-making, and behaviors of employees and their families, to optimize health outcomes, control medical costs, and enhance workplace productivity. Study by ComScore: New Study Sheds Light on Mobile Engagement.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In this episode, we’re going to find out how Barry Nalebuff, Seth Goldman, and the team at Honest Tea have succeeded in leading a for-profit business as a vehicle for change. Brand: A product or service has to be radically different or better, and able to succeed even after competitors try to copy it.

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Engaging Leader

MARCH 6, 2014

Employee Engagement For Dummies helps employers implement the necessary plans to create and sustain an engaging culture, allowing them to attract and retain the best people while boosting their productivity and creativity. I didn''t feel like a dummy, and I didn''t particularly want to read a 350-page textbook on this topic.

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Engaging Leader

APRIL 3, 2014

Jesse recently had a stretch of several weeks where sleep problems caused him to get insufficient sleep … and the effect on his creativity, productivity, and influence was obvious. The post 083: How to Sleep Better for Improved Leadership, Productivity, and Innovation appeared first on Engaging Leader. It happened again.

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Engaging Leader

JUNE 6, 2013

How do you avoid mediocrity and apathy in the team you lead? So how can you lead a team to be truly innovative? And how can you support process-based innovation, not just product-based innovation? Defend your team to the death. How do you avoid mediocrity and apathy in the team you lead? Remember the spilt blood.

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