Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 19, 2015

Read Beth Armknecht Miller’s new guest post over at About.com Leadership and Management for some great tips for bringing a dispersed workforce together as a productive team: Smells Like Team Spirit: How To Foster Team Culture In A Virtual Work Environment.

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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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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. They include: 1.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Moreover, once the procrastinators pull everything together as the deadline is looming, non-procrastinators may become resentful that procrastinating team members always “get away with it,” especially if the procrastinators are perceived as equally-valued in the organization or receive accolades from management for their contributions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. So how do you assemble a great team? What’s perhaps most valuable about understanding someone’s type is how their behavior plays out in the dynamics of a team. Our biggest takeaway?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Employees who feel understood and appreciated are often more productive and willing go that extra mile on behalf of a client. By creating a smarter workforce, you are creating a team able to produce amazing results on behalf of your clients, your partners as well as your consumers. Empower your team by listening and acknowledging.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2019

Define the purpose of the company and share it with your team. Give it a go and see how the process boosts productivity, loyalty and performance throughout the company. Give it a go and see how the process boosts productivity, loyalty and performance throughout the company. What are your strengths as a team/company?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

Chris Edmonds: In order to value team members, or help them find meaning in their work - that is, contribution to the greater good, to their community or even society - you don’t need to start a formal organizational initiative. The purpose of the study was to analyze the effects of workplace conditions on individual productivity.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. But there may be other attributes—they use your products regularly and well. For example, they might refer in new customers, or speak at your events, or provide feedback on product direction. So try to understand why.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 31, 2020

If you define the Cultural Layer as the de facto patterns of behavior between members on the team you can define the Mindset Layer as the de facto patterns of thought between the ears of the key leadership. It also implies a close understanding of the emotional life of the team. Agility is nimbleness of thought and action.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

You could build your legacy on the fly, showing through day-to-day decisions and actions how you guided your working team. Your impact as leader spills over into the daily lives of your team. Do you balance an insistence on accountability and productivity with your response to the human condition?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Guest post from Barbara Bruno : Would your current team or new hires describe you as a leader who supports, teaches, and encourages them? This type of nurturing often determines whether the members of your team become engaged and retained employees or end up as a costly turnover statistic. Can I trust you? Will you do what you promise?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 9, 2017

Our culture has long viewed happiness in the workplace as a sign of lower productivity. This can and does translate into workplace productivity and overall company success. Our research has found that a positive brain is connected with increasing sales by 37%, productivity by 31%, and decreasing the negative effects of stress by 23%.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. My team spent a decade running experiments that measured brain activity while people worked to find out why some teams are productive and others engage in "presenteeism."

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Withholding information from peers to make oneself look better/smarter/more productive ? Complaining about someone’s behavior to a peer, team lead, or boss without going directly to that person to address the concern These and dozens of other similar behaviors happen in organizations every day. Engaging in gossip ?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 7, 2014

A solid foundation of trust is critical to any healthy and productive relationship. Trust is the biggest and most important building block of teams, marriages, friendships, and the relationship between a leader and his/her employees. communication leadership relationships teams trust'

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 24, 2014

It’s a clear, simple drumbeat that his team can rally around. Get the right team together In any organization that needs to make a break with the past, the new leader will need to work quickly to ensure the team at the top shares a vision for the organization’s future.

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JANUARY 9, 2020

They do this by getting to know each member of the team, setting expectations well and holding people to their promises. Vibrant cultures hit their targets, which requires that all within the team do their part. When AT&T introduced a similar training, productivity increased 25 percent. Take the team off-site for two days.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

I first became aware of the need for soft skills when I was a Tupperware Executive Manager, teaching members of my team about the products, how to best present the line and explaining how effective use could make customers’ lives more efficient. Also, how to potentially transform an excited customer into a recruit for the team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Maybe the question could be, “How can we hire for unique skills that make our products differentiating?” Of course, it might lead you to ask the question, “What differentiates our products from the competition?” His Personality Poker® system has been used around the world to create high-performing innovation teams.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

What is most important about the services or products you provide? What is important about each and every team member’s contribution? Every brand that is driven by purpose has the capacity to connect directly to a customer need. As a leader, it’s your job to bring people back to why they are working in the first place.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 1, 2015

Business leaders have long been taught the benefits of cultivating diverse teams made up of individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. It has been well documented that diversity breeds creativity and innovation, and diverse teams are usually more productive and more efficient than homogenous teams.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

Simons’ team defines behavioral integrity as “managers keeping their promises and demonstrating espoused values.” Employees are more proactive, more present, and more productive with the application of their discretionary energy. ? Dr. Simons’ team created an assessment that measured behavioral integrity on a five-point scale.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Or, from a more Scrooge-like perspective, a time when team members slack off, the company throws expensive parties where certain people drink too much and do things everyone wants to forget, team members gather to exchange awkward Secret Santa gifts that no one wants, and very little productive activity takes place.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

My organization, Booher Research Institute, recently commissioned a survey of email habits and productivity from the Social Research Lab at the University of Northern Colorado. An email cannot be both a productivity tool and a weapon. Productivity studies show there’s no such thing as multitasking – just rapid attention-switching.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 15, 2015

We start with a new article over at About.com on how to run better team meetings. Follow these 10 tips and you’ll have more productive team meetings where your employees walk away feeling engaged and valued. Are you using your meetings to cultivate the talent on your team? Follow these 12 tips to learn how.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 11, 2018

After experiencing this among my own team, I made some changes. In fact, I even welcome input from team members outside of the circle. This is humility at its best – productive and positive. This is the how to dispense with Chiefs, big and small, and focus instead on building a better team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 11, 2019

Ignoring it will only make matters worse, and will eventually impact team productivity, results, employee satisfaction, and the leader’s reputation. Destructive conflict is when it gets personal, gets in the way of working effectively, and has a negative impact on productivity, innovation, and ultimately, results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Chris Edmonds : Every morning, your team members rally themselves to come to work. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves. Other team members are not enthused about what they’ll experience in your team’s work environment.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 17, 2019

A good leader is someone who guides and mentors a team, who offers counsel, looks to foster a good working environment and creates a culture that’s sustainable. Natural born leaders have the ability to motivate and communicate better than other members of the team. A good leader also gives credit to their team. Lose some money?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 26, 2017

Most innovative and technologically superior products have the potential to become global if they are needed, are better than what exists, and will improve people’s lives. Most companies spend years perfecting product features, go global in a handful of countries and then go global in a larger set. Map a plan for 1-2-3 year growth. ·

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

One common question they ask is “As an individual contributor, how can I be a leader, if I don’t ‘lead’ a team?” It certainly would be nice if you have a team that you can lead, but it’s not absolutely necessary. I tell them that the pre-requisite of leadership is not having a team to “lead.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Guest Post from Paul Cummings : Leave No Doubt Leaders focus on people, not power, as they build and develop their teams. Leaders who empower others consider empathy an essential competency to develop high-performance teams. Do you know your team member’s most important individual dreams?

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

Guest post from Bob Kulhan : Most of us aspire to be great leaders—passionate, inspiring, thoughtful and productive. IMPROV CORRECTIVE: Be mindful of your team and your role by specifically using “Yes, and…”. M ake it clear that you respect what team members have to say and value their input. Make initiations and declarations.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Every member of your team, whether a leader, supervisor or the front line, has a right to know what is expected and to what measures they will be held accountable. The “how” of team interaction, customer service, and community impact. How will the team regularly review the company’s value statement and make sure to implement it?

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Ignoring it will only make matters worse, and will eventually impact team productivity, results, employee satisfaction, and the manager’s reputation. Destructive conflict is when it gets personal, gets in the way of working effectively, and has a negative impact on productivity, innovation, and ultimately, results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Guest post from Tarra Mitchell : If we want our teams to follow us willingly, they first need to trust us. Connecting with others requires that we get to know individual team members as people, not simply employees. Work toward being as open as possible with your team. This creates clarity for ourselves and for our teams.

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