Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2019

Recently retired Kansas State football coach Bill Snyder famously crafted 16 Goals for Success which he used with his football teams over his decades of coaching. ” According to Coach Snyder, one of the root causes of success was belief itself. Against all odds, one team overcame an enormous deficit to win the game.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Are good ideas ruining the effectiveness of your team or organization? In the absence of a guiding vision, good ideas represent low hanging fruit that unfocused leaders reflexively reach for, especially when pressured to report visible success. Thoughts for the Everyday Leader. by Nathan Magnuson. The Problem with Good Ideas.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Whether your team has achieved a significant goal or is looking to get back on track after a shake-up, here are some basic ways to get everyone back on course. Once your team has reached a goal and the celebration is over (you do celebrate big wins, right?) Choose the appropriate next step to focus your team. Engage Your People.

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eBook Business Model Goal Follow-up 120

Nathan Magnuson

MAY 1, 2017

The problem comes when the focus shifts from serving the customer or client to maintaining the appearance of personal success. No leader can succeed alone – and teams know this. Negative reinforcement can create resentment and easily backfire when you’ve yet to win your team over. Praise inspires. Ask for Input.

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eBook Team Follow-up Consultative 120

Nathan Magnuson

JULY 10, 2017

Contrast this with a scenario that played out a few years back on my team. The next day, I decided I owed my team an apology. It’s been said that oftentimes our followers are more impressed with our weaknesses and failures than they are with our successes. Unhindered Teams Win. Authenticity Matters.

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Seminar Open-book Competitive Advantage Teamwork 141

Nathan Magnuson

MAY 18, 2015

Bravery is much easier with a team around you. A Good Team is Better than a Good Idea. Pixar president Ed Catmull shared that a bad team will ruin a good idea, but a good team will take a bad idea and turn it into a good one. Therefore, we must develop our teams. But it doesn’t have to be a solo experience.

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Godin Welch Bottom-up Seminar 120

Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Over the course of my career thus far, I’ve found that these twelve strategies for extraordinary teamwork not only make your team stronger, they have the power to significantly influence the culture of your organization if others begin to follow your example. “Who needs the information our team possesses?”

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Influence Construction Teamwork Library 120

Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 18, 2016

Build the Team. In The Secret of Teams , Mark Miller describes high performance teams as those that can function without the active presence of the leader. This obviously requires a lot more from both the leader and the team members. Empowering others means removing the barriers to their success, not ignoring them.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 21, 2014

I had the chance to travel to Greece and Bulgaria recently and give a series of leadership presentations to several university groups with a small team of business professionals. Each member of our small team presented a portion of the model. Let me tell you more about it. I’ll summarize it for you here below. Embody the Values.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 4, 2016

By now, succession planning routinely takes generational demographics into close consideration. So how does your organization or team address generational dynamics from a awareness perspective? Ask for input from your team. At the end of the day, the team with the best talent wins. Implement some of their ideas.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The first captures the successes, breakthroughs and positive elements of the event. team leaders). If your team is evaluating the performance, it may make sense to go deeper, but with a large group, simply say thank you. Here are several simple tips for performing high quality after action reviews. Ask the Two Key Questions.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At the bottom of the post I’ll include a link to an IDP template you can use for yourself or your team. Performance plans may be identical for all the members of a team whereas IDPs will probably be unique. I believe it’s essential to have a IDP if we want to reach our potential and see lasting success. What is an IDP?

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 4, 2015

Author Mark Miller and a team of facilitators walked a large group through the content of his new book Chess Not Checkers. In the early stages of most small organizations or teams, the rules are simplistic and team members may play interchangeable roles much like the game pieces in a checkers game. The boardgame imagery?

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Organization Workshop Outsourcing eBook 120

Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 1, 2016

Maybe there is also a resource (like a discussion guide) for participants to use with their teams once they return. For adults, their acquired knowledge and experiences provide a starting point – both successes and mistakes. Bottom line: Adults want to learn when the topic makes them more successful now. Problem-Centered.

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Education Learning-by-Doing Training Content 120

Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Asking Why Defines Success. But no one can win without first defining what success looks like. Success is derived from purpose, no matter how large or small the project or idea. Have you ever been on a team struck by the “good idea fairy?” People want to win. Asking Why Creates Decision-Making Criteria.

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 17, 2015

His main message was a poignant reminder: “If anyone here thinks you are too important to help one of the younger soldiers be successful, I’m here to tell you that you aren’t. It’s interesting to hear the success stories of successful people. And neither am I.

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 15, 2016

For servant leaders: Actively support and celebrate the success of others. Recruit a strong team, including people who are smarter or better than you. Work hard to promote trust and collaboration within the team and organization. Build a team with diverse viewpoints. Reward Personal Loyalty. Despise favoritism.

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Servant Leader How To Politics Loyalty 120

Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 26, 2016

5 Phrases Successful Leaders Use. You are only as good as your team. You’ve probably noticed that different generations think and behave differently at work. Don’t fall in the group that sweeps it all under the rug. Have a strong, productive discussion. In a very real sense, leaders speak their own common language.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

You may have gotten a new job or joined a new team. In fact, one of the great risks of being new to any group or team is appearing incompetent based on unfamiliarity with culture, relationships, processes, systems, policies, etc. In some cases, one careless comment can derail a successful career despite many other positive factors.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 7, 2018

Our president began by thanking Mark for his engagement in the program and leadership in his function and ended with a “proud to have you on the team!” Celebrating the success of others is definitely a “nice” thing to do, but if we think a little deeper, it has some real benefits for us as well. We qualify.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 7, 2014

No matter how sure you are of success, something could come along and derail it. Focus on lessons learned from both successes and failures. Win and lose as teams, not as individuals. The market changes, a new technology comes along, the weather fails to cooperate. That’s what sets those of us who would be leaders apart.

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 3, 2017

In the case of this particular leader, her stress transferred onto her team and her best team members eventually found opportunities in other organizations. The longer I go, I realize talent can be an overemphasized predictor of success. It is squarely your choice what time you go to bed and what time you get up in the morning.

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Stress Leadership eBook Long-term 122

Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 30, 2013

Whether you want to be a rock star, a better leader, or simply more successful, you’re getting nowhere without perseverance. When was the last time you hired a new person to join your team? Learn the 8 things Zig Ziglar identified that ALL people want. What a Rock Star Taught Me About Perseverance. Did you find the right person?

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 18, 2016

How They Communicate with Their Teams. This may be most clearly seen in professional football, where nearly every successful coach cut his teeth under a previous successful coach. One of the biggest frustrations to senior management is middle management who won’t make the tough decisions at their level.

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Education Leadership Middle Management eBook 120

Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

When you’re new to the workforce, enjoying leadership success can be a far off goal. You go from joining a team to leading a team to eventually leading a department or major organizational function. You go from joining a team to leading a team to eventually leading a department or major organizational function.

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Succession eBook Executive Coaching Resistance 120

Nathan Magnuson

MAY 19, 2014

Andy Stanley told about a successful business owner who went out of his way to mentor him in his formative years. SAP CEO Bill McDermott commented on the importance of finding out what is important to any new team before implementing sweeping changes. These were the highlights for me. Stories Connect.

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 6, 2015

It’s enough of a challenge to pause and celebrate success. Evaluate what went well as well as areas that could be improved to increase the likelihood of success next time. Your team needs it and so do you. It’s a lot easier to take the next steps when you’ve put your thoughts into words.

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Nathan Magnuson

JUNE 16, 2014

As you are successful, your influence will grow. The folks who are usually given the most authority are the ones who get along well with others, put the team before themselves, are good at making others look good and take an active role in developing the skills, capacity and confidence of the people around them. Then act on it.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 5, 2014

We send a work project around the team for peer feedback before submitting our deliverables. In all of these cases, the difference between good feedback and poor feedback can easily be the difference between success and failure. We collect engagement feedback from our employees.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 6, 2015

Other times, we need to involve a team. With success comes complication. Or perhaps a separate offsite or simply some time blocked off on the calendar. Just don’t assume it’ll “just happen.” ” Involve the right people. Some problem-solving is our responsibility. The key is how we respond.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 6, 2014

On the other hand, there are plenty of leaders who expect that the only way to be successful is for their followers to copy their methods. Imagine having your team take an assessment together and then everyone using the results to justify poor performance instead of high performance. That usually frustrates everyone.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Examples could include leading a new project, supporting a project on another team (or a joint team), doing a rotational assignment, attending a seminar, joining a professional association or networking group, completing a new certification, becoming a board member for a non-profit in your industry, or reading a book.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 28, 2013

You might consider an internal web page, a corporate email message, a newsletter article, or a memo encouraging supervisors to promote the program directly to their teams. Generally, the more communication outlets the better. Make sure to reference start dates and links to additional resources and points of contact.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

But what happens when a team or an organization hangs in the balance? It’s the candid sharing of our opinions and feedback (in appropriate ways) that provide enough input for the team to make informed decisions. Group think is dangerous, but it’s the status quo when team members are afraid to appear naive.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Just because an organization has a leadership development program doesn’t mean it’s successful, does it? Your HR or talent development team may be responsible for building the infrastructure and managing the projects, but they should never be the sole source of development. A recent Bersin study reported that U.S.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Attrition 120

Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 7, 2019

I bristled at first because I wanted to believe most of my success was self-made. So if you’re tempted, as I am from time to time, to pursue success on your own, stop to consider you may be taking a significant detour. An expert is someone who knows something you don’t know but you need to know in order to be successful.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In evaluating Mahomes’ historic rise to superstardom, Chiefs head coach Andy Reid often credited a portion of the success to the time Mahomes spent learning from Alex Smith. It’s unrealistic for most of us to expect Mahomes’ level of success so quickly in our respective careers. Empower Others and Share the Praise.

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