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Leaders Focus on the Trends, Not the Data Points

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One of the reasons annual performance reviews suck so much is that they too often deal in data points, not trends. In the absence of any meaningful thought or preparation, whatever happened recently suddenly becomes a trend. A data point does not a trend make. A data point is exactly that – it’s a data point, not a trend.

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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

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Doing that puts them ahead of competitors who don’t by identifying new opportunities to leverage and avoiding being blindsided by emerging trends. Whether it’s at a personal or organizational level, keeping the receipts of your patterns, trends, and outcomes can yield valuable insights upon further review.

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How to Get Your Team to Think Like You

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It’s interesting to me how trends come in waves when I coach executives. Lately, the trend has been leaders asking, “How do I get my team to think like me?” The question has come from members of senior leadership teams, individual senior executives, and mid-level leaders.

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How to Lead with Influence Instead of Authority

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One of the things you read most often about the effects of the pandemic is that it has accelerated trends that were already in play by about 10 years. That trend was predicted for years and, now, suddenly, it’s a reality that will likely permanently alter the way work gets done in organizations.

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Three Simple Ways to Take the Big Picture Perspective

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Spend some time each week to learn something new about trends in technology, business, politics, society, the arts and other domains unrelated to your daily work. What action steps or opportunities do those trends suggest for you? What interests you? Second, get in the habit of asking yourself, “Will this matter a year from now?”

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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

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A good way to do this to play back some of the input they provided in the discovery interviews and give them space to elaborate on the trends in that input. Ask the principal officer for their thoughts on goals for the day and then solicit early input from others. That means limiting the work to no more than 2 or 3 big topics for the day.

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New Year, Same Boat?

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It’s natural to hope that things are going to be immediately better as the calendar turns from one year to the next but, of course, the trends that were already in play didn’t magically evaporate at midnight, December 31. It’s a new year but it feels like we’re in the same boat as we were a few weeks ago when it was still 2020.

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