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Turn on the Lights | Showing your team what winning looks like.

Lead Change Blog

Posted in Career Development Leadership Development Workplace Issues I am constantly amazed by the number of companies who feel it’s to their advantage to NOT have WRITTEN job descriptions or key initiatives for employees.

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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. What was the best part of your day?

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Celebrate Failure

Career Advancement

The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps.” When he came to me for coaching around innovation, he mentioned how fearful his team was in taking risks and possibly touching failure. I asked him, “What are you doing to celebrate failures?” Like many leaders, he had no answer. Like many leaders, he had no answer.

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How to Align Yourself (And Others) Up, Down, Sideways, And Diagonally on the Chain of Command to Improve Outcomes

Leading Blog

Y OU are likely being asked to “work things out at your own level” in your job more and more. You’ve probably asked your direct reports to work things out at their own level, too. You, your colleagues, and your direct reports are grappling with what I call “the authority conundrum.” What can you do?

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Losing Sight of These Three Things Will Tank Your Business

Strategy Driven

Take a good look around the company. Truth be told, it isn’t where your biggest brains work. Some of your best salespeople are the ones who partied too late, drank too much, and slept it off in their car. Some of your best salespeople are the ones who partied too late, drank too much, and slept it off in their car.

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What Are the Most Important Lessons You’ve Learned in Life?

The Practical Leader

Questions range from what your parents/grandparents were like, to favorite movies, books, and TV shows, first dates, sports played, or favorite toys. The answers are compiled over one year and can be published along with photos in a book for your family and future generations to read. It comes naturally to some.

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Some ideas for virtual team-building exercises

HR Digest

According to the State of Remote Work report , the biggest challenge for remote work, with 20% (a 3% increase from 2019) agreeing, has been on the communication and collaboration fronts and managing a team virtually. Therefore, you must keep everyone in your team well-connected and in the loop. Pictionary. Virtual Games.