Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 22, 2018

Being the leader is a big responsibility.” Over the years, I have thought endlessly about this quote and what it means. Fortunately, in my career, I was provided with examples of what this meant, not just from Matt, but from working with a number of strong leaders. Largely as a result of these “profile” employees.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 5, 2018

Managers often react emotionally when an employee gives notice. They either hire the wrong people, put people in the wrong roles, or fail to create an environment that inspires people and enables them to work together harmoniously. From top to bottom, employees have more options than ever before. Overemphasis on the interview.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 25, 2023

Situational Performance Ownership equips employees at every level with the skills they need to take a proactive approach to their development by applying Situational Leadership ® practices to identify and communicate their performance needs.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Empowerment is an important skill to learn as a leader. Unfortunately, these skills do not often translate into engaging with employees. Leaders who assume all of the business’s duties and responsibilities aren’t doing their employees any favors. Employees need to be engaged to be effective.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

If there’s one topic that continues to persist in the minds and radars of most leaders today, it’s the issue of employee engagement. Specifically, how do we go about fostering an engaged workforce when we have fewer resources, more competition, and need to accomplish more in less time.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 27, 2023

What Is Digital Onboarding? What Is Digital Onboarding? Digital onboarding introduces customers to your business and helps you engage with them online. Strategies for Successful Digital Onboarding Creating a seamless digital onboarding experience requires planning and focus in three key areas to be effective.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2012

Labovitz and Victor Rosansky: Rapid realignment is only possible when employees are energized to move the organization in a new and better direction. This energy comes when an employee is engaged, so let's take a look at what engagement is all about. Engaged Versus Aligned. How Leaders Encourage Engagement.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

What could go wrong? Others do not. What’s the differentiator? The winners make the shift from Founder to Leader. How do you avoid this fate? When you started out you had to do everything. There are things that only the CEO can do. Your singular focus has been to make it real. You started a company.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

The biggest shift a leader can make today is to stop looking to change their organization or others within it, and start to change themselves.” His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 27, 2013

Ironically, despite the reality that social media has become ingrained in the daily lives of both current employees and future workers, organizational leaders continue to overlook these important communication channels to connect, learn, and engage with those under their care.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 10, 2024

Join us in this cover story celebration of Liz Ryan, a change driver of the decade, as she unveils the secrets to creating workplaces where authenticity, trust, and innovation thrive. The HR Digest: How has your philosophy of empowering the workforce evolved over the years, and what impact do you believe it has had on modern workplaces?

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In today’s world of work where change happens fast, the first question analysts are most likely to ask a CEO is: “Do you have the right culture to succeed?”. So, what does this “winning culture” look like, and how is it achieved? These employees naturally understand the basic elements of the organization’s values, goals and ethics.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 30, 2017

Thankfully, there are organizations that are a delight to do business with, where employees go out of their way to help you—and help each other. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE? People keep their heads down to avoid doing something wrong and, as a result, avoid doing something right. What about your organization?

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

How can we get employees comfortable and even welcoming of this never-ending barrage of change? Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart, told us that he wanted the mantra from every employees lips at every store to be, “If we’re not changing today, we are in trouble.”

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 25, 2019

How do you ensure it’s the former, not the latter?” Jeff Grimshaw, Tanya Mann, Lynne Viscio, and Jennifer Landis collaborated to share their views on how leaders drive culture change. Jeff Grimshaw, Tanya Mann, Lynne Viscio, and Jennifer Landis collaborated to share their views on how leaders drive culture change.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 14, 2014

I have not sought out nor come across any empirical data set that proves this, nor do I plan to. Many people are not excited about the work they are doing everyday. The question then becomes, as a business owner, leader or HR manager, what should you do about it?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The reason this is such a great question is that I’ve witnessed far too many executives confuse vision and mission in terms of both definition and application. Just like an algebraic formula, business also functions according to rules governing order of operations. In fact, it is the corporate vision that should determine its mission.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 13, 2012

Key takeaways from the book include : Vertical alignment describes a condition in which every employee can articulate the enterprise's strategy and explain how his or her daily work activities support that strategy. Each department and team must be able to see a direct relationship between what it does and this overarching goal.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Adams is Chief People Officer at Qlik (NASDAQ: QLIK), one of the fastest-growing high-tech companies worldwide with nearly 2,300 employees in 30 countries. She has spent her career leading teams in Fortune 500 Human Resources organizations. Here is what she shared: [Tanmay Vora] Hi Diane, Congratulations for the new book.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 16, 2011

As we start a new year, leaders will once again ask themselves how they can engage their people – often asking employees to do more with less. Top performers will be more engaged when they receive constructive information about what they do well and what they need to improve.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 26, 2014

When organizations first start doing process improvement they use a myriad of ways to decide which processes to improve first, such as: IT bought some software and needs to install it, so let’s look at the current process first. A leader raised his hand and said, “I’d like to start with this one.”. How do you Build a Macro Map?

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Then Ayse asked us to describe what made us think of them as heroes. In return, these 15 would ‘pay if forward’ by doing the same thing for 15 others, for free. I was inspired to do this by the many great teachers and leaders who have so generously helped me – without ever asking for anything in return.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 30, 2015

And why do others often fail to be effective, or as successful as they should be? In their roles as consultants and executive coaches to many Fortune 500 companies, they offer invaluable job-saving advice on how readers can modify their behavior to get things back on track. . Behaviors That Can Hold You Back.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 23, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. These podcasts elaborate on the best practice and warning flag articles on the StrategyDriven website.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In today’s fast-paced, unprecedented, and unpredictable economy, many executives simply don’t know what to do. In today’s fast-paced, unprecedented, and unpredictable economy, many executives simply don’t know what to do. Executives, especially CEOs, need something better.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Leaders already know that keeping their teams motivated, engaged and driven to succeed is a demanding task in itself. But in today’s world it’s even harder, because leaders have to keep their people engaged while responding to huge, disruptive changes in how we work and what we care about in the workplace.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Social Nation : How to Harness the Power of Social Media to Attract Customers, Motivate Employees, and Grow Your Business by Barry Libert It’s time to join Social Nation and prosper!

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We have identified dozens of S&P 500 CEOs who have what we call “serious leisure” interests. Does serious leisure make you a better leader? We searched for public information on the hobbies of CEOs whose companies were in the S&P 500 index at the start of 2018.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 8, 2013

The following is a guest post by Employee Recognition Director at Hallmark Business Connections, Jonathan McClellan. In my experience, the most effective long-term engagement strategies build a foundation on which front-line managers feel empowered to create an environment that promotes employee enrichment.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When employees, coworkers, or supervisors have to spend their time tracking you down for clarification, rather than getting the communication from you that they need, productivity falls and creativity is stifled. Sales were declining, bankruptcy rumors were swirling, and employee morale had never been lower.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

When employees, coworkers, or supervisors have to spend their time tracking you down for clarification, rather than getting the communication from you that they need, productivity falls and creativity is stifled. Sales were declining, bankruptcy rumors were swirling, and employee morale had never been lower.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 6, 2020

Even Moses had a reputation as a micromanager who couldn’t give up control or delegate; his father-in-law Jethro telling him “This thing you are doing is not good – you will surely wear away you and those who are with you”. What are the enduring qualities of great leadership? As God lives, for every letter that comes to me, it is read.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 6, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Today, she runs a multi-million-dollar firm with over 4,000 different items for sale, but the most interesting aspect of the company is its employees. Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

More than 100 studies have now found that the most engaged employees — those who report they're fully invested in their jobs and committed to their employers — are significantly more productive, drive higher customer satisfaction and outperform those who are less engaged. So what's the solution?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2015

Soon after, I asked Gallup to conduct an engagement survey of our leadership to assess the level of personal commitment employees felt toward the organization and its goals. It’s an important thing to measure because companies with higher rates of engagement have been shown to meaningfully outperform those with low engagement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

This doesn’t just mean men and women who run large global enterprises, Fortune 500 behemoths, film studios, and media platforms. 43% of employees work in organizations with 50 or fewer people. It can be extremely disruptive if two out of twenty employees suddenly can’t work together and need to be separated.

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