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Too Many Ideas: How To Help Your Team Stay Focused and Creative [VIDEO]

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We’ve been growing so fast, it’s like the wild, wild west. Your book, Courageous Cultures, kind of scares me. We don’t actually need more ideas around here… we have too many ideas! Everybody’s bringing their ideas and moving in a gazillion directions. This way and that. We just need FOCUSED execution.

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How to Inspire Better Team Innovation: Cultivating an Idea Garden

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Here’s how it works: A Place for Every Idea : In this garden, no idea is too small or too wild. Accessible and Organized : Using project management software, this garden is not a wild thicket but an organized oasis. Ideas are cataloged, making it easy to revisit and nurture them when the time is ripe.

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How to Help Your Team Gain Clarity During Serious Uncertainty [VIDEO]

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And then, give them a chance to consider the wild cards. Day 3: How to Help a Team Member Position Their Wild Idea (That Just Might Work). Invite your team to consider, “what do we know for sure.” ” And then consider what questions we have (and where can we find the answers). Challenge 2: (you are here, see above).

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Leadership Perspective from Desert Island Donkeys

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They’d take care of injured donkeys, get them out of the wild, reduce their impact on the native plants, and animals, and reduce donkey-human conflict. There’s a petition that had more than 3000 people of the island’s population, which is only 20,000 people, to maintain Bon Air’s wild donkey population.

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Culture, Fit, and Employee Motivation Strategies

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And, a father, a husband, and a wildly curious learner who is dedicated to ensuring iconic brands become iconic companies.

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3 Characteristics That Could Be Preventing Your Good Team from Becoming Great

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If your good team’s results are the outcome of a deliberate strategy, well executed. Congratulations! Keep creating that clarity and focus on what matters most and support your team to get there.

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Pause for Effectiveness: 9 Powerful Times to Pause

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The phone rings, you pick it up. Great leadership? A pause can be more powerful. Speakers pause for effect. Great leaders pause for effectiveness. A powerful pause is a wildly under utilized leadership tool. Awkward silence creates opportunity. I’ve never regretted a pause. [.]

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