Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

With the arrival of this last month of the year, I’ve been finding myself in a mixed state of mental exhaustion and reflection, which considering the work involved in bringing my first leadership book out into the world alongside my regular workload is quite understandable. And it’s meant to be hard.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

Perhaps most interestingly is the fact that – as was the case for the my top leadership insight in 2016 – the top leadership insight I shared last year came from a piece that revolved around a personal story of mine and the lessons I learned of how to be more effective in how to lead and serve those under our care.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. The CEO had attended the session and from what I’d said he thought I might be able to help him with a VP who, though smart, dedicated, motivated, hard-working, and creative, was also a stubborn, opinionated, know-it-all. I was intrigued by this challenge.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 7, 2013

Home / Leadership Profiles / Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar. Leadership Profile: Zig Ziglar. January 7, 2013. Soon afterward Ziglar was promoted to the executive level and began giving motivational speeches on the side. ” “Positive thinking won’t let you do anything. by Nathan Magnuson.

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Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Empowerment Leads to Positive Customer Experience. Employees who are empowered to grant comps, issue upgrades, or simply answer customer questions are more engaged in their position, which leads to a more positive customer service experience. Leadership empower engagement' Worse, their frustration is understandable.

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Delegation Leadership Customer Loyalty Morale 229

Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 27, 2017

If you’re like the majority of the Western world, you’re probably motivated by greater and greater personal financial success, the yardstick most leaders use to assess their value. Each of us has a powerful need to positively affect the people and world around us. When leaders center on a noble goal, the positive shift is contagious.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JUNE 11, 2013

12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence: How Leaders Achieve Sustainable High Performance Brian Tracy and Peter Chee McGraw-Hill (2013) No so much “disciplines” as they are dimensions of a mindset The last time I checked, Amazon US sells 45,249 books that focus on business leadership. Why another?

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Chart Your Course

APRIL 29, 2013

Effective June 2013, all employees were required to work in the office. Focus on the positive. Use meetings and internal communications – emails, newsletters, flyers – to explain the changes in a positive light. This past February Yahoo!’s s fledgling CEO Marissa Mayer made her first misstep. was changing its telecommute policy.

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Chart Your Course

MAY 2, 2013

Depending on the tool used, job benchmarking provides the opportunity to determine the ideal Behaviors, Motivators, Acumen and Competencies that key talent should possess to be successful in the role. Copyright © 2013 TTI Success Insights. via Retain Key Talent and Reduce Turnover – TTI Success Insights.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Their impressive results reflect what can be accomplished when people transform their desire to pursue excellence into a way of thinking and being that makes the most of opportunities to promote positive change—a reminder that one of the greatest compliments we can pay someone is to encourage the pursuit of excellence in them and from them.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Others may say that a leader’s focus needs to be on how to motivate productivity. Perhaps it is some combination of them, some attainable format for effective leadership that requires work, certainly, but that also works. He is the top ranked leadership blogger by Huffington Post. I suppose it depends on whom you ask.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 5, 2016

To that end, as we make plans for what we’d like to achieve in 2016, here’s a look at my Top 10 Leadership Insights from 2015, insights that can help you to use your leadership to not only drive success in your organization in 2016, but create that kind of environment that will allow your employees to thrive under your care.

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Chartered Management Institute

JULY 19, 2013

It was Burns (1978) and Bass (1985) who first defined the terms ‘transformational’ and ‘transactional’ leadership to describe managers who are strong on individual and group motivation and those who prefer to focus on goals, tasks and processes. Thus a preference for transformational styles is a predictor for leadership effectiveness.

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Chart Your Course

AUGUST 20, 2016

In the 1940s and 50s, women represented a small portion of higher management positions, and this trend continued forward until the mid-1960s. Because of this deficit in female leadership, the culture of many companies is male-dominated. In fact, this is the first obstacle a potentially gender-diverse company must overcome.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? Dan McCarthy, from Great Leadership : “ 25 Tips for New Managers.”.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Home / Leadership / The Problem with Good Ideas. February 11, 2013. We don’t want followers who simply show up to do their work and leave, we want ones who generate ideas on their own and possess the motivation to see them through. When an organization’s guiding vision exists and is clear, good ideas drive positive change.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Racially-motivated comments (even when directed at your own race). Then take a look at the culture of the companies where you’ll be submitting an application, and ask yourself: Would my current online presence create a positive “second first impression”?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Why is positivity diminishing and hostility, stress, and depression increasing? When we over-rely on electronic communication such as email, we are unable to discern sincerity and hence we are uncertain of the other person’s motives. Individuals are consistently amazed that they’re not alone in wanting a positive, respectful climate.

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Marshall Goldsmith

MAY 26, 2014

Any human, in fact, any animal will tend to repeat behavior that is followed by positive reinforcement. The more successful we become, the more positive reinforcement we get – and the more likely we are to experience the success delusion. Our positive beliefs about ourselves help us become successful. I behave this way.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

JUNE 17, 2014

We met on Twitter after he gave me positive feedback about one of my blog posts. Federal employee chosen to manage a Government-wide executive development program and receive an invitation to the 2013 White House Youth Summit. It’s also what drove him to start his own company, GPS Leadership Solutions , and write an ebook.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

For example, what are the characteristics (or personality traits) of effective leaders, what do effective leaders do or what are process models in which the nature of the work is connected with the type of leadership that is effective? We’re not going to deal with all the approaches in this post – that would require a book in itself!

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When it comes to leading teams, the common focus in the leadership literature tends to be on team building; on answering the question of how do we rally people and get them on board and aligned with our company’s vision or long-term goals. It’s what we mean when we talk about bringing more humility to today’s leadership.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Nothing will drive an employee away or decrease their performance and motivation faster than poor management practices. While management focuses on control, organization, and supervision, leadership is the ability to inspire, motivate, and influence to empower others to create organizational success. Get to know them!

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Leading Blog

APRIL 29, 2020

We have to assume, as former CEO and Chairman of Aetna Ron Williams advocates, positive intent. We must assume that others are motivated by positive intentions. He writes in Learning to Lead that assuming positive intent is an “empowering strategy that disarms defensiveness and turns potential enemies into allies.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

How many times have you seen the wrong person in the wrong position because it’s easier to keep the status quo? Performance reviews become routine instead of being used to improve performance and reward truly exceptional execution. Too often the wrong people are kept in the wrong jobs, compounding problems.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

While much has been written about morale, which is closely linked with mood, the current common sense has little to offer beyond motivation and engagement work, both of which have proven to be largely ineffective. Traditional leadership wisdom treats mood as the dreaded ‘touchy feely’ soft stuff. Consider leaving a comment!

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 5, 2017

My co-workers and I didn’t understand why we had to be motivated to sell video game systems during the holiday shopping season, since that’s what we already enjoyed doing ( read more about it in this post from my blog ). During my junior year in college, I was running for leadership positions in my fraternity.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Durkin brings servant leadership to all that he does. He has been motivating others with his Word of the Week (WOW) since 2011 and has now compiled them in a single book, The WOW Book. His WOW chapter titled Leadership and People is on–target. He has positively impacted thousands of men in his coaching tenure.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Most companies make big investments in leadership development, rolling out intensive internal programs for high potentials, sending key leaders off to expensive executive education programs, or hiring personal coaches for those moving into key positions at the top of the company. Business is moving too fast. What works instead?

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2013

Pleasure evokes positive emotion. ” Find their pleasure, find their purpose, find their expected outcome, uncover their true emotional motives – and you will find their wallet. Copyright 2007-2013 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Ten Questions that Motivate Engagement and Drive Greater Accountability.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

It is also a function of managers to ensure that employees are happy and motivated so that they contribute positively on a long term basis to the organization. Be sure to check on their well-being and to provide positive encouragement and reinforcement as the process continues. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

A 2013 study published in the Journal of Leadership Studies finds that men and women see themselves as equal in relation to their political abilities. The political double bind also influences individual motivation and stress. Recent research does not support this idea. Same Game, Different Benefits. This comes at a cost.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2015

In decades past, the decision was easier, because a board seat was often a ceremonial position. With this new landscape in mind, here are four questions prospective board members should ask themselves before accepting a director’s position. If money is the motivating factor, a board seat is the wrong way to achieve it.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Back in 2007 I had the pleasure of participating a 16 week leadership coaching training course with an organization called the Center for Coaching Excellence (CCE). Since that time I’ve had the pleasure of coaching a handful of business executives/owners in an organizational leadership context. Assume and affirm noble motives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2018

In contrast to “transformational” and “authentic” leadership, which has been criticized for being fuzzy and wishy-washy , “fitness leadership,” as we refer to it, offers a more concrete approach. During 2016, employee engagement increased by 3%, to 75%.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 17, 2015

More than a year after its publication, I’m still reeling from the results of Gallup’s 2013 Global Workforce Study. Managing engagement requires new leadership skills. The question of how to motivate people in organizations has been of interest to scholars and practitioners since the time of Frederick Taylor.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 13, 2014

By 2013, GoPro, with a mission to “capture life’s most exciting moments,” has the best-selling camera in the world and around $1 billion in yearly sales. We’re naturally motivated to solve them. What’s the connection between poetry and great leadership? He then develops a video camera that debuts in 2007.

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