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Team Leader as Team Coach

Leading Blog

This is a skill that includes clarifying, summarizing and active listening. Look and Listen Below the Surface. Remembering that here you are coaching the team as a whole rather than individuals, deliver the question openly, to the team. Avoid polling individual team members. What do you see?” Or “Does anyone else see that?”.

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Leadership Solutions Focus in Practice

Mike Cardus

Design by 12GrainStudio Leadership Solutions Focus in Practice Wednesday, November 03rd, 2010 Posted by: mike Working with a leadership team of 5 people including the COO of the organization. Skill in active listening and communication to peers, supervisors and direct reports. Powered by WordPress.

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Salespeople Need a Strategy for Selling to CEOs

Harvard Business Review

While the number of executives reporting to the CEO has doubled, only 35% of Fortune 500 and S&P 500 companies have COOs, who are responsible for integration across business units or functions. COOs once outnumbered CFOs in those firms, but not now. The onus is on you, not the buyer, to suggest constructive next steps.

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