Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Keeping your strategic objective constant, ask whether different tactics can lower the cost or raise the prospects of success. Listen: If you ask and don’t listen, you’re wasting everyone’s time. Then listen closely, actively. Listen for unexpected obstacles or unexplored risk.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2020

He introduced me to the best writer he knew and we developed a partnership that is now 15 years old. You talk about several tools ranging from questioning to body language to active listening that are important. What tactics can a leader use to type people and recognize what attracts them and what repels them?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Instead of tired practices like ‘active listening’ (whereby one is taught to parrot back what someone says, which only shows that you heard what was said, not that you understood), our teams must develop a new set of competencies in which they learn to clarify what they interpreted in a conversation, not what they heard.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 19, 2016

While creating successful teams isn’t as simple as mimicking the processes of emotionally intelligent groups of people, what you can do is create the necessary conditions in which team members can develop their emotional intelligence. Those three conditions are: trust among members, a sense of group identity and a sense of group efficacy.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 14, 2016

It’s necessary to listen using a different part of our brain (not Active Listening) that we’ve never been taught to use intentionally. I’ve developed them. I’ve developed a generic model that gives Facilitators the skills to facilitate change at the belief and systems levels. The Skills of Change.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2015

The sharing of trust and ideas leads to developing business philosophies. Many people do without the substantive insights into business because they have not really developed critical thinking skills. Planning, tactics, organizational development. The mentor is an advocate for progress and change. Culture and Mission.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2014

She recently received 360-degree feedback from colleagues that she needed to improve her listening skills. This confused her — she had always thought of herself as an active listener. Listening is a skill that enables you to align people, decisions, and agendas. Communication Leadership development Managing yourself'

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Today, Weaver’s mass-mailing tactics seem quaintly out of date. Be active listeners. Active listening isn’t just hearing and robotically responding to customer feedback; it’s also interpreting the intended meaning, and communicating that understanding to your customers.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2016

What distinguished successful from unsuccessful alliances was more of a “productive” irritation — creative tension between differing ideas about how to develop alliance products – reflected in disagreements about the strategy and tactics of how best to develop a particular molecule.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

This continual “confirmation of understanding” allowed Meade to better to communicate with his commanders and soldiers the tactics and strategies needed to survive the Confederate push. It might mean striking new business-development deals or forging new partnerships that previously would have been uncomfortable.

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Health Care Leadership Objective Active Listening 8

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 17, 2010

From that point on, loyalty means executing the decision as if it were your own.&# - General Colin Powell “Develop success from failures. Disagreement, at this state, stimulates me. But once a decision is made, the debate ends. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it.

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