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10 New Year’s Resolutions for the Servant Leader

Lead Change Blog

My historical method, and the process I’ve started for 2014, has been to create a plan – complete with goals, strategies and tactics. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. She said, “If [.] Mark began writing about a decade ago.

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When Work Has Meaning, The Culture Changes

Great Leadership By Dan

This is the most significant finding from the Hawthorne Works research: Making team members and teams feel valued as well as helping them find meaning and purpose beyond their own tactical skill application boosts employee well-being and productivity. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Weekly Round-Up: On Leaders, Change Management, & Collaborative Workplaces

leaderCommunicator

New eBook: 5 Essential Strategies and 7 Must-Do Steps to Harmonize Change in Your Organization By LaMarsh Global Like an orchestra without a conductor, an organizational change that lacks (or has weak) strategy and tactics, can sound, feel and look like singular instruments playing out of sync with each other.

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Delegating Work and Tasks = Effective Leadership

CoachStation

Peers and bosses may even admire your willingness to keep “rolling up your sleeves” to execute tactical assignments. Resources: (1) 7 Tips for Letting Go as a Manager: Blanchard LeaderChat. (2) Red flag No. 7: You claim you don’t have time to delegate or train someone. (4). It’s always a choice. Keep growing and enjoying!

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Master Your Motivation

Skip Prichard

She’s an expert in motivation, a bestselling author, and a senior consulting partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies. She outlines how to rid yourself of failed motivational tactics and shares ways to go beyond discipline, willpower, and goal setting. Susan Fowler is a thought leader on discipline and self-leadership.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

I first saw this term used in the book Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard. Apple Customers say “Heck, Apple might need to change some Chinese employment tactics, but no way am I giving up my iPhone!”. Having customers consistently be raving fans of the company’s service is certainly a challenging and lofty goal. About the Author.

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Loud and Clear: Six Tips for Communicating in a Way That Truly.

Strategy Driven

Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! While I think I’ve come a long way on that journey, I never fully understood what it takes to be a world-class communicator until I read Nancy Duarte’s Resonate. Thanks, Nancy!” Someone has incorporated the power of story into presentations!”

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