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Do You Love What You Do or Are You Living in New-Age Professional Hell?

Marshall Goldsmith

Summing it up in one sentence, she groaned, “I feel like a racy Ferrari that’s being asked to act like a Ford pickup!” Marshall Goldsmith Thinkers50 Video Blog' She was becoming frustrated with her life and was frustrating many of the executives who were running the firm. And, you can too!

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Building a Culture of Accountability

The Center For Leadership Studies

Many organizations use a “RACI” for this. A RACI is a chart that lays out each task involved in a project and who is responsible (doing the work), accountable (responsible for results), consulted (available for guidance) and informed (kept abreast of updates). Set clear expectations.

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Four Do’s and Don’ts for Leading Remote Teams

The Center For Leadership Studies

For each item, use a RACI chart to identify who will be responsible, accountable, consulted and informed. Record meetings to allow people to review portions at their own convenience. Follow meetings with succinct written summaries that confirm decisions, assignments and due dates.

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How to Keep Team Meetings on Track

The Center For Leadership Studies

Follow the “Responsible Accountable Consulted Informed (RACI)” chart. This distributes responsibility and ownership across the team, not allowing anyone “unnecessary” to be in the meeting, and ensures that everyone has a stake in accomplishing the purpose and objectives.

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Making Team Meetings Worthwhile

The Center For Leadership Studies

A great guide for who should be in the meeting is a RACI chart: Who is responsible for actions on the topic, initiative or project? It follows that a clear “why” of a meeting reveals the important “what” those in attendance will accomplish toward forward progress. Invite the right people.

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Manage The Challenges of Working In a Matrix

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Create a RACI chart. Create a decision-making model that identifies who will make which kinds of decisions (similar to the RACI chart – in fact this will be easier to do if you have created a RACI chart). What you can do: See beyond your own piece of work in the context of the bigger picture. Set up a communication plan.

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Employers Checking Social Media

Career Advancement

Weed through your old photos and remove anything too racy or inappropriate on social media. Google yourself to find out what comes up—like, for instance, an old profile on a platform you no longer use, or that blog of love poetry you started as a teenager, which you could simply delete.

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