Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

When you identify what’s possible, it creates hope, energy, and excitement. You don’t have the time, people, money, and energy to pursue every opportunity that’s identified. Define the metrics you will use to measure progress. Deal with the immediate issues before addressing the bigger question— W hat’s possible going forward?

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Process Leadership Tips Open-book 279

Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2019

What matters to the average worker includes career opportunity, meaningful work, a balanced life, a fair wage, and being treated with respect—not increasing output. As a leader or manager, you have to attend to the goals of your board or bosses and to the career aspirations of your workers. A Solution in Four Words.

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Consultative Career Goal Metrics 203

Strategy Driven

MARCH 10, 2021

The harsh reality is that few entrepreneurs become successful in their careers, irrespective of whether you use money or popularity as metrics to measure success. Success is a metric you can measure through different metrics. Let’s face it: everyone wants to be a ‘successful’ entrepreneur. Conclusion.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 20, 2016

But I’ve done enough diagnosing, supporting, and helping to transform careers over the years that I’ve seen some consistent patterns. The minute people begin to think you’re more interested in your career than the organization’s mission you’re sunk. Non Stop Energy. Relentless Self Promotion.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. It started with a question from my husband about a career after kids. Whitney also writes that showing up is the most important metric of all. What are you choosing now?

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2023

The oilfield services market has been booming due to the growing energy demand. Service providers must establish key satisfaction metrics and present them to the producer on every job. They also offer specialized expertise in engineering, procurement and construction. Visit [link] to learn more about oilfield support services.

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Short-term Industry Technology Long-term 79

HR Digest

JANUARY 12, 2024

Figuring out how to inject energy and passion back into the workplace and work will be key. Shanelle Reese, Chief People Officer, Wonderschool The Talent Turnaround 2023 witnessed a seismic shift in the tech landscape, with unprecedented levels of turnover fueled by layoffs, career changes, and a resurgent job market.

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Leadership Diversity CPO Career 109

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Joan’s voice broke with emotion as she talked about her growing health problems and the steep price her family has been paying for her “successful career.” Problems arise, however, when the metric becomes the only measure of success, when what you achieve is no longer tied to WHY you set out to achieve it in the first place.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2015

He mastered these four career hacks before he turned 25. Scott Mautz of the Make It Matter blog helps us discover a formula that expresses how an organization’s energy is derived, and provides the four questions leaders can ask themselves to avoid sapping precious energy from the quest for breakthrough results.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 20, 2015

Monitoring : Leaders are accountable for delivering team goals, so they track team progress against set metrics and milestones. Promoting : Leaders advance their team members’ careers by positioning them for growth. Clearing : Leaders help people overcome the roadblocks they face at work. Delivering. Developing.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 30, 2015

He didn’t like the metrics I reported on my assignment. Maybe I think I am performing at the same energy level as him but he differs. At first, such immediate actions will result in more anxiety and frustration but they will also activate your fighting mode for survival which will boost your energy to find a better way of living.

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Comparison Absenteeism Metrics Energy 150

QAspire

DECEMBER 30, 2020

I began 2020 with a firm plan to execute a significant mid-career transition that involved voluntary movement out of a rewarding senior leadership role, relocating family, reuniting with my parents and (hopefully) start new assignments. Over stimulation can drain our energy and affects our overall well being. My 2020 Story.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Yet there’s been nothing traditional in sales for the past 15 years thanks, in part, to women making it a successful career path. Yes it is — if you learn how to leverage this new talent by focusing Gen Y behaviors on business goals and setting metrics for results. A few keys: Keep a career plan within their vision.

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Management Media Learning-by-Doing Fashion 187

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

On the equity and inclusion side, like so many people of color (I am Japanese-American), I’ve faced and had to overcome challenges in my pursuit of excellence in my career. Creating equitable opportunities for all is where we are spending a lot of our attention, energy, and resources.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

They can make a job exhausting and confusing, eating up energy that could be better spent enjoying life beyond the nine-to-five. With leadership training, managers can study the core competencies they need to adapt and grow for their entire career. Most of us can say we have worked with a bad boss before.

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Middle Management Training Management Leadership 52

The Center For Leadership Studies

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Elusive Energy–Work-related stamina is declining. Plummeting Productivity–Work-related metrics are trending downward. Very few, regardless of how far they have advanced in their careers, become experts in self-care or mental health. customers, supervisors, colleagues). Sleep habits have changed, and not for the better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When you equip your managers with the essential skills to avoid these mistakes, you’ll achieve results more quickly, have more nimble teams, reduce turnover, build a strong culture, and be able to focus everyone’s energy on serving your customers with better products and services, rather than constantly dealing with internal friction.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 30, 2020

Casting one’s mind back to the days when companies used to follow the mantra laid down by economist Milton Friedman and focused their energies solely on maximising the returns for shareholders, and it seems an altogether different era. Some of these have considerably more merit than others.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

To make it worth their money, it makes more sense to have everyone return so they no longer have to invest energy in employee engagement for work-from-home employees in addition to those in the office. For them, it does make logical sense to have everyone in one palace rather than support their work-from-home setups.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2018

We are now in the era of “do-it-yourself” career development. Unfortunately, organizations today are unknowingly leaving employees with skill gaps and blind spots that can derail careers and organizational effectiveness. Here are six things you can do to take control of your own career. Drawn Ideas/Getty Images.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Numerous times during my high-pressure career as a broadcast journalist, I worked with people who were extremely toxic and had no bones about spreading their negative mood around. This metric assesses how likely you are to step in to help others when they may be falling behind in their work or need a listening ear.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

But there’s another person who often has just as much influence over your career: your boss’s boss. ” Show that you care about your company and that you are serious about your career. Your supervisor still has the greatest influence over your career. Your relationship with your boss is critical to your success.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 3, 2015

That’s what they have done for most of their careers. (2%). The mentor becomes a role model, offering insights about their own life-career. The Big Picture of Business – Doing Your Best Work on Deadlines: Mobilizing the Energy for Best Business Success. The mentor is an advocate for progress and change.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The implication is that women "choose" to gear down their careers in favor of work-life balance. And there are some short-cut metrics at each level to evaluate how we're doing. Key Metric: birth rates. Key Metric: the divorce rate. Men are increasingly sharing in this guilt. This is nonsense.

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Energy Balanced Scorecard Metrics Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Do you rely heavily on objective metrics such as your job title, the size of your bank account, or the colleges your children are getting into? Subjective factors such as making a difference and working with a good team in a good environment came up frequently in leaders’ definitions of career success.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

Being a founder has a profound impact on your career because it provides a relevant, observable, and hard to imitate signal (the three characteristics of strong reputation signals) of your leadership capabilities. Career Benefits of Entrepreneurial Activity for Individuals in Paid Employment: An Application of Signaling Theory.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The four well researched core emotional intelligence metrics of: Self-Awareness, Self-Management, Social Awareness and Relationship Management are directly correlated with successful or failing leadership. You don’t waste time and energy shining up your image. See and seize opportunities for contributing to the greater good.

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Self-aware Emotional Intelligence Construction Competitive Advantage 50

Strategy Driven

JUNE 20, 2011

Unusually Excellent is a back-to-basics reference book that offers both seasoned and aspiring leaders a framework for understanding and a guide for applying the battle-tested fundamentals of leadership at every stage of their careers. The right metrics will serve you in enormously useful ways. In other words, it’s a fancy way to lose.

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Team Leadership Venture Capitalist Objective 50

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

They fail to assess each subordinate's ability to operate independently and don't put in place the "eyehooks" of implementation — the check-ins, milestones, and metrics — that promote predictable execution. And they forget that there are times when they need to get directly involved to get a major initiative back on course.

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Delegation Micromanagement Learning Curve Metrics 17

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2011

But it's important to know the difference between a one-time error in judgment and a decision to pursue a critically flawed strategy — in fact, your future career may depend on knowing the difference. Gather more information and improve your metrics. Move quickly, before your energy runs out. Move quickly.

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Strategy Metrics Restructuring Finance 15

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 5, 2018

The leader is the outside force that provides the acceleration – the energy that propels the business forward. On the other hand energy is our friend, helping us to push our way ahead. I became an energy conduit, inoculating my teammates from falling prey to complacency and injecting excitement and a desire to constantly improve.

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Leadership Energy Metrics Stress 171

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2015

Too many people limit their happiness and success by assuming that taking time off from work will send a negative message to their manager and slow their career advancement. A positive, engaged brain improves important business metrics. It’s good for you, and your career. Photo by Andrew Nguyen. It simply doesn’t.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

That's why I think the best thing we can do is to lead by example by making this not the focus of our energies, which I personally believe is more decisive than anything, and demonstrate instead how much more we thrive when we openly embrace and utilize our inherent diversity to our advantage. Personally, I am not affronted.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2017

It may be to do a favor — say, a friend asks you to advise his sister-in-law on career opportunities. But by using the approach above, you can create your own metrics for success and potentially develop life- and career-changing connections.

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Long-term Learning-by-Doing Goal ROI 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 10, 2018

We are approaching the pursuit of work-life balance with the same obsessive (and oppressive) energy as we do our careers. It seems likely that the values driving us to be workaholics in the first place are also encouraging us to “optimize” ourselves by using metric-driven “hacks.”

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Stress Metrics Morale Goal 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 8, 2018

We need a metric for humanity to evaluate the human capacity and connection among caregivers and patients. A mentor told me early in my career that only 20% of healing involves the high-tech stuff. Develop metrics around technology deployments that are noted above. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Health Care Metrics Technology System 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2014

This process is no longer reliable; it has turned income inequality into career opportunity inequality, and recruiters are losing opportunities to tap a wider talent pool. Saberr pays attention to applicants’ core values and specific behavioral traits, in order to create a metric mapper – the main element of their data-driven HR Strategy.

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