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Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

Let's Grow Leaders

Commitment is vital to effective teamwork, collaboration, and results. One of the most frustrating aspects of teamwork is the feeling of futility – of spinning your wheels. In high-performing teams, accountability isn’t just the manager’s job—the team holds one another accountable (and their manager too).

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Helping Leads to Successful Careers

Let's Grow Leaders

Individualized performance management systems Hidden agendas History and scar tissue Politics Expectations of reciprocity Burnout… And yet, helping is the biggest predictor of team success. Research also shows that genuine helping improves careers. Culture grow your career Adam Grant Give and Take giving helping teamwork'

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7 Effective Leadership Skills Every New Manager Should Know

Lead from Within

Becoming a new manager is a significant step in your career journey. To succeed as a new manager and lead your team to excellence, you’ll need to hone specific leadership skills. In this blog, we’ll explore seven essential leadership skills that every new manager should know and cultivate.

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How to Find Your Dream Career

Strategy Driven

If you aren’t fulfilled in your career, you can start to feel burned out, anxious, and depressed. This is why finding a career that you love is so important, whether it’s a medical career or a career path in law, architecture, teaching, or music. Most people don’t accidentally fall into their dream jobs.

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LeadershipNow 140: April 2023 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2023 that you will want to check out: The Magic of Assuming Positive Intent by @Julie_WG How Magic and Happiness Impact Leadership by @DebbieLaskeyMBA A Conversation You Should Have about Grit with Your Teens by @TimElmore How To Be A Great Team Player by @davidburkus Successful People Skills: How to Deal With (..)

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10 Management Lessons from Dragon Army

Lead Change Blog

Science fiction writer Orson Scott Card paints a marvelous portrait of people management, vividly contrasting what motivates and what demoralizes, and what creates excellence versus lackluster results. Author information Leigh Steere Co-founder, Managing People Better, LLC—a management research firm/think tank.

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Understanding and Managing Employee Turnover

HR Digest

Poor management: Employees who feel that they are not supported, heard, or valued by their managers are more likely to leave an organization. Limited career growth opportunities: Employees who feel that there are no opportunities for growth, learning, and advancement within an organization are more likely to leave.