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Balance your Workload on High-Visible Projects

Career Advancement

She was striving to increase her visibility by taking on high-profile projects. She’d taken on two new projects that made up nearly half of her workload. You’re working to increase your output and the caliber of projects you carry out, building visibility and influence while excelling in your current job. Eat a healthy snack.

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Help Your Team Shift from Busy to Productive

Let's Grow Leaders

What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? 03:36 How do we practically ensure your team’s busy day is worth it?

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Are You Falling for the Myth of "Failing to Plan is Planning to Fail"?

Great Leadership By Dan

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2%

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Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

Let's Grow Leaders

12 Habits Great Teams Consistently Do to Create Commitment and Build Collaboration 1. You can help your team avoid endless discussions, analysis paralysis, and chokepoints by moving conversations to intentions to specific actions. Related Article: Help Your Team Do More-Stop (over) Talking and Start Doing 2.

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Resourcefulness Matters: How to Help Your Team Be More Resourceful

Let's Grow Leaders

7 Ways to Encourage Your Team to Be More Resourceful. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down.

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Five Meaningful Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged

Next Level Blog

If you’re a leader who needs to attract and retain great talent, you have a huge stake in your team members answering, “Yes,” to both of those questions. The third P is for Plan – what’s the plan that will create the picture that fulfills our purpose? What else helps in keeping your team engaged? Great leaders do too.

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Switching Sides: Career Change Steps to Consider Before Your Big Move

HR Digest

Handling a career is overwhelming on its own but pairing it with a career change tips the balance into new, unexplored territories that are downright terrifying. But change is necessary sometimes, whether you’re burnt out by your current career path or you want to pursue a passion that was left unattended for a long time.

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