Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It’s the critical foundation for creating an environment where your team members can flourish, be engaged, and exercise their creativity and innovation to achieve their goals and those of the organization. Most people are forgiving when small, inconsequential commitments are dropped. For leaders, trust is a must.

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CO2

JUNE 14, 2023

In an attempt to expedite progress, you may be tempted to take complete control, micromanaging every aspect and excluding your team from important decisions. Encourage them to find the right balance between work commitments and personal life to achieve fulfillment and avoid burnout.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 26, 2023

People management encompasses a range of responsibilities, from recruiting and onboarding to training and development, performance management, employee engagement, and more. By developing strong people management skills, leaders can create a work environment where employees feel motivated, engaged, and committed to their roles.

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Brigette Hyacinth

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A toxic company culture will erode an organization by paralyzing its workforce, diminishing its productivity and stifling creativity and innovation. Micromanaging -Little to no autonomy is given to employees in performing their jobs. Develop a plan and follow through. 10 Signs your workplace culture is Toxic.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 18, 2019

Happy people are more creative, innovative and dedicated than their unhappy counterparts. When you do, they feel better connected and more committed to its mission. Refrain from micromanaging. When you’re tempted to micromanage, remember why you hired your team and trust them to make the right decisions without interference.

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Leading Blog

MAY 25, 2016

He describes it as a “commitment to taking care of one another at all times but especially in adversity or times of need.” Only a committed leader can keep an organization—a bureaucracy—on its toes, continuously adapting, innovating, improving.” Gates cautions that while micro-knowledge is necessary, micromanagement is not.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2021

When data is sufficiently large, it is utilized to train algorithms that predict talents and capabilities; screen performance; set and survey work outputs; link workforce to various state of emotions; provide training and development; search for patterns across various teams; and more. How does AI become key to this dynamic?

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 20, 2019

It’s the critical foundation for creating an environment where your team members can flourish, be engaged, and exercise their creativity and innovation to achieve their goals and those of the organization. Most people are forgiving when small, inconsequential commitments are dropped. For leaders, trust is a must.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Develop employee work performance metrics. There is a need to develop metrics that account for employees work performance. Rather than running a micromanagement system, give room for a management that’s more liberal. With objective management, employees are forced to be innovative as well as creative in their operations.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

They’re everywhere, it seems, and their micromanagement cuts off all the oxygen to productivity. Delegating is an art, and the best leaders are those who give their teams the freedom to innovate and the structure to work together at peak performance. Develop stress-management skills if you need them, and help others do the same.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 27, 2022

New relationship allows GP clients to integrate Situational Leadership ® course with existing comprehensive leadership development solutions. Providing direction is great, except when it’s perceived as micromanagement. For example, empowerment is great, except when it’s perceived as abandonment.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Tactical agility enables employees at all levels to take smart risks, capture opportunities, improvise and innovate as they execute a clear strategy. Thus, this mindset must be deliberately developed and nurtured by senior leaders – and exemplified in their own behaviors. Agility requires specific experience, knowledge, and commitment.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Most leaders we work with are passionate, committed, intelligent and dedicated. Open dialogues between leaders and their colleagues around how to continue to grow and develop can make even monotonous work engaging. There are innovative ways you can build a culture of celebration. The following is a guest piece by Amy Brann.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

If you’re willing to make these investments, you’ll be rewarded on the back end in dividends of engagement, commitment, and loyalty. Completely distributed teams working from home mean that you couldn’t micromanage even if you wanted to. Is it possible to develop empathy? A key to developing curiosity is inquiry.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 29, 2011

If you are going to maximize your organization’s performance you have to make a conscious, binding top-down management decision and commitment to develop a no nonsense approach to retention. Identify the prima donnas and micromanaging control freaks, the whiners, complainers, and blamers. Find out what’s wrong and fix it!

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 25, 2015

Make firm commitments with yourself to maintain good habits— because with new positions come stress and with stress comes anxiety. Use processes that work for you; develop systems that meet your needs and make your life easier. Work with your team to develop a road map of its mission, purpose, values and roles. Stay In Shape.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 24, 2016

The answer to excessive micromanaging , we’re often told, is to learn to trust our reports, empowering them to make decisions for themselves. Would you task a young protégé with generating the main strategy for a new real estate development — only two days before a big presentation with investors?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

employees feel engaged at work; that is, only one of three workers brings a consistently high level of initiative, commitment, passion, and productivity to their job. You might feel micromanaged or that company leaders don’t know or care about your learning and growth. According to a 2017 Gallup survey , only one-third of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The UK’s Department for International Development uses “results-based” aid to improve the educational outcomes of young girls in Africa and Asia. recently announced that its members are committing to transform 75% of their contracts into pay-for-performance models by 2020. Consider these examples: Education.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2011

In misguided attempts to boost productivity and direct innovation, managers can kill both creativity and passion — the intrinsic motivation required to stay deeply engaged in work — by destroying people's autonomy. The VP of R&D killed my new hand-held mixer three times before it was approved a couple weeks ago. Would you sign?

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LDRLB

MAY 13, 2014

I had the energy and motivation, you know what it’s like to commit mentally and emotionally. I like to tell people that no interns are being harmed in or even used in the developing the model that I share. They are very good at coming up with innovative solutions to problems. That’s why I wanted to write it.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

Skill development is clearly a major priority for companies and managers these days. Consider, for instance, the talent development program at Ascom, a global telecommunications company. While delivering millions of dollars in profits, these projects have helped develop a cadre of leaders who can inspire teams to achieve big goals.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Building alignment and commitment to the firm’s strategy (in particular, by emphasizing empathy as much as urgency). Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Having something to work towards, aspire to achieve and commit wholeheartedly to is how people turn ideas into reality and make things happen. When people feel like they’re being included in the process and that their input and hard work are valued, it helps to grow their passion and commitment to what they’re a part of.

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