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Create Commitment: 12 Habits to Build Agreement and Accountability

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Commitment is vital to effective teamwork, collaboration, and results. The answer is to build shared agreements – commitments – that move you from words to action. 12 Habits Great Teams Consistently Do to Create Commitment and Build Collaboration 1. The project may require a team.

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How Leaders Can Build Team Commitment – Fast

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Cultivate team commitment with answers to deep questions. You can accelerate team commitment by focusing on critical leadership behaviors that answer key questions your team is asking. Or maybe you’ve been assigned to an urgent project and you find yourself leading a new project team full of players who don’t know one another.

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Overcome the Great Resignation: How Great Leaders Put People Before Projects

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As the pandemic and uncertainty persist, we invite you to consider putting people before projects. We’re not saying people instead of projects. It’s people, then projects. As you get to know people, learn about their people, pets, and projects. Commit–to accountability and performance. Cultivate Curiosity.

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Setting Commit and Stretch Goals

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

A commit goal gives your team a clear target to aim for, while a stretch goal gives your team an incentive to go above and beyond. A goal setting technique designed to provide predictability and generate excitement and upside potential is setting commit and stretch goals. The commit goal is a promise of what will be delivered.

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Assessing Manager Commitment to Change

Change Starts Here

A recent article at Harvard Business Review titled, “Why Visionary Leadership Fails,” describes how it is counterproductive to teach managers how to lead change if they aren’t in fact committed to leading the desired change, project, or strategy.

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Are Your People IN? Ensuring Committed Energy in 2023.

Anese Cavanaugh

Perhaps you notice it while working on a project, having a conversation, or just in the general relationship. We've all experienced it, either within ourselves or with our teammates/leaders/direct reports: that feeling that something is off, or you just can't "feel them" fully in the game. It's not BAD.

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Stop Right There! 5 Phrases that Crush Collaboration and Tank Teamwork

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For example: “I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with.” It can trap the team in a “sunk cost fallacy,” escalating commitments to failing or suboptimal projects. And a few of our Powerful Phrases G.O.A.T.s work great here too.

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