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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share Team Building Ideas

Let's Grow Leaders

You may discover that your team is nothing more than a committee in disguise. A bigger part of it is developing an understanding of the system within which those people must operate and adjusting that system to the people on the team. If so, now you’ll know exactly how to correct course. Follow Susan. Follow Jesse.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

Find HR’s hand (in a good way) in everything as an enabler and contributor to operations flowing all the way through to customer/client satisfaction. With a diverse background in human resources, information technology, and operations, his business and leadership acumen is only exceeded by his commitment to making others better.

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Why Many Planning Sessions Are a Waste of Time and How to Fix Them

The Practical Leader

Hmm…oh, oh… Looking at the typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 project/operational presentations/reviews and updates. The session focused on operational and tactical issues. Nap by PowerPoint. How do you know?

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3 dysfunctional behaviors leaders use to avoid discomfort

Skip Prichard

Most of us use appeasing at least some of the time—for example, when you don’t want to let someone down when they ask you to work on a project, be on a board, volunteer for a committee, or do whatever with them. When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic.

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The Big Picture of Business – Visioning Scope: Applying Vision Toward Your Organization’s Progress

Strategy Driven

Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Sales is a tactic, one of dozens of tactics which an organization must pursue. Tactics feed into objectives, which feed into goals, which feed into strategy, which feeds into Vision. The Visioning committee should represent all strata of the firm.

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The Big Picture of Business – Ethics… Good for Business

Strategy Driven

Corporate Responsibility is more than just a statement that a committee whips together. Corporate Responsibility means operating a business in ways that meet or exceed the ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations that society has of business. It is more than a slogan or rehash of a Mission Statement.

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10 Ways to be a More Strategic Leader

Great Leadership By Dan

Future focus: You constantly consider how the conditions in which your group and company operate may change in the coming months and years. Develop a thick skin, or otherwise accept a role as a tactical leader. Volunteer to serve on a strategic planning committee of a community organization or non profit board.

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