Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The story of my friend and mentee Kusum, Breaking Free from Social Comparison , talks about how several hours on Facebook got her into depression and impacted her career. It reminds me that I can achieve everything if I have the determination and my goals are reasonable. Whenever I feel low, I look back at all my achievements in life.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

In truth, those comparisons are a big part of the reason why so many of us struggle with insecurity. Keep the focus on your own situation, your strengths, your own goals, and you’ll never stray far from the right path. 2. Keep working toward your goals. 9. Comparisons breed resentment. What are your gifts?

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 26, 2014

Successful leaders are persistent; they relentlessly pursue their goals. In a recent post about business ups and downs, Michael Hyatt makes an interesting comparison of amateurs to professionals in baseball: Professionals aren’t smarter than you.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Without losing sight of the ultimate goal, we need to focus on the present and make adjustments as necessary. To help find clarity to your situation, find a close comparison. “By Degree #2: Navigate. Navigating is course-correcting in real-time. Together, navigation and anticipation help to keep the organization on an even keel.

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CO2

JANUARY 12, 2024

A study by the Center for Creative Leadership showed that organizations with strong coaching cultures reported higher revenue growth in comparison to their peers. Executive coaching aids in aligning personal values with professional goals, ensuring decisions are not just effective but also ethically sound and socially responsible.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Do less comparison shopping (we spend hours of time to save just a few dollars), or driving two miles out of your way to save ten cents on a gallon of gas. If your time goals are going well, reward yourself. Apps like Beeminder “takes $5 from your credit card for every goal you don’t meet.”. Account for your time.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 5, 2021

. “We showed that receiving negative feedback in an unrelated domain motivated consumers to spend more effort searching for product information if their search behavior was driven by the goal to identify the best option and prove their ability to make wise decisions (i.e., a proving goal),” the researchers explain.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, executive coaching is often likened to general business coaching, which is an incorrect and potentially dangerous comparison to make. Advantage 4: See Goals More Clearly and Purposefully. Goal setting needs an executive approach due to the fact that it can easily be mismanaged.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 21, 2016

There’s been plenty written about the issue of “social comparison motive” and its possible negative impact on mood and self esteem, and though I’m not here to say it’s all bad, social comparison motive certainly raises challenges for today’s leaders. Adjusting Expectations Ain’t As Easy As It Used to Be.

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HR Digest

MAY 13, 2023

ESOP and 401k comparison One of the biggest differences between ESOPs and 401(k) plans is how they are funded. The answer depends on your individual circumstances and goals. They can help you assess your individual needs and goals and recommend the best plan for you.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Then, you need to direct your thinking and feeling patterns, and the behaviors that result, to evaluating reality clearly, making the wisest decisions, and accomplishing your goals. It can guide the elephant deliberately to go in a direction that matches our actual goals. So how do our minds work?

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Make conscious, intentional choices about the direction of your growth and establish clear goals to shape the process. Once you’re feeling more at home with the distinction between your present and future selves, you can start to make more detailed comparisons and identify the areas you want to focus on. Measure your development.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In comparison, other people are motivated by moving “toward” things that they want to achieve, accomplish, or attain. They care about “how” and can be so focused on process and details that they may miss the bigger picture or alternative ways of accomplishing goals.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The research finds that successful crowdfunders often built upon ideas of previous projects that had just fallen short of their fundraising goals, with these seemingly more successful than ideas that built upon projects that had only marginally surpassed their goals.

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HR Digest

JULY 19, 2020

The performance management system helps an organization arrange its mission, goals, and objectives with the available resources. Nowadays, organizations ask supervisors to evaluate the Management of Performance outcomes of employees, focusing on SMART goals. Developing SMART Goals based on Job Duties. Management of Performance.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 15, 2013

Check your reference points to consider the motives—social comparisons and emotions—behind your decisions. Our decisions are biased by the comparisons we strategically choose in order to alter how we see ourselves." A change in framing can cause us to accept or abandon our carefully thought out goals and plans.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The goal is we need to do what matters most here. How will it improve the customer’s experience or your team’s efficiency or whatever the goal is, focus time on the outcomes they want to achieve. Let’s look at some things by comparison. And once they see and feel it, then their brain fires up.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 8, 2017

The comparison I use at parties and networking events centers around athletic coaching. Keep you focused on the goal. Also, coaching as a profession is very young – so most people don’t even know it exists. That’s why I sometimes get weird looks when I say I’m a coach. It’s kind of the same thing.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 31, 2024

The goal is to help doctors care for patients better and decide where to use medical resources when there’s a big viral outbreak. They also studied 342 healthy people (who were healthcare workers) for comparison. This is important because such outbreaks can quickly overwhelm local hospitals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Do everything you can to learn about the executive’s goals, competing priorities, decision-making styles, and political dynamics. Spice up your data with a strategic story , metaphors, or illuminating statisitcs with powerful comparisons. Underestimating the Audience. This isn’t easy, but it’s a worthwhile investment.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2021

My goal was clean and tidy, not immaculate—a mindset Mom didn’t understand. Social comparison—how we compare ourselves to others in terms of traits, skills, abilities, appearance, opinions, net worth, career, material goods, connections, and achievements. Mom took great pride in her reputation as an excellent housekeeper.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2020

Strategy, your plan to compete, is all about making the right bets to achieve your goals. It is the worth or the usefulness of something—that is, the perceived benefits in comparison to what you paid. For most companies, there is one fundamental bet. Originally, Microsoft’s big bet was on the personal computer itself.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 29, 2016

I don’t know where this type of comparison phrase originated, or even why it has become so popular; but it certainly has. And you have heard it many times: Breakfast is the new lunch. YouTube is the new TV. Sitting is the new smoking. I’ve got a new one for you today. September is the […].

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2017

Comparison is the opposite of contentment. Comparison is the enemy and it will destroy your contentment. Chances are, there are valid reasons why you set that goal. So, instead of repeating “things to do” ideas you may have read recently, let’s talk about things to stop that will improve your outlook beginning today.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 21, 2016

Recent research shows that strengthening willpower is the real secret to the kind of self-control that can help you resist temptations and achieve your goals. Our emotional desires seem like a huge elephant and our rational self is like a small elephant rider by comparison. What you need is more willpower!

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 29, 2021

Anything that can be systematized, can be repeated and this was our goal. I understand you feel like it’s an apples to apples comparison, but I’m struggling a little. Our goal is to move them to phone or video conference. The more you understand your own strengths and weaknesses, the better you’ll be in any negotiation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 31, 2021

An excessive amount of time on social media may take the place of healthier activities, such as in-person relationships or the achievement of personal and professional goals. There is also likely to be an element of social comparison that contributes to our worsening mental health. ” A worsening crisis.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

We can evaluate reality more clearly, make better decisions, and improve our ability to achieve goals, thus gaining greater agency, the quality of living intentionally. Here’s a quick visual comparison of the two systems: The autopilot system is like an elephant. How do our minds work? But we can train the elephant.

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HR Digest

AUGUST 18, 2020

A worker at 50+ and a worker at 25 will have different goals and needs. As such, it is essential to communicate with them the expectations, goals and missions that you need them to fulfill. Older workers need more benefits and security aids in comparison to younger workers. Communication is the Key. Value Life Experience.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2021

One way to achieve that goal is by offering your customers a premium service beyond comparison. As a business owner, you are undoubtedly looking for ideas to expand your customer base and increase your bottom line. In short, you should aim for excellence and provide nothing short of a first-class service to your customers.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2011

Set yourself 5 personal goals to achieve. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. If you can meet these simple goals for each project, then you will achieve total success. These goals are generic to all industries and all types of projects. The trick is to be focused.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 21, 2020

As a starting point, simpler frameworks make it easy to focus a conversation and align people around a goal. Uncertainty – Uncertain environments are typically ones where there aren’t a lot of historical precedents to draw on for comparison and guidance. Creating space gives you the opportunity to calm yourself and focus your efforts.

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HR Digest

JULY 19, 2020

The performance management system helps an organization arrange its mission, goals, and objectives with the available resources. Nowadays, organizations ask supervisors to evaluate the Performance Management outcomes of employees, focusing on SMART goals. Developing SMART Goals based on Job Duties.

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Lead from Within

JULY 10, 2018

Comparisons to others is a quick way to derail leadership. Refuse to measure yourself against anything but your own goals and expectations. They may or may not ever express it, but from time to time every leader asks themselves, “Am I measuring up?” If the answer is no, it’s likely a matter of self-doubt or lost confidence.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 6, 2022

As well as considering internal factors in your “press release”, you also examine the customer’s problem, how your solution can solve that problem, and the scale of the benefit in comparison to the current method used by the customer. Three things needed to scale.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 11, 2011

They were also more inclined to set stretch goals. While 44% of the subordinates of the Traditionalist group believed the organization would achieve its strategic goals, 60% of the subordinates of the Gen Y believed that would happen. All of those differences noted above were statistically significant.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

You change goals often, thus nothing gets done on time and your team is confused about where they’re headed. Being brief, angry, taking shortcuts or changing goals can create problems for you and your organization’s mission. You take shortcuts (or allow others to do so), causing quality of the work to be lowered.

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