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What People Need From Their Leader In A Crisis

Lead from Within

Being a leader always comes with enormous responsibility, but being a leader in crisis adds significance and depth to that responsibility. One successful approach is to focus on the things people look to their leader to provide in a time of crisis. If you normally speak to your people once a month, do it weekly during a crisis.

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Why Consensus Kills Team Building | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. And as odd as it may sound, one of the greatest impediments to building productive teams is practicing management by consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality.

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Are You Ready for Recovery?

Leading Blog

A S a McKinsey & Company article stated in late March 2020: “What leaders need during a crisis is not a predefined response plan but behaviors and mindsets that will prevent them from overreacting to yesterday’s developments and help them look ahead.”. It naturally gives them the tendency to look ahead at or beyond the immediate horizon.

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The Importance Of Clear Communication, Even In Uncertain Times

The Horizons Tracker

” Maintain consensus across messaging – It’s inevitable that decisions will change when new information becomes available, but even then it’s important that messaging is consistent across leaders for employees to both understand the messaging and have faith in it.

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Your 2024 New Year's Resolution Check-In

Eric Jacobson

If you need another resolution to tackle this year or haven't yet selected one, now is a good time to review this list below.

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How to Rapidly Resolve Crises in Your Business

Great Leadership By Dan

You’ve assembled them because a new crisis has arisen in the business: it might be a risk to your best customer, a production shutdown, or a new product release gone terribly awry. In my experience, most leaders in this situation begin soliciting ideas from their team on how to resolve the crisis. What’s your first step?

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70 New Year's Resolutions For Leaders

Eric Jacobson

Perhaps write down five to ten and then between now and January 1, think about which couple you want to work on during 2024.

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