Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For all that people complain about meetings, they’re still one of the best ways to share information, gain consensus, assign accountability, and get things done. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. How to Succeed as A New Leader. How to Succeed as A New Leader. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 9, 2024

Managing change in the workplace is no easy task considering the innumerable ways a company has to keep adapting to shifting circumstances. The best change management strategies are often the ones that are adopted through a consensus at the organization, where all those affected also benefit, or at the least supported by, the change.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Decide together how the team’s work will be done. Be concise but make sure the essentials are clearly defined: how often the team will connect and meet and who will manage the agenda, how delays and snags will be handled, and how people working from outside the team will be managed. Ask your team.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Conflict management fostering healthy debates and reducing dysfunctional arguments or participants shutting down. Clarity about whether decisions/actions for each agenda item will be by command, consultation, or consensus. Skilled leaders that know how to keep things on track and focused. How’s your meeting leadership?

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Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2024

Here are my top recommendations: Encourage Dissent and Debate: Instead of seeking consensus, encourage healthy dissent and open debate within your team. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. These approaches ignite creativity and foster positive change. Make it clear that diverse viewpoints are not only accepted but valued.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

You’ll learn plenty more about what it means to burn the boats, how to unleash your full potential, and how to tear down your barriers to achieving success in Higgins’ new book, Burn The Boats – a business-advice and self-help book. And time spent prematurely cultivating buy-in and fostering consensus just amounts to energy leakage.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

The World Wide Widgets leadership team had gathered to decide how to use surplus funds. The Human Resource Director objected and offered another thought on how the [.] Dye President at Trailblaze, Inc David works with leaders, managers, and supervisors who want to get more done, build teams that care, and achieve results.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

In this article, the author explains how to spot the classic signs of undiscussables — meetings marked by quick consensus, a lack of productive debate, or uneven participation — and offers strategies on how to uncover those unexpressed thoughts and feelings to help your team work more productively.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

Ineffective engagement with an organization’s stakeholders can lead to blind spots for managers and executives , and these can have a dire effect on an organization’s growth. For more than a year, he and his senior management team have been trying to encourage patient groups to adopt his organization’s innovative medical equipment.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2019

So if you are wondering how to start planning for your succession, this is how. Engage senior leaders: It’s essential to have consensus among the CEO and senior leadership team about the importance of proactive leadership development and succession planning. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Hyper-Learning : How to Adapt to the Speed of Change by Edward D. The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. From doctors to teachers to managers to presidents, the more experience the better. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 20, 2017

In my experience, most leaders in this situation begin soliciting ideas from their team on how to resolve the crisis. You’ll be able to implement it with greater speed, confidence, and consensus than if you were trying out the best idea that bubbled up in your conference room. All eyes are locked on you to lead them.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 26, 2019

There are three basic ways along the “3 C continuum” for a team or group to make a decision: Command – made by the manager, project, or team leader with little input from other team members. Consensus – made by the entire team as a group through either “majority rules” or unanimous agreement.

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Product managers hold a unique position in the company: they depend on people from other groups, but they do not have managerial authority over those people (in most cases). Their success depends on their ability to build consensus and inspire the other team members to do great things.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

After discussion, debate and thinking through the options, the team reaches consensus about the best course of action to take, or how best to solve a problem. Leaders should always remember, however, that how they want to use a team is up to them. A healthy discussion can make it easier for the leader to make a decision.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 2, 2020

Build consensus so you have wide agreement and ownership—leaving room for course corrections if needed. The best leaders know how to be agile and flexible; they stay ahead of change by constantly revamping and reworking as things are happening. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. Well-defined priorities.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2019

The best coach for any team is the manager who leads that team. Being a good coach is essential to being a good manager and leader. Coaching is no longer a specialty; you cannot be a good manager without being a good coach.”. Your Title Makes You A Manager, Your People Make You A Leader. Best Idea, Not Consensus.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 21, 2022

Part four will explore a balance between needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and correspondingly extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. CxO candidates might possess extensive credentials in managing a multibillion-dollar division.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. Do they act as committed, responsive members of the executive team to present a united voice on how the organization operates, not just how it performs? that core team must model, reinforce, coach, and drive their desired culture.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Why Great Leaders Don’t Take Yes for an Answer: Managing for Conflict and Consensus Michael A. Roberto FT Press/Pearson (2013) One of the most important attributes of a great leader This is the second edition of a book first published in 2005.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Summarizing group consensus after each point. Research shows that unfortunately, many workplace meetings are not nearly as productive as they could be. To help ensure the meetings you host are productive, lead them by: Observing nonverbal feedback and encouraging everyone to participate.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 18, 2023

During a workshop designed to identify Moose-on-the-Table issues, Jon was surprised by the very clear and strong feedback from his organization that his management group weren’t acting as a team. At their next management meeting, he “read them the riot act.” The manager dominates meetings and most conversations.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

With more people vying for top positions, a volatile unpredictable global workplace, and an ever-evolving landscape, it is increasingly important for employees to understand how to negotiate the unspoken and intangible elements of workplace culture,” explains King. What can I do to better manage how I work, so you know what to expect from me?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 14, 2018

But most of us are basically good people who are unsure how to navigate the treacherous ethical waters of modern work life. One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. Naturally, there are plenty of scoundrels out there.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

While the general consensus is that employees liked it and were reasonably productive, there are concerns about its impact on things like creativity and innovation. But the pandemic happened without giving us a chance to think about how to do remote working right. The post How Creative Are We When Working Virtually?

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2023

In “Stop the Meeting Madness,” a survey of 182 managers across a range of industries, 65% reported “meetings keep them from completing their own work,” and 71% said, “meetings are unproductive and inefficient.” Consensus, commitment, and even action are left in a state of suspended animation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 25, 2024

Maybe your manager never clarified an important process. Let’s decide how to decide.” Usually, this is going to be a vote or consensus. In consensus, everyone can live with a choice, even if it wasn’t their first option. Or do we want to go for consensus?” (And In a vote, the majority rules. So meta, right?)

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Lead on Purpose

JULY 6, 2013

I recently met Nitin Julka , who is passionate about product management. He reached out to see if I would be willing to give him some pointers on how to become a successful product manager. The Product Management Perspective: Product managers play a key role in the success of their products.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

I often get asked for advice on how to find a mentor. Are you more collaborative as a leader, working through consensus? Rene Petrin is the founder and president of Management Mentors , a company that has been designing and implementing business mentoring programs since 1989. This guest post by Rene D.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 30, 2018

Relying on consensus. But consensus decision making isn’t appropriate or feasible in many situations, and that’s where leadership steps up. In short, if you want to avoid crashing and burning, you need to reach beyond managing your role. You have to learn to manage yourself. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Those who are driven by their ego, for example, will take center stage and proclaim to have the answers, ignoring or side-lining the experts who could give a more realistic assessment of a situation, managing people’s expectations. Grant, John Knights, and Greg Young co-authored Leading Beyond The Ego : How to Become a Transpersonal Leader.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2018

Death by consensus. Consensus is great, but it often takes a bad turn. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. How to Succeed as A New Leader. It doesn’t take them long to erode the team’s fiber. The solution is to build a culture based on working together, connecting together and winning together.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

She counted on her managers to make sure that all employees were on track. Trust was high, and consensus-building was expected. Henry was a taker; his way of leading entailed his selfish belief that he was the only one who knew how to get things done. The difference. He wore himself and his team out with his controlling style.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

How to Make Decisions on Team Tasks. Resist the temptation to overuse consensus. Am I relying too much on consensus? Have you ever experienced a project manager, manager who was overly reliant on consensus? CONTACT Create-Learning to make this happen for your team. Photo Credit. Using work for Team Building.

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