Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

You think you know what to do and how to lead, so you stop asking for feedback. You’ve Got No Plan B. You’re so confident you’re on the fast track, you stop networking or creating contingency plans. When you think you know what to do, it’s easy to ignore data that doesn’t fit your plan.

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HR Digest

JUNE 17, 2023

As an HR professional, you may be wondering how to handle employee absences on July 4. This article will provide you with tips on how to communicate with employees about their expectations, how to make sure that essential work is covered, and how to deal with any potential disruptions.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 19, 2013

He had been a great football coach and when I expressed interest in playing quarterback, he agreed to teach me how. He taught me to play the position but he also taught me how to think like a leader on the field. Leadership And Contingency Planning. That mental rehearsal was invaluable. Related Post.

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HR Digest

APRIL 9, 2023

In this article, we will discuss how to navigate leave and absence management, including the importance of policies, procedures, HR software, effective communication, and documentation. Employee leave and absence management can be a complex and challenging process for many organizations. Why is managing employee leave and absence important?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It is important to plan for these eventualities to minimize the impact on your business. For example, you may need to have contingency plans in place for crop failures or disease outbreaks. These trends will majorly impact the agricultural industry in the coming years, and planning is important.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Strategic planning–the process of translating vision into realistic business strategies–provides you with a structure to balance long-term goals with immediate needs, update plans to reflect changing circumstances, and develop contingency plans for the wider range of possibilities.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 24, 2020

The nature of crisis management is that you can’t plan ahead for them. Yes, we have business contingency planning but a true crisis is often completely unexpected.). How to handle a crisis. So, if we can’t plan, how do we react? After all, if we could, we’d do what is necessary to prevent them, right?

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Regular readers of my weekly column have come to expect me to do my best in presenting them with fresh perspectives on how to manage the challenges that most of them face as leaders in their respective organizations. At my firm , we help clients develop strategies and create the contingency plans needed, if certain scenarios begin to emerge.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 12, 2020

Whether it’s a problem with your products, adverse weather conditions, transportation issues or even internal organization problems, you need to have contingency plans in place for when things go badly. Using your analytical tools, you can make decisions on how to proceed.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 9, 2021

Hopefully, you will not encounter any issues, but it is helpful if you can identify what might happen so that you can find ways to prevent these issues from arising but also develop contingency plans to mitigate the impact of a problem.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 31, 2017

I’ve never been a big fan of telling people no, but I’m a huge proponent of the advantages of helping people learn how to get to a yes. Teaching someone how to get to a yes is one of the most valuable things a leader can do. Saying yes is both valuable and fun, so why not learn how to help people to a yes?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 23, 2012

A contingency plan isn’t available when the two-way interaction doesn’t go the way you’d planned. Here are some thoughts on how to make your tough conversations more than a head game. The problem is that you’ve spent all of this time in your head thinking about the conversation, and it shows.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

Let’s explore the purpose of executive leadership training, the benefits it brings to organizations and how to measure its impact in the long-term. This includes assessing the potential impact of external factors, such as changes in the regulatory environment, and developing contingency plans to mitigate these risks.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 27, 2019

At the end of the day, there is no point cutting sizable profit if you do not know how to churn the cream to make something more out of it. You need to have the perfect knowledge of where and how your cash flows in the organisation. Only then can you understand where to allocate the money and how to do that efficiently.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 12, 2017

You surround yourself with people that can teach you how to do things and provide words of wisdom. If you plan everything correctly and do all the research, calling on advice from others and your new knowledge, you can easily start new business ventures. This is essential if you want to develop your skills as an entrepreneur.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Prepare contingency plans. Ask yourself “what-if” questions because things rarely go according to plan. The post How to Work Smart and Achieve More appeared first on Frank Sonnenberg Online. Reduce bureaucracy and red tape. Reduce cumbersome rules , wasteful paperwork, meaningless approvals, and unnecessary meetings.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Coordinate with your HR on how to make up for the much greater likely caseload of COVID in your team as well as burnout; ensure cross-training for important roles. Prepare your team: Communicate to them regarding the novel strains: urge them to take actions to safeguard their households. Act quickly to move your team to work from home.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2018

We have listed some ways in which you can identify bottlenecks within your business process effectively and how to use this information to make improvements. Have a Contingency Plan. Create Solid Business Goals. That’s why something like Kanban boards can be incredibly useful.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 23, 2018

The Aviator: I don’t know how to draw. The Aviator told The Little Prince he didn’t know how to draw. They have contingency plans in place and are ready to use them. Have a backup plan ready. The Little Prince: That doesn’t matter. The Little Prince asked The Aviator to draw him a sheep.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

Plan for the future. When your business has contingency plans for future scenarios you will seldom be caught by surprise. Most successful businesses have planned responses to most scenarios because they took the time to think “What If”. Consultant plan is annually updated, with realistic, measurable goals.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 22, 2015

Create a contingency plan. If you’re a “pro-vacation manager,” follow the contingency plan you agreed upon. Encourage your employees to make time. When a key player is away from the office, take stock of the big ticket items that are going on during that time.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 3, 2016

Here are five ways that meetings typically go off track and how to prevent each one: Not getting on the same track at the start of the meeting. ” This leads a few members to state whether they believe contingency planning is a problem before another member shifts the topic again. You and Your Team Series.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2019

To set your business up for the greatest success, you need to understand the sort of issues you’ll deal with regularly, and have some plan of action to handle them. Following we’ll briefly explore several key tech issues your business is likely to encounter today, and how to counteract them. I: Cybercrime. III: Corporate Espionage.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. I recently asked him some questions based on his work. “A

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2018

I believe one reason for this is that in learning and development programs, far too little time and focus is devoted to how to change existing habits and behaviors, which are often the greatest barriers to personal growth. Fortunately, there is lots of behavioral science on how people best achieve their goals and change their behaviors.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 9, 2016

So, you should try to learn how to handle risks better. Running a company is risky business. There is no risk-free way of doing it. Your business will face all kinds of different risks. Getting your approach to each of them right could turn out to be the difference between success and failure. It really is that important.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 31, 2011

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty: Creating the Risk Intelligent Enterprise Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner John Wilkey & Sons, Inc. 2010) Risk unmanaged is risk exacerbated I am among those who find a wealth of excellent advice every time I pick up my copy of The Art of War and re-read a passage or two [.].

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In the midst of all the pandemonium, we must begin to find ways to fix society for the better: to redefine access and equity, to rethink how we live and work, and how to make work human for all. How can leaders of organizations respond? Within organizations, many have formulated contingency plans to avoid COVID-19 disruptions.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI. Contingency plans must go beyond a natural disaster playbook.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

It means that all of us, as individual managers, will have to figure out how to cope with power outages, damaged facilities, and employee absences — all on very short notice. The time to come up with contingency plans like these is not when hurricane force winds are bearing down on your city.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2011

Are there continuity, backup, and contingency plans? Even in quiet times, there's a chance for mischief or missteps if leaders leave a vacuum, with no one clearly in charge and lack of clarity about how to operate. In challenging times when crises loom, people tend to panic if there is no one clearly at the helm.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

It’s far more important to focus on two things: identifying and protecting the company’s strategically important cyber assets and figuring out in advance how to mitigate damage when attacks occur. Every employee should be informed about cybersecurity best practices and how to identify malicious software or phishing attempts.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2015

Throughout it all, we provided constant communications with status updates, decisions, changes, and guidelines for how to act and react appropriately to the level of crisis at hand. Just as critically, we supported each other by spending lots of time together, sharing thoughts, and laughs. We called this bonding “tent time.”

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Later on, you can circle back and try to figure out how to overcome them. This step can also help you think about backup and contingency plans to cope with these forces. The purpose of this step in the failure and recovery process is to reveal obstacles you might not have noticed or articulated. Imagine a worse outcome.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2011

It is critical that you know how to cut to the chase and hit the high points, and that you expect the same from others. Knowing how to work a room and establish credibility, trust and rapport are keys to successful interactions. It’s called being prepared and developing a contingency plan.

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Rapid BI

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Creating your communications plan to include crisis and contingency plans can help reduce and avoid unnecessary crisis. Part of your plan may include the creation of an emergency notification cascade system.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 1, 2015

Tony Stark knows this is trouble but he had a backup plan… He knew he had to call on Veronica. Think of a contingency plan and have one ready in case you need it. Great teams know how to stick it through the tough times. Things will go wrong at one point or another in your organization. Be prepared.

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