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Advice: Manage Well by Leading Better

N2Growth Blog

Management is your day job; leadership is your career. That is a variation on a comment I heard recently from an executive who was speaking about the responsibilities that senior managers have to lead their organizations through change. Management is a disciplinary process while leadership is an aspirational intention.

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Executive Coach Understands Human Dynamics

Tony Mayo

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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Commitment Creates a Clearing for Cooperation

Tony Mayo

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences?

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5 Pitfalls That Make Workplace Conflicts Worse

Great Leadership By Dan

It’s especially costly in today’s work environments where 25% to 40% of managers’ time is spent mired in conflict with aggrieved board members, supervisors, clients, peers and subordinates. But if managed well, conflict can work for you and your organization. But so do supervisors, middle managers, and team leads.

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Use how each person and the team responds as a chance to make the learning even easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

Being observant of how people react to change and constantly looking for how they cooperate will amplify each persons motivation to change. Having formal; informal; coaching; job aids; testing areas; work groups; subject matter experts; etc… through the change until it is complete and it is “ just what people do ”. Edgar Schein.

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8 Guidelines for Leadership Coaching and Team Building Activities

Mike Cardus

The effort is finding exceptions to the problem and determining how the team and person cooperate best. Then changing my interaction with them to cooperate in the best way to achieve shared goals. The guidelines above align with team building & executive coaching activities. NOISE Analysis, an alternative to SWOT.

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Instead of Making People More Anxious. Make the Learning Easier :: Resistance to Change

Mike Cardus

It is helpful to listen, agree and cooperate. Talk to discover slightly different viewpoints for cooperation. Instead of viewing the resistance as an issue it gave me a chance to see how each person and the team as a whole cooperates. Plus it reduced their anxiety about learning & applying a new management skill.