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Standing out at Work

Career Advancement

In doing so, you’ll craft a reputation as a person who’s great at the particular kind of work that really fuels you. Spearhead an exciting project, delegate responsibilities to team members, and give them positive feedback to coach them along. That will guide what you want to be known for. Remember that cause you support?

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How to be a Damn Good Developmental Manager

Great Leadership By Dan

And if you’re manager, that’s the kind of reputation you should aspire to have. It helps with recruiting and retaining the best employees, allows you to delegate so you can focus on what you’re being paid to do, or even take a vacation now and then.

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Developing Positive Leadership Habits

Persuasive Powerhouse

When you change the negative habits above to more positive ones, you will: be fully present to the individuals and the needs around you talk less and listen more, gaining wisdom and the reputation as a leader who cares become more inclusive, extending the invitation to participate, and releasing the potential of your team open your mind and your heart (..)

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Let Them See You as Human

Persuasive Powerhouse

That story made the rounds for several months and damaged that exec’s reputation. This would be difficult, if not impossible, on an administrative assistant’s salary, and showed a great lack of other-awareness on the part of the exec. Bret Simmons : September 8, 2010 at 1:48 pm What an idiot.

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Mastering your Inner Game of Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Even Moses had a reputation as a micromanager who couldn’t give up control or delegate; his father-in-law Jethro telling him “This thing you are doing is not good – you will surely wear away you and those who are with you”. As God lives, for every letter that comes to me, it is read.”

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How to Participate in Your Employee’s Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Once upon a time, executive coaching was viewed as a remedial intervention for executives and managers who needed to be “fixed” in some way. Coaching was even sometimes viewed as “outsourcing” the management of a difficult employee. Be blunt with the coach – blunter than you would be with the coachee.

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How to Participate in Your Employee’s Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Once upon a time, executive coaching was viewed as a remedial intervention for executives and managers who needed to be “fixed” in some way. Coaching was even sometimes viewed as “outsourcing” the management of a difficult employee. Be blunt with the coach – blunter than you would be with the coachee.