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How Leaders Make or Break Team Effectiveness

The Practical Leader

Sharing power and developing others to do what you used to do is almost impossible if you’re insecure. If you draw much of your self-worth from how well others “listen up and follow your command,” you’re going to have a tough time developing a strong team. A new view of your job. It can’t be delegated.

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Making Teams Work: What’s Your Type and Decision Vision?

The Practical Leader

In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman reports on a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European leaders whose careers derailed, “the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.” High-performing operational teams are a hybrid of both types.

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Reality Checks Leaders Must Give Themselves in 2016 (Part One)

Lead Change Blog

You need strong foundational work and pillars that may take months if not years to develop. If your geeked-up project team along for the ride doesn’t know what direction they’re headed or why they’re being steered in that direction, then you need to stop, put that bus in reverse, park, get everyone off and start over.

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The Magical Career Fairy Will Help You

Persuasive Powerhouse

Because you are doing such great work, she’ll soon tap you with her enchanted wand and sprinkle you with sparkly fairy dust and you’ll get that key project, significant promotion, raise, bonus or new career that you’ve been waiting for. Work with a coach to develop an action plan based on what you find out.

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Leadership is Darned Personal

Persuasive Powerhouse

All of the above statements came from clients and readers recently. .&# “I didn’t know that developing as a leader would be so personal.&# “The things you write about leadership apply to our personal lives as well as our work lives.&# That big, hairy audacious project you want to manage? It’s also necessary.

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Wait! Don't Fire That Person (Yet)!

Persuasive Powerhouse

It was seen as my leadership quality but I ask myself this: “Did I take too much time to decide?&# “Would it have been better for the org, the project, and the employee if I had made a decision to fire quickly?&# There is never really a right answer to that. Everything is situational but just some thoughts to consider.

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Thought-full Thursday: Valuing Ourselves and Others

Persuasive Powerhouse

Mike: October 17, 2010 at 10:55 pm Mary JO, I have to say I feel valued every time I can get a project finished on time. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. Thank you for sharing it with us. Thanks for the quote.

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