Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

There are many types of bad managers, and we can’t address them all in a blog post–or even seven blog posts. But the common denominator among bad managers is that they all sap the inspiration you feel at work (and maybe at home too). You can do your job well, irrespective of that uninspiring manager. You’re in control.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

While virtual tools are invaluable, there’s something about gathering, and feeling the room’s energy, that can supercharge a team’s cohesion and creativity. First, it’s amazingly high-energy. Now that you have them in the same room, one of the best things you can do is give them an opportunity to share them.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Playbooks Sharpen Your Leadership Skills - learn up-to-date leadership techniques to better manage your team, your peers, and your boss. A quick read to motivate the creative energies within you! My job is to help YOU cut through the noise and find resources that are worth consuming AND energize your spirit. This is my gift to you.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

It’s also quite likely that you might pin the blame on middle managers, who often seem to be the scourge for all seasons. Alas, as new research reminds us, middle managers can also be just as much victims of such toxic workplaces as the rest of us. Self-protection strategies. The effect of abuse.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

No amount of tactical change management training will substitute for having an entire organization that has a clear vision of goals, shared responsibility, and personal accountability to achieve results. To discuss your organization’s change management needs, please email me at kelli.hinshaw@avantas.com.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 14, 2020

This book is for leaders and managers in organizations of all sizes," explain authors Riaz and Linda Khadem. Unfortunately, most organizations have a vision and a mission statement, but few know how to align everyone in the organization around that vision to achieve results. Even fewer measure and reward alignment.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

If we are to generalize, we can say that you advance as a leader, the technical and tactical skill you need—distribution expertise, for example—pale in comparison to the strategic and interpersonal.” When you fail to focus your time and energy to have the most impact. That’s why John Hillen and Mark Nevins wrote What Happens Now?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

Thanks, John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement Follow John. Building product is not about having a large team to manage. Tanveer Naseer of Tanveer Naseer Leadership helps us learn about three tactics successful leaders use to build thriving teams that can adapt to the changing needs of their organization.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Maybe it’s from working in environments where people use passive-aggressive tactics to get what they want when there’s conflict. The way we go about using the energy created by conflict can be destructive or constructive. Myth # 3: Conflict should be reduced, managed, avoided, or controlled. Conflict generates energy.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 27, 2017

In fact, when I have the opportunity to talk with executives who have participated in my programs six months or a year later, there are three tactics that are always on the short list of things they’re still doing: The To-Do Review: Take time at the end of each day to review your to-do list.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 5, 2019

Their new book, Powerhouse: 13 Teamwork Tactics that Build Excellence and Unrivaled Success , combines practice and theory and mixes in numerous soccer stories at the same time. Powerhouse is defined as “a team having great energy, strength, and potential for success.” It’s an invitation for all of us to build powerhouse teams.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Let’s get one thing straight from the get-go: lose the word change “management.” You can’t manage change any more than you can manage the cycles of the tide and the phases of the moon. This move will allow the utility to expand other energy resources, respond to community needs, and offer sustainability.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2016

But, what is real is the successful management of the two? Sheryl Sandberg has said a survival tactic of hers was accepting that her husband may not have been doing things around the house like she would, but at least he was helping. Emit positive energy. The reason, I believe, is because work-life balance is a myth.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 11, 2011

StrategyDriven Newsletter Signup StrategyDriven (Kindle Edition) StrategyDriven RSS Feed StrategyDriven Podcast iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Leadership Conversation iTunes Feed StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective iTunes Feed StrategyDriven on Facebook StrategyDriven on Twitter StrategyDriven LinkedIn Users Group Recent Articles Worn out at Work?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

As the costs of essentials go up – including housing, food, fuel and energy – people are having to tighten their belts and many are spending much less on non-essential goods. Those of us that made it through the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic have faced further hard times in the form of a cost of living crisis.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently. People are yearning for human connection, with one another and their manager. Eileen McDargh contributed The Energy of Unexpected Gratitude. Bernd Geropp provided New as a manager – 5 most important tips. Neither are you.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

Whatever the label, you recognize these tactics when you see them. When you respond to such CC emails about projects and issues not directly involving you, this encourages the sender to keep up the self-promotion and the pressure tactics on colleagues. Backhanded compliments. CYA attempts.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

Since there are lots of high potential and frustrated individual contributors out there who want more along with lots of managers who want to help them do and be more, here are some of the from/to distinctions I’ve been sharing the past few weeks. If you want to get the nod, work on striking a balance between the two.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In order to be successful in their jobs, students need management, learning, and communication skills. Students may still reach their goals using certain tactics. You should keep your energy and stick to your schedule if you want to improve your academic performance as a student. Methods to become an intelligent student.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

But it was not the tactical aspects of that conversation that impacted me as much as what I experienced as I opened my mind for the first time to the possibility of Dr. Tanvi Gautam, Dean, Graduate School of Business…….I I felt my energy shift. The possibility. The potential. The promise. Of a future so grand that it seemed unreal.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 1, 2023

As one of the first Rhodes Scholars to complete graduate work in Women’s Studies, Hunter Arscott has been named by Thinkers50 as “one of the top management thinkers likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.” Many women invest their precious and limited time and energy based on assumption rather than insight.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Not only that but how we manage and reward work, and how our culture recognizes hard work. With passion and purpose working for you, you bring more energy per hour of work. What we call hard work may not be our best work. Passion is ‘do what you love,’ while purpose is ‘do what contributes.’ Purpose asks, ‘What can I give the world?’

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 26, 2012

With forty years in the saddle, hundreds of dusty trails and a few fistfights along the way, I have an oasis of management insight in which to draw. Even though I am far removed from the energy drink target market, I’m a little embarrassed to admit my ignorance of the category and what makes it tick. Monster takes the opposite view.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 24, 2013

Yet you’re still working with tactics. This conserves mind-energy for other things). You’ve somehow managed to convince them that you are the only one who has all the knowledge needed for them to complete their work. You’re still in the weeks, yet expected to create a vision and a strategy.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In The Optimist’s Telescope , author Bina Venkataraman suggests that we can a “ radical strain of optimism ” and cultivate a sense of collective agency that would motivate “more people to make choices today for the sake of the future, whether it’s how they vote, eat, use energy, or influence others.” An “ optimist’s telescope ” so to speak.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JANUARY 6, 2022

With that as a backdrop, when we find ourselves in positions to influence others (sales, management, parenting, etc.), A scenario most in people management would just as soon avoid (if only they could): terminating someone’s employment. Move on: Refocus your energy and attention immediately. Reputation Building.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2018

StrategyDriven provides executives and managers with the planning and execution advice, tools, and practices needed to create greater organizational alignment and accountability for the achievement of superior bottom line results.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2016

Since I specialize in reinvention, I know that the tactics to succeed in the reinvention process actually also work to help regain mojo. Share your energy. Typically, however, when you’ve lost your mojo, your energy meter runs low, and as a consequence you don’t draw people in as much.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

More energy consumption could mean higher energy bills, while wasted materials could result in higher supply costs. Manufacturing batches of hundreds or thousands of units is much more likely to pay off the cost of any machinery you use – providing that you can shift these units (which all comes down to marketing and sales tactics).

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Mike Cardus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Conserving Emotional Energy: Quickly move on without engaging in emotionally taxing conversations. Although these clichés might serve short-term management objectives, they often hinder long-term innovation, suppress employee morale, and foster a culture of compliance over mutual growth. Deflection and Power in Management.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 2, 2023

Fortunately, there are a number of tactics you can use to cut down your expenditure, so you have more cash flow available. Add to this the higher cost of living in Ontario , compared to other parts of Canada, and you may be finding that it’s harder to make ends meet than you may have hoped when you first launched your business.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Reality check: Great presenters have the mindset of a great Sales Manager. Just ask the Sales Manager. They’ve neglected the three buckets above, but more importantly they haven’t fully tapped into their strengths as a presenter so they dedicate the appropriate amount of energy in the right areas.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. This is the manager who embodies the soul of the effort and emerges as the glue that binds. They know it’s a team sport and cooperation and assistance from other managers, divisions, and departments is critical for victory. Pay attention to the managers who promote engagement.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Earlier this year brought the book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking , by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Fortunately, Create the Future , is a tactical guidebook that teaches readers how to remove these seven traps. Their capabilities are limited by seven traps, and they rely on and repeat past decisions.”

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

A big excuse managers have for not having a conversation is “I already know what they’re going to say.” You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Clarify management values. Usually, management has not yet articulated their own individual values, let alone those of the organization. Technology is a tool, which feeds into tactics. Sales is a tactic, one of dozens of tactics which an organization must pursue. Generate select strategic options.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2020

March 10 brings the new book, Create The Future: Tactics For Disruptive Thinking, by J eremy Gutsche , CEO of Trend Hunter. Fortunately, Create the Future , is a tactical guidebook that teaches readers how to remove these seven traps. Their capabilities are limited by seven traps, and they rely on and repeat past decisions.”

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