The Practical Leader

MARCH 17, 2021

Many divisional, departmental, branch, or other sub-unit leadership teams add to the tangled culture hairball by following along with a weak or dysfunctional culture or — even worse — wallowing in helplessness. Leadership team planning strategy session. Plan implementation strategies and timeliness.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

Keeps others informed and up-to-date on relevant information. Look for employees who demonstrate a strong sense of initiative, communication, and teamwork. Here are 20 performance appraisal phrases that can be used to evaluate leadership skills include: Demonstrates a clear vision and inspires others to follow.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Now more than ever, businesses are dealing with the impacts of significant world events that have altered how they operate today. C, for Complexity – there is no easy way to pinpoint a problem in VUCA times, there are many layers that make up the disruption. A, for Ambiguity – clarity and awareness are difficult to find.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Guest post from Robert (Dusty) Staub : “Perhaps the only sustainable competitive advantage is increasing your ability to learn faster than your competition.” - Arie de Geus, former head of Strategic Planning, Shell Oil Company Are you getting the best results from the people–the embedded collective intelligence–in your organization?

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 20, 2014

As is often the case when we write about leadership, the focus tends to be on what we can do today to improve how our organization operates going forward and hopefully, achieve the kind of success we envisioned when we first took on this leadership role.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 22, 2015

These critically important initiatives generally meet the following criteria: Action(s) taken to move the organization towards achieving stretch goals defined in their future vision and strategy. A strategic intent mindset drives planning and implementation with a relentless focus on defining victory and achieving strategic outcomes.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

No doubt you’ve felt it after a great team success or alternatively, the gloom and doom when things do not go as planned. In the midst of the team working on an issue that is timely and important at the content level, how the team interacts, how the team communicates and how that supports or undermines team performance, is showing up too.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

For some, it’s about teamwork and creative synergy in the workplace. A similar study by The Economist Intelligence Unit of 343 business found “the firms that ‘slowed down to speed up’ improved their top and bottom lines, averaging 40% higher sales and 52% higher operating profits over a three-year period.”

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

But on several occasions, there were questions regarding the way the numbers added up and we had to work together to find and fix the errors. In its absence, ideas can’t “tip,” planning gets skewed and results suffer. Otherwise we operate only from memory instead of curiosity. ” Enlist Your Team.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

To quickly set the scene, I was the SVP of Operations for a 1,100 employee cable television company based in 4 states in the Rocky Mountain west. And when customers came through the door, I’d chat them up too. As I sat down for our chat, I noticed that some of the things I wrote up there hadn’t been erased between my visits.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The following is a guest piece from former Microsoft President and Chief Xbox Officer, Robbie Bach. As someone who absolutely loves sports, I follow the fortunes of various teams and often wonder what makes some more successful than others. Louis Cardinals all come to mind as teams that were built to last in this manner.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

They make everyone around them look up and see what can be. They mean what they say and they follow through. I will show up. They find purpose in uncommon places and aren’t afraid to share their vision about the perfect customer, a new streamlined process, a better onboarding system. 2- Sincerity. 3- Purposely Engage Others.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You came up with an awesome idea. That’s how you came up with your cool idea in the first place. When engaging your team your employees or your customers, follow this rule: “Use inquiry before advocacy.” Your customers will always come up with an enhancement, iteration, or completely different application. Get it all out.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 6, 2011

The following is a guest post by author and speaker Steven Smith. Voted as one of the top 100 business thought-leaders in the United States, Steve’s work has been adopted by several universities to help students gain a better understanding of how the business world really operates. Speaking up requires courage, candor and tact.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 6, 2013

It is a journey and I hope we can follow Geneca's path of experimenting-learning-applying-iterating and learn for ourselves. Winning Idea is GRIT The first Geneca Innovation Challenge was divided into two events, an Innovation Meet-up followed by an innovation “Shark Tank” event for finalists. Operational Strategy.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether you’re employed in a technology-first corporation, oversee operations in a retail chain or run a healthcare organization, every sector demands effective leadership. When you incorporate these interpersonal skills into your model, you support relationship-building, teamwork enhancement, conflict resolution, and team motivation.

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Michael Lee Stallard

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

So now you have an extra hour to catch up on some good reading, all in one place. Alice Snell follows up with More Human Than Capital posted at Taleo Blog – Talent Management Solutions. Follow the series at The HR Idea Lab posted at Inflexion Point. Here’s Succession planning: Always a good outcome?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

As SVP of Operations, I approached my first visit to the field after his death with a great deal of trepidation. I’ll never forget how, in 1994 when I was looking for a job, he found my resume in his stack of papers, and personally picked up the phone and called me, inviting me to come to his office in suburban New York.

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Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

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? Add it as a comment.

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Mayo Executive Coaching Efficiency Handbook 146

Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

When there is no trust, it affects you, hurts you and ends up costing you. Build up a reputation of being direct and forthright, so people don’t have to guess at what you’re trying to say. If you cannot keep a commitment, be open and honest about the reason and try to find a way to make it up to the other party.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 9, 2016

Of course, the typical focus on lessons we can learn from the Olympics tend to be on teamwork, communication, building confidence and the like. When the swimming finals came up that evening, the negative emotions these athletes had been feeling hours earlier were clearly replaced with a steely determination to deliver their best.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The company was diligently surveying and tracking employee engagement and satisfaction with leadership behaviors, teamwork and cooperation, communication, performance management/coaching, and the like. Data showing 8 times greater team commitment in organizations operating in the top 10 percentile versus the bottom 10 percentile.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 20, 2012

We think of building teams that operate on this plane as an art, or even magic. It's not something you can plan; it's lightning-in-a-bottle stuff that you just embrace when you're lucky enough to come across it. I was motivated to find a way to document that buzz, and understand good teamwork as a hard science.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 10, 2012

”, the results from a number of surveys on the issue of employees and vacation time are discussed, including: An Adweek/Harris Poll survey which found that only 40% of US employees took a summer vacation last year and half of this group admitted that they planned or did work during their vacation.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 10, 2012

”, the results from a number of surveys on the issue of employees and vacation time are discussed, including: An Adweek/Harris Poll survey which found that only 40% of US employees took a summer vacation last year and half of this group admitted that they planned or did work during their vacation.

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Survey Attrition Creativity Stress 235

Strategy Driven

APRIL 25, 2012

The corporate mission and values are created by the senior leadership team, captured on posters, and strategically tacked up around the building. ’ Whatever is in the mission or values statement is not seen as relevant to the organization’s day-to-day operations. Meanwhile, how does a corporate citizen react to this phenomenon?

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2016

I ended up with that job and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment. I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 23, 2010

Leaders consciously or unconsciously lump employees into three categories: the “stars” consisting of those in management as well high potential employees, the much larger “core” made up of solid contributors, and the rest, employees whose contributions and fit with the organization are questionable. Connecting the U.S.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 3, 2015

Then, when plans were made to bring back Star Trek as an animated series in the 1970s, Nimoy refused to participate until the show’s producers agreed to hire Nichols and Takei to reprise their parts as well. Uhura, was being paid less than Walter Koenig (Ensign Chekov) and George Takei (Mr. Or the one”.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 31, 2015

Take ownership of planning programs, rather than abdicate them to human resources or accounting people. An accounting firm may suggest that an economic forecast is a full-scope business plan (which it is not). No entity can operate without affecting or being affected by its communities. Let the buyer beware.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

Create an employee’s advisory council; ask, listen, inform, and keep them up to date on what’s going on. Top leaders required to develop a plan to demonstrate their advocacy for Quality Leadership methods and the goals of the transformation. Experimental Police District (EPD) planning team is created.

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Case Study System Decentralization Management 40

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

.” A rigid leadership team stuck in traditional methods of internal focus, functional accountability, and empowerment can’t reshape their organization with more agile approaches of customer focus, horizontal teamwork, and “empartnerment” by talking about it. Leadership Team Planning ( click for typical agenda).

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 29, 2010

If you’re going to take the time to build a social media presence, make sure you have appropriate follow-through. Foster teamwork. Email This Post | Print Post | Sign up for our Email Newsletter Speak Your Mind Tell us what youre thinking. Own your mistakes and always tell the truth – no exceptions.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It was from this fantastic program that I came up with the idea to teach 15 people everything I know at no charge. It ended up becoming the most widely viewed video in the history of LinkedIn. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 4, 2010

. “5 percent is the plan; 95 percent is the execution.&# In the past few weeks, I’ve been spending lots of time with leaders who are building their personal leadership plans. To say that writing a leadership plan is gruelling would be an understatement. So, do you have a leadership plan for this year?

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 12, 2011

Cultural fit” is one of those nebulous ideas that’s hard to screen for in job interviews but seems to become screamingly evident when people show up on the job. She came from the municipal government where she had worked in a department that, according to her, operated at a brutally slow pace (hence, why she wanted to get out).

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

Jay Woo , CAA South Central Ontario’s Chief Operating Officer offered up this piece of advice: “Stay connected to your front line.” He makes up “success&# stories constantly. Follow us @ExecRoundtable Leaving #adweekcdn #genesimmons and wondering "what the hell was that?"

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