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5 Ways to Encourage Your Team Toward “Yes You Can”

Let's Grow Leaders

Not just in a hammer and nail sort of way. 5 Ways To Encourage Your Team Toward “Yes You Can” 1. Be confident in the team. Ask your team member to recall a time they’ve been successful in a similar situation. ” “We can handle that…” She shared her story with the team.

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Refuse to be Offended (Justin Maust)

Let's Grow Leaders

One simple tactic to give your team an edge. Sometimes a leader needs to be the hammer. Allow the hammer to strike you so that you can effectively support the structure. It’s impossible for the hammer to hold the structure together alone…the nail is his only hope. Bad hammers ruin good nails.

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Reshaping the Leadership and Culture Development Puzzle

The Practical Leader

Many leaders and development professionals search for new technologies and quick and easy approaches to personal, team, and organization development. ” Abraham Maslow famously observed, “if the only tool you have is a hammer you treat everything as if it were a nail.” And the snicker factor rises another notch.

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Keep Hammering Away and Trust the Process

Great Results Team Building

This article is published as a guest post on the "HoopsU" Coaching website. Many thanks to Tony Alfonso for sharing it with his audience! You can read the entire article if you "Trust the Process" and click HERE.

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The Promise and Problems of Outstanding Teams

Great Results Team Building

Those who seek to be part of an outstanding team must go into the experience with open eyes, knowing that there will be great promise but also many problems that they will encounter as well. Outstanding teams are by their definition teams who STAND OUT. Outstanding teams are ones who are willing to take risks. Not both.”.

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Your Team Needs A Mean Leader

Lead Change Blog

If you want your team and your business to thrive, sometimes it pays to be mean. As the leader, they failed to provide any clear directions or consequences, and yet are ready to drop the hammer in disciplinary actions for a mistake. Every team needs a qualified and quality leader if their goals are progress and success.

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What Leaders Can Learn from the Most Efficient Exit Interview Ever

Next Level Blog

The exhaustion and burnout have an impact on everyone – executives, managers and team members alike. For executives and managers, the default response is often a version of fight – to hammer on deadlines, drive for results, to lose patience with what they view as friction and pushback. His team members would walk through walls for him.