Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2013

But leadership is a team sport. We all need one another to create great teams. Author information Tal Shnall Tal is a Coach and Trainer at the Renaissance Hotel in Richardson Texas. How you interact and motivate is an ongoing challenge. As a leader, what dialogue [.]

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 10, 2014

Our team of teachers and high school students had just finished a rafting trip, changed into fresh clothes, and loaded up our convoy of vans to head out to our hotel. With the other drivers in tight formation behind me, I led the team up a hill, but as I crested the hill and descended the other side, it looked like the road narrowed.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 9, 2019

In that piece, he described his team’s efforts to examine a specific hypothesis (“Employee commitment drives customer service”) in the US operations of a major hotel chain. Simons’ team defines behavioral integrity as “managers keeping their promises and demonstrating espoused values.” which translated into $250K for each hotel!

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2018

Following long hours of travel from the US, relaxing in the hotel sauna seemed a great way to end the day. After entering the sauna, I was joined by a woman who was at the hotel with her company for a leadership seminar. That night in the hotel dining room, I thought I saw the woman I had met in the sauna at a corner table.

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leaderCommunicator

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Of more than 30,000 workers surveyed in the Microsoft 2021 Work Trend Index , 73% wanted flexible remote work options to continue and 67% wanted more in-person time with their teams.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 25, 2020

Many of the sales leaders I’m talking with this summer are working on how to help their teams raise their games in the virtual world we’re living in. I’ve been collecting some best practice ideas that can help you and your team reclaim competitive advantage in a virtual world. Back in June (remember that distant time two months ago?),

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

JUNE 29, 2020

Around 2007, Simon Cooper was the CEO of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, where I was working with their senior leadership team. Simon offered an example of the challenges faced by the luxury hotel company in 2008, “I had a guest complain to me that he saw one of our bartenders serve a young guest a bottle of beer without a glass.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In part due to their agile and adaptable leadership style, they are able to create self-managing teams that collaborate together on projects. Leaders with a high AQ are masters at empowering their team members to be their best. Leaders with a high AQ are masters at empowering their team members to be their best.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

We were enjoying a breezy summer day in the Colorado mountains many years ago… Our team of teachers and high school students had just finished a rafting trip, changed into fresh clothes, and loaded up our convoy of vans to head out to our hotel. Posted in Leadership Development [link] How Did This Happen? And I was leading.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2015

All seemed copacetic until I was awakened at 4:00 am by the sound of running, shouting, and hitting all right under the window of our ocean facing hotel room. I tried calling 911 on my cell phone, which didn’t go through, then Karalee suggested that I use the hotel phone. The police showed up just as I was picking up the hotel handset.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

A form of the Miracle Question: I tried a variation with a Project Team of Aircraft Engineers. The team and I had spent 3 days working through root-cause analysis and struggling to determine what was causing a certain screw to vibrate lose during flight. I heard a couple what is he talking about comments and went back to my hotel room.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 23, 2023

You’ll find more fresh content on CMI Insights this week to help you drive delivery: Is your team engaging in “productivity theatre”? The hotels are in the process of recruiting apprentices to join these programmes and all the vacancies are currently advertised on the UCAS website. Read more here. Interested?

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Lead by Adventure

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are a lot of ways to motivate your team and let them know you appreciate them. Variations: Add a limo to have your team take pictures in before going in to work. Give Your Team the Paparazzi Treatment. Host an Oscars Awards Night for Your Team. Get a team together to help brainstorm and plan the night.

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Mike Cardus

JULY 18, 2011

I facilitated two programs with Cameron Compression at the lovely Prince of Wales hotel at Niagara-on-the-Lake Ontario Canada. Executive Communication, with outcomes of; A DiSC assessment was utilized to create a common language of Executive Communication and create improved communications for the team with peers, subordinates and managers.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2023

At the end of their shift, a team of software engineers in Boston can transfer the work where they left off (“asynchronically”) to another team in Bangalore, within or outside their own company, which continues the work until, at the end of their shift, they transfer it back — all with remarkable seamlessness.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

The team building and leadership development for the executive MBA students took place at the Woodcliff Hotel outside of Rochester NY. Below are some photos from the team building & leadership development program. and thank you Simon Graduate School of Business Executive MBA program for allowing me to be part of your team.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

Your team has to know what your “ forever promise ” is—the organization’s commit-ment to customers that justifies customer loyalty. Expand “customer success” beyond your support teams. Consider including one or more members of your frontline team in the brainstorming discussion. But there’s more to it than just revenue.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 18, 2013

Sitting in a hotel lobby in Baltimore Maryland in month two of a three month partner program with Project Ascent , coaching and facilitating a team building and leadership process for managers and supervisors at McCormick Spice …. I took some time to reflect upon the day.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team building, and more. David writes: “You’ve drafted an email or remarks to share at an upcoming team meeting and are ready to hit send or present, respectively. Communication.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 8, 2020

On the second day of the event, one of Dave’s senior-staff members (without consulting Dave) sent middle management home to save travel and hotel costs. Helping Others, Integrity and Team Work.” As part of this effort, Dave held a multi-day off-site meeting including both middle and top management. When Dave found out, he was livid.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

When I got back to my hotel that night, I read some more about these trees. The first connection is with your team. It’s true that as a leader you are there to serve your team. You will find your team also serves you. When your team trusts you, they’ll do amazing work with you. What I found surprised me.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 21, 2011

I was invited to the college by their Student Government Executive Board to facilitate communication and trust building discussions with the team. With the outcomes of; Increased knowledge of strengths and abilities of other people on the team. Requisite steps to develop, sustain and lead high performance teams.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2019

As the co-founder and former president of Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co., Having managed dozens of teams spanning tens to hundreds of people, Julie Zhuo knows the most important lesson of all: great managers are made, not born. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Recognition and morale have a tremendous impact on the productivity of your team. And, as a teammate or team leader, one of the greatest challenges is to EFFECTIVELY spend your professional development money so you improve teamwork and create a positive, high-performing culture. . GIVE EVERY PERSON ON YOUR TEAM TWENTY DOLLARS. .

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 17, 2023

To stay positive, I kept thinking of all the people who showed us kindness in Madrid, including Elizabeth and her friends, the hotel staff and the United Airlines reservation agent who found a flight for us and seats that would have the room I needed. It would have been easy to slip into a state of negative emotions.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 5, 2015

About a year into our relationship, we were holding a weeklong strategic planning meeting with the key leaders on his team. On one of those days, during a lunch break, I ran up to my hotel […]. David hired me to help communicate and reinforce his division’s long-term vision and business strategy with their 1,200 employees.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 2, 2023

Currently general manager of luxury hotel The Slaughters Manor House, David has been with Andrew Brownsword Hotels Group for over 17 years – stepping into the hospitality industry straight from school as a kitchen porter and working his way up through roles in reception and operations management.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 27, 2022

These retreats provide an opportunity for your team to step away from the daily grind and come together in a new environment to bond, brainstorm, and recharge. This can lead to increased communication and trust within the team, which can translate into better results back at the office. Why Plan A Corporate Retreat for Employees.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2016

First, we must recognize the need to foster a team approach to creativity and innovation. Although the media likes to glorify the lone creative genius, a closer look at creativity reveals that it is, to a large degree, a team sport. Result: Ritz-Carton is consistently recognized as one of the top performing hotel companies worldwide.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

For spaces like hotels, for instance, it’s essential that you can create spaces where patrons will feel cocooned. Hotels, especially busy ones, can feel impersonal at times. Make sure to find a team that will be able to align with your vision and help you make better choices in terms of both looks and functionality.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 30, 2020

When you start your own small business , it won’t take long for you to realise that efficiency is one of the most important features that your team must concentrate on. So if you and your team are ready to boost productivity and improve their pace, then read on to uncover some of the best tips and tricks that you can utilise today!

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 7, 2022

On the day Hugo and Otilia took their walk, I was facilitating a leadership workshop on how to implement the peace accords, and I’d invited the participants to choose a partner who was most different from them and go for a 45-minute stroll outside the hotel. He was almost staggering, and I asked him what had happened.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2020

Hotels by AirBnB. You need people on your team with both strategic and operational skills—two very different kinds of people. Guest post from Robbie Kellman Baxter : In the past few years, we have seen what we thought of as “disruption proof” businesses get disrupted by new and unexpected competitors. Taxis by Uber & Lyft.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Leaders with great teams in place to manage the crisis internally, should be on a media blitz tour, accepting responsibility and continuously communicating their plans and progress to fixing the situation. They could not just be putting customers up in hotels, but in Bed and Breakfasts and 5 star resorts. Brand Your Changes.

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Jason Womack

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Are you hoping that you’ll be more productive today, and maybe even get home in time to have dinner with the family, or return to the hotel in time to get a workout in before dinner? Maybe you’re going to be traveling - planes, trains and automobiles with a late check-in at a hotel. Have you set a goal to get more things done today?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 16, 2019

To this point: People must believe it’s their store, their hotel, their office, their factory, or their hospital. The Basics: In many leadership teams, what people really think often gets discussed in the hallways and bathrooms and by the watercooler rather than in meeting rooms. People know what to do and why they are doing it.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The team believes that the technology would help to mitigate some of the devastation caused to the travel industry by the pandemic, while also opening up new possibilities. When you measure and preserve multiple angles and digitize that in video form, you could visualize it from multiple angles. ” Virtual tourism.

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