Rich Gee Group

JULY 31, 2023

A Game-Changing Blueprint for Empowering Middle Managers Designing and delivering a top-notch middle manager program is all about delivering relevance and value. First, you must understand who your middle managers are and what they're grappling with. Recognize their needs. Understand their pain points.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

4:13 – Today’s question is a follow up to our last episode with Scott Mautz where we discussed Leading from the Middle. Brandon asks about the role middle managers and senior leaders play when they promote people into leadership roles. 6:59 – The vital role a manager plays for every employee.

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics Here is a simple idea: Whenever you have a new manager (project manager/departmental leader) joining in your organization, put him/her through a simple training program on how to manage people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Your leadership work shifts from force to invitation, from control to influence, from fear to gratitude. Gratitude is missing when…. Every ounce of energy they spend on a project is a gift.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

It’s fairly well established that the culture of an organization flows from the top, with managers taking their cue on how to behave from those above them. New research from Columbia Business School highlights how middle managers are especially likely to treat those below them as they themselves are treated.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 13, 2018

Bright employees who claimed higher management torpedoed their ideas and tied their hands. Middle managers who expressed frustration that they couldn’t change anything about their teams, let alone the whole organization. If you influence one person, one interaction at a time, you contribute to a more positive culture.

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Chartered Management Institute

MARCH 7, 2024

Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email You might also like these posts on this topic: CMI celebrates International Women’s Day 2024: a message from CMI’s Patron, HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh GCVO This year’s International Women’s Day theme is “Inspire Inclusion” – here are six actions that we can all take today [Article] (..)

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HR Digest

JULY 4, 2023

It’s no longer an elusive concept influenced by everyone but led by no one. It’s a model that embraces different perspectives, from employees to customers, from middle managers to the CEO. Compliance, Risk, and Ethics Department: Ensure alignment between the desired culture and risk management strategies.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 5, 2024

The researchers also mapped the informal networks in each business to see whether they influenced how feedback was given. A good example is a middle manager who is involved in multiple teams. After comparing the reviews with the status of each employee, it emerged that one’s position in the business mattered.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 2, 2016

I am told I influence people, but I am not technically a leader. I am middle management on a team of 10. I was told in my review last week that I have such influence, I need to be careful with that power, … … Continue reading → Hi Dan, I need some development help. One of the newer members.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2018

In the business environment, researchers discovered that average EQ scores increase the higher in an organisation a person is, up to middle-management. Surprisingly, EQ levels drop sharply when you go above middle-management and what is more surprising, CEO’s, typically have lower EQ scores than the lowest ranked employees.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2023

A conversation with McKinsey’s Emily Field on reimagining the roles to fit the times.

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Marshall Goldsmith

APRIL 5, 2011

Many knowledge workers have years of education and experience in training for their positions, yet have almost no training in how to effectively influence decision makers. The eleven guidelines listed below are intended to help you do a better job of influencing decision makers. The effective influencer needs to be a good teacher.

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Management Excellence

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

While your own level of influence might not be something that crosses your mind on a daily basis, your relative level of influence in your organization is at least one reasonable proxy for measuring your effectiveness as a leader.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 4, 2014

But so do supervisors, middle managers, and team leads. There are always informal ways to influence managers and leaders above you in the organization. Read any page of any history book and you see how monarchs, generals and presidents abuse power. Less power does not equal powerless.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Amy, a middle manager in a government organization would roll her eyes in impatience and cross her arms over her chest in disagreement with others. But yet, these habits can harm your ability to influence others or to develop strong healthy relationships that will help you to live into your full potential.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Our middle managers might have interesting observations that could be valuable.” You “catch” and influence culture on a daily basis: where and when it happens. If you influence one person, one interaction at a time, you contribute to a more positive organization. ” Mary’s heart was pounding.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2011

B: Using Influence to Get Things Done. mikemyatt: #Leadership & Influence - 10 steps to making influence a competency. ohau8622: Tired of Being Middle Management? Try Being a Middle Leader. @stefanstern: Interesting stuff in Business Week on predicting future success after a promotion/job change.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A 2004 experiment using sociometric badges in a mock negotiation (between a corporate vice president and a middle manager) demonstrated that “tone of voice” used by participants in the first five minutes predicted more than a third of the variation in the objective and subjective outcome of a negotiation.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Marcella recaps, “Even something as simple as the absence or presence of greetings in emails influences an organization’s climate, as research shows. Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders contributed Eight Techniques to Help Your Middle Managers Cultivate Their “Sweet Spot” in Your Organization.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

In order to improve our leadership expertise, we must become aware of our strengths and weaknesses, our values and behaviors, and the ways in which they attempt to influence others. Our relationships with others mirror the relationship we have with self; a de-humanizing leadership behavior gives others permission to act in a similar vein.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

Middle managers have not fared well. Much has been written about their adoption of a self-management system— holacracy —with no job titles and zero managers. While I applaud their effort to break down unnecessary walls, getting rid of managers is not the answer. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2010

It was my good fortune to also recently be recognized by HR Examiner as a “ Top 25 Online Influencer on Leadership.&# (You can learn more about it at this link as well as in a podcast about the online influencer list with Peter Clayton of Total Picture Radio.) why is everyone smiling?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

It may feel as though we’re in a crisis of leadership, but if you stop to look around it’s not hard to find examples of CEOs, middle managers, elected officials, public servants, neighborhood watch organizers, team captains and coaches, teachers and countless others who are doing a good job as leaders.

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Sales Wolf Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

 Michael recently attended the Business Growth Expo where Jack Santiago of Disney shed some light on their approach to people management and shares the key points he took away from Jack's presentation. 

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

Lack of Middle Management Buy-In: Middle management has a very strong influence on culture because they have the most immediate connection to most of your employees—and often customers, as well. Middle managers are instrumental in creating a deep personal commitment to change.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2015

shared Two Ways to Influence People at Work. In this article, David shares two ways you can build relationships and achieve results with using the methods he suggests to influence people at work or in any other leadership role. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds submitted The Incredible Shrinking Manager: Flat is Back.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 7, 2010

Here are a few of John’s comments about connection: - Leadership is influence. Connecting is the ability to identify with and relate to people that it increases our influence with them. Presently I’m listening to John Maxwell who recently wrote Everyone Communicates, Few Connect. why is everyone smiling?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Marcella recaps, “Even something as simple as the absence or presence of greetings in emails influences an organization’s climate, as research shows. Karin Hurt of Let’s Grow Leaders contributed Eight Techniques to Help Your Middle Managers Cultivate Their “Sweet Spot” in Your Organization.

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QAspire

MARCH 25, 2014

The reality is that training middle managers on critical thinking skills is much like teaching an adult to ride a bicycle. BONUS: Don’t miss the guest post “ Environment is Everything ” written by Mr. Gurprriet Siingh , Director and Head, YSC India, an executive coach, blogger and a social media influencer. Stay Tuned!

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The Recovering Engineer

JULY 13, 2010

To hear the full interview, check out From Bud to Boss at The Cranky Middle Manager. We spoke about a number of issues related to the transition to leadership people make when they take their first supervisory role. This is the topic of the Bud to Boss workshop that Kevin Eikenberry and I developed).

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 3, 2020

I’ve found great success in developing programs like our year-long Leadership Academy for middle managers or our six-month program called Employee 100 for front-line staff. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? Van Gorder : Spend time with them.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 31, 2010

After defining connection, we identify the “Connection Culture&# as the environment that produces emotional and rational connections that, as The Conference Board’s definition says “influence [people] to apply discretionary effort to [their] work.&# The Connection Culture meets universal human needs.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I’ve found great success in developing programs like our year-long Leadership Academy for middle managers or our six-month program called Employee 100 for front-line staff. Question : How do you engage middle-managers to effectively reflect your philosophies? Van Gorder : Spend time with them.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

They typically have the moral confidence that influences others and they do so in a loving, patient way rather than forcing their values upon others. Staying connected with God, family and friends who help us grow in character keeps us humble so that we have greater influence on the values of those around us.

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LDRLB

MAY 3, 2011

This is the one senior executives or organizations refer to themselves as, and middle managers read books on in hopes of becoming the aforementioned senior executives. Non-positional leadership is a little different.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Like Ted and the card he gives to his employees, I encourage you to regularly find ways to communicate to your children and even to other children in your circle of influence about character and virtue. When he reads a book that influences his values, he purchases three more copies, one for each of his young sons.

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