Mike Cardus

MARCH 1, 2012

Teamwork needs individual roles & clear role-relationships with others. The role-components below descend in authority over others, and they all operate without the team-members being accountable for the output of the other only the direct manager is accountable for the output of subordinate team-members. Let’s explore Roles.

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Women on Business

OCTOBER 18, 2012

In industry today, we’re all operating in a pressure-cooker environment, laden with deadlines, quotas, and conflicting personalities. All this stress, however, can lead to a hostile, negative office atmosphere. All this stress, however, can lead to a hostile, negative office atmosphere. Identify the Source.

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Tony Mayo

JULY 30, 2009

That means those staff who actually meet customers, or run operations, tell the boss what works, rather than vice versa. It means delegating responsibility in order to empower staff. Imperious, dictatorial leaders who are out of touch with the shop floor do not achieve sustained success.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 1, 2015

As Fizzle CEO, Corbett Barr, told me: I stay productive by developing and maintaining what I call a personal “operating system”, which is a set of processes, tools and checkpoints that define how I get work done every day. The specifics of an operating system differ from person to person, but the important thing is that you have one.

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QAspire

JANUARY 8, 2014

A team can have both brilliant players and great teamwork… if the team is not built around an individual, if team-oriented behaviors are expected, and if the team is held accountable and recognized for its results. Jamie Flinchbaugh writes on lean, transformational leadership and entrepreneurial excellence. Jamie Flinchbaugh.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Teams that are emotionally aware and prepared can flex under stress and support each other to achieve the best results possible. What do you consistently notice if a team is operating with high emotional intelligence? The post How to Develop Your Team’s Emotional Intelligence first appeared on Skip Prichard | Leadership Insights.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

There are warning signs you may be stuck in founder-mode and not making the turn to leadership. If, as the pace quickens and the work becomes more complex and the stress level rises you become less curious, you’re stuck, and probably on the path to failure. Leadership is uncomfortable sometimes. And, you operate in a fishbowl.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

W HEN YOU AVOID the tough discussions and decisions, you hold your business back, make your team dysfunctional, and cause yourself stress. In part 3, Davey focuses on “what you can do to systematize conflict so it’s a part of the standard operating procedure of your team.” You set up a kind of conflict debt. Clarify Expectations.

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Absenteeism Bottom-up Tools Micromanagement 285

The Practical Leader

MARCH 29, 2023

For some, it’s about teamwork and creative synergy in the workplace. “The Acceleration Trap” is a major problem I’ve cited often from a classic series of Harvard Business Review articles by Heike Bruch, professor of leadership at the University of St. A leadership team retreat can help your team advance.

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CO2

JUNE 17, 2013

Under stressful conditions, our reptilian brains push us toward action (fight or flight), not deliberation and conversation. Leaders need to operate from a perspective of Not Knowing. The post Three Ways Leaders Outsmart Themselves appeared first on | Elements of Leadership Blog. Leading Others Teamwork at Work'

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

When employees are informed of potential changes, they learn to trust the leadership and often they will give you new ideas you hadn’t thought of. Let policy be the bad guy Privately owned or family owned companies often put policies and standard operating procedures on the back burner for many reasons.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2017

I’ll admit, it certainly was trying and stressful most days, and there were definitely times when I was frustrated with my team. Get out of the weeds – Operate at your level – set a vision, be strategic, understand and articulate the big picture.

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Development Restructuring Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 150

Tony Mayo

OCTOBER 13, 2010

– Alex “Sandy&# Pentland MIT Human Dynamics Lab in Harvard Business Review Another study, at a bank’s telephone call center, showed that operators who spent their breaks speaking to coworkers not only got more work done but experienced less workplace stress.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Inevitably, this creates stresses in our teams and workforce as our employees grapple with how to circumnavigate around these disruptions in an attempt to keep doing what they were doing before the change. The post How To Embrace Change In Today’s Organizations appeared first on TanveerNaseer.com.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 10, 2012

A vacation is also a great way to allow your employees to better manage the stresses they put on themselves in the pursuit of a “work-life” balance. Vacations encourage employees to be less dependent on key players One of the challenges all of us grapple with when we leave work for vacation is how will things operate while we’re gone?

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 10, 2012

A vacation is also a great way to allow your employees to better manage the stresses they put on themselves in the pursuit of a “work-life” balance. Vacations encourage employees to be less dependent on key players One of the challenges all of us grapple with when we leave work for vacation is how will things operate while we’re gone?

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Survey Attrition Creativity Stress 235

CO2

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Weekly Operational Meetings. Weekly operational meetings should be kept under 90 minutes. The post Effective Meeting Models appeared first on Elements of Leadership. Focus Teamwork at Work Meeting Management' Monthly meetings may be as short as 90 minutes or as long as 4 hours.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). The New Quality Leadership Workbook for Police. Step 1: Educate and inform everyone in the organization about the vision, the goals, and Quality Leadership. Step 3: Teach Quality Leadership.

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Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 25, 2011

His speech and book marked the beginning of my realization that the workplace is essentially stuck in the industrial age and bears no resemblance to how we need to operate in the knowledge economy. Nobody feels guilty, overworked, or stressed-out. Change is scary… leadership is about having courage. There are no work schedules.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 22, 2021

New research from George Mason University also highlights how important it is in buffering the impact of stress and burnout during the Covid-19 pandemic for healthcare staff operating on the front line. This was especially so when their workplace provided strong teamwork, communication, and overall leadership support.

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Health Care Teamwork Influence Stress 129

Roundtable Talk

JANUARY 12, 2011

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). Case in point: I once hired someone who was a terrific person into our highly entrepreneurial fast-paced consulting firm. "Cool" is a moving target.

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Roundtable Talk

JUNE 4, 2010

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? For this decade? The key is to create some structures of accountability.

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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.” Share this: This entry was posted in Communication and tagged best leadership advice , Jay Woo , leadership lessons , PowerRoundtable. So… who are you going to get out and talk to today?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2017

Before 1999 “performance” had a simple, unidimensional definition for health care leaders and their boards: It was shorthand for the CFO’s financial report, summarizing operating margins. In the years since, “performance” has become more complex, now including dozens or even hundreds of quality measures.

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Health Care Chief Financial Officer Comparison Quality 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. But customer service and leadership training that only enhances rather than transforms capabilities and skills doesn’t buy very much.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2018

Its hierarchical authority, specialized division of labor, and standard operating procedures enabled companies to grow far larger than they had ever been. I know it is critical for the leadership to embrace agile, but the sad reality is that I’m not sure our leadership team will start before it’s too late.

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Bureaucracy Agility Energy Constraint 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

These two intrinsic, human drives operate in opposite directions, with our sense of group membership encouraging cognitive processes similar to other group members and undermining the motivation to think uniquely — that is, undermining creativity itself. Several studies lend practical support to this theoretical notion.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

” Why do companies get caught up in illegal behavior, harassment, and toxic leadership? Together this creates miserable, counterproductive work environments that increase stress, burnout, and turnover. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. The business case against masculinity contests.

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Ask Atma

JANUARY 2, 2011

If the person(s) responsible for managing are able to look at the eighteen points above and determine they are more or less in place, they are operating at the most fundamental or beginner’s level of management. Managing for Value – Governance, change management, organizational culture, communication, leadership. creativity.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Although there’s an assumption that stress and pressure push employees to perform more, better, and faster, what cutthroat organizations fail to recognize is the hidden costs incurred. economy because of workplace stress, and 550 billion workdays are lost each year due to stress on the job. Insight Center.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Even if work is hectic and occasionally overwhelming, knowing that you have a team you can talk to can greatly reduce the stress of work. Forbes Advisor reported that 46 percent of their survey respondents experienced heightened stress levels on seeing messages ignored for extended periods.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2015

Yet most companies are using the same old methods: strategic plans, goal-setting, streamlining operations, reducing inefficiency. Buffer against negative events like stress, improving employees ability to bounce back from challenges and difficulties. That, ultimately, built trust – the ultimate ingredient to teamwork.“

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