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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. The End of Year Letter. Ask each member of your team to write you a letter, as if it were January 2018.

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A Letter from Chile

Next Level Blog

Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Post another comment The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below.   Kind Regards Alan Cuthbert Proud to be Chilean ….,

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First Look: Leadership Books for November 2020

Leading Blog

Based on the breakthrough Akimbo workshop pioneered by legendary author Seth Godin, The Practice will help you get unstuck and find the courage to make and share creative work. Creative work doesn't come with a guarantee. But there is a pattern to who succeeds and who doesn't. Unconscious bias affects everyone.

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Win/Win: Workplace Well-Being Boosts Company-Well Being

The Practical Leader

Reviewing the research , the Indeed Editorial Team notes, “Even though 87% of executives and managers agree that improving work wellbeing gives them a competitive edge, a mere 19% said that wellbeing was a strategic priority in their organization. There’s an index under those categories on the right column of our Resources page.

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When The Right Channels Lead to Dead Ends

Lead Change Blog

After reading that post, one of our Lead Change Group members shared a time when the only recourse seemed to be taking an issue public within the organization after multiple attempts to bring the issue to management’s attention more privately had failed. The facilitators in the workshop encouraged this type of story-telling.

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Enhance Your Communication Skills with Constructive Feedback

Strategy Driven

I’d learned from spiritual teacher Ram Dass that he always read letters and evaluations he got from his talks and teachings and what he paid attention to most intently was the negative feedback. Some of those letters turned into long exchanges until he felt that he’d truly processed what the critics were telling him.

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Three Tips for Managing an Olbermann - Next Level Blog

Next Level Blog

If you’ve got someone on your team who is clearly a star but regularly disrupts the chi and makes life difficult for others on the team, you’ve got a tough problem as a manager. So, how do you manage the superstar that has a penchant for stirring things up? What have you learned about managing difficult superstars?

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