Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or as one manager told me when she is perceived as negative, “It’s not that I’m negative, it’s just that I care so F-ing much!” You’re in a leadership meeting, and your boss proposes an idea that sounds great IN THEORY. How do you help a team member who is perceived as negative?

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 27, 2023

“We start by sitting down with senior managers and human resources, brainstorming about what they think should be explaining pay in their organization. The post Researchers Propose A New Approach To Tackling The Gender Pay Gap first appeared on The Horizons Tracker.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2024

05:18 – Managing Meeting Invitations For those endless meetings, learn to ask, “What’s the contribution you need me to make?” Begin with connection and clarity about the impact of their requests and propose alternative solutions that align with team goals.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2018

I was recently asked back, a year on from the completion of the restructuring process, to revisit the business strategy and help the staff team develop and refresh it. Combatting the impact of individuals’ cynicism, especially when exacerbated by an apparent lack of buy-in from middle management.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

As such, here are six steps that will help you strengthen team cohesion, regardless of what storms might be looming outside your organization’s walls. After all, it’s easy to care about our contributions, but what about the contributions their fellow team mates make?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Horizontal alignment— Across the organization, all functions, departments, and teams work together towards a set of common goals. High performing businesses, athletic teams, pit crews, and marching bands are highly aligned, which produces clarity, focus, and energy. . Does the proposed initiative support our business strategy?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

When your team or supervisor thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. But unless Winnie the Pooh and Tigger are on your team, shifting that perception of negativity will help you have more influence and contribute your expertise.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 17, 2024

Stand out by identifying issues and proposing solutions. Action Steps: Regularly brainstorm potential improvements to your team’s processes. Present well-thought-out solutions to your manager. Share your successes and learning experiences with your team to build credibility.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 18, 2018

Achieving the highest possible return on human capital must be every manager’s goal. Sebastian asks: As a new manager, I see that building relationships with my employees is way different than with coworkers. Trust is important to the employee/manager relationship. This will emphasize that you’re a team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

When your team thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. But unless you have Winnie the Pooh and Tigger on your team, shifting that perception of negativity will help you have more influence and help you to contribute your expertise.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

This is an excerpt from When Bad Teams Happen to Good People by Valerie Patrick. Strive to Be an Excellent Leader and Manager. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. Effective team leaders can identify the right results and can achieve them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2020

The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. Most of these teams struggle to innovate, often delivering incremental improvements at best. Simply telling a team to focus on innovation won’t suffice. You need to thoughtfully select people with the right mindset for the team. The problem?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 29, 2018

With employee disengagement remaining at very high levels in America and globally, and growth in significant new scientific findings that shed light on conditions necessary for human flourishing, it’s time to reconsider management theory and our approach to maximizing the performance of individuals and organizations. You May Also Enjoy: .

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 4, 2024

Here are ten strategies to gain your boss’s trust and become an indispensable team member. Identify areas where you can add value and propose solutions. Your proactive approach will be appreciated and demonstrate your dedication to the team’s success. Be willing to share your knowledge, resources, and time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.) As you learn the answers to these questions, focus on how the work your team does makes a difference. Give it time. You’re not ready yet.” (And

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2024

Navigating Workplace Conflict in a Changing World (03:51) Kilmann discusses the rising relevance of conflict management against the backdrop of global changes like diversity, deregulation, and political polarization. This instrument challenged existing notions by providing a more accurate reflection of how individuals engage in conflict.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 3, 2023

These interactions are crucial not only for catching up on your projects and receiving feedback but also for expressing your concerns, proposing new ideas, and understanding your boss's expectations and the company's vision. What are the top priorities for our team this quarter? This question can help clarify your immediate priorities.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 14, 2023

Case Study: Emily's Dilemma Emily was an account manager at a mid-sized marketing firm. She noticed that tasks were unevenly distributed in her team, with her handling the lion's share. Suggesting Solutions : She then suggested a bi-weekly team meeting to distribute tasks more equitably. In Emily's case, her strategy worked.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2024

Successful transformations harness the collective wisdom of middle managers and teams. To increase your company’s chances, you need to: 1) Enlist your very best middle managers. Transforming a business demands a blend of creativity and ingenuity. 2) Empower the middle to sponsor transformative changes.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

If you truly understand resistance, you seldom need to deal with it: You manage its cause before it even manifests itself! Some typical sources are: It could be that the team member simply doesn’t like you. The team member may feel attacked, or experiences your request as criticism. Understanding resistance.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 4, 2013

A project is also run by a project manager, who is responsible for the day-to-day execution of tasks, and is often appointed by the project owner or sponsor. A good project manager must also possess the ability to communicate clearly, solve problems, handle interpersonal conflicts, and plan, as well as secure commitments.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Applying the tools of design thinking to help your team conquer its goals doesn''t mean hunkering down on your own with an org chart in a dimly lit office to devise the perfect execution strategy. Design thinking is about engaging with your team at its most fundamental levels. Those creative shower moments rely on lots of data.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 10, 2024

Leadership involves a high-level view, guiding a team or organization towards long-term goals. These symptoms might manifest as an obsession with minor details, delays in decision-making, or a sudden drop in team morale and productivity. Identify tasks that other competent team members can execute effectively.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Leaders can easily over-promise the benefits of the proposed change effort, and when those benefits aren’t achieved, trust is broken. Team members want to know how the change will impact them individually. In my viewpoint, the biggest difference between being a “leader” and a “manager” is that leaders initiate change.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 26, 2019

I hope that, reflecting on my list, you might identify one or more needs for you, your team, or your organisation and respond accordingly. However, a clear vision, mission, and aligned values serve some admirable purposes, not least enabling others to see your proposed ‘direction of travel.’. Performance Management.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

However, they often end up with quite similar suggestions, whether from their own team or external contributors. Limiting the future Many businesses and leaders may not realize that their past choices can limit the variety of proposals they get. A common theme This phenomenon can also occur within companies and teams.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. That’s a myth. At the time, this was a bold suggestion. It’s a campaign—not a quick fix.

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Additional focus on creating non-traditional collaborations to bring innovation and fresh eyes to how our company goes about managerial-leadership development, team building, decision making, problem-solving, and innovation. Each trio will have a team coach to facilitate the team’s deliberate reflection for learning and development.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 7, 2023

These are individuals who seemingly do little to no work yet manage to remain employed. By crafting an image of hard work and dedication, they manage to create an illusion of productivity. Moreover, these individuals often have excellent crisis management skills. Let your performance speak for itself.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Managers are facing many dilemmas and questions around how they manage flexibility, how they acknowledge caring responsibilities, the role of automation for certain tasks, and home working versus office productivity,” Gratton explains. Rethinking performance management. Trust is key.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 17, 2024

managers, the research unveiled that about 30% of insecure workers anticipate losing their jobs in the next year. However, 21% of respondents who discussed the matter with their managers reported unsuccessful resolutions. Millions of workers in the U.K. Surveying 3,000 workers in precarious employment and 1,000 U.K. ”

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Effective leaders use communication as a critical competency to build trusting relationships, align team members around a vision, lead necessary change, and drive action. The best leaders maneuver these five steps in a way that leaves their teams feeling heard, understood, and valued. Avoid Absolutes.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The remaining two practices are defining a moral purpose for the change proposed, and correctly understanding the change process or journey you will take. As an interim manager in South Lakeland, I worked to rebuild a shattered youth work team. This surprised most, if not all, of the team.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 21, 2024

2024), this guide will help change teams understand how to effectively implement these principles, recognize when they are working, and identify potential issues. Encourage managers at all levels to facilitate change, not just dictate it. Visible changes in behavior that align with proposed cultural shifts.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

This series’s final part will balance needs with compromises, float tangential opportunities to expand horizons, and extricate from myopia on that elusive ‘unicorn’ management candidate. Experience leading a large regional team. You will find it difficult to move between functional management roles.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2019

and giving employees a (communication) training or a team-building session. The early adopters first take a critical look at the proposal before deciding whether it’s a good idea or not. In every team, at every level, look for those whose opinion is valued by their team members. Invest in Change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 31, 2023

Transform your leadership and team’s results with the power of small habits Your team won’t become a high-functioning powerhouse after one offsite. The idea was deemed far too risky, and most engineers wrote it off as an unsafe proposal. Scheduling the finish increases accountability and energizes your team.

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