Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2020

Guest post from Alain Hunkins : Over the past two decades, I’ve worked with thousands of teams, and tens of thousands of leaders in twenty-five countries around the world. On the surface, each team and company’s situation and issues were unique. They accept obstacles as part and parcel of the process.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 3, 2014

Bill Parcells is famous for sharing a similar message with his football teams. But Parcells’ point is that we need to focus on the pipeline. Has your team been distracted by uncomfortable conditions? Finish your team''s pipeline. It is a leader’s job to ignore those distractions and get the job done.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

With a large in-house team, it’s inevitable that your office will get into a bit of a mess every once in a while. Pin important documents and messages that the whole team need to see on a big office pin board. Message & pin boards. This way, need-to-know messages won’t get lost and will be positioned at eye level for all to see.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 22, 2016

That’s fine and is part and parcel of every day life. If you share the green workload between two buildings, you’ll reduce the carbon footprint of both, so why not team up with a like-minded company nearby? Add bins for plastics, metals, glass and food waste and encourage your staff to use them. Turn stuff off.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 3, 2021

it might not physically cost more to transport a parcel from A to B, but your team will be working around to clock to manage the logistics strategy. More complex queries can also be filtered and passed on to the team. Exceed their expectations. Customers have expectations on the quality of your services or product.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

From the euphoria of a Friday ending the workweek to the inevitable Monday blues after a weekend are part and parcel of work life. Also, this feeling of procrastination and general laziness can be contagious, affecting your whole team. A workweek has its highs and lows. Monday blues can affect your productivity.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Simply having an idea or plan and pushing it onto other team members and expecting them to follow just isn’t going to cut it. In high-performing teams, everyone has a role to play in making something happen. Resilience and adaptability became part and parcel of what many businesses had to do during the pandemic.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A slight twist on the classical passing-the-parcel game, in this game a big box is wrapped multiple times. The team which manages to get to the gift the fastest is declared the winner. You are not allowed to speak and must rely on non-verbal communication to help your team score some points. Unearthing the gift. Dumb Charades.

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 13, 2023

For a team member or manager, you do not have to introduce yourself over the email as they will know who you are and what the email is regarding. Greetings and salutations to you and your team at [Company]. The introduction to the email depends on your previous experience with the receiver and how familiar you are with them.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2011

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Strategy Driven

MAY 4, 2016

A few years ago when shipping giant United Parcel Service (UPS) adopted the clever marketing slogan “Moving At The Speed Of Business,” it resonated well with the public because keeping up with the pace of change can be incredibly tough. Keeping track of how your team(s) are handling major change is a great way to maintain that culture.

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

CEOs need a plan to back their team with vaccination policies. employees informing them that all of its salaried employees, office-based staff, sales team, and employees who need to travel for business will be required to get vaccinated by Oct. UPS: United Parcel Service will require employees in certain U.S. 25 from September.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why some teams “shoot out the lights”…and most don’t Those who aspire to help create and then lead create teams that deliver high-impact results will find the material in this HBR book invaluable.

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CO2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Female leaders need to recognize that taking time off is part and parcel of taking proper care of themselves. By Sylvia Lafair Do we have to go off to an island with limited access to the internet to get some quiet? I know of the CEO of a company who takes Fridays off during winter as “personal ski days.&#

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 9, 2010

Design will impact your messaging, positioning, business modeling, team building, resourcing, branding, and virtually every functional aspect of what you do. You bring up Apple, a shining example (no pun intended) of design being part and parcel of brand.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 7, 2011

So outside ears, and eyes, are important for concert-caliber musicians, winning sports teams and Olympic-level athletes. They parcel out their observations carefully. There was a moment in sports when employing a coach was unimaginable—and then came a time when not doing so was unimaginable. Coaching has become a fad in recent years.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

He also centralized IT to remove redundancies and incompatibilities that made teaming across silos nearly impossible. Call it instinct, call it talent, it was Barra’s ability to encourage teaming that catapulted her to the top of an organization with 212,000 employees. They play well as a team. Auto industry Leading teams'

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 20, 2014

In a hypothetical scenario, research participants were willing to pay 6% more for a parcel of land if the male seller engaged in friendly small-talk before negotiating the deal, demonstrating that men benefit from striking up casual conversation before negotiations, says a team led by Brooke Shaughnessy of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Germany.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 22, 2015

While delivering millions of dollars in profits, these projects have helped develop a cadre of leaders who can inspire teams to achieve big goals. Managers learn how to articulate a business opportunity in ways that energize team members. Of course, a goal that is too ambitious will break the team’s spirit. Do it fast.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

For example, a large automotive parts company had just completed a merger, and the senior team — made up of leaders from both firms — struggled with making decisions. Each person on the team answered these questions separately, and a facilitator consolidated them as the basis for a group discussion.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Under manager Joe Girardi , the New York Yankees baseball team won their 27th World Series championship title. If you’ve got a home-run-hitting team, you can’t make them all base stealers, and vice versa.” ” You and Your Team. And if they don’t want to listen, they don’t belong on the team.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Team members and colleagues began to see her as a conflict avoider, and she lost their trust. There’s no question that an ability to manage conflict is part and parcel of all three. So how does someone like Sarah learn to embrace, rather than avoid, disagreement? Engage in conversation, and tackle the conflict head on.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2018

” and the marketing team provides one answer, sales a second, and accounting a third. Since developing new language is part and parcel to innovation, you must not interfere with the process. One good cue to do so is when members of your team include caveats in describing results. First, establish the required team.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2012

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." The analytics team focused on three questions. First, how can we improve the performance of our agents and teams? Sprint's analytics team didn't just crunch numbers and treat people like widgets. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Even more important, it takes management time to align all teams, including those of the acquired businesses, to the transformation initiative. To keep all stakeholders aligned over the course of the transformation, the company’s executive team should be clear and unrelenting about the vision of its future and the rationale thereof.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

At some point in your career, even if you’re not a salesperson, you’re going to have to sell something — whether it’s your idea , your team, or yourself. And that is part and parcel of professional life. So how can you improve your sales skills, especially if you don’t pitch people often?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2014

VCs, they’re told, take more of a long-term approach, have a greater degree of risk tolerance, and parcel out their funds in stages to mitigate risk. When investing in new growth businesses, corporate leaders are commonly advised to behave more like venture capitalists. All of this is right, as far as it goes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2015

When you take your first leadership role, or find yourself at the helm of a new team, first impressions are essential to get right. Your team will think you smarter for it. But if you want to get your team’s best effort, and all the information you need from them to make good decisions, you are going to need them to trust you.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 1, 2013

You should be concerned about the aging curves of your marketing people; you should want to know if your tech support folks will deliver better outcomes tomorrow than today; you should be predicting which sales teams will procure the most lucrative contracts with the minimum risks. Think of it as Six Sigma predictive analytics for talent.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Collaboration is essential in professional services firms because most work is done in teams. The industry is even becoming more collaborative, as teams become global and diverse and the workplace becomes more virtual. Performance reviews emphasize firm and team contribution rather than individual performance.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). Bezos invited Collins to Amazon a few months before Collin’s book was published in 2001 to teach the senior leadership team the flywheel concept. The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Encourage Successful Failure (Principle 1).

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The first approach requires the creation of an internal consultancy to the business units, asking them to identify needs or opportunities that your team should work on, and agreeing that at a certain point, you’ll hand over projects to them once they’re ready to move past the testing phase. Invest real money.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. For those who decide to build in flood risk areas, construction teams will be able to use modular materials that can be disassembled like Lego pieces. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

It’s essential to step back and ask not only whether the team has identified the right plans or solutions but whether they have identified the right questions and problems in the first place. Visualize positive outcomes : As Daniel Goleman argues , positivity is part and parcel of focused attention.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

CEO Kenneth Samet, along with Wagner and the six other executives on the leadership team, set a long-term goal of building a major growth business from these new areas. This annual pool of resources and money is parceled out to the various initiatives in the innovation portfolio as those projects evolve and grow in importance over time.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It begins with being seen as “someone worth keeping and someone [your boss] wants to have as part of his team.” Earning your boss’s respect is part and parcel of earning the esteem of your colleagues. Lucy also held a face-to-face meeting with Whitney and the rest of the team.

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