Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

To Lead Highly Productive Teams: Keep Them Focused on What Matters Most If you want to increase productivity at work, maintain a relentless focus on what matters most in four areas. First, ensure your team understands their big strategic priorities – the outcomes that matter most for the organization. So, stop trying.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2018

Project management isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re pressured from above to produce results and from below to cultivate relationships with your project teams. And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. You can become […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2024

Employee retention strategies will help your team stick around through reorganizations, layoffs, and other corporate chaos. Effective employee retention strategies are critical to help your team come through the other side with confidence and enthusiasm for their work. They had a clear communication plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

Creative teams stay open to what’s possible and explore alternative perspectives. Some of the best teams we know are great because they stay curious and creative. We’ve curated this list of curiosity habits and resources to make it easier to infuse curiosity into your team’s culture. Incubator Guide Here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. Here are ten important questions to start with when building a high-performing team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

or, “Doesn’t the team understand why we’re doing what we’re doing?” – the answer is almost always “No, they don’t get it. In those moments, it’s worth your effort to understand your leaders’ or your team’s decision-making if you can. What About Your Team or Skip-Level Frustrations?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Great teams know where they’re going, and need each other to be successful. You can use these habits to assess how you’re showing up to influence your team. Or, share it with your team to identify opportunities to make your good team even better. Related Article: How to Build a Great Team Culture 2.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2023

You’ve Got a Good Team, Don’t Let That Stop You From Making it Great You’ve got a good team. If you’re fortunate to be working on a good team, it can be tempting to keep doing what you’ve always done. If your good team’s results are the outcome of a deliberate strategy, well executed.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

7 Steps to Successfully Cultivate a Thriving Team Culture After a Corporate Merger 1. Establish a new list of 4-5 Core Team Values … and defining behaviors. A targeted culture-change plan defines desired behaviors, implements training, and establishes feedback mechanisms. Remember, granularity is key.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2024

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” If you want your team to get better at strategic thinking, start by helping them challenge assumptions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” Making plans is important, but our gut reaction is to plan for the best-case outcomes, ignoring the high likelihood that things will go wrong. In turn, a 2014 study of IT projects found that only 16.2%

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Communicate About How they Communicate. As we shared in 6 habits of highly effective hybrid and virtual teams , the best hybrid and virtual teams have this in common– they work at it. They don’t take their virtual team communication for granted. RELATIONSHIPS.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 29, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development We have all heard the age old 7 P’s about the effects proper planning has on your performance. Poor planning is one of the top reasons most businesses fail. The ability to properly plan and complete projects can be an extremely intricate, complicated [.].

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 2, 2021

How to Have an Effective Project Team Meeting. Following good meeting management procedures can have a highly positive effect on your project: People will be more willing to attend meetings that run smoothly. The team will feel a sense of accomplishment that increases commitment and willingness to do project work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

12 Habits Great Teams Consistently Do to Create Commitment and Build Collaboration 1. You can help your team avoid endless discussions, analysis paralysis, and chokepoints by moving conversations to intentions to specific actions. Related Article: Help Your Team Do More-Stop (over) Talking and Start Doing 2.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 16, 2020

She was striving to increase her visibility by taking on high-profile projects. She’d taken on two new projects that made up nearly half of her workload. You’re working to increase your output and the caliber of projects you carry out, building visibility and influence while excelling in your current job. Eat a healthy snack.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 14, 2022

There are innovative practices coming to light all the time that benefit business owners and encourage employees into more productive outputs, and agile project management is the recent one gaining traction. Key Features of Agile Project Management. There are five clear features to consider for effective agile project management.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. AND then, I became a large team operations leader. Working on writing a book and having a meaningful project. You can manage your team as a portfolio of S curves.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? 03:36 How do we practically ensure your team’s busy day is worth it?

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 29, 2022

Here are three insights to help you navigate this uncharted territory of hybrid work and get the best out of your team: Time Of Day Find out what time of the day is most effective for each team member. Find out the best time for each team member and make sure you have them firing on all cylinders during that time span.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

7 Ways to Encourage Your Team to Be More Resourceful. Who doesn’t need more of that on their team right now? And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2012

Pre-Animate focuses the team on what is needed for accomplishing the goals and objectives. At the beginning of the project, the hopes and concerns are high. On project teams much of the learning takes place when the project is complete. A project that has a defined goals and expected outcomes. Time Frame.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 4, 2023

their third edition of, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan. Ill-prepared, without a plan, and lacking proper onboarding, the land mines will get you. By Day 30 share with your team: Mission -- Why here, why exist, what business are we in? Strategies -- Broad choices around how the team will achieve its objectives.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 1, 2021

Managing any sort of team is not easy. It does not matter whether you have ten team members or you have 50, you have to make sure that the project remains on the right track so that you can achieve your objects on-team and on budget. Clear and effective communication is at the core of every project today.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 29, 2023

The latest project from MEA is Generations Over Dinner , which aims to inspire meaningful conversations across generations. Bringing generations together The project aims to prompt participants to bring as many generations as possible to the dinner table. The Generations Over Dinner App is now available in the Apple App Store here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2024

You’ll learn to express care and investment through phrases like, “I care about you, this team, this project.” ” To keep the dialogue productive, he suggests planning follow-ups with, “Let’s schedule time to talk about this again and see how our solution is working.”

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Project management isn’t simple. This post will show you how to manage a construction project successfully by using the right tools and staying organized. Check out our tips for successful construction project management below. Check out our tips for successful construction project management below. Be Prepared.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 23, 2020

Your entire team is working from home — this has never happened before. It’s the nature of managing a team — surprisingly, some people will work better at home than at the office — so you get an increased dividend. Figure out what’s best for each team members’ special needs — everyone is different.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

Whether you are managing a multi-million dollar project or overseeing tasks for a small startup, being a project manager can be a stressful and challenging role. One small problem or missed deadline can result in a disaster for you, your team, and your client. A helpful project management tip is to set realistic goals.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

If you’re a leader who needs to attract and retain great talent, you have a huge stake in your team members answering, “Yes,” to both of those questions. The third P is for Plan – what’s the plan that will create the picture that fulfills our purpose? What else helps in keeping your team engaged? Great leaders do too.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

A manufacturing industry client had put a Digital Transformation Planning process in place before I began working them last year. The management team had done many of the right things in getting the planning program off of the ground – training, governance and executive oversight were all in place.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 18, 2018

Every individual in the team is valuable towards the success of the team. But to a great extent, it is the manager’s and the team leader’s responsibility to ensure that their team members feel valued. Engaging with your team members is not just having a transactional relationship. Inclusive Behavior.

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RapidStart Leadership

JULY 8, 2021

Before launching our teams on any new project, there are five questions we should have answers to so they don't get lost in the jungle. The post Lost in the Jungle: 5 Questions to Ask Before Launching Your Team appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 13, 2015

I’m launching a new project that will significantly propel the LGL mission of growing leaders with the confidence and humility to make a deeper impact on the world. It’s a strong team, and I found us organically asking one another questions to frame our mission and set us up for success. Why is this project vital?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Individuals or partners develop a plan and iterate as new information arises. If sophisticated investors are involved — as often happens in biotech — the plan is undoubtedly subjected to intensive due diligence. They're things you never saw coming and you never planned for. Develop living plans that are regularly updated.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

At its core, lean project management is about delivering greater value while minimizing waste. If your goal is to improve your team’s lean project management, resulting in greater efficiency and productivity, you need to take a number of key steps. Improved team collaboration. Step Two: Create a value plan.

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