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Leadership - Consistency (Popularity:  )
I have worked with many leaders who failed to recognize this truth. In fact, I am sure that there have been times throughout my career where I haven’t provided the leadership that my team required.
The truth is that it’s easy to be a great leader when things are going well.
When sales are up, profits are growing and customers are happy it seems that you have all the right answers. You ...
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Leadership - A Vision (Popularity: )
Does your company have a leadership problem?
Most people would answer “yes”, no matter how successful their company may be. In fact, this challenge is so huge that a quick search on the word “Leadership” (Amazon.com) returns more than 115,000 entries!
In case you don’t have the time to read 115,000 books, I have developed a list of the 13 key characteristics of all great leaders. I will address a new characteristic ...
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Teambuilding Events Don't Work (Popularity: )
Have you ever attended a teambuilding event only to return to work and encounter the same team issues that existed prior to the event? So, why didn’t the experience and bonding from the event stick? Why did it have an impact while you were there but little or no residual effect?
Were the participants not committed? Were the event activities lackluster? Was it just "too little, too late" for your team? ...
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High Performance Teams - 9 Essential Ingredients for Team Building (Popularity: )
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"Nothing is so infectious as example." Francois de La Rochefoucauld
In conducting team building training and management skills training all over the world since 1995, I've discovered there are nine essential ingredients that consistently crop up in creating high performance teams. Listed below are the top nine beginning with communication.
High Performance Teams: 9 Things a Leader Can Do To Energize and Motivate Employees To Extraordinary Performance:
1) Communication: Open, honest communication between ...
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What is a Negaholic? (Popularity: )
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I know it sounds comical, but yes it is an actual word. As published in Webster's New Millennium Dictionary of English (v 0.9.7), a negaholic is defined as "a person who thoroughly enjoys a negative or pessimistic outlook; completely negative or pessimistic".
When I first heard the term, I must admit, it made me laugh. But it is a brilliant word that describes people we all know who destroy vision, create ...
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Activate to Motivate Your Staff (Popularity: )
There are strategies that employers can create to foster an enjoyable workplace. Happy, motivated staff are more inclined to stay with the company. Most organizations spend big dollars to recruit their employees and training them. So what can you do to make sure your employees are happy and motivated to want to stay and grow with the company?
For example, the receptionist has one of the most important roles in the ...
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Top Ten Tips For Hiring A Senior Executive (Popularity: )
There is no more important decision than choosing the people at the top or your organization. After all, they will hire or approve everyone else in the company, set the tome for values and make virtually all key decisions that will mean success or failure every business day.
A structured approach to hiring that includes all of the following items must ALWAYS be followed for any senior level hire (VP and ...
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How To Overcome Your Team's Inertia (Popularity: )
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Managing employees and teams in today's business environment is one of the toughest challenges a company has to face. With fewer resources and less time, and an atmosphere of job insecurity and pervasive change, the workplace often becomes a battlefield.
Maybe your budget has been cut by a third. Maybe you've been told to become 15 percent more productive, or else. Or maybe your company is facing competition from several foreign ...
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Base Jumping For Beginners: Principles of Successful Remote Team Leadership (Popularity: )
Introduction This article looks at the basic considerations for any team leader/manager implementing the switch to flexible/remote working teams.
Staff Suitability Teams which tend to fit easily into the remote worker/team mould have the following common characteristics - They are either knowledge workers or back office admin staff - They approach their work in a mature, disciplined and self motivated way. - Their work is task/project focused in nature. This is ...
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Essentials For Building a High Performance Team (Popularity: )
Teams represent a very powerful mechanism for getting significant results in organizations today. Much has been learned about the development and implementation of teams over the past few years. We have seen what works, what doesn’t and the best approach for developing and nurturing teams. A new class of teams are evolving that have the potential of replacing traditional hierarchical organization structures with a flat, self directed, cross functional, process ...
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