Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
How to be an Effective Leader… 3 keys to success
Are you new to managing a team? Learning how to be an effective leader is hard, especially if you’re new to managing people. If you’ve been promoted from inside of the team, you also have to balance the shift in team expectations and behavior as well as your own. Here are a few tips on…
Read MoreSolving Common Team Performance Issues
Teamwork makes the dream work. It’s cliché, but we all want to head into the office every day knowing we can work effectively with our teams to meet company goals. Despite best efforts and intentions, things happen that impact team performance. As a manager, you find yourself the person responsible for solving these performance…
Read More10 Key Behaviors to Support Your Organizational Change
Are you launching a Change Management Program? We’ve put together a list of behaviors that will help you manage your program – and drive to a number – in a way that supports ongoing sustainable change. Change projects are not easy. They deserve to be done well, both for the people impacted and the organizations…
Read More3 Ways to Build Employee Engagement
Looking for ways to build employee engagement? Without spending a dime? Here’s some food for thought on how you can improve your bottom line and your perception as an employer of choice. Think of your employees with a customer mindset There’s a shift happening among high performing companies where employees are viewed through the same lens…
Read MoreWhen it’s time to part company…
No one looks forward to firing someone. It’s one of the hardest things we do as leaders. The conversation is confronting, we don’t know how the person will react and, honestly, we don’t get a lot of practice. Here are a few suggestions to help you if you’re planning to part company with an employee.…
Read MoreManaging Change? Ask these questions before you start
Before you embark on a change management project, ask yourself these questions. They will help you identify what you need to achieve ongoing sustainable change in your organization. Is it achievable? This is not about whether the change can be implemented. It’s about whether your people will change. For example, most technology-driven change pushes efficiency and…
Read MoreBuilding Engagement from the Inside
Gallup recently released an article that ranked employee engagement by state and even where it’s at its highest, it’s at 37%. In many states, it’s much lower and overall, it’s 33%. So what’s everyone else doing? Half of all surveyed employees said that they were ‘not engaged’. Active disengagement was as high as 21% in some…
Read MoreCultural Growing Pains
How do you protect your small company culture as you grow? It’s a great question. Now that you’ve hit operational running speed, how do you incorporate the badly needed business processes that will allow you to scale without sacrificing the “startup vibe” that has become your company identity and employer brand? Culture starts at the top.…
Read MoreSetting Great Performance Goals
Do you struggle to set performance goals that your organization understands? Goals that create alignment to your overall business objectives? We’re not going to talk about SMART goals. Yes, the goals should be specific, measurable, action oriented, realistic, and time-bound, but you’ve read countless articles on that, so let’s focus on how you’re going to create a…
Read MoreCase Study: Leadership Development and MBTI®
This project was part of a corporate leadership development program for hi potential talent and brought together about 50 senior professionals from over a dozen countries and across all company functions. Many of them were meeting for the first time and would be working together as part of a virtual project team over the next…
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