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Recognize Potential

Recognize Potential

We recently started a six-month leadership training program with a new client. The participants are accepted into the program only after they have been nominated by someone at or above their position in the company, and they have successfully passed the program’s interview process. This organization takes their leadership development program very seriously. They have invested a lot of time, effort, money, and other resources into it. The program and its participants are closely monitored not...

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Define the Deliverable

Define the Deliverable

We’ve all created To Do lists, sent them around to our team and sat back waiting for responses and, hopefully, accomplishments. We might even feel a bit smug congratulating ourselves that one of our tasks is done. (After all, who actually took the time to send that email listing the proposed To Do items?) And we might even allow ourselves to think that it is up to the team now to get to work and complete those items one by one. No problem - right? Wrong. Your inability to clearly define the...

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Support your Stars

Support your Stars

I had lunch recently with a woman who is starting to hate her job. She drives to work dreading the day and by 10 AM she's plotting her escape. By Wednesday noon, she looks forward to Friday and every Sunday evening her anxiety level bubbles up because Monday's coming all too soon. The truly sad part of this story is that she's not a newly hired, uninformed employee. She's a very successful department manager who has accomplished some incredibly high profile, multi-million dollar projects....

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Do YOUR Job

Do YOUR Job

A manager approached me this week after a work session to seek my advice on how she should address one of her employees. This employee is increasingly becoming Trouble (with a tall T). He is more often than not selecting which projects (and which elements of each project) he will work on. When the manager asks the employee to redirect his efforts, the employee replies in patronizing tones in front of other staff members. This employee has also failed to complete the primary project his...

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Kissing Leadership Communication

Kissing Leadership Communication

It happened again. As I started a work session with a client group recently, I asked them to bring me up to speed on what's been happening with their company since our last session. Several managers shared positive updates to projects that supported their strategic plan. Then the CEO commended the managers for their work to date, but then spent three minutes telling them they need to take time with their teams to explain the genesis of their respective projects, continue to orient new team...

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