Feb 20 2013
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Leading Teams with Star Players In just about any team sporting event you’ll hear about the Most Valuable Player, or MVP. It’s easy to conclude that without this particular player, the contest would have would have been lost. Perhaps that’s true but in the teams you’re leading at work, the concept of an …
Feb 13 2013
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Leading Teams You Don’t Get to Select In the military, leaders change jobs frequently and seldom get to select their own teams. Instead, military leaders are sent to an organization to pick up where their predecessor left off and work with the team that is already in place. Though I sometimes felt this …
Feb 06 2013
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Team Leader Responsibilities You’re going to be leading a team and it suddenly hits you. How? What’s the secret to effective team leadership? Here are some basic tips to help you get started right. 1. Make sure you have a clear mission and definite goals. Then make sure everyone on the team understands …
Dec 11 2012
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Leading with Standards and Expectations “Jerry doesn’t do much work does he?” “No he doesn’t. I hope that will change with the new management.” “Yea, they’re probably going to fire him.” Actually, they probably aren’t. At least not for a while. You see, Jerry has been flaunting the standards for a long time …
Nov 29 2012
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Growing Leaders, A Cautionary Tale We had a great lineup. Each branch of the organization had a leader who was hand-picked by the boss and was doing a good job. Overall, the organization was enjoying much success. But there was a problem. The boss liked the organization the way it was and was …
Nov 15 2012
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Leadership and Vision: Employees Helping the Business Grow Leadership is my area of expertise. Marketing is not. I enjoy helping leaders grow. I don’t enjoy marketing much so I belong to a marketing group that helps me understand the ins and outs of marketing my business. This week I heard a comment that …
Nov 08 2012
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Developing Energized Team Leaders I was recently speaking to a leader who was wondering how to help team leaders learn to lead teams of their peers. Leading peers is a daunting task for any leader but is even more difficult for someone who has no leadership experience or training. His question sent me …
Oct 24 2012
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Change: The One Thing That Makes it Easier Joe and Jane were both managers in a large company and supervised divisions roughly equal in size and responsibility. The company had recently implemented several changes that were disruptive to both divisions. Joe was having a lot of trouble getting them implemented. His workers were …
Oct 10 2012
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Real Leadership and Real Leaders In a recent on-line discussion, a fellow leadership trainer and consultant made a stunning comment. He opined that positions like CEO and COO are the only real leadership positions in an organization. Of course, that’s as wrong as it can be, but unfortunately it isn’t a unique opinion …
Oct 04 2012
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Finding Rockstars I read a lot about getting “rock star” people on the team. Jim Collins talks about getting the right people on the bus. There is lots of advice available concerning how to hire the “right” people. That’s great. I’m all for building the best team possible, but is selecting the team …
