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The Value of Personal Experience and Expertise
The value of experience and expertise in evaluating potential risks cannot be overstated. As has been previously addressed, the great leaders endured a “crucible period” of disappointment, frustration,...
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Six Key Benefits of Performance Management
Performance management gives managers a specific set of parameters to make decisions and act in an active rather than passive mode. This allows them to take the initiative by making quick and effective...
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Linking Structure to Action
Well-executed plans require organizational structure before they can be successfully implemented, and the great leaders understood this. A properly structured organization builds and drives lines of...
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Does This Activity Move Me Forward?
Time management is something that can easily spin out of control as the complexities of the job overtake fulfilling daily schedules, accomplishing tasks and completing necessary assignments on their...
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Focusing Your Employees on Future Performance
Managers must take steps to help employees succeed, which is dependent upon their personal levels of experience. They must recognize that some employees will need more assistance than others. The key...
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The Challenges We Face
As the complexity and depth of challenges increase, managers cannot afford to ignore the issues that currently confront them. Doing so will create a domino effect of problems that will continue to...
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A Systematic Approach is Required to Structure Your Teams
Leaders should be cognizant of the fact that teams do not evolve automatically, and that the only things that do in the organizational environment are disorder, friction and poor performance. Effective...
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Planning as a Means to Generate, Oversee and Measure Results
Effective leaders tend to view planning as a means to generate, oversee and measure results. Planning gives leaders time to consider how they can improve their own as well as overall workplace...
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Well-Run Meetings Deliver Tangible Benefits
A well-run meeting takes planning and forethought as to what should be accomplished in terms of specific desired results and outcomes. With companies continuing to slash or freeze budgets, managers...
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Performance Plans Create Results and Maximizes Performance
A performance plan differs from a conventional plan in that it is a proactive document. It is designed for continuous use throughout the year as a guide and reference tool to direct the leader and his...
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Anticipating and Handling Employee Fears of Change
Organizations competing in the twenty-first century need the willing help and assistance of intelligent, motivated, collaborative and enterprising employees. This presents leaders with a real...
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Five Strategies to Maintain Your Focus
Maintaining a results-oriented focus takes discipline and perseverance in the face of constant interruptions that demand both the manager’s time and attention. If managers are focused in their...
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Six Key Benefits of Performance Management
Managers who utilize an effective performance management process and program will find that rather than complicate their lives, their jobs are made much easier. Decision-making is greatly simplified by...
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How Well Are You Communicating Your Vision?
When communicating their vision, leaders should focus on detailing its strategic emphasis and response to necessary changes. This includes outlining expectations as to the vision’s degree of control...
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Linking Structure to Action
Well-executed plans require organizational structure before they can be successfully implemented, and the great leaders understood this. A properly structured organization builds and drives lines of...
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Measure What Needs to Be Measured
Performance plans are action plans, not static documents. Effective performance plans must detail the specific actions leaders and employees must follow to accomplish the goals and objectives set...
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Ten Steps You Need to Take to Effectively Sell Your Ideas
As facilitators of change, leaders will encounter many barriers and obstacles within their organization. It requires time, persistence and the ability to organize and effectively communicate new ideas...
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Attaining Results Requires Visionary Thinking and Planning on Multiple Levels
Leaders need to define the larger picture of who the organization is, which defines its being, and what it does, or its mission. This also includes identifying what values are important to the...
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Do Institutionalized Management Practices Create Formidable Obstacles to Change?
Leadership is what defines the future for the organization, aligns people with a vision and motivates them to carry on despite the obstacles. Transforming an organization in the face of change...
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Plans Must Be Rooted in Past Performance
Plans are not a worthless set of documents to be viewed only once or twice a year: they outline significant milestones and detail what the unit needs to do to effectively operate throughout the year....
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