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Before you can lead others, you need to manage yourself
Before you can earn the right to lead others, you need to “manage” yourself. I know I’m not the first to use that phrase....
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Integrity: The cornerstone of great leadership
Turn on your TV. Tap your news app. Scan the paper’s stories of the day. It seems that everywhere you turn, a lot of...
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Are you a micromanager or a macromanager?
Micromanager. It’s one of the least flattering labels one can be tagged with in business today. It connotes an unproductive level of involvement in...
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Is your star player ready for a promotion?
If you’re lucky enough to have a team with top performers, you know that eventually some of them will move on to larger roles...
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The unexceptional outweighs the unbelievable
Leadership success stories about superstar managers, brilliant visionaries, and transformative role models proliferate in the media to a point where it appears that industry...
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The coming leadership revolution
In the summer of 2012, we were still limping out of the throes of an economic Armageddon. The mood around the country was dark...
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5 tips for managing the impact of employee absences
Managing absenteeism has become a critical component of human resources strategy. With each passing business day, it’s becoming increasingly more complex to consistently and...
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Foster a growth mindset
As a coach and professional development provider, I often find myself having some variation of the following conversation with an organization’s chief executive, HR...
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10 ways to keep cool and not lose composure
When leaders blow up, lose their tempers or let their emotions get the better of them, they can quickly develop a reputation as volatile,...
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What is your favorite way to determine employee happiness and engagement?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. In partnership with Citi, YEC launched BusinessCollective, a free virtual mentorship...
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The 4 leadership principles that could undermine Amazon
Recent reports and an examination of Amazon's leadership principles suggest that Amazon should obsess as much about its culture as it does about its customers.
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Own your board
At the end of my first year as school leader, I met up for breakfast with someone who was very instrumental in developing school...
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Your checklist for more effective meetings
Keeping meetings, tight, effective and on-track takes discipline. And meetings that waste time also squander energy, productivity, and money. When you follow these 15...
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The 3-step process for creating better habits across your team
As a leader, it’s your job to ensure you’re always pushing your employees to form positive workplace habits. But like any ingrained routine, it...
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What do you ask every employee before they leave your company?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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3 tips for developing your high-potential leaders
Are the “rising stars” in your company’s leadership ranks getting the development they need? These talented young leaders in your organization — often called...
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4 actions that can make you a wellspring of confidence
You will never read a single line from some of today’s best writers. Instead, you will hear them in a TV program or movie....
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How managers become leaders: Resilience
Have you ever known someone who was a manager, but not a “leader?” Have you ever known someone, or even worked for someone, who...
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8 tips for first-time leaders to get results from the team
This post is adapted from “Your First Leadership: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best in Others,” by Tacy M. Byham and Richard S....
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Who and what to ask before hatching your plan to lead
This post is adapted from “All Hands on Deck: Navigating Your Team Through Crises, Getting Your Organization Unstuck and Emerging Victorious” (Career Press, 2015)...
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Why performance appraisals fail: A root-cause analysis and alternative
As an HR professional, I know the value of the performance appraisal. However, I also know that, if done poorly, they can have the...
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What unique perk does your company offer?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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How you can spend less time and be a more effective leader
Do leaders work or do they sit back and supervise others? Where you stand on that issue depends upon where you sit in the...
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We all are leaders
Consider this situation: two women are losing their father to cancer. For Eloise, the journey is terrifying and overwhelming. Her life is so busy,...
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12 questions to help you conduct effective stay interviews
Stay interviews help you engage employees before it's too late. Here are some tips for doing stay interviews well.
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Managers: Is it possible to automate employee engagement?
There’s no shortage of research, articles, and infographics that express the importance of employee engagement and its direct impact on employee satisfaction, retention, performance,...
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How to nurture accountability with employees
Organizations are made up of teams and individuals who execute specific tasks to drive a greater, overarching business goal. However, the link between individual...
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How do you efficiently onboard new employees?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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4 leadership lessons we can learn from sports
I recently watched a high school state track and field championship. At the beginning of the evening, the excitement among the athletes was palpable....
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Innovative service takes responsible freedom
Lisa was super-friendly and always eager to serve me. She was one of the main reasons I parked my car every week at the...
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There’s no reason employees can’t be both engaged and happy
Engagement. Commitment. Morale. Satisfaction. Meaning. Happiness. A lot of terms get kicked around in the human resources field and the so-called “employee engagement” industry...
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When do you let an underperforming employee go?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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How Team of Leaders helps deal with difficult people
Difficult people are everywhere. They’re in line in front of you at the bank, shopping with you in the supermarket, and next to you...
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What resources can help entrepreneurs be better managers?
The Young Entrepreneur Council is an invite-only organization comprised of the world’s most promising young entrepreneurs. YEC recently launched StartupCollective, a free virtual mentorship program that...
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What employee engagement data can tell you about change management
We were working with a large financial services company on implementing a new external brand strategy that had implications for internal operations, as well....
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Lead better meetings with these 2 conversational paths
Meetings at your company aren’t going away. If anything, that much-maligned beast is growing in prominence, thanks to the ease of gathering people via...
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7 essential talents of effective managers
Forget state-of-the-art IT systems and over-the-top marketing campaigns. Often, the secret to improving a company’s productivity and skyrocketing its growth lies in its people...
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Getting employees to take accountability
Accountability became a management fad in the early 2000s. Unfortunately, in most organizations, accountability has become a hollow and empty slogan that evokes cynicism...
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Beware of your leadership strengths
When it comes to leadership, is there such thing as too much of a good thing? There sure can be. In fact, just about...
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How to employ data to empower, not replace, your managers
People love to joke that robots are going to someday steal our jobs. Don’t panic — nobody is being replaced just yet. You can...
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Want front-line leaders and players to make great decisions? Clear the fog
It was another late night returning home from a business trip this week. Spring weather in Denver has been rainy for a week straight....
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Harnessing the power of your hidden leaders
In my latest book. I describe Hidden Leaders as the people in companies that provide a powerful leadership presence despite the fact that their...