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Confident Humility: The Conversation Continues

Let's Grow Leaders

During the warm-up, we created a brainstorming tree that was taped to the ground, a play on the “choose your own story adventure” stories that are popular with kids. If I share the photo, I thought, would I be boasting about what I can accomplish as a writing coach? to emphasize accomplishments. I delegated.

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How Good Can You Stand It?

Let's Grow Leaders

Three of the benefits are: Team members are more willing to work with others in new and different ways, so they accomplish more, with higher morale. Knowing that it’s okay, even encouraged, to diverge from the norm means that team members won’t stop before they have done everything they can to solve a problem or accomplish a goal.

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What To Do When Results are in the Toilet

Let's Grow Leaders

Sure they’ll be some long days and sleepless nights, but there’s nothing better than the electric feeling your team experiences when they accomplished what no one (particularly them) thought could be done. The brainstorming and action planning leads to only incremental improvement.

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Leadership in Turbulent Times: 9 Ways to Embrace Change

Career Advancement

Lead team brainstorming meetings. Call your team together for a group brainstorming session, asking them all to chime in with ideas for dealing with a specific problem. With a tool like Slack, you can continue the brainstorming exercise after the session is disbanded—good ideas might keep arising after the meeting concludes.

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Inspiring vs. Controlling

International Coach Academy

Goal-setting frameworks: Tools like SMART goals (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Time-bound) can inspire individuals to set clear objectives and work towards accomplishing them.

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MORE – Mission, Expectation, Option, & Relevance

International Coach Academy

To accomplish the mission, they must handle the expectation of senior management, co-operate with peer-level in other departments, and plan the actions for the subordinates. In this coaching session, brainstorming the options of the issues is to help the client to be aware of the possibilities he/she has.

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How to be Confident at Work

Career Advancement

Everything doesn’t have to be completely polished—maybe you have a few ideas to share in a brainstorming session, and you want to get the group’s feedback. Whether or not you accomplished what you intended, you showed guts, and that’s a victory in itself. You’ll also be more articulate, having carefully prepared your ideas.