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MARCH 1, 2021

When You Coach Employees, Make Every Conversation Count You want to coach employees to improve performance, but there’s just so little time. The post How to Coach Employees to High Performance When Time is Limited appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Effective Coaching Techniques Coaching employees to […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2019

Tempted to skip the mid-year review this year, particularly with your high-performers? Mid-Year Performance Reviews are the Half-Time Huddle of Business. The post How to Hold a Better Mid-Year Performance Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Read this first. They’re up by 7. What do you say at half-time?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. The new year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. “But they SHOULD know better!”

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

If you’re dreading your performance review, we invite you to be the leader you want your boss to be and take a bit of initiative. The post How to Help Your Boss Give You a Better Performance Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. “But that’s not my job,” you might say.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2025

Productivity doesnt happen by chanceits cultivated through clarity, communication, and habits that stick. Key strategies to define and reinforce role-specific metrics and habits that promote productivity and high performance. Boost your teams performance through engaging tools and strategies. [00:15:12]

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In the meantime, poor performance or toxic behavior continues and becomes the norm. What to do: Address poor performance and disruptive behavior as soon as it happens. Additional reading: How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (this article describes a step-by-step methodology to do this well).

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

High-Performing Teams Turn Pressure into Progress, One Habit at a Time Your team’s under pressure to perform—fast. They weren’t going to win any high-performing team awards, but things were working well enough. They weren’t going to win any high-performing team awards, but things were working well enough.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Episode 275: Have you ever felt that your communication skills were strong but still found your team misunderstood key points? Even the best leaders face communication challenges in today’s fast-moving work environment. Find out how to eliminate communication gaps that slow down progress and create stress.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2018

And then in the middle of an otherwise raving performance review, your boss brings up the conflict you continue to have with another […]. The post Coworker Conflict: 7 Ways to Get Along with Other High Performers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You’re working hard and your results are on fire.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2024

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. One easy-to-use workplace communication tool will eliminate most of these frustrations, save you time, and improve performance and morale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

“My boss has talked with me three times about my communication. The other day I tried to give her some feedback about how her communication style was landing with my team. Performance Conversations That Work. It opens the door to communication and mutual understanding. .” Solution: Make change manageable.

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 23, 2022

The Contrast Between Communicating vs. Storytelling. As I was considering various options for my power tool, I came up with no less than 10 ideas, but there was one that I kept returning to repeatedly – the contrast between communicating and storytelling. The idea came to me as I was conducting an annual performance evaluation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 11, 2021

Building a High-Performing Team Takes Rhythm. A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. How to build a high-performing team through an effective operating cadence. Virg Palumbo on Building an Operating Cadence of a High-Performing Team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (February 2021). If you knew your manager really cared about you, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. Learn how to avoid these communication mistakes. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Episode 284: Are your leadership communication skills motivating your team, or are they leaving you feeling like a micromanager? This episode dives into leadership communication techniques that inspire action, eliminate misunderstandings, and build a motivated, high-performing team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Operational tactics (looking at the ground beneath your feet) include clear communication, a shared understanding of success, healthy professional relationships, and consistent accountability. Are you consistently communicating critical messages and concepts five times, five different ways? The trail demanded attention.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Top 5 Reader’s Choice Articles of 2024 Your top picks focused on mastering clear communication, navigating emotional conversations, challenging unproductive mindsets, and fostering trust in the face of workplace challenges. Key takeaway: Clear, upfront communication saves time and frustration. Listen here.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Team’s Performance and Collaboration. He mentioned, “The bigger the team, the better performance”. As a result, he dedicates himself to searching for a solution to improve the team’s performance. When the team was reduced to four members, he observed that the amount of communication within the team increased.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. Communicate. Communicate–consistently. Cultivate Curiosity. Contribute.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

Achieve Success Together: How Great Teamwork Turns Talent into Performance Are you ready to learn how great teamwork can propel your organization into high performance? David says, “Taking talent and turning it into performance comes down a lot more to the culture of the team.” What are the characteristics of a great team?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

So I’m pulling into the stadium and I can hear the cadence of the marching band coming around the track … Actually, I think this story will be more fun if I tell it to you this way: Communicating Clear Expectations is Not Micro-Managing, It’s Empowering. How to Reset Performance Expectations For Better Results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Your success is how successfully your team performs, how they grow, and the quality of problems they solve. The challenge for most managers is that they think they’ve communicated what success looks like, but their team doesn’t have the same picture at all. It often takes far more communication up front than you think it will.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. I established a clear vision and performance expectations. Build a highly integrated communication plan. In the great maternity leave debacle, my biggest mistake was that I was at the center of all the communication. I asked more questions than I answered.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

They earned their reputation as a courageous manager one small daring moment at a time—small micro-moments of courage that led to better performance and deeper trust. Most definitions of managerial courage involve speaking with candor, being willing to act with incomplete information, timely decision making, and addressing performance issues.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

Do You Tolerate Poor Performance or Let the Slackers Slide? Or you let a performance issue fester for fear of not being liked? In this article, we address the common reasons so many managers tolerate poor performance, and what to do instead. How to Be Okay When It’s Time to Fire a Poor Performer 3.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

reports, communication, analysis) that no one would miss if we stopped? More Questions to Inspire Your Team Toward High Performance. How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations. What should we say “no” to, in order to free up time to focus on our most strategic priorities? . The post Stuck in a Rut?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

For most managers, the only thing they dread more than going to their own end-of-year performance appraisal is holding end-of-year feedback discussions with their team. Because the performance appraisal system is unnatural by design. Imagine if we burdened our home relationships […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Creating real trust and the psychological safety that leads to great performance takes time. You cannot over-communicate your team’s shared purpose. Then communicate it five times, five different ways –and then do it again. One of your most powerful leadership strategies to address both questions is transparent communication.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A Coaching Model By Marta Potulna, Leadership and Optimal Performance Coach, AUSTRALIA. The inherent pressure to be “everything to everyone” can undermine leaders’ confidence, self-esteem, and consequently their productivity and performance. Optimal performance doesn’t mean being the best. Just take the first step. Why is that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2021

You start by telling them something great about their performance. Or, they leave the performance conversation remarkably confused. The sandwich method of giving feedback has long been taught as a coaching and feedback technique. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? And you follow it up, with some more positive feedback.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Build a highly integrated communication plan. In the great maternity leave debacle, my biggest mistake was that I was at the center of all the communication. I’ve learned that to scale your leadership, one of the best approaches is to ensure that every manager on the team has a closely aligned and integrated 5×5 communication plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

I’ve got a well-meaning, really strong performer, who is talking too much. This way the ones who aren’t talking too much have a chance to contribute, regardless of their communication style or level of extroversion. I don’t want to squash his enthusiasm, but I also don’t want him to shut other people down.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

How well they will perform their role. Cultivating gratitude will open daily opportunities to communicate your encouragement and genuinely thank people for their choices and contributions. They choose: If they will be a part of your team. How they will show up. Whether to participate fully or phone it in.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2019

How do you build a high-performing, cohesive team when people are working on different schedules? Clarity is even more important as you get everyone working toward the same goals and it takes extra effort to build relationships with little face-time. Here are […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2019

When Karin was in her sales exec role at Verizon, she would often walk into the back door of a store to find her highest performing team huddled just before the store opened, talking about their plans for the day. When she […]. The post How to Hold a Remarkably Effective Team Huddle appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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JULY 22, 2024

Explain what sloppy mistakes communicate to your customers, stakeholders, and to the rest of the team. Plus, building a peer review process is another way to communicate how important quality checks are. On the highest-performing teams, accountability is a team sport. Of course, they SHOULD know this stuff.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The manager wasn’t wrong about the performance issue, but he splashed his frustration all over his customers and the rest of the team (not to mention the employee who needed feedback, but not humiliation). Plan for your performance conversations (use our INSPIRE Method ). Hold performance conversations privately. Process it.

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