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MAY 6, 2013

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Key strategies to define and reinforce role-specific metrics and habits that promote productivity and high performance. Aligning Your Team for Success: Promote Productivity [00:01:27] – The Foundation for a High-Performing Team Discover why your teams success depends on understanding your companys mission and priorities.

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Why This Power Tool: Performance vs. Perfection(ism). What Is the Difference Between Performance vs. Perfection(ism). It turns out to be a surprise because the word perfection comes from the Latin perfectio – perficere “perform” So in origin, the meaning was closer to performance. Salvador Dalì.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 17, 2025

Creative Ways to Celebrate Lunar New Year Decorate Your Workspace For In-Office Employees: Transform your workplace into a vibrant space that reflects the diversity of Lunar New Year celebrations worldwide. For Remote Employees: Remote teams can still join in the festive spirit with creative digital and physical ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

If you want to empower your team to find more creative ways to get better results, start by defining success. You’ve already got a long list of the most important things. ” conversations, it also reduces ambiguity and frees up time and energy for more creative solutions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking. People don’t have to follow you, don’t have to show up, and don’t have to bring their creativity or initiative.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve yet to encounter a truly joyful poor performer. The themes were remarkably consistent and a useful guide for leaders looking to inspire greater joy and higher performance on their teams. For a more joyous, engaged and high-performing team look for ways to maximize these 6 aspects of the job design and interaction.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The growing complexity of governance, rapid technological advancement, and rising public expectations have put immense pressure on public servants to perform efficiently (Hornung, 2023). Research indicates that effective coaching helps employees develop their skills and address challenges, leading to improved performance and motivation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

In today’s Asking for a Friend, I share an EASY, and CREATIVE development exercise we’ve been using with teams worldwide– to build the habits most critical to their success. How do you identify the habits that will make the biggest difference? Team-building that sticks.

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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

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

MARCH 9, 2015

I’m always astounded by the creativity and lengths some employees will go to game the system. Volatile Performance. Focus decisions on what will lead to consistent upward trends and sustained performance. Talking only to metrics encourages such gaming, which wastes time and often gets people fired.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 13, 2014

Confidence leads to creativity, productivity, excellence, and engagement. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Communication confidence employee feedback leadership development Performance' Help her learn from mistakes, but also reassure her that mistakes are all part of learning. Try your best to not freak out.

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JANUARY 30, 2015

Just remember, creative work and breakthroughs require concentration. Career & Learning Communication confident humility building a high performing team helping your team get smarter outsmarting the competition' Of course every now and then that’s EXACTLY what you need. Looking for someone to help your team get a bit smarter?

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JANUARY 14, 2015

Your A players are watching the most closely, so if this is the game, you can bet your 9 box performance potential grid , they’ll have no interest in an HR assignment, even to round out their resume. Blinding rules and regulations” Strategic HR people sit at the table offering highly creative solutions to real business problems.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback. Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. This leadership post covers some of the most popular performance feedback tools and techniques that we teach in our leadership development programs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

And, when we talk with the “micromanaging boss,” they describe a litany of dropped balls, and other performance challenges that have caused them to get involved in situations they would rather not have to deal with. The first place to look is your performance. An employee will complain that their boss is a micromanager.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 3, 2015

You limit creativity. Address Issues Directly: Never use humor to deal with behavior or performance problems. It doesn’t build anything. You might make someone stop doing something by being sarcastic and shaming them, but you’ll never create a new positive behavior this way. The risk of failure and incurring shame is too great.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2017

Most high-performers do. Get creative and make it right. How do I know you have it? Because I have it too. It’s a sneaky little bugger, because on the surface it really feels like you’re doing the right thing. And on most levels you are. It’s a Winning Well core competency taken to extremes. You made a mistake.

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This power tool helps clients identify their productivity pitfalls and transform them into strengths, leading to improved performance and better time management. I (Influence) Strengths : I styles are creative, sociable, and great at generating ideas. They take charge and push projects forward quickly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2017

They view constraints as creative challenges, not road blocks. Even if you’re gung-ho and full of creative solutions—if you’re driving your peers batty, something is amiss. I’d take a team of B+ performers who know how to truly collaborate over a few smart lone rangers every time. Do You Have the Respect of Your Peers?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Key Behaviors : Challenges each team member to continuously improve their skills; addresses performance issues head on; provides consistent, candid feedback. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership points out that human beings are naturally creative. Follow Charles. Builder: To See More, Be More. Key Question: How do we IMPROVE?

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In a world that’s becoming increasingly more connected, it’s necessary for leaders to be able to communicate and enhance employee performance. The transition from leading by authority to learning across the organization is different from one company to another, or from one culture to another.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2015

The egos get in the way, and conflict sucks the life out of all productivity, and prohibits real creative breakthroughs that involve integrated thinking. Our bonuses (a large percentage of our salary, usually stack ranked) would all be exactly the same, based on our performance in his experimental organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Constraints are the gateway to creativity. Sometimes, high-performing employees need their manager to tell them when to stop working. “Oh, It’s a simple and criminally underused phrase when you’re overloaded at work. If you’re up to your neck in it, asking for help isn’t a white flag; it’s a strategy. “I

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. Reduced Innovation and Creativity A failure to address cross-cultural leadership challenges stifles the creative potential of a team.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 15, 2020

Of course, critical thinking brings many other benefits as well, like the ability to consider which performance management system might work best for the organization or to evaluate which potential product might appeal to a given market. Creative thinking skills. The workforce of the future will heavily rely on creativity as well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2017

Chris Edmonds of Driving Results through Culture asks “How can your team boost it’s performance?” Learn how to inspire them through the use of creativity via Eileen McDargh of The Energizer Follow Eileen. Unlimited gives us some questions to ask when our team doesn’t seem to be performing well.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 2, 2024

It can generate powerful ideas, encouragement & opportunities Inspiring Power Tool: An inspiring power tool is a tool or resource that empowers individuals or teams to unleash their creativity, motivation, and potential. It encourages people to take action, overcome challenges, and achieve their goals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

But here’s the challenge: asking intimidating questions can stifle creativity and problem-solving, leaving your people hesitant to share information, let alone ideas to fix the situation. They feel criticized rather than supported, and this defensiveness leads to less creativity and more playing it safe.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Look at the research about high-performing teams and one universal characteristic jumps out. In high-performing teams, accountability isn’t just the manager’s job—the team holds one another accountable (and their manager too). When you talk to high-performing teams, it’s easy to see that this team accountability doesn’t just happen.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

Your team won’t trust you, they won’t want to give more than their minimum effort, and you certainly won’t get any creativity or problem-solving. performance conversations, evaluate the impact of their behavior on the team’s morale and performance. Eliminate these toxic behaviors from your leadership before doing anything else.

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ReNew Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

In a world obsessed with chasing success and validation through performance, it's high time we confront the dark underbelly of this relentless pursuit. The notion that everything from purpose to art is only worthwhile if it's framed as a performance is not only misguided but downright dehumanizing. "I To be loved, but never LOVED.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A Research Paper By Marta Potulna, Leadership and Optimal Performance Coach, AUSTRALIA. The ICF defines coaching as ‘partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential.” The Concept of Finding Flow and Its Applications in Coaching.

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Trevor wanted his people to be pillars of innovation and creativity. In doing so, they help their most creative people to develop exciting new ideas. Find a fun way to host the event outside of the office, like reserving a large room at a restaurant or finding a community space that hosts performances. ” ~Thomas Edison~.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

” They’ve got their teams spinning, scared to under-perform. Although there’s lots of work being done, stress and fear squelch creativity and conversation. The guy who’s “all business” or the woman who’s “got no time for that crap (meaning connection and understanding).”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

Do you seriously expect the folks you’re “recognizing” to come back in and create magical, creative moments for your guests? Just as parents who praise their kids for every little thing may create dysfunction, shallow praise over the small stuff can be a real turnoff for your serious performers. What other options did you explore?

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