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AUGUST 26, 2024

To be a better performance coach avoid these common mistakes. Have you ever had (what you thought was) a great performance coaching conversation—your employee commits to behavior change—but fifteen minutes later they’re back to their old habits? So why does so much performance coaching not work? But even so, nothing changes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everyone is watching how you respond when a high-performer quits. When a high-performer quits, it can feel like your world is imploding as you scramble to keep the work going AND find the right unicorn to fill that spot. Of course, there’s never a good time for a high-performer to quit. But, what you do next matters.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 11, 2021

It’s easy to take things personally and get upset when you need to lead a tough performance conversation. Leading a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool. 2:00 – Why leading a performance conversation without losing your cool is a vital leadership skill.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

So how do you help your team’s performance stand out? How do you ensure that they not only get the recognition they crave, but their performance shines so strong it’s difficult to ignore? For Better Recognition: Start By Differentiating Your Team’s Performance and then Bring on the Spotlight. Keep them growing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 21, 2023

My Feedback Isn’t Working…Performance Management for Repeat Issues You take performance management seriously. askingforafriend Human-centered performance management means giving meaningful feedback that reinforces clear expectations and gives space for emotions, support, and reflection. What can I do?

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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

DECEMBER 30, 2024

No More Vague Reports: How to Give Useful Information (September 2024) As is with many of our articles, we wrote this one in response to a frustrated CEO, asking to help us fix this problem with his team. Read here Why it clicked: Most employees were never taught the art of effective reporting and readouts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 17, 2025

The Key to Alignment: Build a Team Agreement (AKA “Couth Code”) If your teams expectations arent clear, or people arent meeting them consistently, you dont just have a frustration problemyou have a clarity problem. One of the best ways to fix this is by creating a Team Agreementor, as we like to light-heartedly call it, a Couth Code.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Do you want to bring peak performance to your organization? In today’s episode Sunjay Nath, author of The 10-80-10 Principle: Unlocking Dynamic Performance , gives you insight on who to focus on to unlock peak performance and how to identify your top 10%. 53:40 Start from what you want to achieve peak performance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What’s equally difficult is helping your team recover, establishing a new normal, and figuring out how in the world you’ll get it all done with fewer people. If you’re going through or recovering from a layoff, first let me say, I’m sorry. I know it’s hard. Getting Real with Your Own Emotions. ” Me too, Alyssa.

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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. 4 Dimensions of Collaboration in High-Performing Teams Connection: Do We Know One Another as Human Beings?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Right Words at the Right Time: Crafting Recognition That Sticks Think about the best recognition youve ever received. Who said what, and why did it hit you so deeply? Recently, two people told me, I am proud of you. Both times, my throat tightened with unexpected emotion. The Words Matter Powerful words are simple, specific, and sincere.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

You might also enjoy this popular article on performance feedback conversations. Performance Review: How to Respond to Lazy or Frustrating Feedback The post The Secret to Developing Employees Who Would Rather Not Grow appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. What do you do with that? Let me tell you—this moment isn’t a dead end.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Performance pressure? Get clarity now, so that when the time comes for performance reviews, you know youre aligned. Get clarity now, so that when the time comes for performance reviews , you know youre aligned. Your Boss Doesn’t (Or So It Seems). What to Do Next With a Disengaged Boss Youre giving it your all. Budget woes?

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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). Therefore, this paper examines how coaching can be applied cost-effectively in resource-constrained government institutions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Start with yourself to ensure everyone can receive feedback. It’s a frustration we hear all the time. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” ” We get it. One of the most frustrating human experiences is feeling ignored or unheard. I Disagree.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

Need to have a performance feedback conversation with an under-performing employee? His team was empowered, he was able to spend his time on critical strategic priorities, trust was high, and performance was strong. It seems I’m never quite satisfied with my own performance. And yet, I know I’m guilty of this.

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International Coaching News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Heres How It May Be Affecting Your Performance! Anne Bachrach (USA) Sleep deprivation and the resultant tiredness can have a significant impact on your performance. Heres How It May Be Affecting Your Performance! Heres How It May Be Affecting Your Performance! While we try to make up for that with The post Sleep Deprived?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2021

Three characteristics make performance feedback so destructive. Some managers hang in the land of “great work, love what you’re doing” and never address real performance concerns or tell their people how they can grow. Your top performers want to excel, and if you don’t help them, they’ll find a leader who will.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 6, 2021

In this episode, you’ll discover a system used by world-class athletes, performers, and CEOs to build their confidence, achieve transformational results, and overcome their limiting mindsets. Performance mastery specialist Tina Greenbaum will give you practical tools to achieve mastery under pressure. Mastery Under Pressure.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We would love to partner with you and your executive team to build a practical plan for a high-performing, human-centered culture (it’s what we do best). Neglecting Accountability for Leadership Behaviors Ever see a high-performing leader get a pass for poor behavior because “that’s just how they are”? Culture comes from the top.

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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

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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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

If you’re ready to build a culture that unites, inspires, and fuels performance, hit play now and start transforming the way your team works together! Culture isnt just a workshop or an annual eventit must be intentionally integrated into hiring, strategy, performance management, and leadership behaviors.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Equip your people with the right tools, training, and habits to perform at their best. In this episode, we break them down so you can clear up confusion, improve performance, and build a high-impact team. [01:48] Learn why reinforcing successjust like keeping a steady drumbeatis key to high performance. [10:38] The good news?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2025

Whats the right setting to deliver a layoff or performance warning? Difficult Conversations: It’s not just WHAT you say, BUT WHERE you say it If youve ever been blindsided by feedback via Slack, had your stomach drop at a cryptic text from your boss, oryes, it happensbeen let go over Zoom, youre not alone. Start here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Check here for more on how to hold an effective INSPIRE conversation to address performance challenges or misaligned expectations.). Take the initiative with confidence and humility to lead other leaders. The question is about leading other leaders without excess drama. Sometimes, my team will find something isn’t done quite right.

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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

MARCH 21, 2025

Press play now and start building the trust culture that will accelerate your teams performance today! Episode 295: How can you build a high trust culture that empowers your team to solve problems faster, innovate more, and reduce stress? 02:00) David talks about the first step in building a trust culture: understanding that it takes time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

More Questions to Inspire Your Team Toward High Performance. How to Build a High-Performing Team: Ten Vital Conversations. By Showing Up a Bit More Curious. It’s a strange and ironic phenomenon. Despite all the change going on, have you noticed your team sometimes gets stuck in a rut of uninspiring routines?

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APRIL 2, 2025

Practice Like a Championship Team (Even If Youre Still in Warm-Ups) You dont just hope your team performs under pressureyou prepare them to. Asking for a Friend: How Do You Inspire Your Team When They’re the Underdog? You know that feeling. The buzzer just sounded. You’re the 16th seed. Theyre the number one. And say it often.

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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. Read the article here. Even if it was hard to hear?

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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. Misguided support. Keep information to yourself. Fear new ideas. Lack of accountability. What is an Empowered Team? Even the core meaning of the word (to give power) is challenging. It isn’t the work you do or how smart you are.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Not giving them genuine feedback People need to have a realistic assessment of how they’re doing so they can grow and develop professionally. In the video I give an example of how this goes south — and I see it happen all the time. Take the time to be direct and help them grow. ” “You need to be more empathetic.”

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