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How Managers (unintentionally) Roadblock an Empowered Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Most managers will say they want those outcomes and that they believe in an empowered team, but unintentionally prevent their teams from doing their best. One Big Reason Managers Disempower Their Team. The most common mistakes that disempower teams often result from a manager’s insecurity. How do you find the right balance?

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How to Help Managers Become More Strategic

Let's Grow Leaders

In a recent HBR article, Robert Kabacoff shares his research of 60,000 managers in 40 countries. Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. Instead invest in your highly talent managers and teach them the art of strategy. How Help a Manager Become More Strategic.

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How Good Can You Stand It?

Let's Grow Leaders

I was expressing to a friend that I was nervous about meeting the expectations of my new manager. I realized that the expectations I was most worried about were mine. Rather than manage, leaders are encouraged to lead because their teams are more proactive and pull them ahead. This benefits the organization as well.

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What I Learned From Marshall Goldsmith: A Simple and Effective Technique

Let's Grow Leaders

Here are mine: Did I write something meaningful that will help managers lead more effectively? I have a book due to a publisher and an online course that we’re neck-deep in curriculum development. I need to be writing and developing content every day. In other seasons, it will be more about delivery and the questions will change.

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The Performance Appraisal that Really Matters (Marshall Goldsmith)

Let's Grow Leaders

In the course of that work I’ve seen many managers who struggle to achieve business success; much less build meaningful professional relationships. The truth is that in companies, nonprofits, and government offices around the world it’s not hard to find stressed out, frustrated, (and often hopeless) managers.

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Is Your Manager Setting You Up to Fail?

On The Job

Recently I ran into a friend of mine who told me he's quitting his job and going back to school to become a registered nurse. When he would remind the boss that he was being spread too thin and he worried about the quality of the product, the boss told him that better time management -- and better use of technology -- would solve the problem.

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Mining for leadership with lean management

McKinsey

Three executives at one of the world’s most unusual mining operations describe how even in a highly unpredictable context, lean management improves not just productivity, but also how people lead.

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