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It’s Kind of Like Skiing with Poles; Balancing Your Leadership for Full Impact
How to Balance Your Leadership for Full Impact Every leader has a dominant approach to tackling problems, influencing others, and presenting ideas. In general, there are 4 styles that you can play at any given time: Cheerleader —This style is focused on providing...
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It’s Kind of Like Skiing with Poles; Balancing Your Leadership for Full Impact
How to Balance Your Leadership for Full Impact Every leader has a dominant approach to tackling problems, influencing others, and presenting ideas. In general, there are 4 styles that you can play at any given time: Cheerleader —This style is focused on providing...
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It’s Kind of Like…
Time & Energy Management; Avoiding Altitude Sickness While Mountain Climbing
Mountain Climbing Time Management Avoiding Altitude Sickness Entrepreneurial and mid-level leaders derive great satisfaction and energy from jumping between tasks, but often don't really consider the operating level at which they lead. Over time, this constant flexing...
Time & Energy; Google Earth and Leading at the Right Level
Some leaders are high-level thinkers. They speak in terms of vision and strategy, and love to use big picture ideas to inspire their team. Other leaders are more technically-oriented, and prefer to roll up their sleeves and get into the weeds, leading by example to...
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4 Things Leaders Should Be Thinking About
It doesn’t look like things are going to be getting any easier for leaders this year. The good news is that this is the time for great leaders to shine. Like sales where it is rather easy to look like a superstar in a buyer's market, the same goes for leading when...
GPS Style Leadership; Setting a Direction Then ReRouting
How To Make a Plan and Deal With Changes Along The Way Most entrepreneurial organizations I work with resist having a plan. Whereas, the government, academic and healthcare organizations I work with tend to over plan. It feels like both sets of organizations are never...
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Fist-to-Five
Although it’s not completely clear where the Fist-to-Five originated, many attribute it to the American Youth Foundation who began using it in 2004. This team exercise is a simple time saver as it’s a quick, effective way to check-in with the group, learn what people...
The Project Planner
There are many project management tools available to leader-managers that provide a framework for developing concepts, thinking and the ideas that drive projects. These in-depth project planning tools flush out potential challenges and cast a vision of how the project...