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Creating High-Performance Leadership
By Tony Alessandra, Ph.D.
If, as someone once said, tact is the radar of the mind, then practicing The Platinum Rule can be a valuable tune-up of your antenna.
The Platinum Rule—treating others the way they want to be treated by adapting to their personality style—can quickly make you a more sensitive, effective leader. Indeed, [...]
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If you’ve ever thought of being the manager of a company, you’ve probably considered the amount of training that needs to go into company management.
The reward of becoming a an effective manager is not only a healthy paycheck but also in using leadership and competent managing skills to directly improve employee efficiency and inspire [...]
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The current state of the economy makes it very difficult to inspire employees to perform at their peak levels. They worry about losing their jobs, and this fear diverts their attention from producing at the levels needed to succeed.
In order to promote productivity, you need to help your employees figure out what to focus on [...]
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Senior level support of an initiative is always a key goal of any group manager or project director, in order to ensure success of a project.However, in over 10 years of work with change managers, convincing senior management to approve a proposal continues to be a main source of frustration among group managers.
To try to [...]
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If you have experienced the following scenario, you are not alone.With only a few minutes to present to senior management, you must communicate a proposed project on behalf of your team.You labor until you perfect the delivery, only to see that the executives were unmoved by your proposal.What caused the unenthusiastic response?
In my work with change leaders over [...]
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While businesses are struggling to survive in a turbulent economy, it is very easy to avoid communicating with employees. This avoidance can affect overall company performance for a number of reasons. If not addressed, employee anxiety reduces productivity and may ultimately impact the bottom line via stress-related illness, absenteeism, and decreased employee engagement and loyalty.
Here [...]
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The fact that you are reading this says that you, an influencing leader – business coach, salesperson, small business owner, entrepreneur, or leader - are most likely NOT in the category of ‘no ownership,’ meaning you don’t take any responsibility for the outcomes of your choices. That leaves two options: ‘Some responsibility’ or ‘total responsibility.’
Most [...]
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We all have lots of appointments every day, hundreds of chores to do, dates to keep in mind. It is almost impossible to keep track of everything, to remember every telephone number you might need. It might not be a tragedy for some of us, but for others, it could be vital, and a [...]
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I am not happy. My chair has just broken and the printer has still not been fixed. The problem with this place is that it is falling apart. The boss really doesn’t seem to have a clue as to what is really going on.
That new guy that started last week, who no one bothered [...]