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Ownership of Organizational Goals

Empowering Mid-Level Leaders

The mid-level leader plays many roles. Executing goals cascaded from the executive team is one of the most important. Build positive relationships with your middle leaders and promote ownership of the goals.

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Listen for Ideas, Perspective, and Connection

Include People in the Process

There are times where there are no easy choices or decisions. Yet, when we collaborate with others, we can help ease the weight and also discover victories worth celebrating. Listen as Superintendent, Dr. Tim Dilg, shares how their district is accomplishing more by working together.

Becoming an Improvement Organization

Go all-in to get better

In this ever-changing climate, continuous improvement is more vital than ever. In this podcast episode, we discuss how to engage people in continuous improvement, 5 bold steps for implementation, and why it makes a difference in critical times.

The Irreplaceables

The High-Stakes Impact of Failing to Re-recruit

The research from this educational context is certainly transferable to any sector. In this article, we learn how a simple question could have convinced an irreplaceable employee to stay. Top performers are more likely to stick with leaders who actively re-recruit them.

Improve Performance with Leader Led Conversations

Leaders set the right example for everyone

A leader's commitment to their team involves a commitment to be in the spotlight and model the right way to act always. Leaders can improve performance by practicing self-awareness during conversations with employees.

Meet 5 Critical Employee Needs with Leader Connection Questions

Set your employees up to thrive

For leaders who have ever thought, "What more can my team possibly want from me?," it's possible these 5 critical employee needs are not being met.

Victim Thinking

Only You Can Stop It

We will have days when we face challenges, obstacles, and we may even choose to feel like the world is against us or we don't control what's happening to us. Facing up and down moments in our career is inevitable. How you choose to deal with those moments will affect your relationships, productivity, and future opportunities.

What Action Can I Take?

Address Employee Needs & Ideas

When an employee reveals a needed resource, barrier to a process, or an idea for improvement, leaders have the responsibility to act on that information. Following-up and following-through after conversations or receiving feedback from employees builds trust and increases engagement and productivity. For this leadership challenge, determine follow-up actions to take as the leader after each leader connection scenario.

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Courageous Conversations

Correct because you care

Initiating conversations to provide one another feedback is uncomfortable for many. In reality, we provide others with feedback because we care about them and there success. Learn more about these three models for conducting courageous conversations.

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Courageous Conversations: Dos and Don’ts

Complete. Not Compete.

The following tips are the best practices for conducting compassionate courageous conversations with anyone in your organization.

Hitting the Wall

Tighten the Performance Curve

How do the varying human performance levels affect the overall organizational results? What happens when leaders avoid managing employee performance levels?

Motivate with Recognition

How do you move an elephant?

Building connections with the work and people in an organization inspires team members to achieve the mission. An effective approach to guiding behavior and building meaningful connections is to recognize individuals for displaying the characteristics and actions that will move the team to success.

Adjustment Meeting Template

How do I get my team aligned in their actions?

Team members prepare for the weekly meeting by entering individual updates on the Adjustment Meeting Template.

Adjustment Meetings

How do I keep my team on track to succeed?

A weekly adjustment meeting is a focused opportunity to track progress, discuss challenges, and determine actions needed to ensure goal achievement.

Why Manage By Strengths?

Strengths and temperament

The majority of people focus on fixing their weaknesses, rather than growing their strengths. In this video, Wendi Ochs tells us about her journey to strengths discovery and how leaning into our strengths and temperaments can bolster a team's performance.

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Practice Accountability

How accountable are you?

Accountability is an easy say, and often a hard do. It can be difficult to really know what accountability looks like, making it a challenge to live out.

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Accountability

Want success?

No one does accountability to us. We embrace it with full awareness of what’s at stake.

Owning the Message

Build cultures of accountability

Organizations aiming to build cultures of accountability can teach and support two types of conversations that encourage employees to carry their own messages.

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The Strengths Advantage: Using Work Strengths

Avoid a squiggly mess!

Maximizing the strengths of team members sets the entire organization up for success. Reinforce the bottom line by aligning individual strengths with jobs to be done.

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Pause, Perspective, Process

Reacting too fast?

Have you ever found yourself regretting an answer, reaction, or outburst? Have you ever sent an email you wished you could get back? Learning to pause, gain a new perspective, and learn about the process can help leaders regulate their emotions, make better decisions, and respond to difficult situations in a positive way.

Building Trust with New Teams

Trust: The Foundation for Successful Teams

As the pace of change continues to increase, the demand on individuals and teams to become more agile is higher than ever. Whether you have a mixture of new and old team members, or a completely new set of people working together, it’s critical to build trust as a team before goals can be accomplished together.

Vulnerability and Teamwork

What Makes a Successful Team?

With substantial pressure on workers and teams to learn new skills, generate innovative and creative products and services, and collaborate to solve complicated problems, we are realizing a need for team members to build deeper connections and take greater risks. To accomplish this, we embrace vulnerability.

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