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4 UGLY Conversations to With Your Team Before Year End

Let's Grow Leaders

To stare squarely in the face of what’s not working and clear the decks for a remarkable 2017. The other day I was facilitating a 2 day offsite strategic planning retreat for one of my start-up clients. The destruction that new manager is doing to our culture? What must we say “yes” to in 2017?

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A Fresh, Fast, and Fun Way to Focus Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

If you’re like most managers, you’re neck deep in performance agreements, stretch goals, and the dance between managing your boss’s expectations and warning your team not to sandbag. How you spend January can make the difference between a breakthrough and mediocre 2017. 2017 was the very best year of my career.

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share How They and Their Team are Preparing for the New Year

Let's Grow Leaders

This month’s festival is all about preparing for 2017. To that end, one way we’re preparing our team for 2017 is to create a playbook – a one-stop guide to the critical goals, messages, and activities of each strategic theme. If I can get those three people in sync, then I can manage the other people who support me.

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Autonomy vs. Authority

International Coach Academy

In a hierarchical organization, top management controls and oversees the whole organization by setting up different directions, strategies, goals, policies, and decisions. These managers have position power to force their colleagues to execute their instructions. Middle managers are living in these two types of powers.

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Evoking Awareness in Agile Transformation Through Professional Coaching

International Coach Academy

Before the transitions, the actions, and the decisions, the starting point is raising awareness in the senior management. Next, senior management formulates the vision and spreads the strategies to the rest of the colleagues. As a result, “The One Way” and “The Management Tool” are no longer the only answer. Accountability.

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Coaching in the Board Room

International Coach Academy

My hypotheses are: Boards are changing in their role and the value they bring to stakeholders of the organizations they lead, from less governance to more strategic focus. the CEO and executive management team. defining and managing risks, and 4. strategy plan to ensure short- and longer-term competitiveness, 2.