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Performance Review: How to respond to frustrating or lazy performance feedback

Let's Grow Leaders

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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How to Reset Performance Expectations for Better Results

Let's Grow Leaders

The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. The new year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. “But they SHOULD know better!”

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Fast Results: Accomplish More in Less Time

Let's Grow Leaders

The clock’s ticking and there’s pressure to perform. Identify and communicate the biggest [.] The post Fast Results: Accomplish More in Less Time appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Competing priorities complicate the scene. Pushing harder exacerbates stress. Stress leads to inaction. Time to move fast.

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3 Ways to Prepare for a Better Performance Review

Let's Grow Leaders

My phone rang and Laura, my boss, told me she needed my accomplishments a week earlier than expected. As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. Here’s what I learned from Laura about showcasing your accomplishments. I was proud, but exhausted.

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3 Ways To Challenge Your Team Toward Higher Performance

Let's Grow Leaders

3 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance. 1% on a key performance metric, they would save 2 million dollars! Pair off your team into performance-enhancing diads (although they work like steroids on your results, they’re perfectly legal.) Do the Math. His math was brilliant. If they could move the needle.1%

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Empowered vs. Inhibited

International Coach Academy

In the workplace, it is often associated with the practice of motivating yourself or others to accomplish important goals or objectives. By recognizing employees for their efforts and prioritizing their own growth a leader is investing positive mental capital that builds high-performing, fully empowered teams.

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Increasing the Emotional Intelligence of Leaders By Applying Agile Principles and Best Practices

International Coach Academy

Face-to-Face Communication is Critical – Frequent face-to-face communication allows leaders to gather and share information about progress, vision, and expectations. This positively reinforces the commitment to self-improvement and elevates performance to even higher levels.