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How to Help Your Team Reflect on Their Accomplishments

Let's Grow Leaders

Last week we talked about mistakes managers make when delivering performance feedback. Start by giving your employees a structured way to reflect on their accomplishments. The post How to Help Your Team Reflect on Their Accomplishments appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. And, […].

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How Managers (unintentionally) Roadblock an Empowered Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Most managers will say they want those outcomes and that they believe in an empowered team, but unintentionally prevent their teams from doing their best. One Big Reason Managers Disempower Their Team. The most common mistakes that disempower teams often result from a manager’s insecurity. Unclear Definition of Success.

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Help for the Overwhelmed Working Manager

Let's Grow Leaders

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. What should I do?”

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Working Manager: How to Support Your Team and Get Work Done Too

Let's Grow Leaders

Successful Working Managers Relentlessly Prioritize, Invest in People, and Delegate “I’m a working manager – not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work, besides having to lead my team. What is a working manager? To manage this overwhelm, Mind the M.I.T.

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

Let's Grow Leaders

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. This heartfelt post came from years of listening to high-performing employees vent their frustrations about the stupid things their managers said.

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Stop wasting your most precious resource: Middle managers

McKinsey

In the modern workplace, middle managers face many challenges. A new survey finds three areas where organizations can better support their managers and help them accomplish more.

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How to Project Manage Your Career

Eat Your Career

They stand for Project Management Professional (PMP) and Professional Career Manager (PCM). And I assure you: when you apply a project management mindset and project management strategies to it, you’ll achieve much more! Here are some project management strategies you can apply to your career immediately.

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