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DECEMBER 30, 2024

Top 5 Reader’s Choice Articles of 2024 Your top picks focused on mastering clear communication, navigating emotional conversations, challenging unproductive mindsets, and fostering trust in the face of workplace challenges. Read here Why it clicked: Most employees were never taught the art of effective reporting and readouts.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

There are three critical steps senior leaders must take to make this vision a reality: Visibly Model Comprehensively Communicate Intentionally Amplify Lasting Business Culture Change Starts with Senior Leaders Our favorite definition of culture comes from marketing guru Seth Godin. This is where a 5 x 5 communication plan is essential.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Reinforce success through consistent messaging, accountability, and celebration. 10:38] – The 5×5 Strategy for Communicating What Matters Most One mention isnt enough. 12:05] – Why Celebration and Accountability Go Hand in Hand One of the most overlooked leadership challenges? The good news?

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MARCH 17, 2025

NOTE: We find there’s some tongue-in-cheek catharsis in using the word “couth” during the forming stages of the team agreement, but you’ll want to rename it before you begin your widespread communication plan. They werent asking about technical skills or strategic decision-making. or Ill follow up by [date].

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Scapegoating often has little to do with you and everything to do with their fear of repercussions, a desperate bid to save their reputation or a team culture that sidesteps accountability. Others launch a deliberate campaign to ensure some unsuspecting nice guy gets the blame. And of course, neither of these helps you.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hold Others Accountable: Practice peer-to-peer check-ins and closure Habit: When people don’t follow through, I follow up with them. In high-performing teams, accountability isn’t just the manager’s job—the team holds one another accountable (and their manager too). When everyone’s responsible, no one is.

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

8 Ways to Deal with Team Conflict Hire for Conflict Communication Skills De-escalate Heated Conflict in the Moment Reflect to Connect Gather Information with Three Quick Questions Diagnose the Situation: Is this a vent or a problem that needs to be solved? Hire for Conflict Communication Skills 2. Not every complaint needs a solution.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

How to Communicate Like a BossWith a Little Help from Your Pod Whales have a pretty cool way of navigating their world. They get better feedback because communication is a team sport. They get better feedback because communication is a team sport. But heres the key: they dont do it alone. Thats exactly what great leaders do.

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APRIL 21, 2025

Before diving back into your own tasks, you flag the update to your GTM partners, knowing theyre planning next weeks customer communications. Who will be held accountable for outcomes even if they werent consulted? Clarity + Curiosity) Its one thing to communicate. Decisions pile up. Calendars fill. Who needs to know it?

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Ensure every executive team member team has a practical plan to model, communicate, and build a cadence of accountability and celebration around those habits. Encourage them to notice and celebrate the habits and behaviors in one another (and to hold one another accountable when they don’t). Culture comes from the top.

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JUNE 12, 2025

Replace Vague Agreements With Tangible Actions If you’ve ever “agreed to communicate better” or “be nicer,” you’ve seen how quickly vague agreements lead right back to—you guessed it— recurring conflict. This builds accountability and gives you a natural window to course-correct—before the conflict recurs. But then comes Monday.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The way you respond to challenges, celebrate wins, and communicate expectations creates the framework everyone else will follow. The secret to success is ensuring that the most critical success habits spread throughout your department through deliberate modeling, communication, and reinforcement. It starts with you.

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MAY 9, 2025

Youll discover a practical, people-centered communication tool that replaces fuzzy follow-ups with real resultswithout tipping you or your team into burnout. Its not a people problem, its a communication gap. [03:28] Watch a vague great conversation become a concrete, scheduled taskcomplete with accountability.

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APRIL 21, 2023

If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. How do I get Sue to hold her team accountable, without micromanaging? And Sue’s exhausted too.

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here are the common mistakes new managers make: Avoid Accountability Conversations. Avoid accountability conversations. When you address accountability conversations in this way, your team member knows that you care. These are practical ways you can build a strong foundation for your career. Favor Friends and Former Peers.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Are you leading in a way that taps into your team’s potential for innovation, engagement, and open communication, or are you inadvertently stifling it? Discover the science behind building a more open, trust-filled culture that encourages peer-to-peer accountability. Drew explains that focusing on values alone isn’t enough.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

How do we best communicate? How will we hold one another accountable (with compassion)? How do we best communicate? How can you enhance your asynchronous communication to eliminate meetings and help level the playing field for remote team members across different time zones? And they enjoy and celebrate their success.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Lack of accountability. The challenge for most managers is that they think they’ve communicated what success looks like, but their team doesn’t have the same picture at all. It often takes far more communication up front than you think it will. Unclear definition of success. Be a chokepoint. Misguided support. Fear new ideas.

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JULY 15, 2024

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. One easy-to-use workplace communication tool will eliminate most of these frustrations, save you time, and improve performance and morale.

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JUNE 4, 2025

Its about accountability. Why You Should Apologize at Work (and How to Do It Without Overdoing It) Nobody enjoys messing up. But you know what makes it worse? That uncomfortable stretch of silence when someone misses the mark and refuses to acknowledge it. Why the Apologize Readily Habit Matters Apologizing at work isnt about groveling.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Operational tactics (looking at the ground beneath your feet) include clear communication, a shared understanding of success, healthy professional relationships, and consistent accountability. Are you consistently communicating critical messages and concepts five times, five different ways?

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OCTOBER 10, 2022

There are several answers that consistently rise to the top, including clarity, vision, encouragement, communication, listening, empathy, and support. For more on the valuable communication tool: look at Check for Understanding ). To hold one another accountable every day. But What’s the MOST Valuable Leadership Practice?

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JANUARY 30, 2022

Connection, Communication, and Stay Curious About New Ways of Working. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. They’re consistently asking “how can we do this better?” And, t hey focus on the fundamentals.

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DECEMBER 13, 2024

While it may seem like a peaceful resolution, it can be a major leadership communication pitfall, shutting down meaningful collaboration. [01:13] It prevents resolution, dismisses perspectives, and misses opportunities for innovation in leadership communication and team dynamics. [02:38]

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Public servants work in highly complex and regulated environments, often characterized by bureaucratic hurdles, politically sensitive minefields, and accountability-driven structures that can be quite challenging. Government officials (target market) face more issues than a broken photocopier on deadline day. The P.R.O.B.L.E.M.

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MAY 28, 2021

You don’t set the strategic priorities, but you are accountable to make it happen—often without the influence to get all the resources you would like (or need) to get the job done. 1:51 Why communication is challenging in this role. 1:51 Why communication is challenging in this role. Middle Manager Super Power.

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OCTOBER 4, 2024

You might make the mistake I (David) made when I was so grateful for volunteers that I didn’t hold them accountable for their work. Communicate Opportunities Too often, committees ask, “Who should lead this?” Communicate Opportunities Too often, committees ask, “Who should lead this?” That’s risky too. He started with WHY.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Practice Celebration and Accountability. You cannot over-communicate your team’s shared purpose. Then communicate it five times, five different ways –and then do it again. Then communicate it five times, five different ways –and then do it again. Practice celebration and accountability. Start with Shared Purpose.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

Relationship Coaching Improves Communication. The answer is multifaceted and may vary by individual opinion, but the aphorism “Communication is key” has earned its status for good reason. Self-awareness is critical to effective communication. A Research Paper By Sara Kwon, Relationship Coach, UNITED STATES. Evoking Awareness.

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MARCH 27, 2025

And once youve talked them through, you can teach them, reinforce them, and hold each other accountable. One of the most common complaints I hear about difficult conversations is where they are held. A tough message dropped into a chat app at 4:57 p.m. Managers often assume everyone just knows how to have a sensitive conversation. Start here.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Building a Human-Centered Leadership Approach [00:38] Discover how a human-centered leadership approach can transform your work environment, helping you master communication and accelerate team performance while building a career with respect and influence. [01:30] 18:55] Dive into the importance of mutual dependence in a team.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Public servants work in highly complex and regulated environments, often characterized by bureaucratic hurdles, politically sensitive minefields, and accountability-driven structures that can be quite challenging. Government officials (target market) face more issues than a broken photocopier on deadline day. The P.R.O.B.L.E.M.

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JULY 22, 2024

Explain what sloppy mistakes communicate to your customers, stakeholders, and to the rest of the team. Plus, building a peer review process is another way to communicate how important quality checks are. On the highest-performing teams, accountability is a team sport. You’re not trying to micro-manage.

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AUGUST 16, 2021

Communicate. Communicate–consistently. Communication is vital to every relationship, but it’s easy to take it for granted. You might think everyone’s sick of you communicating that key initiative, but they’re probably just beginning to internalize it. Commit–to accountability and performance. Cultivate Curiosity.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

They don’t set the strategic priorities, but they’re accountable for getting it done—often without the influence to ensure they have all the resources they need. Middle managers lead in a precarious situation. And, every day, their teams look to them for support, […].

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JULY 19, 2021

If you’re looking to set clearer performance expectations and hold better accountability or coach conversations, this article will help. Learn how to avoid these communication mistakes. . Avoid These Communication Mistakes (March 2021). Read the article here. Even if it was hard to hear? Read more here. Read how here.

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OCTOBER 21, 2024

What communication channels are appropriate for what messages? The challenge we face if we don’t agree on how we … (use cameras in meetings, include people in radically different time zones on decisions, communicate sensitive information when we can’t look each other in the eye). How do we use AI?

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