Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. Here are ten important questions to start with when building a high-performing team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

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. This article unpacks how to manage confidential information with integrity and professionalism.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Episode 276: Do you ever feel like your attempts to manage up leave your manager more frustrated than satisfied? As a leader, your ability to communicate effectively directly impacts your success and your team’s performance. Ready to transform your communication with your manager?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 13, 2021

Start Here to Make Your High-Performing Virtual Teams Even Better. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I share best practices I see continually being performed by high-performing virtual teams. Highlights from the Building High-Performing Virtual Teams Conversation. Looking For More Team Building Resources?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 5, 2015

Nothing will improve your team’s productivity faster than better communication. Having a deliberate process and cadence of communication will save hours of lost time, productivity and drama. 7 Questions to Improve Your Team’s Communication. What is working well about the way we are currently communicating?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

” If you’re like most managers, at some point you’ve heard this kind of pushback from your team. Challenging your team to do more (often with less) is one of the biggest challenges of a manager. 3 Ways to Improve Your Team’s Performance. 1% on a key performance metric, they would save 2 million dollars!

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2014

As I sat on the beach sipping my chardonnay, I vowed to never blow off preparing for a performance review again. Give it a try as you prepare for your own performance review, or share with your team to help them prepare for their meeting with you. 3 Ways to Prepare For a Better Performance Review. Numbers, Numbers, Numbers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 10, 2022

Master remote team communication with variety and consistency. If you’re serious about becoming a better remote leader, you’re going to want to become a master in the art of remote team communication. Key initiatives, motivation, strategic priorities, updates, celebrations–there is so much to communicate with your team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

The second week on campus, teams of first year MBA students would have 48 hours to research and make recommendations on a real business challenge for a large, high-profile company and package and communicate their recommendation to a high-profile audience. How to Move a Team From Forming to High Performing in < 48 Hours.

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International Coaching Federation

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Throughout my career working with various managers, one crucial insight has consistently emerged: The success of coaching programs relies on the involvement and commitment of senior management. Senior managers who participated in the pilot began to adopt a more inquisitive and supportive approach. The results were promising.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 1, 2021

When You Coach Employees, Make Every Conversation Count You want to coach employees to improve performance, but there’s just so little time. The post How to Coach Employees to High Performance When Time is Limited appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Effective Coaching Techniques Coaching employees to […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

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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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We would love to partner with you and your executive team to build a practical plan for a high-performing, human-centered culture (it’s what we do best). Ensure every executive team member team has a practical plan to model, communicate, and build a cadence of accountability and celebration around those habits. It’s toxic.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Maximizing Impact, Minimizing Costs: A Strategic Approach to Coaching in Resource-Constrained Government Institutions Government institutions serve as the backbone of a nation, charged with upholding public trust, managing essential services, and advancing societal welfare (Sedgwick, 2016). Heslin et al.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2015

The biggest mistake managers make when developing their people is that they don’t spend enough time doing it. Good managers spend at least 10-20% of their time developing their people. 5 Mistakes Managers Make When Developing Their People. There’s a weird imaginary threshold I see too many managers cross.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” Solution: Make change manageable. “My boss has talked with me three times about my communication. The other day I tried to give her some feedback about how her communication style was landing with my team. “My manager says I need to be more strategic. Performance Conversations That Work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

Do You Tolerate Poor Performance or Let the Slackers Slide? Or you let a performance issue fester for fear of not being liked? In this article, we address the common reasons so many managers tolerate poor performance, and what to do instead. How to Be Okay When It’s Time to Fire a Poor Performer 3.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, when you don’t pay attention to tactics and effective management, you create needless conflicts, frustrations and hurt feelings. Leaders and managers often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations. The trail demanded attention. Tactical Questions to Help You Avoid “Injury”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (February 2021). If you knew your manager really cared about you, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. Read the article here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

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. I’ve got a manager of managers on my team, let’s call her “Sue.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

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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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

They earned their reputation as a courageous manager one small daring moment at a time—small micro-moments of courage that led to better performance and deeper trust. Courageous managers will tell you their truth , even if it’s hard to hear. What’s one best practice I could do to really improve my communication?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

For most managers, the only thing they dread more than going to their own end-of-year performance appraisal is holding end-of-year feedback discussions with their team. Because the performance appraisal system is unnatural by design. Imagine if we burdened our home relationships […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. I established a clear vision and performance expectations. What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? Build a highly integrated communication plan. I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2025

Managers often assume everyone just knows how to have a sensitive conversation. Managers need to be talking with their HR partners, not just about policies, but about practice. (If It’s statistically likely that managers who struggle with this got dumped over WhatsApp, ghosted after interviews, or fired by email themselves.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2018

And then in the middle of an otherwise raving performance review, your boss brings up the conflict you continue to have with another […]. The post Coworker Conflict: 7 Ways to Get Along with Other High Performers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You’re working hard and your results are on fire.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In our research for Courageous Cultures, 67% said their manager operates under the notion “this is the way we’ve always done it.” ” And it’s not just managers who can get stuck in a rut. reports, communication, analysis) that no one would miss if we stopped? The post Stuck in a Rut?

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Let's Grow Leaders

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. So how do you do that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

So I’m pulling into the stadium and I can hear the cadence of the marching band coming around the track … Actually, I think this story will be more fun if I tell it to you this way: Communicating Clear Expectations is Not Micro-Managing, It’s Empowering. How to Reset Performance Expectations For Better Results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. Communicate. Communicate–consistently. Cultivate Curiosity. Contribute.

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International Coach Academy

MAY 15, 2024

A Research Paper By David Keneford, Leadership Coach, CANADA A Performance Coaching Culture Creating a performance coaching culture within an organization is crucial for achieving long-term success and growth. Another important aspect of creating a performance coaching culture is the use of measurement and tracking.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 11, 2021

Building a High-Performing Team Takes Rhythm. A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. How to build a high-performing team through an effective operating cadence. Virg Palumbo on Building an Operating Cadence of a High-Performing Team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? Build a highly integrated communication plan. In the great maternity leave debacle, my biggest mistake was that I was at the center of all the communication. I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so.

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Personal Productivity Introduction: Enhancing Productivity Through Self-Awareness Productivity isn’t just about managing time—it’s about understanding your unique behavioral patterns. Each style brings distinct strengths and challenges to productivity and time management. They take charge and push projects forward quickly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

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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