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Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics

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Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. The Danger of Focusing Only on Strategy. Strategic Questions to Help you Avoid Getting “Lost”.

Strategy 557
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4 Critical Communication Skills for Managing Up with Style and Grace

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Review Public Communications If your organization publishes annual reports, press releases, strategic plans, or internal newsletters, read them. Here are key times you can look for: Mission or vision language Strategic goals or themes (e.g., Ask yourself: What metrics does my manager focus on in meetings? What are your thoughts?

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How to Write A Strategic Planning RFP - A step by step guide

SME Strategy

Key elements of the process that should be included (outlining our process essentially) Why niche subject matter expertise isnt essential for your strategic planning facilitator. Make sure to book a call with likely vendors - it adds time, but how can you be sure they understand your full context if you dont connect first?

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Frontline Festival: Leaders Share Goal Setting Strategies for their Teams (and Themselves)

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Ensure the goals are aligned with the overall purpose and strategy of your organization. Shelley Row of Shelley Row Associates gives a simple plan for following through on your important goals. Jon Verbeck of JonVerbeck.com suggests that you set five shorter term quarterly goals with the correct specific numeric targets. Follow Jon.

Strategy 365
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Frontline Festival: January 2016 DRAFT

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This month’s festival is all about Vision and Strategy. Laura Barnard of PMO Strategies takes a realistic look at change management and change resistance with ideas for doing change WITH people instead of TO them. . Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.

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Leadership Support: How Do I Get More Executive Attention?

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” My team and I are having a strategic planning meeting, and I would love for you to join us for the last hour for us to share where we landed and see what insights you may have.” We’re going to be working on this MIT (most important thing ) in our strategy session. Be easy to help. Follow through.

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3 Character Traits That Make You a Better Leader

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This wasn’t just bad strategy or leadership – it was an outgrowth of a character flaw. The same leaders who could not stick with a strategic plan were impatient in everyday life. The problem comes in when we either don’t know what we should do, or we do know but can’t help ourselves and do the negative anyway.