Tag: leadership
Managing the Toxic Team Member
One of the comments I received after my last post was that I was waxing too philosophical.Guilty as charged, and I was unabashedly so. But I don't want this blog…
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From “You and Me” to “We”
The Harvard Business Review dedicated its entire January, 2009 issue to “Transforming Leaders”, One takeaway from the issue as a whole is the need to move well from “you and…
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Decision Making When It Matters
At the end of the year, I’d like to shift gears and not talk directly about leadership or onboarding. I would like to share some thoughts about decisions and decision-making. …
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Ensuring Intentions Lead to Results
Professor Harry Martin wrote in Monday's Wall Street Journal that there are several ways to improve on-the-job application of training and development programs. Writing an action plan, having objective performance…
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Leading Up and Out, Managing In and Down (Part I)
Rick’s Experience One of my clients named Rick was brought into a finance organization that for all intents and purposes was broken. The company had grown rapidly through both acquisition…
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Leadership and onboarding signs and symbols
The Jets humbled the Titans twice this week. Once in Sunday's football game. Once during congressional hearings. I'll leave the football commentary to someone else and stick with lessons about…
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Hot Landings: onboarding into trouble
Getting a head start, taking control of the message and building or transforming the team are important in any new job situation. They are that much more important when a…
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Great Leadership
Some thoughts on great leadership. The more we get into this, the more we're becoming convinced that it's all about inspiring and enabling others to do their absolute best, together…
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Create – Control – Connect
Three words can make a huge difference to your onboarding success: create – control – connect CREATE Day One is a critical pivot point for people joining from outside the…
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