Leadership, Leading Change
Successfully Moving from Peer (and friend) to Manager
You’ve just received a promotion, and you’re ecstatic. You can’t wait to start your new leadership position, and the wheels are already turning with exciting ideas to implement. But, it comes to your attention…
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Leadership, Leading Change
Leading Change in the Face of Opposition
Robert F. Kennedy once said, “About twenty percent of the people are against any change.” Our findings, in working with managers and supervisors tasked with leading organizational change, support Kennedy’s theory. No matter how…
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Leadership, Leading Change, Productivity
Great Leaders Make Tough Decisions Quickly
Sound decisions are a hallmark of great leadership. But, that doesn’t make decisions, such as whether to terminate a member of the team or share an employee concern with your own leader, any easier. How…
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Communication, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leading Change
The Critical Role of Top-Down Communication
Management at all levels of an organization play a significant role in the communication that flows down to employees. Despite their best efforts, top-down communication continues to be an issue for many of the organizations we encounter….
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Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leading Change
When Top Performers Lose Their Edge
What do you do as a leader when your top-performing employees lose their focus and motivation? If members of your team are not as engaged as they once were, several factors could be impacting their…
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Leadership, Leading Change
Great Leaders Love Being Uncomfortable!
I am fond of the words, “Great leaders get bored quickly.” As I have studied great leaders, I have observed that once they learn to do something, they love delegating what they have learned to…
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Leadership, Leading Change
How to Build a Culture Rich in Creativity and Innovation
Many managers are proficient in leading a team that has a solid reputation for maintaining the status quo and producing consistent, high quality results. These managers lead teams that are good at making small incremental…
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Leading Change, Quest Newsletter
Can you Change your Company Culture?
There’s a lot of talk about cultures these days, and for good reason. Culture is the collective values, behaviors and habits displayed by those who work for the organization. While two competitive organizations may have…
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Leading Change
Small Decisions and their Big Impact
Most of us are well aware of the big decisions we have made and the significant impact those decisions have had in our lives. The decision to attend a university and graduate is a big…
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Leading Change
Playing it Safe Might Be the Riskiest Strategy
A senior level manager we are coaching shared with me a powerful story. One of her peers had secretly confessed to her that she was leaving the company after she received her annual bonus check….
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