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Accountability Is Bigger Than That In your next group meeting, ask the team to describe their understanding of accountability. You will probably get variations of these two definitions. 1. Do what you say you are going to do, and 2. Own it (the mistake, the goal,...
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Empowering The New Leader When a new manager/leader gets placed into a new management or leadership position, organizations don’t always do the best job setting this new person up for success. The new person is commonly given given a very specific title, but brief or...
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The Best Salesperson Behaviors Is high assertiveness a behavior that leads to success with salespeople, or can it be detrimental? Do high performing salespeople need to be very social or not? Do salespeople with a high sense of urgency perform better in the sales...
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Both Sides of Change So the question was asked this week, “why can’t we get people to change”. It always comes down to two reasons, however, the problem is most leaders in organizations only consider one of the two. Therefore, no change. The two reasons people change...
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SMART goals could be smarter We have long lived by the acronym SMART for setting goal structure and scope. That stands for Specific, Measurable, Action Oriented, Realistic, and Timely, and is a great baseline for understanding what a goal means and where it fits. ...
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Do Behavioral Assessment Pigeon Hole People When engaged in a conversation today on the use of behavioral assessments, a person made the simple comment “we don’t use behavioral assessments because we don’t like to pigeon hole people”. The comment is merely a simple...