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My experience as a leader in a high performance organization and the coach and mentor to several other highly successful high performance leaders enables me to share with you the tips, tools and steps to be a Breakthrough Leader who builds a high performance team.
Most organization's give considerable focus to ensuring they have the best equipment, technology and systems ... which are all incredibly important ... but far too many organizations neglect the most important element ... their people. People are what make organization's tick.
Place two businesses side by side, outfit them with exactly the same equipment, technology and systems and one will outperform the other. Why? Because of the people and the culture that the leadership team has created. This is why these leadership articles are dedicated to helping you create a culture in which people can and want to perform at their best.
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BECOME A BREAKTHROUGH LEADER AND GROW YOUR ORGANIZATION'S CULTURE
How To Handle Poor Performers In Your Team: The person with the most power in your team is the person who is the poorest performer. Here are some tools to help stop their insidious influence in your team ...
Learned Helplessness in the Workplace: Do you have a team that is stuck in apathy? Discover what caused it and what to do about it ...
Changing Workplace Culture: Most workplace cultures have not been deliberately designed. Follow these 8 steps to ...
Dealing
with Change in the Workplace:
For most people dealing with
change in the workplace is a time of great stress. This article is
filled with tips for both the leader and the led on how to deal with
change ...
Managing
Change in the Workplace:
Here are some tips for leaders to
help make the change process run more smoothly ...
The
Power of Organization Design: Hiring talented people is not
enough to ensure organizational success. The best and brightest
employees will not be able to do their best work in a poorly designed
workplace ...
An
Organization Re-design Process:
The model below shows you how
the choices you make in organization design impact on the various
parts. The important thing to note is ...
Vision,
Mission and Values:
Poorly used they will create deep
cynicism throughout your organization, wisely used they ...
Tips
on how to Create a Team Vision Statement:
The purpose of your
vision statement is to stretch boundaries and comfort zones and enable
the people within the organization to have a sense of what could be ...
Tips
on how to create a Team Mission Statement:
Developing a team
mission statement is not an exact science. You are simply fleshing out
the distinctive competencies and primary reason for existence of ...
Tips
on how to Develop Team Values:
The shape of any organization
is determined by the values held by the leaders with decision-making
authority. People do not learn how to act by the organizational values
that are written on cards and brochures ...
The
Difference Between Rule Based and Principle Based Workplaces:
Shifting from a restrictive style of management to principle based
leadership is not for the faint-hearted. It will possibly be the
personal growth journey of your life!
Four
Steps to Creating a Principle Based Workplace:
Articulate
your Values then identify the irrational ...
Team
Norms - The Bridge:
Finding rules too restrictive and
principles too airy-fairy? Then you need to create some team norms.
Norms can help your team to focus on performing rather than conflicting
...
Humor In the Workplace: Sometimes you need to lighten up the work environment with a bit of humor. But what to do when humor is inappropriate?
Employee
Performance Management Technique:
This technique enables you
to identify why a person doesn't perform the task required or to the
standard required. Generally there are two reasons people under-perform
...
7 Truths About Handling Mistakes: What do Post-It-Notes, Coca-Cola, Columbus and Liquid Paper all have in common? Mistakes! You will not get through your career without mistakes happening - your own mistakes or mistakes of those who report through to you.
Effective
Leadership Styles:
Your Style of leadership impacts
your team. There are many different styles, find the one that works
best for you or best fits the situation you are in ...
Micromanagement
and Delegation:
A snooperviser is one of the most
demoralizing leaders to ...
Successful
Delegation Techniques:
For successful effective
delegation follow these six steps ...
A
Different Leadership Style? Take Some Leadership Lessons From Horses:
The old command and control style is dead. A different
leadership style
is needed if you really want to connect with your people. You may be
able to gather some leadership lessons from horses. ...
Qualities
of Good Leadership:
Research shows that there's a
consistent set of traits, characteristics and qualities of good
leadership that people look for in their leader ...
Leadership
Skills Analysis:
In any corporate organization there
is much pressure on leaders to perform at their optimum, consequently
at some point in your career you will spend time in leadership skills
analysis/assessment.
Effective
Ways to Reward Employees:
Most reward and
recognition
programs inhibit high performance and encourage even more of the
traditional behaviors that originate from command and control style
organizations ...
Workplace
Gossip:
You probably gossip a lot more than you realize. Try
to go without it for 7 days and see how strong your withdrawal ....
Trust
in the Workplace:
Trust in the workplace is a residue of all
that you do. Trust does depend upon history, but at times it also
requires a leap of faith ...
Do
You Have A Toxic Workplace?:
A toxic workplace is one that's
not learnt to balance the need for profits with concern about the heart
and soul of its people ...
Talent
Management:
Talent Management is used a lot today to describe
the various activities an organization can undertake to ensure they
keep people in their seats longer ...
Employee
Motivation Program:
Looking for an employee motivation
program? Well it's possibly a lot easier and a lot more complex than
you ever thought. If it's a quick fix you are after ...
Employee
Motivation Program:
Many people find themselves trapped in careers and jobs that don't enable them to be free-flowing, natural, effortless ...
Positive Attitudes In The Workplace: Done well you can reduce turnover, employee complaints and make your team a place that people look forward to being a part of ...
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