17

Jan

Your Strategy Should Serve Two Purposes

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engagement, goals, mission, planning process, strategic planning, strategy, vision

Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Exercises, Strategy & Planning

Do you have a strategy? A real strategy, not just an objective, or a goal, or a vision? Most leaders I meet think they have a strategy, but what they have does not meet the definition. If they do have a strategy, they are not getting the most from it by using the strategy in two different ways. Today, I bring you an in-depth post on what is (and is not) a strategy, how to create one, and the two things you need to do with it.

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21

Jun

Dealing with the Team Historian

naysayer, skeptics, strategic planning, strategy, Team Dysfunction

Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Change, Contribute, Right Words to Say

Do you have someone on your team who responds to every question about the future with a statement about the past? Are they holding your strategic conversations back? Here are some tips to manage your team historian.

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14

Jun

Do Teams Decide?

accountability, decision making, decisions, meetings, plans, strategy, Team Dysfunction, team effectiveness

About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, How to fix teams

Most teams think that one of the most important activities they do as a team is to make decisions. I argue that teams don’t make decisions and those that try to are less efficient and effective than those that assign the authority for a decision to an individual. Does your team suffer with any of these symptoms of team decision-making?

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17

May

Close to the Boiling Point

coronavirus, covid, recession, strategy, stress, Team Dysfunction, team effectiveness, work from home

About teams, Be a better team member, Contribute, Horror Stories

I have started getting calls from teams that are struggling to cope with the crisis. Do you recognize any of these warning signs from your team. I’m looking for input so I can provide tools and resources to get you through this.

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03

May

Keep or Ditch?

business travel, covid-19, facilitation, flipchart, meetings, offsite, strategic planning, strategy

About teams, Change, Strategy & Planning, Success Stories

Some changes I’ve had to make to keep working during Covid are actually improvements. Here’s what I’ll keep (and what I’ll ditch) in post-lockdown meetings.

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15

Dec

Improve decision-making by separating phases

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decision making, decisions, dissent, planning, strategy, trade offs

Be a better team leader, Contribute, How to fix teams, Strategy & Planning

Make your execution faster and more successful by separating these three different phases of the decision-making process.

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27

Oct

One Simple Way to Sound Smarter

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clarity, communication, competencies, HR, lists, presentations, strategy, values, writing

Communicate, Right Words to Say, Strategy & Planning

If you want one way to sound smarter in your writing and presentations, clean up your lists. Poor grammar makes lists less clear and less compelling.

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14

Jul

Envision What’s Possible

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alignment, business strategy, cascade, communication, goal setting, project management, strategic planning, strategy, team effectiveness

Be a better team leader, Communicate, Contribute, Strategy & Planning

Are you adding value at the right level by envisioning a solution without designing or building it?

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27

Jan

Are you too busy to be curious?

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3coze

busy, creativity, curiosity, execution, Innovation, overworked, planning, strategy, team dynamics

About teams, Be a better team leader, Be a better team member, Contribute, Strategy & Planning

If you want to be strategic, you need to be curious, but execution mode reduces creativity. Here’s how to get into the right mode to be strategic and innovative.

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11

Feb

The #1 Crisis Facing Organizations: The Need for More Conflict

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conflict, Galbraith, laterals, matrix organization, priorities, prioritization, star model, strategy, structure, SWOT

About teams, conflict, Horror Stories, Strategy & Planning

I’m deep into writing my new book and I’ve had an epiphany: Organizations are built to require conflict while employees are built to avoid it. I see this impact of this problem every day, but it took me 20 years to name it. Now it’s so clear. We have set up a fundamental tension between […]

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