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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

Based on my experience, not just of the past few months, but of many years working across all sectors, leadership teams from different sectors have more in common than not. And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. People not contributing during the meeting. Poorly planned meetings.

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Taking Up the Leadership Challenge

Makarios Consulting

Roughly translated into a glorious jumble of mixed metaphors, what you really mean is, “I hear what you are saying and I think you are living in an ivory tower and wearing rose-colored glasses because when the rubber meets the road that isn’t going to fly.” Originally published in 1987, The Leadership Challenge is now in its 7 th edition.

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Leadership Challenge: Are You Anchored or Adrift?

Makarios Consulting

Fifteen years have passed, but I (Tim) still remember the meeting as if it was yesterday. Posner explain the nature of values in their classic work The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations. Did you miss the first blog in the “Leadership Challenge” series?

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Leadership Development – bringing the team together

The Management Centre

In this interview, Rebecca Cooper, Head of People and Development at ACT Training shares her experience of what effective leadership development looks like in action. Tell us about what prompted you to commission training for your senior leadership team? We understand how we can support each other whilst meeting the needs of our teams.

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10 Strategies to Minimize Meetings in the Workplace

LSA Global

Strategies to Minimize Meetings in the Workplace Endless meetings at work can impede productivity, decrease employee engagement , and stifle innovation. New manager training participants often complain about being trapped in a cycle of back-to-back meetings, leaving little time to lead, manage, or coach their teams.

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Leadership Challenge: Breathe New Life into Your People

Makarios Consulting

Inspire a Shared Vision “Inspire a Shared Vision” is the second in our blog series about The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership® that James M. Posner define in their classic work, The Leadership Challenge. To reach that goal, he didn’t call a meeting, announce the objective, and encourage the team to get behind it.

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Live into Your Leadership Ideals

Makarios Consulting

Often in our blogs, we talk about issues, obstacles, or problems that teams face. Today, I (Rip) want to talk instead about a two-day team meeting that was sheer joy to be part of because of one key factor: everyone in the meeting lives into their leadership ideals.