LSA Global

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Promotion to Management and How to Develop New People Leaders While being promoted to a management role is exciting, many first time people leaders are dismayed by how difficult it can be to lead, manage, and coach teams of people with different roles, skills, attitudes, and desires.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

So much depends upon managers. This is disconcerting because the same research found that about 70% of people in management roles are not well equipped for the job. Most companies understand the importance of having highly effective managers, but few invest heavily in training to help them get there.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Why Great Employees Leave “Great Cultures” Melissa Daimler. For the purposes of this article, I’m assuming that as a manager, you’ve assigned these tasks fairly , and the employee in question isn’t actually burdened with too many non-promotable tasks.). Dawn Klinghoffer et al.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management. For most sales teams, 80% of revenue should come from approximately 20% of clients; do not waste valuable time on unqualified prospects.

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LSA Global

APRIL 15, 2024

Only invest time and resources with clients that appreciate and need what you have to offer. This leads to improved win rates, higher customer satisfaction, and better time management. For most sales teams, 80% of revenue should come from approximately 20% of clients; do not waste valuable time on unqualified prospects.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 2, 2016

When you’re hiring a new manager, the stakes are high. You need someone who can effectively lead people, manage a budget, liaise with upper management — and, usually, do it all from day one. Would you hire or promote a star player into a management role if they’ve never managed anyone?

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2017

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Becoming a Manager.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2018

They talk through how to advance in your job when you’re not in the building, deal with a problematic colleague you never see, and manage teams in other offices. They report that workplace politics are more pervasive and difficult, and when conflicts arise they have a harder time resolving them.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 20, 2017

” Rampant cc’ing leads workers and managers to squander precious time sorting through unnecessary messages. We found these effects in studies using both Western and Chinese samples of employees, which suggests that even in very different cultures, copying the supervisor can be seen as a potentially threatening move.

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Rick Conlow

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Unfortunately, research shows 82% of managers fail and are poor coaches. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. Effective coaching requires a distinct set of skills that managers often lack. As a result, they may not prioritize coaching or allocate sufficient time to it.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

A friend of mine was having a hard time balancing her career at a large financial firm with her family demands. She worked at one of those all-too-typical workplaces where employees are expected to log 60 hours or so a week — a perfect illustration of what I call a “ culture of overwork.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

We predicted that a flexibility gap would exist, and our results validated that hypothesis: 96% of employees said they need flexibility, yet only 47% reported having access to the types of flexibility they need — a gap of 54%. This gap is even more pronounced for women, only 34% of whom have access to the flexibility they need.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

For the first time in my young career, I was going to lots of meetings, and my job had become as much about convincing, cajoling, and coordinating as it was about designing. My manager told me about a team that was working on the Google Help Forum. We were product managers, designers, and leaders. Expectations.

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Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

The problem is, while many of us are using paid time off, we’re not using it to its fullest potential. Culture, technology, and poor personal habits encourage us to stay plugged in. Ask your direct reports for a recap. Perhaps you’ll find yourself establishing a healthier “tech/body balance.”

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

As more sectors embrace a digital strategy — transportation, aviation, health care, energy, and so on — managers will find that a deep understanding of their market is still the most potent defense against competition. We respect the hyper-local culture in places we operate,” Tan said. “‘Why us?’

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Its story of a bibliomaniac who unearths an ancient poem, cracking opening the cultural door to the Renaissance, has inspired me with a creative way to write about a risk capital project that’s due later this week. Right now I’m halfway through The Swerve: How the World Became Modern , by Stephen Greenblatt.

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Harvard Business

MAY 5, 2017

So be sure you’re in good standing with your manager before making the request. ” Consider what will worry your manager, and then think of ways to preempt those concerns. “Your manager needs for other people to not see your schedule as a four-day week.” Give your boss time. Every other Friday?

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Harvard Business

MAY 10, 2016

And yet in my work with clients, I often discover old ideas about time management that don’t take this new reality into account. Is it common at your company for email to be used for urgent and time-sensitive communications? Four mistakes in particular come up again and again.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. These advances will have also significantly increased the workload of more senior managers, keeping them working around the clock.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

To manage these tensions, just over half of American workers said they simply steered clear of political conversations at work, but one in five reported avoiding certain coworkers because of their political views. Younger workers in particular reported lower levels of productivity and higher levels of stress.

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