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Start Building Your Leadership Fitness Today

Leadership is an endurance activity. Achieving peak leadership fitness requires self-awareness, goal setting, following a game plan, and overcoming challenges.

Today’s post is by Timothy Tobin, author of Peak Leadership Fitness (CLICK HERE to get your copy).

As an endurance athlete and someone who has devoted his professional career to leadership development, I have realized some amazing parallels between physical fitness and leadership fitness. Both are journeys into self-discovery.

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How to Make Your Meetings More Efficient

 

You should spend less time in meetings and more time driving results. Follow these four tips to make your meetings more efficient.

When you’re running a high-performing team, one of the most valuable assets you’ve got is time. And so much of our time gets consumed by worthless activities, the most worthless being meetings that don’t have a purpose and aren’t efficient. So I’d like to offer some techniques for running your meetings more efficiently, helping you focus on the right key sets of metrics, and then managing by exception.

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Tips for Announcing Bad News

No one enjoys being the bearer of bad news. However, if we can deliver it quickly and effectively, our message tends to go over much better.

Today’s guest post is by Thomas Mustac, Medical & Health Industry Specialist — Otter PR

We’ve all been on both ends of this uncomfortable conversation starter: “I have good news and bad news — which do you want first?” According to one study from the Society for Personal and Social Psychology, most people in the position of delivering news choose to open with good news, whereas those people receiving the news overwhelmingly prefer to hear bad news first.

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What is the biggest challenge you have when managing a high performer?

Our reader poll today asks: What is the biggest challenge you have when managing a high performer?

Resisting the urge to manage them too closely 6.74%Giving them challenging assignments 14.75%Setting realistic expectations for their advancement 33.01%Taking on more challenging work myself so they have room to grow 3.20%Preventing them from taking on too much work 25.96%Managing the rest of the team to keep them motivated 16.34%

Balancing Challenge and Aggressiveness.

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What Ferrari and Bentley Can Teach You about High Performance Cultures

Building a high performance culture requires focus, dedication, and a relentless drive to make the organization function at peak levels. Can you transform your organization into a high performance culture?

Today’s post is by Hugh Blane, President of Claris Consulting and author of 7 Principles of Transformational Leadership ( CLICK HERE to get your copy).

It was one of the most thrilling moments in my life.

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When someone you’re negotiating with makes a completely unreasonable demand, how do you react?

Our reader poll today asks: When someone you’re negotiating with makes a completely unreasonable demand, how do you react?

I counter with something I can accept 57.23% I tell them they’re unreasonable and to come back with something better 30.39%I stop negotiating entirely 3.83%I ignore their demand and proceed as if it was never made 8.55%

Unreasonable demands can end a negotiation.

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Handling Politics and Personal Agendas

Politics and personal agendas can derail a high-performing team. Learn the difference between being savvy and being political.

Personal agendas and politics can derail the performance of your entire team and your team will no longer be high performing. You have to get the team focused on what matters and enable everyone on the team to rise above the politics and the personal agendas.

Now, there’s a difference between being savvy and being political. 

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How to Effectively Navigate a Crisis

 

To effectively navigate a crisis scenario, companies must have a clear response plan to react promptly and honestly, and learn from their mistakes.

Today’s guest post is b y Thomas Mustac, Publicist — Otter PR

Crises come in all shapes and sizes for businesses, but no matter how big or small, an organization will be overwhelmed if they have not adequately planned how to approach the crisis.

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How do you deal with someone who is passive aggressive?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you deal with someone who is passive aggressive?

I ignore it and focus on the work 40.26%I call them out on it and work toward productive resolution 39.62%I get passive aggressive myself in retaliation 11.36%I get directly aggressive to counter the behavior 8.76%

Pushing Back on Passive Aggression.

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Prioritizing Your Efforts with Strategic Filters

 

Strategic filters can help you prioritize your efforts based on the objectives of your organization.

Once you’ve created a list of initiates that you’re going to pursue to help you achieve your vision, you need to evaluate those initiatives according to objective criteria for comparing them to one another. Because ultimately you need to prioritize those initiatives. The ones you’re going to pursue are the ones that meet the majority of your objective functions.

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