Mike Figliuolo's Blog, page 31

A Guide to Improving Communication: Underlying Needs

 

Understand people’s underlying needs with this guide to communication. Enhance relationships and improve your leadership style by being able to adapt.

Today’s guest post is by Paul Bramson, CEO — The Paul Bramson Companies

Effective communication is the cornerstone of every healthy relationship — both personal and professional. This is not new information of course, but the reality is most of us are not very good communicators.

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How well-compensated do your team members feel?

Our reader poll today asks: How well-compensated do your team members feel?

They feel like they’re very well-compensated 6.96%They feel like they’re fairly compensated 46.96%They feel like they’re not competitively compensated 33.91%They feel like they’re poorly compensated 12.17%

Are they going to leave you?

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Creating The High-Performing Virtuous Circle

 

If you’re able to take all seven the elements of building a high performing team and connect them to one another, you’re going to see a virtuous circle of performance happen on a regular basis, and your team will achieve more than you ever thought they could.

In looking at the seven elements of building a high performing team, there’s this really interesting dynamic where they create this virtuous circle, where one element links to another and enables the members of your team to perform even better than they would if you’d just focused on an individual element.

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Embracing Competition for Business Success

Overcoming attitudes about competition and turf is a key to innovation. Here are some ways to ignite a bold future.

Today’s guest post is by Scott Cochrane, author of Your Creative Mind: How to Disrupt Your Thinking, Abandon Your Comfort Zone, and Develop Bold New Strategies (CLICK HERE to get your copy). 

Last weekend I was out for a mountain ride on my adventure motorcycle.

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What are the biggest challenges your team faces when it comes to managing their time?

Our reader poll today asks: What are the biggest challenges your team faces when it comes to managing their time?

Too many meetings 23.69%Too much email 11.85%Lack of clear priorities 18.42%Too much work to do 26.31%Failure to delegate effectively 6.14%Inability to say “no” 7.45%Something else 6.14%

It’s your job to prioritize.

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How to Become a Strategic Thinker and Ascend into Leadership

 

A retired president of a Fortune 100 company provides effective advice on how to develop strategic-thinking capability and rapidly advance in an organization.

Today’s guest post is by Fred Sievert, author of Fast-Starting a Career of Consequence (CLICK HERE to get your copy). 

Ask any executive what he or she considers the most important skills for team members who aspire to leadership roles, and you will get answers ranging from clear communication to collaboration to adaptability.

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How do you feel about your team members or colleagues having “side gigs”?

Our reader poll today asks: How do you feel about your team members or colleagues having “side gigs”?

I’m totally fine with it as long as it doesn’t impact their day to day work performance 72.19%I don’t like it but I’ll tolerate it as long as it doesn’t impact performance 21.80%I’m strongly against it — all their focus should be on their primary job 6.01%

Focus on core job performance.

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The 7 Aspects of High-Performing Teams

Assembling a high-performing team involves more than just finding great talent. Follow this 7-step formula to develop the team of your dreams.

As a leader, one of your most critical responsibilities is to turn your team into what can be considered a high-performing team. And to do that, there are seven elements that you need to bring together to turn your team from one that just exists to one that’s considered high-performing:

1.

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The Loneliness Epidemic: Is Your Network Your Net Worth?

Discover the role of community in tackling loneliness, underlining the need for leaders to foster relationships, enabling team members to find their people.

Today’s guest post is by Dan Pontefract, award-winning author of Work-Life Bloom.

One of the first events I participated in when I joined TELUS in late 2008 was the annual Retirees Holiday Lunch. Despite its current-day international prowess across multiple business lines, TELUS started in 1904 as a British Columbia–based, publicly run telecommunications company.

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Have you been burned before by not having a contract with someone and relying on a handshake agreement instead?

Our reader poll today asks: Have you been burned before by not having a contract with someone and relying on a handshake agreement instead?

Not yet—all my handshake agreements have gone well and without issue 38.95%Yes. The handshake agreement was a bad idea and I should have had a contract instead 61.05%

Put it on paper.

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