Mike Figliuolo's Blog, page 35
March 29, 2023
Providing Resources to Reach Goals

If you don’t give your teams the resources they need, they’re not going to hit their goals.
Once your goals are set, you have a responsibility to provide the team the resources it needs to achieve those goals. These resources should be identified during the goal-setting process. Include those resources in budgets and project plans. Failure to conduct resource planning and allocation is going to frustrate your teams. They won’t have what they need to achieve their goals.
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March 27, 2023
How Organizations Get Employee Engagement Wrong

Employees now expect more. Employee engagement is key to success for most organizations. If we understand the typical and recurring mistakes made in this field, we can predict and prevent them happening to us.
Today’s guest post is by Frank Devine, author of RAPID MASS ENGAGEMENT: Driving Continuous Improvement Through Employee Culture Creation (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
The Roll-out Assumption
During a visit to one of the sites where my Rapid Mass Engagement (RME) process had been implemented, a group of senior visitors toured the site guided by a shop-floor employee who outlined the new high-performance culture.
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March 23, 2023
What would your team members say is your greatest strength?

Our reader poll today asks: What would your team members say is your greatest strength?
Your inspirational leadership 9.73%Your ability to develop their skills 9.73%Your strategic vision and ability to innovate 12.98%Your decisiveness 9.19%Your caring, empathy and compassion 43.25%Your ability to influence others 9.72%Something else 5.40%Caring counts.
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March 22, 2023
Communicating Goals to Your Organization

Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. Operating in silos leads to missed opportunities.
Once you’ve built some great goals, you need to communicate them to the organization. People in your department need to understand how their own goals, as well as the goals of their colleagues, tie to the broader organization goals. Operating in silos leads to missed opportunities. Sometimes you’ll find people are working at cross purposes.
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March 16, 2023
How effective is your manager at creating a meeting environment where everyone is comfortable participating?

Our reader poll today asks: How effective is your manager at creating a meeting environment where everyone is comfortable participating?
They’re great at it. They create space for everyone to participate comfortably 27.52%They’re good at it. They create some space but tend to drive the discussion 24.84%They’re OK at it. They drive most of the discussion and get some input 18.12%They’re not good at it.Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
March 15, 2023
Reality Checking Your Goals

Goals can make sense in isolation, but when you add them all up, you may be asking for unrealistic results from your team. Watch out for conflicting goals.
It’s important to reality check your goals. Goals can make sense in isolation, but when you add them all up, you may be asking for unrealistic results from your team. You’ll need to evaluate how department goals impact one another.
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March 13, 2023
What if the future of our businesses depends upon our ability to be un-business-like?

Why are memorial services celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed always convened around candlelight, music, and poetry and not around bright lights, PowerPoint presentations and spreadsheets?
Today’s guest post is by Dr. Robert H. Lengel, author of A Place For T: Giving Voice To The Tortoise In Our Hare-Brained World (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
Why are memorial services celebrating the life of a loved one who has passed or that bring communities of diverse people together after a tragedy like a human-caused tragedy or natural disaster always convened around candlelight, music, and poetry and not around bright lights, PowerPoint presentations, and spreadsheets?
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March 9, 2023
In team meetings, how good are you at creating an environment where everyone is comfortable participating?

Our reader poll today asks: In team meetings, how good are you at creating an environment where everyone is comfortable participating?
I’m great at it. Everyone offers their thoughts and I just guide the discussion: 17.95%I’m good at it. Most people offer thoughts and I drive some of the discussion: 58.98%I’m OK at it.Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.
March 8, 2023
Setting Commit and Stretch Goals

A commit goal gives your team a clear target to aim for, while a stretch goal gives your team an incentive to go above and beyond.
A goal setting technique designed to provide predictability and generate excitement and upside potential is setting commit and stretch goals. The commit goal is a promise of what will be delivered. It’s non-negotiable. Missing it has big consequences. The stretch goal is something for the team to aspire to.
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March 6, 2023
Four Powerful Mindset Shifts To Help You Conquer Love, Overcome Death, And Succeed In Business

These four mindset shifts can help you create winning strategies in both your business life and your personal life.
Today’s guest post is by Alex Brueckmann, author of Secrets of Next-Level Entrepreneurs (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
Sitting on the balcony of our apartment in New Westminster, Canada, I hold my baby boy and reflect on the past few months. After everything that happened, I’m amazed that I made it through without breaking down mentally.
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