Posts Tagged ‘Extraordinary Results’
Creating an Inspired Workplace: Putting Everyone on the In-Team
February 2, 2010 | 
Author Ever had that experience in which you brought up a really good idea and the group or leader ignored it, only to have someone else bring up that exact same idea and the group met it with excitement?
Turns out, new research has shown that the brain hears things differently based on whether the person saying them is in the “in” group” or the “out” group.
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What Got You Here May Not Get You There
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When met with what seems to be a familiar situation, humans behave based on habit. The brain is designed to operate based on patterns and filters, so it’s very quick to assess “Woah! something’s going on here” vs. “Oh, OK” and respond accordingly.
By the way, it’s also the same mechanism that makes Bob’s name easier to remember than Atmajyoti’s, if you’re not Indian.
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Managewhich Question: Who the “mans” the Role of Policy Police?
“The rules make it fair for everyone,” a quote from one Managewhich who’s struggling with influencing and managing her peers.
The Managewhich was describing how other groups are rewarded for complaining (as opposed to problem-solving), how other managers were giving undocumented vacation days in exchange for excessive for overtime, and other “rule-breaking” perks. Her point of view is that the rules were put in place for a reason. She follows the rules, and it makes her look like the bad guy when she doesn’t break them and others do. She wants to influence her peers to follow the rules.
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Does Anyone Hire Eeyore?
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For those of you who’ve blocked out or forgotten who Eeyore is, he’s the pessimistic, melancholic, depressed, downtrodden old grey donkey from the Winnie The Pooh books. (Think, “Oh no, we’re doomed!”)
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Managewhich as Leader in Trying Times
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Team,
Here’s an excerpt from “Breakthrough Leadership” by Wayne Baker at the University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business. As you read it, I encourage you to think about how you can create this for the people who work with and for you.
“Extraordinary events–positive or negative–are temporary openings for breakthroughs in personal growth, organizational development, and human progress. Breakthrough leaders seize these moments to explore a world of new possibilities for themselves, for their organizations, for society.
Posted in Leadership | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Corporate Coach, DFW, Executive Coach, Executive Coaching, Extraordinary Results, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Middle Management, Neuroleadership, vivid epiphany | No Comments »
Small Business Owners and Solo-preneurs: Learn the Power of Partnering
While many of us who start our own businesses or who become solo professionals value our independence, we quickly find more value in having people at our side to give us extra strength, visibility and insight in the market. And so we get out there both in person and online to network and build relationships.
It’s great to meet new people and learn what they do, and it’s even more exciting when you can find a great deal of synergy between your goals and theirs. This is when you can start to explore referral partnerships or strategic alliances.
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For the Managewhich and Business Owner: Who’s a Team Player?
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Team Player is one of those phrases that we all assume we have the same definition for. It’s one of the performance management buzz-phrases that shows on reviews and on job descriptions. And, we all think we know what it means, but do we?
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Managewhich? What to do With Complete and Utter Incompetence
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Her name is Oblivia. She’s nice. People like her. And, she can’t get anything done.
Have you ever worked with someone who is Unconsciously Incompetent? That is to say, that they are so incompetent that they don’t even know that they are incompetent?
It’s rare. Most of us know when we really, truly suck at something. However, there are times…
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Manage Which? Up or Down (Part 2)
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Where we left off last post is that our Managewich, Breeze, gets urgent requests from her manager, Hoover, and Breeze habitually has managed down, meaning that she’s generally accepted the work and the consequences of doing it for herself and her team and has muddled through by either directing her team to do the work or doing it herself. I made a request of Breeze that she not accept work until one of three things has happened, the first being that she understands fully and completely how these reports and spreadsheets are going to be used and how they add value. So far, this has resulted in some relationship building with Hoover, and it’s reduced some of the distracting work. And, we’re not done yet.
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Manage Which? Up Or Down?
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One of the recurring dilemmas for the Managewich is the balance between managing up and down. Today we’re going to examine the phenomenon of having to produce worthless crap that adds no value simply because the boss says so.
Take my friend Breeze. Her boss, Hoover, continually asks for this spreadsheet or that report, all of which demands that Breeze and her team drop whatever [productive] work they are doing to deliver this new requirement ASAP.
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