How can you get the best from deep, quiet team members during meetings? A look at practices used in some organizations points to an answer.
via Introverts, Extroverts, and the Complexities of Team Dynamics – HBR.
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Boy, do I agree with this!
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard from one of my coaching clients, “I keep wanting to talk with her/him (their boss) about this, but she/he keeps canceling our meetings. I haven’t had a one-on-one with her/him in months!” This is an engagement killer.
Direct reports with important concerns, great ideas, and positive news are unable to communicate them in a timely manner, and generally feel put-off and devalued.
Not only does this practice destroy your best people’s engagement, it trains them that they must “catch you on the fly” if they are to get your attention… As the article states, this is a “recipe” for increased interruptions and “putting out fires” on your part.
Cancelling One-on-One Meetings Destroys Your Productivity – HBR.
I frequently work with leaders to help them learn to apply some of the skills of coaching to their work in developing members of their staff.
When people have experienced how powerful coaching can be, they are usually eager to use some of this with others who work for and with them. Here’s a good (short) article about maximizing these efforts with effective follow-up:
Have you tried these techniques? If so, please share your experience.
Your Coaching Is Only as Good as Your Follow-Up Skills – HBR.
Some people seem to have an amazing ability to stay rational no matter what.
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They efficiently make good, clear decisions while the rest of us waste energy doing things like panicking about upcoming tasks, ruminating pointlessly, or refusing to move on from our failures.
If you are not always one of those people, read about this interesting research by Ethan Kross from the University of Michigan and Ozlem Ayduk from UC-Berkeley about a simple change can make the difference between showing up like a cool-headed rationalist or a very worried and stressed out (but typical) human.
Pronouns Matter when Psyching Yourself Up – HBR.
In addition, here’s a link to a podcast of my past radio interview with Dr. Kross, “Can You Teach Yourself to Be Wiser.”
The challenges are well known: women in business continue to face a formidable gender gap for senior-leadership positions.
Moreover, there are fewer and fewer women at each step along the path to the C-suite, although they represent a majority of entry-level employees at Fortune 500 companies and outnumber men in college-graduation….
via Fostering women leaders: A fitness test for your top team | McKinsey & Company.
This is an interesting post!
Consider, if you aren’t doing this already, making your spouse a more clearly defined member of your “team” as you seek to attain professional and private goals. This article suggests some great ways of formalizing the process, so that it doesn’t get lost in shuffle of the day-to-day “busyness”, and, so that the value of your support to each other is maximized.
How do you do this? What can you add? I’d love to hear your ideas.
Increase the Odds of Achieving Your Goals by Setting Them with Your Spouse – HBR.
When people tell me that they’ve been looking for a new job for many months, but have gotten nowhere, I explore with them what exactly they have been doing.
Often, what it turns out that their job hunt has consisted mainly of scrolling through job postings online,(usually around 10 or 11 o’clock at night),and every now and then clicking “submit.” When I tell them that this is usually the least effective way to find a job, especially, the ideal job for them, they are often surprised.
This cool info-graphic illustrates a major reason why:
How Can I Make Sure My Resume Gets Past Resume Robots and into a Human's Hand?.
Great article by Annie McKee, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program and co-author of Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis ,
as well as Resonant Leadership and Becoming a Resonant Leader.
Think of the really great leaders you have known. Haven’t they all been exceptional in their ability to influence? What would you add to this?
Where is your focus?
Are you focusing your time, thoughts and energy in the right areas? In the right proportions?
This article addresses this so effectively, it could be a “must read” every morning for those of us who are striving for excellence. What are your thoughts?
Time, Energy and People – Your Three Biggest Assets | Finance Lights.
Great article on leadership. What a role model! Read it and learn. 🙂
I happen to know from my inside view, there really is a new G.M.
