Know Your Team

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

The problem is, you can’t easily follow-up with famous authors, podcast hosts, and speakers. ” Be clear on delegation, accountability, responsibility, and monitoring. .” ” Be clear on delegation, accountability, responsibility, and monitoring. Be clear on what is being delegated and to what level.

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Liquid Planner Collaboration

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Think your project management clients are your business’ bread and butter? Think again. Without a harmonious project team, your project could be at risk of unhappy stakeholders and clients, delayed timelines, and every PM’s greatest nightmare … scope creep. Here’s the harsh reality: Your team is what makes or breaks the entire project.

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LSA Global

JULY 19, 2021

Delegating decisions can backfire unless you have properly prepared people to take on and make decisions that matter. First, according to new manager training experts, managers need to determine which decisions can be delegated and to whom. You have plenty of company. Managers need to gain better decision making capabilities.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 31, 2019

This blog, though, is not about them but about the good leadership qualities that help people make their company great, achieve greatness, and bring new transformations in the world. Self-development author Brian Tracy says that whenever he holds a strategic business meeting , the first value every executive agrees on is integrity.

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Peter Winick

OCTOBER 12, 2023

But Mark is the author of I don’t even know how many books at this point. Mark Goulston I wrote a blog that’s going to come up on Chip Connelly’s Modern Elder Academy called Love and Caring near Copa. An interview with Mark Goulston about his life as a thought leader and coming to terms with death. Six or eight.

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LSA Global

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Delegation Effective sales managers routinely empower others by appropriately sharing decision-making authority with the right amount of support and follow through. Delegation Effective sales managers routinely empower others by appropriately sharing decision-making authority with the right amount of support and follow through.

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LSA Global

MAY 23, 2022

Clearly Delegate First, you must decide which decisions can be delegated and to whom. For example, one client recently decided that front-line managers had authority to make decisions that cost $50,000 or less as long as it was in their budget. Here is how to empower team decision making. This is not practical long term.

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Walk Me

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

BSP involves handing authority to lower levels of staff to avoid role gaps and ensure a successful transition for staff to leadership roles when companies lose employees through passing away, departing the company, or experiencing termination. In this guide, we’ll explore: What is business succession planning?

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They discuss and decide, then delegate the work. It is a time of high uncertainty, and people are looking for leadership and authority. Members with authority and knowledge may be considered for leadership positions. Getting people together in a room is not the most difficult thing in the world today. Forming Stage.

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Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Be Consistent on: Harvard Business School professor and author Clayton Christensen has a principle he lives by that he wrote about in his book, How Will You Measure Your Life? Deep down, you probably know that both of these are not the right approach; they're two ends of a spectrum. In a nutshell, this is the Leadership Paradox.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 9, 2019

The first thought which crossed my mind while I was planning to write this blog is an experience I had with a technology company. This experience not only made me a loyal customer but also helped me understand why they became huge and so successful in its domain. I was planning to buy a smartphone from the company's e-commerce site.

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Get Lighthouse

DECEMBER 9, 2022

In less than 200 pages, Grove covers a variety of essential management topics like: time management, delegation, handling the “black box of management”, and how to have great 1 on 1s. . If you’re a long-time reader of the Lighthouse blog, you’ll notice we quote Andy Grove regularly, and most of those quotes come from this book.

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LSA Global

JUNE 5, 2019

Thanks to the growing complexity that most leaders face, not only has the number of decisions that must be made increased, but leaders also report that it is more difficult to cleanly delegate decisions to their subordinates. When a decision is centralized, it is typically unilaterally mandated by a central, usually high-level, authority.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 17, 2021

Managers frequently delegate responsibility to staff, particularly when things aren't going as planned. The usual understanding of success at work revolves around these basic career assumptions- a six-figure salary, getting to the top of the corporate ladder- winning promotion after promotion, and having a cozy, corner office.

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Walk Me

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Leadership is often confused with authority. What does leadership mean to you? Is it something you aspire to or something you already possess? While both terms share some similarities, they also differ significantly. The term “leadership” has become synonymous with power and influence. Leaders don’t always come with titles or positions.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 23, 2023

Looking at the press and blog posts around these companies provides telling insights we can all learn from. Well-known companies like Zappos, Medium, and Buffer were singing its praises and writing detailed posts explaining their reasoning. Tired of bad bosses, and corporate politics, the internet rejoiced. On paper it sounded so great.

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Liquid Planner Productivity

JUNE 8, 2022

Delegate where you can, when it is appropriate. Make sure your team has the tools and level of authority they need so they can do their work without you being a bottleneck. One of the reasons I hang on to tasks instead of handing them off is because I feel I can do it better or faster than the person I could delegate it to.

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Get Lighthouse

APRIL 27, 2023

To solve this, maybe you've already tried delegating to someone on your team, or had a lot of conversations and meetings about it. Authority: You may want to assign the problem to someone (or a team) to solve, but are they empowered to actually make the necessary changes? Why is that? You can likely think of even more.

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Get Lighthouse

MARCH 5, 2024

I recently finished reading a book written by a friend of mine and I have to say, it's a fun added wrinkle when you think about the author as your friend you've shared meals with and here they are with a book they wrote in their author voice. Delegate research to an eager team member who wants permission to spend time trying AI.

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Monday Task Management

MARCH 15, 2022

Once that work order request has been approved and authorized, you create a work order. When creating a work order, make sure the template includes information like: Who authorized the job. A printable work order template can help you save time by making sure your staff creates them consistently and correctly. Get the template.

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Asana

JUNE 14, 2022

At Asana, we’ve always been a big believer in distributing responsibility across the organization (through Areas of Responsibility ), and that we’ll build a better product if strategic technical choices are made by those closest to the code/product. EM & TL Roles at Asana. How to apply this to yourself and your team.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 24, 2020

Interestingly, I came across this excellent piece of a LinkedIn article authored by Blaz Kos. 1+1+1+1+1= 5 is Hard work. 1x5=5 is Smart Work. We've always said that 'Work smart and not hard,' but what a smart work really is? Image credit: Unsplash. Must read: 35 Inspirational Quotes For Work To Hustle Hard. What is smart work?

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Asana

MAY 9, 2022

And the question arose: could we do something similar for Engineering Managers? Similar to individual contributors, engineering managers (EMs) also have different shapes of impact. Why building blocks instead of archetypes? We wanted to emphasize that for managers, it’s more important to be versatile in multiple shapes. Building Blocks.

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15Five

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Ben is an author and chief research officer at Lighthouse Research, and I think you’re really going to enjoy how he translates his deep research into practical ways for you to differentiate your talent acquisition process and ways to more deeply engage and retain your employees. Welcome to HR Superstars. How do we create connection?

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Walk Me

AUGUST 16, 2022

With constant technological advances and cultural shifts brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic and other factors, change is a massive part of the ability to make profits in the healthcare sector. But as the manager of a healthcare department or an entire hospital, how can you manage these changes? What obstacles are there to implementing change?

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Walk Me

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Organizational politics involves which staff members have more power than others, how they use it, and the impact it has on individuals and the organizational culture. To help you, we will explore the following topics: What is organizational politics? What are the types of organizational politics? What is organizational politics?

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Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And good democratic leadership means achieving success with mutual respect and collaborative efforts without losing one’s power of authority. Great leaders help a business to grow during a crisis with their impeccable problem-solving skills. They can either make it or break it. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise.

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Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have." - John C Maxwell , best-selling author, speaker, & consultant on Leadership. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Time management vs. priority management. There is always more to be done as a manager. ie- the 20%).

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