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The First Question to Ask Before You Delegate
There are two important questions you should consider when you’re delegating a task. Especially if it’s beyond the level of “Take action, don’t report” type. Two questions that will improve the...
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The First Question to Ask After You Delegate
Short posting today. This is such a simple idea that I wish I’d learned it years ago. I’ve started asking my clients this question, and it even seems to work with my teenage daughter. After you’ve...
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How to Stop Chasing Cats
I have a great life. One of the best parts of it is the brilliant people I get to talk to, interact with, and discuss the great ideas of life with. For example, Sunday I was chatting with a Feminism...
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Friendly Feedback
Friendly Feedback – the best way to go when they have spinach in their teeth Giving somebody feedback is an act of kindness. You’re trying to help them get better, or your steering them in the...
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Focused Feedback
Focused Feedback: Timely and Specific Some of us have met, or even worked for, the boss that thinks they’re great at giving feedback. The particular self-delusion I’m thinking of is the “Hey, great...
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Future-Oriented Feedback
Look forward, not backwards The point of giving feedback is to encourage the behaviour you want to see repeated, or something you’d like change in the future. Try not to dwell on the past. Especially...
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Being Understood When the Dragons are Dancing
or How I Learned to Love to Communicate My wife and I were at a Chinese New Year’s dinner at the beginning of February. It was a wonderful dinner with dragon dancers, drummers, musicians, photo ops...
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I’m Going to Provide an Overwhelming Rational Arguement, and then Fail
Third in a series about communication and change management “Fact, just the facts ma’am.” Great if you’re investigating a murder. Insufficient if you’re inspiring action or driving change. It is a...
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One Email Outta Do It
Fourth in a series about communication and change management. Face to face communication is always best I love email. It’s fast, it’s easy, its’ cheap. It also provides us a record of what was said....
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Everybody Sees the World the Same Way I Do – It’s a Trap!
Fifth in a series about communication and change management Frustrated They’re Not Learning? It May Not Be Them I love words. As a child when I discovered books, that became my world. It’s where I...
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Four Different Ways to Delegate
Delegation is important, delegation is underutilized, and delegation doesn’t need to be complicated. If you can learn to successfully delegate, you’ll have added an important tool to your leadership...
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Sending Your Strategy Over a Waterfall
Having a strategy and having to do it all yourself is not the point.Filed under: Uncategorized Tagged: cascade, engagement, strategy
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Please Don’t Do This
Please don’t do this. This is a dick move. If you need me to explain why in detail, I’ll send you my hourly rates… Unfortunately the company in question had a mealy-mouthed values-based response,...
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The First Question to Ask Before You Delegate
There are two important questions you should consider when you’re delegating a task. Especially if it’s beyond the level of “Take action, don’t report” type. Two questions that will improve the...
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