Help Your Team Begin the New Year Strong
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about setting up your team for an amazing year.
We’ve expanded Frontline Festival to include other formats such as podcasts and artwork, and hope you enjoy the added feature of photos and interesting facts about some of our contributors. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors!
Developing The People on Your Team
Ronni Hendel of InsightOut Leadership gives us Creating Psychological Safety from the Inside Out. Psychological safety is an essential attribute of a high-performing team–and it’s something leaders can establish within their teams–regardless of the broader culture. The challenge requires that we lead with a great deal of intention and commitment. Follow Ronni.
S. Chris Edmonds of Driving Results through Culture gives us a video Culture Leadership Charge – Be Careful What You Reward. In this short post and 3-minute video, Chris explains why it is critical for leaders to hold everyone on their team accountable for BOTH results AND respect. He shares the results of one client’s values survey – including good scores and not so good scores. Follow Chris.
Fun fact about Chris: He’s a working musician on the side.
David Grossman of The Grossman Group suggests Tell Stories to Motivate Your Teams. Neuroscientists and cognitive psychologists teach us that tapping people’s emotions through storytelling clearly allows us to command an audience’s attention. In this post, David explains why and provides examples of leading companies that are picking up on the importance of storytelling and using narratives to drive their strategy with their teams. Follow David.
Fun fact about David: Prior to founding The Grossman Group in 2000, he was director of communications for McDonald’s
Nate Regier of Next Element Consulting provides How to Correct Three Leadership Habits that Destroy Culture. As a leader do you want to be a real team player? Do you hide behind company policies, move people around to avoid conflict, or try to be the hero? Here are tips to stop these bad habits and replace them with more helpful leadership behaviors. Follow Nate.
Fun fact about Nate: He loves hot wings!
Robyn McLeod of Thoughtful Leaders Blog shares Four Things Geese Teach Us about Teamwork. We’ll learn what these feathered creatures model for human teamwork. Follow Robyn.
Elisa Ortiz of Credit.com provides an infographic, 8 Lessons on Being Fired, from Successful People. Getting fired isn’t a career-ending event. In fact, some of the most successful people have experienced getting fired at some point in their careers. This article and infographic shares inspiring stories from 8 successful entrepreneurs, investors, and creative minds on how to reframe a negative experience as an opportunity for personal and career growth. Follow Credit.com.
Fun fact about Elisa: Elisa started her career as a paralegal, but became a writer after she developed a passion for credit and personal finance.
People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude. ~ John C. Maxwell
Making Plans
Julie Winkle Giulioni of DesignArounds gives us An Agile Approach to Development Planning. Longstanding approaches to development may not be nimble enough to meet the needs of today’s workplace AND workforce. This article offers an updated process as well as planning tool designed to set your team up for developmental success! Follow Julie.
Fun facts about Julie: She loves paddle boarding and is going into the 20th year in business for herself this year! Congratulations Julie! You might also want to check out her book which just came out in a second edition.
Jesse Stoner of Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership tells us How to Keep Your Team Goals on Track. To be successful, not only must goals be aligned with your team’s shared vision, but your team must also have “structural integrity” – all of the underlying systems and processes that support your team must be designed to steer you in the direction you want to go. Here’s what you need to pay attention to in order to create structural integrity. Follow Jesse.
Shelley Row of Shelley Row Associates gives us Five Steps to Keep Staff on the Road to their Goals. Your plans for 2019 can be like a rainy road. Perhaps you set your goals and they are completely clear in your mind. But how well have you communicated those goals to staff? Even if you see clearly, your staff may not. Follow Shelley.
Fun fact about Shelley: she hang-glided (tandem) off a mountaintop in Austria.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. ~ Peter Drucker
Improving Systems
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control. ~ Tim Ferriss
John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement gives us What to Do to Create a Continual Improvement Culture. In order to create a culture that enhances your effort to continually improve you must create systems that move things in that direction. Part of that system will be the continual assessment of how your organization is falling short of your desired cultural state. This requires an honest assessment of the current state. And it requires those in leadership to design systems to get a clear picture of what is really happening in their organization. Follow John.
Sean Glaze of Great Results Teambuilding guides us with Better Email Communication with Your Team is Easy as 1-2-3! Often, the issue with emails – especially with virtual teams, is that your team member’s inbox is flooded with other messages and (just like you) they aren’t always sure about which messages really ARE urgent or important. And so rather than wondering if it will get opened or read, I would encourage you to consider adding a simple hack to all email communication for your team. Follow Sean.
Beth Beutler of HOPE Unlimited gives us a 7 Minute Organizing Challenge. A new year often brings about motivation to clean up our workspace. This practical challenge for you and your team members can help you accomplish that with little time invested. Follow Beth.
Fun fact about Beth: She’s an only child married to an only child and they had an only child.
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