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De-weaponized accountability for high-performing teams

Anne Petrik — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 22:00:00 +0000

Accountability is a term that routinely demoralizes, often confuses, and flat-out scares people these days. Accountability, as practiced in small and medium-sized businesses, sometimes means that someone will be called out, blamed, and maybe even shamed for work that isn’t...

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Leading through difficult conversations: 6 steps to better outcomes

amanda-novakovic — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:25:37 +0000

One of the greatest challenges for many leaders is having difficult conversations with employees. Maybe there’s a problem with their performance, or perhaps there’s discord with the team. Whatever the issue, it can be tempting for managers to look the...

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Performance management: Communicating expectations and evaluations

Joe Galvin — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 10:00:27 +0000

Performance management starts on an employee’s first day. A new employee gets a lot of attention when first joining the fold: orientation, onboarding, meetings, and probably even a welcome lunch. But how much attention does this employee receive throughout the...

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Do I always have to negotiate?

Elisa Spain — Mon, 10 Oct 2016 17:00:55 +0000

Every now and then, I have a conversation with one of the leaders I work with who is frustrated with a lack of compliance and accountability in their company. The leader will say something like this: “I told them exactly...

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3 business lessons from Olympic athletes

John Blakey — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 23:07:16 +0000

For thousands of athletes around the world, the road to the Rio 2016 Olympics has demanded four years of dedication, hard work and suffering. In the UK, I have been supporting Team GB coaches in rowing, diving and Paralympic target shooting...

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