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FAST Goals: Accelerate Your Team’s Performance
FAST goals are relatively new and getting a lot of attention. Integrate them into your 1-1 meetings as a natural evolution of objective setting for a rapidly changing world. Most companies still take a structured approach to setting goals, typically on an annual basis, as their foundation for managing performance and people. This approach has remained virtually unchanged for close ...
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Performance Review Phrases: Examples for Positive Results
As a manager it can be difficult to articulate your thoughts during a performance review with your team members. We’ve created these performance review phrases examples to help you. How to Prepare for a Performance Review Before jumping in, here’s a quick reminder of how to prepare for an overall performance review: Also remember to reflect on your goals. What ...
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Coaching vs Mentoring: Many Similarities, One Critical Difference
I Googled ‘coaching vs mentoring’ and I was shocked. There is so much confusion! For example, Wikipedia describes coaching as providing training and guidance. This is just plain wrong. There are many similarities between coaching and mentoring, but there is also one critical difference. It’s important you understand this, as coaching and mentoring are both important roles that you play as ...
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17 Growth Mindset Activities for You and Your Team (to Smash Fixed Mindset!)
We’ve pulled together 17 growth mindset activities for you and your team, to help smash fixed mindset and develop a growth mindset! Fixed Mindset Behaviors Do you have a tendency to: If you recognize any of these behaviors, growth mindset can help you. Growth mindset first emerged when Carol Dweck wrote her book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, back ...
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Six Sources of Power to Achieve Your Goals
You can be more successfully by harnessing the six sources of power to achieve your goals. Not sure how? Read on! Think of people that you’ve worked with over the years. Some may have had deep industry expertise, others may have been ‘big characters’, influencing through sheer force of personality. Perhaps some were bullies, using subtle (or not so subtle) ...
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3 Quick Tips to Retain Your Top Talent
Keeping the top talent in your team is critical to your success as a manager. Your top talent are the people on your team who always deliver results, who can be relied on to perform, who can be trusted to find solutions, who are ambitious to progress further. Imagine your working life without them. It’s not so pretty. Here are ...
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10 Characteristics of Servant Leadership With Quotes and Questions
The 10 characteristics of servant leadership were defined by Larry Spears when he was President and CEO of the Greenleaf Centre for Servant Leadership.
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The House of Change: A Great Tool for Navigating Change
The House of Change is a great tool for understanding and dealing with the emotions we all experience in response to change, then getting to where you want to go! The House of Change is a great tool for understanding and dealing with the emotions we all experience in response to change, then getting to where you want to go!
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How to Give Effective Feedback That Drives Performance (And Builds Your Reputation Too!)
Giving feedback is a great way to quickly improve performance, our effective feedback examples will help you. But first, here’s one example of how NOT to do it: Great meeting Jane, well done! Giving this kind of positive feedback might feel good, but it doesn’t provide any guidance to Jane about what she has done well and what she should continue to ...
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Learn, Unlearn, Relearn: The Cycle of Success
For thousands of years, every civilization has valued learning. Now, learning alone is not enough. To be successful you must master the learn, unlearn, relearn cycle of success. Why? Because in a rapidly changing world, unlearning and relearning are just as important as learning. It’s no longer about continuous, acquisitive learning. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be ...
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