Leadership: Management
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How to be a better mentor: practical principles from the research
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Communication
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- Informal mentoring relationships consistently outperform formal programme pairings.
- Listening to respond shuts off comprehension — ask questions instead.
- Opening your network, not just your time, is the mentor's highest-leverage move.
Meetings as a symptom: Seth Godin on significance at work
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Management
7
Identity & self-belief
5
- Most meetings are managers taking attendance, not conversations
- 300 volunteers built a book in 5 months with zero meetings
- Tolerating bullies costs more than firing them ever would
Leadership and management as complementary systems in organizations
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Business operating systems
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- Management and leadership serve opposite purposes — both are essential.
- Every mature organization slowly kills its own leadership capacity.
- A dual operating system — not task forces — is the only lasting fix.
How to receive feedback well: a six-step framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Communication
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Resilience & grit
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Management
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- The receiver — not the giver — decides what feedback to act on.
- Replace 'any feedback?' with one specific question that actually works.
- Small experiments beat all-or-nothing decisions when trying feedback out.
Simon Sinek on why, trust, and leading people not numbers
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Vision & mission
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Identity & self-belief
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- Knowing your why is a decision filter, not a motivational slogan
- Fulfilment comes from others' growth, not personal achievement
- Costco beat GE 2x over 40 years by putting people first
How to lead a team through workplace loss
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
10
Resilience & grit
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- Workplaces function as family systems — loss hits harder than expected.
- Stability and continuing operations reduce anxiety more than pausing work.
- Leaders must create grief conversations, not just allow them to happen.
How to create team operating guidelines that actually stick
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Management
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Conflict resolution
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- The conversation that creates guidelines matters more than the document itself.
- Getting genuine yes-or-no commitment from every team member surfaces hidden blockers early.
- Guidelines built before conflict hits give teams a shared reference to navigate storming.
Why your motive for leading determines how well you lead
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
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Communication
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- Wrong leadership motive drives avoidance of the job's hardest parts.
- Not having difficult conversations is selfishness, not kindness.
- Repetition is the job: employees need seven exposures before believing a message.
Leadership when your team knows more than you
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
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- Having more-expert reports is an advantage, not a threat to your authority.
- Short-term incentives teach compliance, not culture — pay well then focus on autonomy.
- Structured role requirements beat gut feel when hiring across communication differences.
How to stop rescuing people and become a more coach-like leader
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Delegation
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Management
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- Most leaders default to rescuer — and it backfires
- Rescuing creates dependency; asking 'what do you want from me?' breaks the cycle
- Saying no is a core leadership skill, not a failure to help
How to build inclusive teams: moving from good intentions to action
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Culture building
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Management
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- Good intentions without public commitment change nothing in your team.
- Removing names from applications flipped a 15-year gender disparity at Hubble.
- Metrics are the single most effective diversity intervention — more than training.
How to release control as a leader by managing anxiety
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
8
Resilience & grit
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- Control is a fear response — not a management style.
- Clarity about expectations is the fastest anxiety reducer.
- Name your emotions to stop them from driving your behaviour.
How to give effective feedback using a three-step framework
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Communication
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- Excessive preamble is a delay tactic — employees already know what's coming
- SBI framework forces clarity when difficult messages make managers vague
- Continue coaching should outpace improvement coaching five to one
Managing performance gaps and over-confidence on your team
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Management
9
Delegation
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- Withholding feedback to protect a colleague is bias, not kindness.
- Daily accountability mentions beat periodic difficult conversations every time.
- Competence, capacity, and character need different fixes — conflating them wastes effort.
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How to turn workplace conflict into productive outcomes
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Conflict resolution
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Management
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Processes & SOPs
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- The blame frame ends in punishment — the aim frame ends in solutions
- Wants clash; underlying needs almost always have common ground
- Build team relationships before conflict strikes, not during