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Leadership, Teamwork
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Today's Leadership Challenge
The Leader as a Source of Vision
In today’s environment, now is not the time for short-sighted actions or short-term fixes. When analyzing today’s leadership challenges, we focus on helping leaders demonstrate their leadership and more effectively guide their institutions through critical change. In this “Today’s Leadership Challenge” article, we spotlight the leader as a source of vision. |
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Today's Leadership Challenge
Are You Leading...or Just Managing?
In our last newsletter, we focused on the fact that leaders, not managers are needed to guide organizations and institutions through today’s challenges. This article focuses on those key characteristics that leaders possess that allow them to stand-out, stand-up and effectively lead an organization toward success. |
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Today's Leadership Challenge
Why Leaders, Not Managers, Are Needed to Lead Their Organizations through Change
Despite today’s intense challenges of work and leadership, now is not the time for shortsighted actions or short-term fixes. It is, instead, time for leaders to truly demonstrate their leadership and guide their organizations through critical change. |
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Three Simple Steps to More Effective Meetings
No matter what kinds of meetings you chair or attend, three simple steps will help decrease the amount of time you spend in meetings and increase the effectiveness of those meetings. |
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FLAME: Using Motivation to Build High Performance Team Members
Within each person is the often-untapped potential for energy and enthusiasm that produces the high job performance critical to a successful project. Effective leaders are able to release individuals’ potential energy and build teams that are motivated and ready to take on the task at hand. |
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How a Leadership Team Should Operate
What role should leadership teams play within their organizations? Where should a leadership team focus its efforts: on the day-to-day operations or on the strategic direction of the organization? Ironically, most leadership teams know their focus should be strategic, but they continue to deal with immediate crisis after crisis. How do they break the cycle? How do they add value to their organizations and work to avoid managing crises? |
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Leadership Styles for Dealing with People - Part 1
Do people react differently depending upon how you approach them? Should a leader change his or her style when dealing with different people? Is there an optimum style for influencing others? |
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Leadership Styles for Dealing with People: Part 2
Do people react differently depending upon how you approach them? Is there an optimum style for influencing others? What is your leadership style? Should a leader change his or her style when interacting with different people and different situations? |
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Flipping the Pancake: Knowing How to Convert Conflict into Problem Solving
What do you do when you are suddenly approached by a staff member who is furious with a management decision or with something another associate has said or done? We learn how to handle operational and technical crises on the job, but few of us receive any training on how to turn conflict into positive outcomes. |
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What Types of Teambuilding Will Work for Your Team
Teambuilding refers to activities that improve the effectiveness of a team by building better working relationships, better understanding and alignment among members, and improved communications and trust. This article outlines the four most often employed methods of teambuilding and makes suggestions about when each method might be appropriate for a particular team that is having difficulties. |
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Leading a "Readiness for Change" Culture
Innovators in higher education regularly face the challenge of instigating progress on campus while at the same time dealing with resistance to change. Institutions with a permanent “readiness for change” culture are better prepared to overcome change resistance. This article describes what it takes to create this culture in your organization. |
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Meetings: How to Waste Time at Work
Many people don’t understand the value of wasting time at work. They’re afraid of getting caught or fired for being too slack, so they work diligently through the entire workday. Now, there’s a more effective way to waste your time and your team’s time without getting into trouble. Call a meeting. |
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Good Leadership. Good Management. There's a Difference.
No campus endeavor better dramatizes higher education’s need for good leaders and good managers than an ERP implementation project. These mission-critical campus projects can take years and consume multiple millions of dollars and resources. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette |
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Change on Campus...Ready or Not
Mark Twain once said, “It’s not the progress I mind, it’s the change I don’t like.” This sentiment rings true today on campuses across the country. Innovators in higher education regularly face the challenge of instigating progress on campus while dealing with the natural resistance to change that we humans have. This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette |
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How Committees Should Operate
Margaret Mead once said, "A small group of committed people can make a difference and change the world." That doesn't seem to be the case for many university committees. Some committees work well. Unfortunately, many don't. Poorly run committees waste university time and resources, and sometimes lead to disastrous results. How do effective committees operate? Are there diagnostic tools and remedies for those that don't? This article was originally published in The Greentree Gazette |
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Five Critical Skills for Team Leadership
How is Managing a Department Different from Leading a Team?
In today's environment, higher education institutions are turning more frequently to project management to help them implement their critical projects. A key component of project management involves forming teams around the specific goals of a project. Effective leaders are needed for these teams. |
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Five Critical Skills for Team Leadership - Part 2
Effective Listening is a Critical Skill for Leading Project Teams
This article is Part 2 in a four-part series that covers five critical skills needed for effectively leading teams: understanding behavioral styles, listening effectively, giving praise, accepting criticism, and using problem solving and persuasion instead of criticism. Read on to find out more about how effective listening can help lead a project team. |
