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MARCH 10, 2014

Where Passion, Proficiency, and Profitability Intersect. Author and blogger Michael Hyatt recently released a podcast on How to Discern Your Calling. Hyatt lays out three essential ingredients that turn a person’s vocation into their calling. You must love what you do, you must be talented at what you do, and you must be able to make a living doing it.

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MARCH 19, 2014

Why our inbox seduces us into executing on the most recent rather than the most important work. Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a lot of conversations with leaders on goal achievement. Some of the discussions are triggered by their goal setting efforts for Q2 and the realization that it’s been far too long since they looked at or assessed progress against their Q1 goals.

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MARCH 31, 2014

More hours doesn’t always equal better results. The moment you step up to true leadership is the moment you decide to no longer tolerate obstacles. You become an alchemist, deeply committed to transforming anything that stands in your way. A talented leader sees obstacles as impermanent and is an expert at clearing the way to success for themselves and their organization.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Commit to fewer goals and better execution. It's goal setting time and many of us are also self-assessing accomplishments against last quarter's goals. Q1 can be a hard quarter, but there are two things that exacerbate that: 1) too many goals to come anywhere close to achievement and 2) too little attention to goals after they're set. A lot of readers have shared how hard it is to keep goals visible week over week and how seldom they review goals once set.

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APRIL 25, 2014

These six tips can help you quickly transition to a great manager of a high velocity team. Congratulations, you’re a manager! Your performance, hard work, and commitment made you great at your job, but now your job is managing a team. Rather than relying on yourself, you’ll need to work with and through your team coordinating, prioritizing and delegating work to achieve results.

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MAY 5, 2014

Mastering the Work-Life Balance. Great leaders are givers—but in an effort to give more, do more and be more, many put their own needs on the back burner. They make health a variable, sacrifice presence in relationships and put off the things that put energy in. We’ve all experienced the horrible fallout of this choice and intellectually understand we shouldn’t make it.

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MAY 12, 2014

Do your objectives inspire your team or fall flat? Objectives and Key Results or OKRs have helped hyper-growth Internet companies like Google achieve phenomenal success. They combine ambitious, qualitative goals and quantitative success measures with weekly execution and accountability cadence. When teams institutionalize OKRs, they enjoy clarity of purpose, fast-paced progress, and can achieve game-changing results.

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MAY 19, 2014

A Template for Masterful Goal Achievement. Execution and velocity guru Christina Wodtke on the art of the OKR—the achievement model behind high growth Silicon Valley companies. The OKR approach to setting goals has been used at Google, Zynga, General Assembly and beyond and is spreading like wildfire across successful Silicon Valley companies. Those companies that have adopted the approach are growing like weeds.

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MAY 19, 2014

3 ways to use fear and failure as assets. We all know failure isn’t the end of the world, but it is not easy to embrace. Without clear thinking, fear of failure and failure itself can undermine our leadership styles, performance, judgment and even our happiness. Here are three tips for embracing fear and failure and getting value from them this week.

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MAY 27, 2014

3 tips for using the time you have to make the biggest impact. Time is the greatest lever we have to achieve business goals, yet most leaders don’t measure how it’s spent or manage it as scarce capacity. When time is viewed as an infinite resource, it sets up employee engagement challenges and fatigued thinking. This week, give closer attention and intention to how you leverage time with these 3 practices.

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JUNE 2, 2014

3 Magic Words That Will Change Your Leadership Performance. Our verbal and listening habits have a direct effect on our productivity and our professional outcomes. These engagement habits can lead to wasteful debates over false choices and choke off relevant business facts. When ideas and facts flow easily and teams engage in authentic business-driven discussions, productivity and results soar.

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JUNE 9, 2014

3 tips for increasing the competencies, capabilities, and satisfaction of your team. It's a good time to consider our roles as managers in helping people achieve their potential. In addition to assessing what they've done, take the time to consider what you've done — and can do — to help them achieve what they might. Excellence requires opportunity for it as does skill building; this is one of the greatest gifts you can give people.

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JUNE 23, 2014

3 essentials for high cadence, high impact execution. While annual planning and performance reviews are very structured processes, most organizations don’t have structured models for managing execution and goal achievement between plan and review. How are your planned outcomes versus actuals monitored week over week and how much does your approach vary over the course of the year?

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JUNE 23, 2014

4 techniques that separate doers and achievers from dreamers. In many ways, setting goals is similar to dreaming of success – goals are desired outcomes. But achieving goals (and with them, success) is infinitely harder and more complex. While many things on the road to success like Estée Lauder’s are beyond your control, how you apply your energy toward success is something you have a great deal of control over.

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JUNE 26, 2014

5 Career Velocity Strategies. There is a lot of discussion about productivity, but I’ve always preferred the term velocity. I’ve found that my velocity to goal determines my career velocity. By that I mean the speed and efficiency with which I achieve my goals determines the speed and degree of career growth I experience. If I use half the time and half the people, capital and other resources to achieve the goal as planned or as a peer, there will be career reward and recognition.

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JULY 9, 2014

Are disengaged employees actively undermining the value created and customers acquired by their more engaged peers? There is a tremendous engagement and execution gap in companies today. According to Gallup, only 13% of employees are actively engaged in their work; 60% of employees don’t understand their organization’s goals and priorities and just 10% of executives sustainably achieve those goals according to Bain & Company’s Chris Zook.

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JULY 17, 2014

Invest Your Intelligence Where It Matters; Stop Wasting It on Things That Don't. In a particularly creative working session with a young product designer, we arrived at what seemed like a terrific idea with a novel implementation. We’d had one of those brainstorms where ideas built naturally on each other and with them, momentum to a conclusion. We quickly "locked and loaded" on our result and she set off to detail it for development.

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JULY 23, 2014

3 tips for managers to set, stick to and achieve business goals. It's a few weeks into a new quarter and the second half of the year, so now is a great time to self-assess accomplishments on last quarter's goals and double down for great execution the rest of the year. Beware three behaviors that undermine goal achievement: 1) too many goals to come anywhere close to achievement, 2) too little attention to goals after they're set, and 3) inability to compare the value of goals set with new reque

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AUGUST 4, 2014

Great Teams Exhilarate -- What Sets Them Apart? There is nothing quite like the sensation and satisfaction of being on a high performing team. I’ve had this luck and pleasure a number of times in my career, but it’s rarer than I’d like. High performing teams seem to generate their own energy and elevate everyone on the team to their full potential. Despite achieving more, working on these teams is less taxing -- the workday feels shorter and less frustrating.

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AUGUST 8, 2014

Time invested in higher-value leadership activities is essential for both company performance and engaging employees in the mission of the organization. Managers should control where their time goes and critically assess whether that time creates real value. According to a recent study on Blue Ocean Leadership in Harvard Business Review, many leaders aren’t aware of where their time goes and it often isn’t to the acts and activities most likely to create value for their organizations!

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AUGUST 12, 2014

8 Tactics to Prevent Career and Goal Gaps Between Managers and Team Members. For team members, achievement is the fastest path to advancement. Alignment and accountability are the team leader's job. Commit now to transparency, accountability and achievement as fundamentals in your management model and sustain them in practice. Recalibrate with team members to make sure goals are well understood, close gaps in execution or expectations, and give course-correcting or rewarding feedback where neede

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AUGUST 18, 2014

5 Management Tips to Bridge Differences. Two-thirds of corporate recruiters say their organization has a difficult time managing millennials and a similar number of executives give millennials low grades for work preparedness according to Deloitte – alarming because they comprise a third of the workforce. While it’s common to call them out as "different" or "difficult", they may not be either of those things.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Invest on developing talented young people: you will be developing the next great workforce.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Enhance your team's productivity through strength-based coaching. New research suggests that more than fixing flaws, managers should be concerned with building on strengths.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

In honor of Boss's Day, this fun infographic celebrates great bosses and the five things they do that make their teams and their organizations very successful.

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OCTOBER 24, 2014

Now is the perfect time to experience gratitude. It’s the ultimate win/win: we feel great when we experience gratitude and, when we share it, other people feel great too.

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OCTOBER 28, 2014

While too much stress isn’t good, the sensation of stress is an important business signal -- it can help us identify what needs our attention.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Giving and getting feedback can be emotionally charged, which inhibits giving it and may reduce our ability to put feedback we receive into practice. By viewing feedback as learning and leading opportunities, we maximize career and team velocity.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Successful people achieve goals faster and with fewer resources, raising their career velocity. Improving execution velocity is not more work; it's just more achievement.

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

Work stresses people out, especially during calendar fourth quarter. And during the holiday season, almost 70% of people report additional stress from lack of time and money. These 4 tips can help you achieve more success and enjoy more holiday bliss amidst the work blitz.

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JANUARY 7, 2015

During this time of year, it is traditional to reset personal goals and dream up new ones: What do you want to accomplish? What steps and actions will you take to achieve your goals? How do you want to engage with team members and colleagues? Use this free weekly framework for building new leadership habits to achieve your goals.

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JANUARY 27, 2015

New Workboard Elite app makes it easy for managers to set and achieve their goals by linking goals, work, progress transparency and feedback together. Your team's actions, real time priorities and progress will always align to your business goals and metrics.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2015

People with goals achieve more and are more successful -- a lot more successful -- than peers without them, whether they’re scientists, students, or corporate execs. Organizations whose employees are actively engaged in goal achievement have 3x greater operating margins in any given year than companies with lower engagement levels. If you’re not in the habit of setting and measuring goals for your team, then doing so can seem like added complexity.

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JULY 15, 2015

It’s mid-year review time and if you're like many people, you haven’t thought about goals in 5.5 months. Not a great moment for manager or team member, but it’s a common one. Mid-year reviews are a painful reminder of how far apart work and goals can drift and how little traditional performance management helps people perform at their best. Just 7% of employees understand their goals and what they need to do to achieve them.

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JULY 22, 2015

The 5 Questions You Need to Ask to Win Hearts and Minds Faster. Change agents and their ideas are the life force of organizations. Innovation of all kinds is essential for organizations to grow and thrive; in fact, organizations that can more easily respond to new facts and conditions have a great advantage. In their book "Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises", UC Berkeley’s Dr.

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

Our team is smart, fast, fun and diverse. That diversity makes for a better product and team. Rather than an echo chamber with a single perspective, we have diverse experiences – and our share of loud debates and laughs as a result. When team members have different cultural, generational, professional and regional experiences, everyone is a listener and learner because each member brings new perspective to products and problem solving.

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OCTOBER 12, 2015

If you lead a team, coaching people and giving regular feedback-- positive and constructive-- is part of the job. Prioritizing 1on1s and doing the "soft stuff" that builds morale, culture and people are strategic elements of leadership. If you hesitate to give feedback for fear of being the "bad guy", put your people’s success in front of the need to be liked-- 57% of employees prefer corrective feedback and 72% say their performance would improve with more feedback.

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