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You need to be an exceptional leader when it comes to leading and managing others. Whether you're a leader of an intact team, leading a team of people on a project, or a member of a team, understanding team dynamics, individual leadership and personality styles, the different developmental stages a team experiences, and how best to get results accomplished with, by, and through others is essential.

One Simple Rule for Every Meeting
You're leading a meeting. Then wham! within a second, someone's taken off with the agenda. Start every meeting with this one simple statement that'll keep any session heading where you want it to go. . . . More

Meetings Where Everyone Comes Prepared...
Even the couch potatoes on your team! How many meetings have you held where half the team comes ready to rock while the rest can't produce the right information for a productive hour? Want people to be more motivated to come prepared? Use our 4-part Accountability Grid that ensures involvement. . . . More

Goodbye On-The-Fly Agenda...Hello 4-Day Rule
Including others in crafting agendas is crucial but not at the expense of premium meeting time. You can run efficient and productive meetings and still have an inclusive agenda-building process when you use our Ending Meeting Madness 4-Day Rule. . . . More

What Stage Is Your Team In?
There are 4, and your team's in one of them.
The research on team dynamics is clear, there are four stages that teams can be in and no team is exempt. Right now your team is operating in one of the four stages, or possibly straddling two -- not fully in one but not yet out of the previous. Your team's health and future results depend on your being fully up to speed on this information. Use this tool to find out what stage your team is in and exactly what you can do to move things along. . . . More

Creating a Challenge Can Motivate Your Team in Hard Times
You're leading a team that in this climate may be feeling stressed and possibly unmotivated. A great way to get them moving is to focus them on a challenge - a call to action. . . . More

When Your Employee and Your New Boss Are Friends
Your new boss just transferred back from an overseas assignment. He and your employee knew each other before he left 2 years ago. You've just found out that your employee's had a side meeting with him over drinks where she's filled him in on everything you and your group have been doing the past few months. What do you do? . . . More

Meeting Management Tools
Got to get some order into your meeting or run project meetings where everyone comes prepared and you talk about what's working and what's not? Use our meeting map and accountabilities grid to help you do that. . . . More

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