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Decision-Making | Design-Thinking | Problem-Solving | Tools for Leaders Bounded rationality explains the way that people make decisions based on: (a) what they know, (b) what their environment tells them, and/or (c) on information they have. It’s the rationality that...Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, Tools for Leaders
Collaboration | Leading Teams | Problem-Solving | Team Productivity We like an article written for the Harvard Business Review, entitled Stop Doubling Down on Your Strategy, for working with senior leaders on their strategy development, strategy review, and strategy...Problem-Solving, Tools for Leaders
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Change Management | Managing Stress | Problem-Solving | Stress | Trust The Chernobyl Reactor #4 Many lessons come out of the disaster at Chernobyl on April 26, 1986. In this segment we share a few of those that will be important in the processes of problem-solving....Case-Based Examples, Change Management, Problem-Solving, Training
Change Management | Developing Others | Problem-Solving Micro-Change and the Quarterback by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 I had been coaching football for many years before I was invited to work with the high school varsity team. My new assignment was as the...Problem-Solving, Tools for Leaders
Problem-Solving | Tools for Leaders Problem-solving is exhilarating, frustrating, entertaining, aggravating, rewarding, and sometimes discouraging. As with most leadership and management practices, there are many possible techniques that can be used to structure a...Communication and Other Soft Skills, Leader Communication Fundamentals, Problem-Solving, Tools for Leaders
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Decision-Making | Fictional Case | History | Leading Teams | Tools for Leaders | Trust The following case study is on decision-making that occurred during the Battle of Gettysburg and was written by the Founder of Leaders247, Gordon Whitehead. The case was developed...Case-Based Examples, Decision-Making
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Collaboration | Decision-Making | Innovation | Leading Teams | Tools for Leaders Niel Nickolaisen provides a powerful framework for making decisions about where you put your innovation energy. He suggests we divide ideas into two categories: (A) Mission critical and...Collaborate, Culture, Decision-Making, Developing People, Difficult People, Leader Communication Fundamentals, Trust
Collaboration | Decision-Making | Delegating | Leading Teams | Trust In this audio segment Mark James reinforces the idea that we need to avoid groupthink by taking personal ownership and invest time into coming up with a personal point of view. Then, seek to...Collaborate, Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, Tools for Leaders
Collaboration | Concensus | Groupthink | Leading Teams | Team | Team Productivity When we consider team decision-making processes the first organizational concern we have is the danger of groupthink and how do we avoid it. This module will focus on groupthink, how it...Decision-Making
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Decision-Making | Leading Teams | Tools for Leaders Sometimes as a leader we need tools to help us frame decisions that need to be made. In this section we offer two tools to help you advance your decision: (a) Creating a forcing function that makes a decision happen,...Case-Based Examples, Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, Tools for Leaders
Decision-Making | Fictional Case | Tools for Leaders The cost-benefit and return on investment (ROI) are decision support models. It is not the intent of this section to provide a detailed examination of these tools. Cost-Benefit strategies include: Determining what...Case-Based Examples, Decision-Making, Tools for Leaders
Decision-Making | Fictional Case | Tools for Leaders Our Decision-Making Model at Leaders247 There are two types of decisions that leaders have to make. The first is the immediate-reaction decision, and the second is the time-to-think decision. All leaders face some...Decision-Making
Decision-Making | Leadership Traits | Leading Teams Leaders have a fundamental responsibility to make decisions. We have found four key fundamental principles related to leadership and decision-making: Principle 1: Leaders are obligated to make decisions. Principle 2:...Developing People
Founder Dr. Gordon E. Whitehead Dr. Gordon E. Whitehead specializes in leadership and organizational development with a particular interest in helping emerging leaders accelerate their leadership growth. His career includes 13 years in the United States Marine Corps...Bad Boss, Being Wrong, Case-Based Examples, Challenging Business Situations, Culture, Delegating, Developing People, Executing, Leader Communication Fundamentals, Motivation, Productivity, Project Management, Trust
Business Leadership | Communicate | Delegating | Fictional Case | Leader-Follower | Leading Teams | Prioritizing A Fictional Case This fictional case illustrates two scenarios: (1) How a mismanaged 1-1 can contribute to strategic drift and employee disengagement, and...Executing, Project Management, Strategy, Tools for Leaders
Managing Work | Meetings | Metrics | Presenting | Project Management | Reporting | Strategic Execution In this section we share four techniques that we use to accelerate execution. The overriding principle is that the leader and team routinely focus on projects that...Executing, Planning, Productivity, Project Management
Managing Work Multitasking has unfortunately ingrained itself into our work habits and management techniques. Research is clear – multitasking produces sub-optimal outcomes. A person who focuses on a single activity and doesn’t leave that activity until it...Executing, Productivity, Strategy, Tools for Leaders
Metrics | Reporting | Scorecard | Strategic Execution | Strategy Measuring and Data We talk a lot about using metrics to understand our business, but which ones should we use? The obvious challenge to using metrics is to figure out which measures make sense and to be...Executing, Planning, Prioritizing, Strategy
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Project Management | Tools for Leaders There are many ways to plan and lead a project. There are formal methodologies and a number of tools (ranging from free to very costly) to help organize and lead a project. Project management is an advanced discipline. The nature...Planning, Project Management, Tools for Leaders
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Managing Work | Planning | Project Management | Strategic Execution | Tools for Leaders SMEAC – Adopted from the U.S. Marine Corps SMEAC is an acronym that stands for Situation, Mission, Execution, Administration and Logistics, and Command and Signal. SMEAC is...Executing, Planning, Project Management
Administrative | Managing Work | Project Management | Strategic Execution Good Managers Get Real Work Done by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 I served as the VP of IT Operations for a successful healthcare company in Portland, Oregon many years ago. I remember...Executing, Planning, Strategy
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Planning | Strategic Planning | Strategy | Tools for Leaders Strategic leaders are more than planners or people with vision who are able to get others to see and execute that vision. Strategic leaders are inventors of the future. They leverage their creative nature to...Planning, Strategy
History | Planning | Strategic Execution | Strategic Planning | Strategy In this article we share examples of strategy. The first example demonstrates business savvy, creativity, and strategic leadership. The second example demonstrates the importance of not getting...Planning, Prioritizing, Strategy
Planning | Strategic Execution | Strategic Planning Strategy is over-taught and under-thought. Strategy itself is a rather simple concept. Unfortunately, the academic world, consulting world, and training world have managed to make the simple concept incredibly...Executing, Goals, Planning, Prioritizing, Productivity, Tools for Leaders
Nike | Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Time-Management | Tools for Leaders About the 9th Hour by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 I learned about the 9th hour from my friend and former boss at Nike, Bruce Watson. Bruce was a person who had never...Planning, Prioritizing, Productivity
Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Time-Management | Tools for Leaders According to the research presented in this video 41% of knowledge worker’s time is spent on low-value tasks. The following three principles can help improve our time utilization:...Executing, Planning, Prioritizing
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Planning | Prioritizing | Tools for Leaders Tools Leaders Can Use to Improve Prioritization In this article we introduce a few common tools to help you identify and organize priorities. Blank Sheet There are hundreds (maybe thousands) of automated tools to help...Planning, Prioritizing
Planning | Productivity | Tools for Leaders A Series of Technique to Improve Prioritization If you Google “how to set priorities,” you will see over 570,000 articles and websites that talk about setting priorities. Many techniques exist to establish priorities,...Executing, Planning, Prioritizing
Planning | Prioritizing | Productivity | Tools for Leaders The Importance of Prioritizing Great leaders prioritize, plan, and execute, and they avoid situations where they are constantly in a reactionary mode. Leaders make the process of prioritizing a daily, weekly,...Bad Boss, Delegating
Bad Boss | Delegating | Dumping Asked to Do the Impossible? You’re Not Alone. Have you ever been given a project to do that didn’t seem possible and yet you were the only one who knew it wasn’t possible? At Leaders247 we love this comedy sketch...Delegating, Empower, Goals
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Influence | Relationship Building | Relationships | Social Capital Being Able to Work with Peers is a Critical Skill Lynda Gratton is a London Business School professor and co-author of “The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity.” She...Social Capital
Influence | Leader-Follower | Relationships | Social Capital Build Your Influence Throughout the Organization In today’s knowledge world leaders must be able to work with their peers and peer groups across the entire organization. In this section we discuss the...Empower, Training
Leadership Traits | Training Important Traits to Consider Alex Shootman, CEO of Workfront, shared with Leaders247 four key traits of a leader. Leaders who possess or are developing themselves along these four traits tend to think about their organization, their work,...