Ralph Goes Looking or Stays Working

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...

Seven Red Lines – Doing the Impossible

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...

Delegation Misfire

Case-Based Examples, Delegating, Trust

Delegating | Leader-Follower | Micromanagement | Trust Case-Based Example of What Not to Do   by Gordon Whitehead, Founder of Leaders247 This case provides an example of how it can be complicated to effectively delegate if you are under management scrutiny and...

Don’t Delegate Your Opportunity

Delegating

Delegating | Empowering Keep Your Unique Opportunities Unfortunately, sometimes leaders feel they are too busy to take care of an assignment that really is uniquely theirs. The idea of delegating all that you can is based on sound logic. However, as related in the...

The Mistake Top Leaders Make

Delegating

Delegating We interviewed Enrique Washington, who is the Head of Executive Talent Acquisition at ESPN, on the topic of leadership and talent management. The audio clip in this section was his response to the question, “What is the most serious mistake leaders...

How to Delegate

Delegating, Empower, Trust

Delegating | Tools for Leaders If You Are Overwhelmed as a Leader – Work on Delegating One of the most common problems a new leader faces is that they quickly become overwhelmed with their new responsibility for the workload of the organization combined with...

Reverse Delegation

Bad Boss, Delegating, Trust

Bad Boss | Delegating | Trust When Your Boss Doesn’t Delegate to You – Use Reverse Delegation When the boss doesn’t seem to be able to delegate, our advice is to be patient. When we have a boss who doesn’t seem to understand how to delegate the...

360 Transparency

Bad Boss, Delegating, Transparency, Trust

Bad Boss | Delegating | Empowering | Trust A Story of Common Confusion Hello Grace, good morning. Good morning Ralph. Grace, I have something I need you to do – we have this new product hitting the market as you know. Marketing is pushing us to get the customer...