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Why You’re Not Getting the Most out of Your Board

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Get board members to help me with things they are uniquely positions to help with – mostly introductions, recruiting or coaching my team members. You feel good about yourselves because you escape the board meeting with no controversy and you feel good about your presentation and all of the positive reinforcement.

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Here are five TACTICAL skills of a great leader.

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It is hard to coach or teach leadership in a few paragraphs. Think of those leaders from your past or present whom you respect most. There are many types of metrics, some very easy to manage. But let’s try by limiting this short insight to a list of the five principal tactical skills of a great leader. Third: support.

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6 Essential Leadership Practices Raise Accountability

Startup Professionals Musings

Phrases like “holding people accountable” imply negative consequences or punishment, rather than rewards or providing the freedom and coaching to team members to choose their own actions, and pursue what matters most to them. Make sure they are seen as based on metrics, and belong to the performer.

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Entrepreneurs Need To Bridge The Knowing-Doing Gap

Startup Professionals Musings

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Use metrics to support judgment in decisions. Metrics should be seen as guides, helping to direct and support good behavior, but not absolute measurements of good or bad judgment and wisdom. Metrics are necessary to acquire knowledge and turn it into action.

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Developing Leadership Skills: What You Need to Know

Startup Professionals Musings

by Erica Peitler, a well-known leadership performance coach. Use metrics to support judgment in decisions. Metrics should be seen as guides, helping to direct and support good behavior, but not absolute measurements of good or bad judgment and wisdom. Metrics are necessary to acquire knowledge and turn it into action.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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When we recommended that Rob get a CEO coach he not only embraced it but craved it and thanked us for suggesting it. By being so metrics driven we can have a lot more quantifiable and objective discussions at board meetings and at mid-point reviews. . Or they now see the other persons’s perspective. Rob is driven to learn.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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There are people like Gus Tai who any entrepreneur who’s worked with him well tell you is that he has helped coach them into building a great business. They’re easily impressed when you’re selected for TechCrunch50 but not easily engaged in a detailed discussion about your conversion metrics.