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10 Elements of a Coaching Culture and Why You Need It

Startup Professionals Musings

Every entrepreneur and business person I know wishes he had more time for coaching all the members of his team. I often hear the excuse that coaching takes more time than simply diving in and doing the job for the other person, but is that really true? Exceptional communication is a prerequisite to coaching.

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6 Strategies For Removing Drudgery and Dread At Work

Startup Professionals Musings

The goal must be to eliminate organization silos, flatten hierarchies, and empower employees within projects. Coach for productivity, performance, and creativity. The traditional once-yearly look-backward performance paradigm has to be replaced by daily or weekly coaching focused on a career roadmap ahead.

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6 Mismatches In The Workplace Lead to People Burnout

Startup Professionals Musings

One of the dysfunctions I often see in my coaching and mentoring work with small businesses is team member burnout. T his occurs when an organization imposes narrow constraints on how work is to be done or allows no room for judgment or innovation. Organization acts without fairness and respect. Always live and work YOUR values.

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8 Practices Common To The Greatest Leader Role Models

Startup Professionals Musings

They know these exceptional leaders seem to have a way of finding and enticing the best people into the organization, getting exceptional performance out of them, and fast-tracking their careers both inside and outside the organization. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent. Always searching for new talent sources.

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7 Tips To Raise Your Entrepreneur Instincts In School

Startup Professionals Musings

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing.

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8 Qualities That All Super Business Leaders Display

Startup Professionals Musings

They know these exceptional leaders seem to have a way of finding and enticing the best people into the organization, getting exceptional performance out of them, and fast-tracking their careers both inside and outside the organization. Adapt the job or organization to fit the talent. Always searching for new talent sources.

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5 Key Attributes Of A High-Performing Business Leader

Startup Professionals Musings

Great leaders strive to treat each person in their organization as a valued individual, rather than as a “human resource.” Ideally that feedback allows you to understand both absolute performance against goals, and your relative performance in the broader organization.

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