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Rethink your teams
The LifeLabs Learning research team combed through the literature on what makes great teams, analyzed findings from hundreds of conversations with team leaders, and conducted interviews with folks that were on high performing teams. What we found was both surprising and unlocks a tremendous amount of opportunity for the future of organizations. Enjoy!
Stop making everyone a manager: How to avoid the poor-fit pitfall
A manager role isn’t the more “advanced” version of an independent contributor role.
Do your managers even have time to Manage?: Capacity planning for manager effectiveness
Has your company carved out sufficient time for your managers to actually do their jobs well?
Core manager skills: Skills that make the biggest difference in the shortest time
Experience is simply not enough.
Manager standards: The secret to accelerating manager excellence
Set a small number of behavioral ‘standards’ that all managers, including executives, commit to upholding.
Measuring manager effectiveness: How to evaluate and accelerate manager success
The need for effective managers has shifted from nice-to-have to really, absolutely, definitely must-have.
Manager job description: A surprising driver of organizational success
Companies must rely on their managers now more than ever. Improving role clarity yields a massive ROI.
What is a manager, anyway?: Great management starts with role clarity
Given how essential it is for managers to be effective in today’s world, offering managers greater role clarity is a small investment with a big payoff.
The manager moment: Why great managers are now urgent
Companies increasingly rely on managers to catalyze employee results and engagement.
When Good Managers Go Bad: Why and how to fix it
Leaders at nearly every company we’ve served believe that managers matter, but few believe that their managers are highly effective.
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