Low Maintenance Team

Posts with the ‘Low Maintenance Team’ tag

To Lead A Low Maintenance Team – Surrender Self

All leaders would love to have a low maintenance team (LMT).  A LMT allows a leader to focus on the big things and avoid the day to day hassles that could and should be handled at lower levels.  When a leader does that, the leader and the team are more engaged and burnout and turnover […]

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Hiring A Low Maintenance Team – Hire Character

I am one of those guys who does not always get to control the TV remote in my house.  Because of this dynamic, my desire to watch Deadliest Catch or SportsCenter is put on hold so my wife can watch one of her cooking shows. One thing I often hear on these shows is to […]

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Hint: Take Longer Vacations

Have you ever returned from vacation and not felt rested?  Is it the activities? The travel involved? The people you are vacationing with?  Or perhaps it is how many days you take off from vacation. That was my problem.  I discovered a way to ensure I got real rest on vacation.  Here is my thought […]

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The Indispensible Leader- Oxymoronic Leadership Yarn #7

“We won!!!!”  The text message came through as Tim was laying out his guidance to the night shift supervisors.   He sent a quick smiley face to his daughter and kept talking. As he pulled into the garage, he knew his wife would not be happy that he was home again after 7:30 PM.  He missed […]

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Uncommon Leaders- Break From The Herd

When I use the phrase Low Maintenance Team, the most common response is, “I wish I had one of those.”  The more I hear that phrase the more I realize Low Maintenance Teams (LMTs) are not common. There is a path I developed that allowed me to build my Low Maintenance Teams.  I know I […]

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3 Ways To Grow A Low Maintenance Team

If a tree stops growing, it starts dying! A team is a living organism.  Just like a tree, the team and the individual team members need to grow in order to stay healthy and thrive. Too often, leadership is so focused on meeting the immediate deadlines or quotas of the business, personal growth becomes an […]

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Roar Early So You Can Roar Later

When I relocated to Texas after 5 years managing in Buffalo, NY, I took over a team where one of the representatives had gone through initial training with me.  Lori and I had known each other for 10 years. Two months into being her boss, Lori asked me point blank, “What is your problem? This […]

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Compliant vs. Committed Teams

My last 5 years leading sales teams I noticed a shift in our corporate culture. Because of increased regulations corporate compliance became a mantra throughout the organization. Playing within the rules is a given in business. But, the increased communication around compliance had a negative side effect. Compliance became a goal in and of itself. […]

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The Best Employee Retention Strategy

People couldn’t believe he jumped to another company.  Tom was an all-star salesman who won multiple sales awards over the last 5 years.  He earned sizable raises year after year and large bonuses.  It didn’t make sense to some. Tom called me multiple times during his final 6 months with the company.  He did not […]

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Platform Skills–Getting Noticed

If a blogger/consultant screams on the internet does anyone notice?  I was wondering when I left my comfortable job in the corporate world if people would hear me when I screamed. I read a lot about consulting in the months before starting my company and in the months since.  There was a lot of great […]

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