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		<title>Will I Ever Be Able To Do What I Want With My Time vs. What I Have To Do? Part 3 in a Series of 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 18:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That’s such a distinction, isn’t it? What I want…What I need… What I have to do. Do you ever find yourself sitting in a meeting, at your desk, in your car…just feeling agitated by the push/pull of time and the growing awareness that the clock is ticking? And more often than not, you’re knee-deep, or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will I ever be able to do what I want with my time vs. what I have to do? Part 2 in a Series of 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 18:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every CEO I know is time starved. The understandable response is to focus on urgent and important issues and move important but less urgent issues to the backburner. Unfortunately, an issue that often gets “back-burnered” is Executive Leadership Team (ELT) development. And the result is to make the time crunch worse, rather than better.
Our experience [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Will I ever be able to do what I want with my time vs. what I have to do? 1st in a Series of 5</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 21:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindsey Johnston</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever find yourself thinking that there are simply not enough hours in the day? Do you find it hard to imagine getting to a place where you are able to do what you want with your time?  Is there no end in sight?
The answer may be simple—delegation.
One of the most important things for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes It Feels Like My SLT Creates Problems Instead of Fixing Them; 4th in a Series of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:35:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In every SLT, there are norms that exist&#8230;norms about decision-making rules, communication, conflict resolution, and meeting purpose/decorum/agendas. Norms are the unwritten rules that guide human behavior. In a work team, it can be relatively trivial (e.g., where we sit, when to arrive to a meeting, what jokes can be told) to the critical (e.g, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“Sometimes It Feels Like My SLT Creates Problems Instead of Fixing Them” Part 3 in a Series of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Martha Carlson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What’s an SLT? An SLT is a Senior Leadership Team. Also referred to as an ELT – Enterprise or Executive Leadership Team. Regardless of what you call it, it’s a team. And if your team is causing problems for you, it can be incredibly frustrating as well as difficult to pinpoint what is at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Investing in Employee Engagement Ultimately Make You a High Performing Organization? Barb Krantz-Taylor of The Bailey Group Shares Her Thoughts&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:12:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human Capital Institute released the results of its 4th Annual Building Trust in Business survey, published in June 2012 . If you haven’t seen it, here is the link: http://www.hci.org/files/field_content_file/2012%20IA%20Building%20Trust_6.11.12.pdf. 
Two key findings grabbed my interest:
1)      Employee engagement levels and trust in senior leadership have fallen in many organizations.  Personally, I think people are just plain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes It Feels Like My SLT Creates Problems Instead of Fixing Them; Part 2  in a Series of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 18:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Dick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A senior team functioning below par is indeed frustrating for a CEO and not to be ignored.  Team subpar performance severely diminishes goal achievement and ripples to ranks below, breeding a subpar organization.
When a CEO ponders questions of &#8220;Why is this happening? Why can&#8217;t this group of highly experienced leaders eradicate this dysfunction?  This lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leverage Your Company’s Vision for High Performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 18:44:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today’s CEOs and senior leaders must be just as attentive to the way people work and excel within their organizations as they do with market expectations. Customers expect sophistication, top performers expect new opportunities, and owners expect growth.  Leadership from the mountaintop breeds mistrust — a key factor in employee disengagement.
Especially among younger employees and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes It Feels Like My SLT Creates Problems Instead of Fixing Them Part 1 in a Series of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Apr 2013 16:49:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danielle Paulson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you feel like a babysitter or a boss? Cruise director or ship captain? Parental figure or empowering leader? Ever caught yourself sitting at your desk thinking, “seriously?!?” after a well-intentioned “leader” on your team has just left your office (again) or sent you an email (again) about trouble they’re having with the same old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Leaders Just Don’t “Get It” Help! 4th in a Series of 4</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leigh Bailey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most difficult questions a CEO faces is deciding whether to terminate a member of his or her executive team.  Board members don’t like turnover on the executive team. Often, when a CEO terminates one or more members of his team, it shows up on his next performance review as a concern about [...]]]></description>
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