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Building consensus

Building consensus

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Building consensus

Let's start by getting something straight. Consensus is not about everyone having perfect agreement. That's beyond rare. And for busy professionals just like you, it's often not reasonable. What is reasonable, is to think of consensus as meaningful agreement. And it's important. Without consensus, you risk others viewing you as too aggressive or arbitrary as a decision maker. Most people understand the importance of two-way collaboration and consensus building. Having said that, there can be an odd downside to consensus building. First, it takes time to build consensus. Any additional time spent working towards satisfying everyone and getting everybody on the same page, is time spent not working on something else. Next, believe it or not, if you always make prolonged and inclusive consensus building your approach, some people will interpret that as a sign of weakness. As if you're afraid to assert yourself and make the call. Finally, don't forget, the process of consensus building…

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Contents

  • Introduction Introduction

    • Introduction to the weekly series

      23s

  • 1. Communication and Influence 1. Communication and Influence

    • Creating a lasting first impression

      2m 33s

    • Reading body language

      2m 51s

    • Becoming a better listener

      2m 44s

    • Communicating with candor

      2m 16s

    • Storytelling at work

      2m 39s

    • Using persuasion at work

      2m 50s

    • 5 Phrases to Avoid

      2m 39s

    • The keys to great conversation

      2m 20s

    • Selling your ideas

      2m 30s

    • Leading with ideas over numbers

      4m 10s

    • Developing executive presence

      2m 56s

    • Speaking to be heard

      3m 8s

    • Using positive power and politics

      3m 8s

    • Structuring an effective presentation

      3m 13s

    • How to deliver an effective presentation

      2m 44s

    • Dealing with inappropriate comments

      2m 43s

    • How to improve communication immediately

      2m 59s

    • How to show respect

      2m 43s

    • Avoiding the seven toxic words

      3m 14s

  • 2. Creativity, Innovation, and Change 2. Creativity, Innovation, and Change

    • Becoming a change agent

      2m 59s

    • Finding targets for innovation

      2m 45s

    • Assessing your organization's change readiness

      2m 50s

    • Embracing failure

      2m 33s

    • Developing your creativity

      3m 6s

    • Breaking through with brainstorming

      3m 16s

    • Embracing the devil's advocate

      2m 50s

    • Managing creative talent

      3m 2s

    • Fighting bureaucracy

      3m 6s

    • Not all best practices are best

      2m 57s

    • Diversity’s real power

      2m 6s

    • Initiating change conversations

      2m 57s

    • Creating needed debate

      3m 2s

    • Knowing when to engage positive conflict

      2m 42s

    • Myth of creative genius

      2m 44s

    • Changing routines to build new thought

      2m 41s

    • Making risk feel like learning

      2m 47s

    • The difference between creativity and innovation

      3m 10s

    • People don't hate change

      2m 47s

    • Advocating for the unpopular

      2m 20s

    • The upside of limited resources

      2m 54s

    • Understanding change capacity

      2m 24s

    • Picking a successful fight at work

      2m 19s

    • Start, stop, change

      2m 44s

  • 3. Decision Making 3. Decision Making

    • Making better decisions at work

      3m 9s

    • Creating solutions, not policies

      3m 16s

    • The danger of short-term thinking

      2m 53s

    • Navigating common ethical dilemmas

      2m 31s

    • Making tough decisions

      2m 34s

    • Understanding averages and exceptions

      3m 5s

    • A simple approach to personal ethics

      2m 33s

    • Overcoming unconscious bias

      3m 15s

    • Reinforcing ethics

      3m

    • When it’s time to be autocratic

      2m 56s

  • 4. Difficult Skills 4. Difficult Skills

    • Managing your manager

      2m 35s

    • Working with people you don't like

      2m 50s

    • Surviving a bad boss

      3m 1s

    • Working with difficult bosses

      3m 3s

    • Dealing with a public insult from your boss

      2m 32s

    • The three strikes rule

      2m 56s

    • Leading someone with a low EQ (emotional quotient)

      2m 55s

    • Disagreeing successfully with the boss

      2m 34s

    • Telling someone how they are viewed by others

      2m 41s

  • 5. Finding and Developing Talent 5. Finding and Developing Talent

    • Cultivating future leaders

      2m 46s

    • Hiring to fill gaps in your team

      2m 40s

    • Retaining top performers

      2m 31s

    • Engaging your high potentials

      2m 37s

    • Building a destination workplace

      2m 55s

    • Giving a realistic job preview

      2m 30s

    • Rethinking the job description

      2m 54s

    • Thinking about hiring in a new way

      3m 18s

    • Creative onboarding

      3m 31s

    • Hiring a few originals

      2m 41s

    • Avoiding the Peter Principle

      2m 52s

    • When you hire the wrong person

      2m 57s

    • How to spot leadership potential

      2m 36s

  • 6. Management Tactics 6. Management Tactics

    • Being a leader, not a micromanager

      2m 21s

    • Restarting a stalled project

      3m 15s

    • Building consensus

      3m

    • Predicting challenges

      2m 23s

    • Dealing with a new boss off to a bad start

      2m 22s

    • Making yourself approachable

      3m 4s

    • Leading with questions

      2m 31s

    • Using the trial balloon

      2m 32s

    • The personal thank you

      2m 36s

    • Surviving as an introvert

      3m 5s

    • Effective ways to grab input

      2m 43s

    • Psychology tips for managers

      2m 56s

    • Dewett’s Rules

      3m 14s

  • 7. Managing a Team 7. Managing a Team

    • Getting your team unstuck

      2m 48s

    • Coaching your team

      2m 41s

    • Motivating team members

      2m 35s

    • Keeping a virtual team connected

      2m 27s

    • Motivating by getting your hands dirty

      2m 17s

    • Planning your team-building retreat

      2m 50s

    • Facilitating your team-building retreat

      2m 49s

    • Discovering the problem with teams

      2m 39s

    • Understanding personality types at work

      2m 32s

    • Signs of team dysfunction

      3m 12s

    • When to use team decision-making

      2m 46s

    • Know your team's reputation

      3m 7s

    • When there is a bully on your team

      3m 15s

    • Clarifying norms

      3m

    • Stimulating group learning

      2m 40s

  • 8. Managing Performance 8. Managing Performance

    • Managing millennials

      2m 18s

    • Managing a multigenerational workforce

      2m 53s

    • Managing poor performance

      2m 45s

    • Delivering employee feedback

      2m 53s

    • Making work fun

      2m 43s

    • Building trust

      2m 32s

    • Empowering through BHAGs

      3m 7s

    • Building transparency into your work culture

      1m 53s

    • Getting serious about autonomy

      2m 51s

    • Managing technical talent

      2m 57s

    • Building a better meeting

      2m 41s

    • Questioning competency models

      3m 17s

    • Rethinking productivity

      2m 59s

    • How to make meetings more effective

      3m 3s

    • Schedule time in the trenches

      2m 47s

    • Progress not perfection

      3m 8s

    • When to walk away from a project

      2m 58s

    • Signs of a toxic workplace

      2m 58s

    • Classic opportunities for fun

      3m 4s

  • 9. Managing Your Career 9. Managing Your Career

    • Networking within your organization

      2m 43s

    • Understanding organizational politics

      2m 29s

    • Earning your next promotion

      2m 33s

    • Planning for your next raise

      2m 8s

    • Developing work and life balance

      2m 42s

    • Leading as an introvert

      3m 13s

    • So you want to be a leader?

      2m 39s

    • Using phone etiquette

      2m 23s

    • The successful contrarian

      2m 14s

    • How to quit your job successfully

      3m 3s

    • Developing a personal board of directors

      3m 2s

    • Providing purpose

      2m 48s

    • Why liking is overrated

      2m 53s

    • The challenge of middle management

      2m 51s

    • From a technical role to a management role

      3m 8s

    • The leadership oath

      2m 48s

    • How to produce value for your network

      2m 57s

    • The three kinds of resumes

      3m 7s

    • All behaviors have consequences

      3m 14s

  • 10. Personal Growth and Development 10. Personal Growth and Development

    • Avoiding burnout at work

      2m 30s

    • Learning how to say no

      2m 18s

    • Offering a needed apology

      2m 25s

    • Fixing mistakes

      2m 29s

    • Finding purpose in your work

      2m 40s

    • Avoiding blame

      2m 34s

    • Surviving the loneliness of leadership

      2m 52s

    • Knowing the difference between quitting and refocusing

      2m 32s

    • Making and recovering from mistakes

      2m 38s

    • Three dangerous leadership assumptions

      3m 4s

    • Are leaders born or bred?

      2m 34s

    • Maximizing personal potential

      2m 16s

    • Pushing your limits

      2m 57s

    • Understanding strengths and weaknesses

      2m 36s

    • Earning respect

      2m 26s

    • Embracing personal evolution

      3m 25s

    • The art of delayed gratification

      2m 54s

    • Inspiration is a choice

      2m 35s

    • Managing emotions at work

      2m 35s

    • Building self-awareness as a manager

      2m 56s

    • Why it's smart to share your uncertainties

      2m 48s

    • Let them teach you

      2m 25s

    • How to solicit feedback from the team

      2m 54s

    • Using a work diary

      2m 42s

    • Tips for dealing with pressure at work

      2m 59s

    • How to admit you’re wrong

      3m 1s