Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 6, 2018

If your attention isn’t focused on the activities only you can perform , you may need to start a stop doing list. If you’re stressed, overwhelmed or unsatisfied with your performance, a stop doing list may be the breakthrough you need. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Every year when the Green Bay Packers began training camp, the late head coach Vince Lombardi would gather the team together with a football in hand and remind them, “Gentlemen, this is a football.” In The Art of Leadership , Max de Pree says, “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 17, 2016

In most cases, the blank is filled with “leadership” or “accountability,” but it can be all sorts of other things too: communication, collaborative, engaging, development-oriented, execution, work-life balance-friendly – you name it. A poor culture is a sure sign of deficient leadership.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 20, 2015

How is your functional area performing? Leadership Capability. Your leadership experience or future potential may have played a key role in being able to participate in a mentoring relationship. Talk with your mentor about your leadership opportunities. There is no question that building a new relationship takes time.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Dale Carnegie loved performing as an actor – but he wasn’t very good at it. He quickly develop a training program that turned shy and timid professionals into confident performers in their everyday roles. But if the best still invest in coaches, teachers, additional training and more practice, you certainly should as well.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 10, 2017

Improve Behavior, Improve Performance. In his book Leading with the Heart , basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski talks about the effectiveness of teams built on trust and a radical commitment to the collective whole. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Unhindered Teams Win.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 6, 2015

If you have a leadership role at work, solving problems is just part of the equation. Welcome to organizational leadership. It’s hard to take time away from “work” to invest in problem-solving – or goal-setting, performance discussions, benchmarking, etc. What type of problem is it? What caused it?

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 7, 2018

A couple weeks ago I had an idea for one of my corporate leadership programs that has over 6,000 leaders enrolled. Our president began by thanking Mark for his engagement in the program and leadership in his function and ended with a “proud to have you on the team!” In Whale Done! It’s the same with people.

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

I didn’t know what I didn’t know – and worse, I didn’t know who I could ask for help since I was expected to perform anyway. Otherwise, learn all you can from their thought leadership. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Learn from Best Practice.

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 17, 2015

.” In working with a Center of Excellence director at another company, we built a development model that helped identify future executives by significantly factoring in the success of their direct reports – even above their own individual performance. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader.

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 18, 2016

In The Secret of Teams , Mark Miller describes high performance teams as those that can function without the active presence of the leader. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Receive his new ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or follow him on Twitter.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 6, 2017

Will you work together or will the vendor perform all the work? Remember, the responsibility for performance oversight is yours. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Receive his ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or follow him on Twitter.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 5, 2015

Credibility comes with a tenure of relational and performance capital. Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. Receive his ebook Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or follow him on Twitter. Bide your time. Say thank you. Put Fear in Its Place.

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Marcus Blankenship - Podcasts

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In this episode of Programming Leadership, Marcus and his guest Esther Derby discuss change. Announcer: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast where we help great coders become skilled leaders and build happy, high-performing software teams. Marcus: Welcome to the Programming Leadership podcast. Episode 27.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2015

companies invest over $2,000 in leadership development initiatives per company leader. Just because an organization has a leadership development program doesn’t mean it’s successful, does it? No Organizational Leadership Vision. Because of this, you must have your own leadership vision. Both are big mistakes.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

When you’re new to the workforce, enjoying leadership success can be a far off goal. One is egregious, the other is misdirected but both can cause major performance breakdowns. I believe this is one reason coach training for managers has gained such popularity in the last decade. I know that was the case for me.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 8, 2018

On one hand, our strengths can allow us to perform at peak levels, sometimes without much effort. There are often many ways to perform a task. For example, if you are not a strong communicator but are a very competitive person, turn your communication challenges into a competition in order to generate the energy you need to perform.

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James Shore

MAY 17, 2021

All words describing issues that can derail team performance. Some team members expect people with leadership titles to take on impediment removal, but removing impediments is a team responsibility. Don’t wait for your coach or manager to notice and solve your team’s impediments. The team can perform this action themselves.

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Codegiant

AUGUST 20, 2020

Big credits to Stefan Wolper , an agile coach, and his ebook about Scrum Masters. Lots of submitted job applications can also be considered as a metric for a well-performing Agile organization. questions + answers How do you demonstrate servant leadership? Performance criteria. The Role of the Scrum Master?—?questions

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 19, 2015

This bias takes place when an interviewer rates a candidate highly based on a single characteristic or performance outcome (or poorly with the Horn Effect). This holds true for performance evaluations as well). Nathan Magnuson is a leadership consultant, coach, trainer and thought leader. How did it turn out?

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Strategic Tech

JUNE 23, 2018

Loosely-coupled teams enabled by loosely-coupled software architecture is one of the strongest predictors of continuous delivery performance and organizational scaling. Check out my free ebook Designing Autonomous Teams and Services (O’Reilly), some of my talks , or previous articles. So how do we find the right boundaries?

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Nathan Magnuson

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

But shaping your organization’s culture is always a top leadership responsibility. In the Royals organization, this means having a preference that each person has some experience as a scout – even for front office staff and coaches. Coach K lauds the value of team’s ego when it is a collective (vs.

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