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Every month RealTime Performance makes more content available free to download. Sign up for our Inspire 10X10 series, a monthly service that offers 10 tips and 10 resources on leadership topics such as Coaching, Collaboration, Trust, Communication and others.

10x10 Tip Sheet - "Helping Leaders Coach Talent"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Coaching. This Inspire 10x10 provides specific actions that leaders can take to coach talent in the workplace. Specific guidance for coaching talent include:
- The value of providing ongoing feedback.
- How to actively coach team members to promote growth and learning.
- The importance of creating career development plans.
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Bite-Sized Booklets. Big Ideas. Small Portions.
"Driving Decisions & Effective Delegation"
The latest white paper from RealTime Performance and QuietSpacing.
Driving Decisions & Effective Delegation provides specific recommendations to company leaders for creating a highly functional workplace with good deciding and delegation skills. Learn how to:
- Keep focused on the larger objectives while addressing daily emergencies.
- Effectively triage the non-stop stream of incoming email, phone calls and other data.
- Assign projects and tasks clearly and with enough—but not too much—supporting information.
- Follow up on each delegated task to measure and evaluate the outcome.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - Innovation
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Innovation. This Inspire 10X10 provides specific actions that leaders can take to drive innovation in the workplace. Specific tips include how to:
- Create a supportive environment for innovation.
- Appropriately balance the risk and reward that innovation can bring about.
- Integrate outside ideas, including customer and supplier feedback, into the innovation process.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - Managing Change
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Managing Change. This 10X10 provides specific actions that employees can take to manage change in the workplace. Specific tips include how to:
- Reduce anxiety while increasing urgency.
- Draft and communicate a compelling vision.
- Make sure that change has the desired long-term impact.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - "Improving Productivity"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Improving Customer Skills. This 10x10 provides specific actions that employees can take to improve their productivity. Specific tips include how to:
- Accomplish 220 more tasks than you did last year.
- Add 24 hours of productivity to your year.
- Avoid the brain-draining “switch cost” of multi-tasking.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - "Improving Customer Skills"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Improving Customer Skills. This 10x10 provides specific actions that employees can take to improve their interactions with customers. Specific tips include how to:
- Listen to the "Voice of the Customer" and establish clear expectations
- Deliver a compelling customer experience that keeps customers coming back
- Empower employees to resolve issues promptly and create a "quick win" for the customer
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10x10 Tip Sheet - "Driving Results In The Workplace"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Driving Results in the Workplace. This 10x10 provides specific actions for leaders to take in their day-to-day interactions to drive business results.
Specific tips for Driving Results include how to:
- Set clear goals and measure incremental progress.
- Prioritize and focus on the most important activities that drive results.
- Establish process improvement and measurement systems that ensure consistency in quality, service, cost and productivity.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - "Exchanging Feedback In The Workplace"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Exchanging Feedback in the Workplace. This 10x10 suggests specific actions for leaders to give and receive feedback in order to achieve higher levels of individual and team performance. Specific tips include how to:
- Give both negative and positive feedback.
- Deliver timely feedback.
- Seek feedback from co-workers.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - "Collaborate Successfully In The Workplace"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Collaborate Successfully In The Workplace. This 10x10 suggests specific actions for leaders to develop an environment of collaboration among their team members. Specific tips include how to:
- Establish an environment of trust.
- Shift to a mindset of using "we" instead of "I."
- Use informal networks to get work done.
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Bite Size Booklets. Big ideas. Small portions. - "Using e-mail Effectively"
The latest white paper from RealTime Performance and QuietSpacing.
Using e-mail Effectively provides specific recommendations to company leaders for making e-mail more operationally and strategically effective.
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10x10 Tip Sheet - "Act With Integrity In The Workplace"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Act With Integrity In The Workplace. This 10x10 suggests specific actions for leaders to create an environment of integrity among their team members, including:
- Communicating with honesty
- Leading by example
- Enforcing high ethical standards.
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10x10 Tip Sheet- "Establishing Trust in the Workplace"
The topic for this month's Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Establishing Trust in the Workplace. This 10x10 suggests specific actions for leaders to build trust with their members, including
- Admitting mistakes and taking responsibility.
- Listening for understanding.
- Living your values and communicating them regularly.
Companion Podcast - "Establishing Trust in the Workplace"
This episode of Inspire 10X10 provides tips for establishing trust in the workplace and gives leaders specific but short, and easily digestible, tips for gaining and maintaining trust. Listen to the podcast here.
Additionally, access the Inspire 10X10 podcast series on iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspire-10x10/id430766409
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10x10 Tip Sheet- "Building And Developing Talent"
The topic for this inaugural Inspire 10X10 (ten tips, ten resources) is Building and Developing Talent. The tips and resources presented in Inspire 10X10’s are taken from the topics and resources available in Inspire, a web-based tool that empowers employees to take ownership of their leadership development by enabling them to build, drive and track their own leadership development plan.
Companion Podcast - "Building And Developing Talent"
This episode of Inspire 10X10 provides tips for building and developing talent and gives leaders specific but short, and easily digestible, tips for on-the-job development activities for growing their team members. Listen to the podcast here.
Additionally, access the Inspire 10X10 podcast series on iTunes. http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/inspire-10x10/id430766409
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