Tony R Sanders

Leadership Consultant | Keynote Speaker | CEO of Gawlo

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The leader is not the one with the title, it’s the one with the influence #hr

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@elmelegey Agreed. I also think not enough attention is paid to skills acquisition, performance and profitability. How fast can we get someone to perform on par with their peers? What does performance need to be for us to be profitable on this role and when is our break-even point?

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If no one owns your employee onboard process from end to end we all fail. Someone has to step up to ensure we curate the right experience for new hires to thrive. #HR #SHRM

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@brianne2k Sopranos

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@Colts @JoshDowns Sheesh 🔥

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@lyricspoetic Congrats Lyric!

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@RosserJobs I'd love to! I’ll shoot you a message

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Watch the full 10 minute episode here: Stop Trying to Retain People. Do This Instead. (ft. LinkedIn's First CHRO)
https://t.co/2YWZ3QYPVu

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The days of staying at one company for 20-30 years is long long gone

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@RosserJobs Congratulations!

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Is your company's leadership truly defined and effective? Take the Leadership Clarity Assessment to discover where your organization stands and how to elevate your leaders https://t.co/KHmXZCIpeS

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What’s the hardest part about delegating?

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Delegating tasks is a good start but it’s not the end. The goal is to be able to delegate decisions. This empowers your team to think on their own and bring solutions instead of just problems.

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@Milajoy 25

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If you’re an executive leader at a growing mid market company and you want to test the clarity of your leadership expectations, take the assessment.

You’ll have a full report in less than 5 minutes (avg is less than 3 mins).

All free.

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Last week I shared a free tool I’ve been working on for the last few months. I checked the results today and was shocked.

We had our first 8 companies take the Leadership Clarity Assessment and so far, none of them have scored higher than 60% clarity.

The average score is actually less than 40%.

That means on average managers at these companies are guessing on what success looks like > 60% of the time.

That’s a major problem.

That’s costly.

That’s unacceptable.

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@ChadMPeterman This is a great BHAG! Interested to see how this develops!

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You can watch the full episode here: https://t.co/4frdy66LTj

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Organizations where people feel seen and heard by their leaders are 38.7% more profitable.

But here’s the problem…

Your best individual contributor just got promoted to manager. That might be the exact moment your team starts to struggle.

Not because they got worse at the work — but because nobody taught them how to lead people.

So trust quietly erodes, and what Chris Rollins calls “invisible friction” starts to build: the person who stops speaking up, the meeting where everyone nods but no one agrees, the hard conversation everyone avoids.

On this week’s episode of Leading Through Growth, Chris and I unpack how that friction forms — and how leaders rebuild trust one small, human moment at a time.

The full episode is out on all platforms now.

Let me know in the comments, have you ever felt invisible friction at work?