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From Boss to Leader: How Perspective Taking Energizes People

Leadership Freak

APRIL 15, 2024

Taking perspective is more important than giving perspective when leading. But many leaders run around spouting their perspective without learning how others see the world. Perspective taking increases influence, energizes others, and builds trust. Here are three actionable approaches to the art of perspective taking.

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5 Things Leaders Say

Leadership Freak

APRIL 22, 2024

The first step to becoming a leader is in the heart. You learn to love people. A person who loves people turns their focus outward. The second step to leadership is practicing things leaders say. Words without heart are meaningless irritants.

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Wisdom From Three Stoics for Leaders

Leadership Freak

MARCH 20, 2024

The wisdom of today was discovered centuries ago. These quotes from the Stoics reflect the relevance of ancient wisdom to leaders today. The reason learning is hard. The path to tranquility. The reluctance to confess faults.

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3 Ways to Become a Leader People Love to Follow

Leadership Freak

MARCH 26, 2024

94% of employees plan to stay at a company when they have a boss they love to follow. WSJ A bad boss makes life miserable. We've all had them. Let's think about become a leader people love to follow.

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3 Ways to Energize People during Conversations

Leadership Freak

MARCH 28, 2024

Successful leaders energize people. Focused energy makes success more likely. People won’t tell you this, they don’t like talking with you when you don’t like talking with them. I decided to write about simple ways to energize people during conversations. How do you energize people?

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Powerful Questions Produce Results

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 25, 2024

Don’t ask powerful questions if you want a team of mindless zombies. Questions create attention. Attention translates to direction. What do you want your team thinking about? 5 powerful questions you can ask today.

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7 Questions to Declutter Your Day

Leadership Freak

APRIL 12, 2024

The unexamined life collapse into trivialities. Declutter your day before distraction defines you. Every sunrise is your opportunity to declutter and begin again. Choose one or two of the following questions to move you toward greater satisfaction today.

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Sympathy, Empathy, or Compassion – What’s More Important

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 8, 2024

Sympathy and empathy are good. Compassion brings tangible value. Surprisingly, you don't have to feel other people's feelings to have compassion. What's the difference between sympathy, empathy, and compassion?

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Why You Need to Stop “Why Questions”

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 18, 2024

Stupid questions add stress. Here's how to stop asking "why questions" that create adversarial conversations. It natural to ask why, but it's the wrong question when someone misses the mark. More.

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7 Marks of Mentors Who Change Lives

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 26, 2024

The mentors who changed my life chose me. I didn’t choose them. Eventually you learn the first principle for gaining wisdom. You don’t have it. Here are 7 marks of great mentors. Seek one. Be one. When wisdom knocks, open the door.

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5 Simple Ways to Change Your Life

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Change is hard because we make it hard. Change your life by rejecting things that make change hard. Impatience makes change frustrating. Change your words. Change your life. Change a routine. Change your life. Change your friends. Change your life.

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Tap the Power of the FORD Method

Leadership Freak

MARCH 29, 2024

The FORD Method has nothing to do with cars. The FORD Method is about connecting with people. “. the simple phrase small talk can be code for torture.” Susan Cain Here's a simple strategy for building connection with new people. What's your best tip for connecting with new people?

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10 Questions Reveal Trustworthy Leaders

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Seth Godin said, “Earn trust, earn trust, earn trust. Then you can worry about the rest.” Be trustworthy if you aspire to lead. Here are 10 questions that reveal trustworthy leaders. Plus, 5 simple ways to be trustworthy.

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The Secret of Success Isn’t Good Fortune, Hard Work, or Talent

Leadership Freak

MARCH 11, 2024

Typical answers to the secret of success are dissatisfying. You can't control good fortune. You can't order up talent at the talent store. You're already working hard. Beyond the big 3, what's the secret of success from your point of view?

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Stop Working For – Give Yourself To

Leadership Freak

APRIL 19, 2024

Thoreau wrote, "The cost of a thing is the amount. of life which is required to be exchanged for it. When you give yourself "for" something you work for gratification. When you give yourself "to" something you lead with purpose. Two things leaders give themselves to.

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Don’t Overthink Care

Leadership Freak

MARCH 22, 2024

Who has time to care for people when there's so much to do? I hope that sounds stupid. I talk myself out of expression care. I don't want to pry. What if I make people uncomfortable? Sometimes care is a simple question.

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A Useful Tool for Decision-Making Teams

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 12, 2024

Teams that can’t make decisions are cars without wheels. Some teams advise. Other teams make decisions together. If you’re on a team that makes decisions together, this post is for you. This post includes a team decision-making tool you can download.

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How Powerful Feedback Really Works

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Feedback is often code for criticism. Feedback focuses the past. You see what you did. Advice is about the future. You see what you could do. Years ago, I received feedback that I still use today. Everyone who pursues excellence craves feedback.

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Excellence Begins in Your Head

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Excellence is learned. You might be a little smarter or more talented than some, but excellence always begins in your head. The engine of excellence is inside you. Excellence is process driven.

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4 Things to Do When You Don’t Promote Someone

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2024

Rejected internal candidates are nearly twice as likely to leave. Other problems include low morale, strained relationships, job dissatisfaction, and envy. *HBR You can’t promote every qualified employee.

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PERMA – 5 Elements to Thrive

Leadership Freak

MARCH 6, 2024

Positive psychology isn’t happy talk. Positive psychology concerns itself with things that cause people to flourish. I couldn’t list the 5 elements necessary to thrive during a coaching conversation yesterday (PERMA).

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Painful Experiences: 5 Ways to Gain Advantage

Leadership Freak

MARCH 13, 2024

Painful experiences are unavoidable. You might be going through the fire right now. This post offers 5 ways to gain advantage from painful experiences. It's not easy, but you've done it before. You can do it again. What can you add to the list I offer?

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Pour Energy into Energy

Leadership Freak

APRIL 18, 2024

Pockets of energy are your future. Some areas of work are back holes. You pour energy in but get nothing back. Pour energy into energy. When fire flares up pour gas on it. You can't pull back and move forward at the same time.

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5 Ways to Find Happiness at Work

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Happiness at work escapes you when you think, "I'll be happy when." I’ll be happy when I earn a promotion. I’ll be happy when I’m on vacation. Desire runs one step ahead of attainment. 5 ways to find happy at work.

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7 Ways to Enable Boldness

Leadership Freak

MARCH 7, 2024

Insecure people are conformists. Doubt produces caution. It’s easy to manage insecure people. Do you really want to enable boldness? Bold people resist being managed.

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The 10 Simplest Ways to Turn Challenges into Opportunities

Leadership Freak

APRIL 10, 2024

Even optimists know sunny skies grow dark quickly. Plans derail. Teams implode. Results disappoint. Talent moves on. Mistakes escalate. Crisis erupts. Skillful leaders turn challenges into opportunities. Here are the 10 simplest ways to turn challenges into opportunities that I can think of this morning.

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Smart Leaders Love Correction – The Rest Suffer

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2024

“Why will no man confess his faults? Because he is still in their grasp.” Seneca Smart leaders love correction. When you hate correction, you love grappling with the same faults over and over and over.

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7 Tips to Succeed with Difficult Conversations

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It's stressful to host a crucial conversation. Not having it is worse. Every day is dark when you delay difficult conversations, but most of us do. Timely action increases success and lowers stress.

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4 Dimensions of Office Politics that Matter Most

Leadership Freak

MARCH 5, 2024

If unethical office politics turn your stomach, good. But office politics exist wherever people work. What is ethical office politics? Learn the four dimensions of office politics and suggestions for success. You can't thrive in organizations by putting your head down and ignoring people.

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Conversation Starters that Strengthen Relationships

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Thin relationships make everything slower, harder, and less fulfilling. Successful leaders strengthen relationships between others. They also know how to strengthen relationships with others. In this post: The #1 commitment to strengthen relationships. Personal and team conversation starters.

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5 Steps to Love Your Job

Leadership Freak

MARCH 1, 2024

You can hate 20% of your job and still love your job. Over the years I asked managers how much of their job they could hate and still love their job. The number hovers around 20%. Unrealistic expectations ruin satisfaction. The formula to love your job is 20-60-20.

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Leadership Lessons from a Dishwasher

Leadership Freak

APRIL 16, 2024

My friend Glen Van Peski's book is released today. "take less. do more." I couldn't be more delighted to host today's guest post. His story energizes me. Glen is providing 20 books for Leadership Freak readers. Leave a comment on today's post to become eligible. I highly recommend Glen's book.

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The Right Kind of Discontentment

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The world is ugly when you're filled with discontentment. Discontent with the past drags you into helplessness. But discontent with the present is opportunity to change the future. Contentment isn't passivity. This post offers 7 practices that move leaders toward the right kind of discontentment.

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How to Enable People to Step Up

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

One leader said, "I realized my supervisors weren't supervising because I was doing it for them. Don't handicap people. Be the reason people step up.

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7 Ways to Prepare for One-On-Ones Like a Pro

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Beginnings shape endings. Lack of preparation allows toxic habits to contaminate one-on-ones. Poorly done one-on-ones are a destructive waste of time. Don't bother having one-on-ones if you aren't going to prepare. Here are 7 ways to prepare for one-on-ones like a pro.

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Imagination – Not Logic – Drives Leadership

Leadership Freak

APRIL 11, 2024

Willy Wonka built a land of pure imagination and so do you. Decisions are shaped by imagination. Evan a logical list of pros and cons is based on imagined eventualities. Your view of the future explains how you live today. Leaders imagine the future.

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5 Ways to Practice Vulnerability for Leaders

Leadership Freak

MARCH 15, 2024

What's the difference between vulnerability and oversharing? The people who change us let themselves be seen. How can you let yourself be seen? How much is too much? I decided to focus on being vulnerable like a leader in this post.

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4 Ways to Seek Help Before You Need It

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 19, 2024

You dangle at the end of the rope because of grit gone bad. The people who climb the highest get the most help. Seek help before you need it. Here's how.

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Chew the Gristle: Taking Responsibility Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

APRIL 23, 2024

You lose it when you don’t own it. When you don’t own your marriage, it dies. When you don’t take responsibility for your team, it founders. Taking responsibility is vitality. It’s self-centered to take failure personally. “See how I’m struggling.

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The Simple Path to Your Best Self

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2024

The path to your best self requires self-awareness. Self-awareness hinges on self-reflection. Self-reflection enables self-discovery. Here's how.

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How to Lead One-On-Ones that Change Lives

Leadership Freak

MARCH 27, 2024

I bet you had a conversation that changed the trajectory of your life. How can you lead life changing conversations. It's not always predictable, but some skills make it more likely. How to lead one-on-ones that change lives.

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Self-Distancing: 4 Ways to Expand Perspective

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 16, 2024

You don’t think straight when emotions are high. Self-distancing enables a new way of seeing. LeBron James used self-distancing when he left the Cleveland Cavaliers and went to the Lakers. More.

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Dear Dan: My Boss Doesn’t Give Me Feedback

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Dear Dan, I have a new manager that has been with our department for a little over a year now and she never gives direct feedback. She told me that I’m doing an excellent job. I’m looking for more than that. Any suggestions?

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How to See Like a Leader

Leadership Freak

MARCH 14, 2024

“The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way.” John Ruskin You do not see like a leader until you see yourself. Here are some suggestions you can use today.

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7 Questions to Declutter Your Day

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Why You Need to Stop “Why Questions”

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Tap the Power of the FORD Method

10 Questions Reveal Trustworthy Leaders

The Secret of Success Isn’t Good Fortune, Hard Work, or Talent

Stop Working For – Give Yourself To

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A Useful Tool for Decision-Making Teams

How Powerful Feedback Really Works

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Painful Experiences: 5 Ways to Gain Advantage

Pour Energy into Energy

5 Ways to Find Happiness at Work

7 Ways to Enable Boldness

The 10 Simplest Ways to Turn Challenges into Opportunities

Smart Leaders Love Correction – The Rest Suffer

7 Tips to Succeed with Difficult Conversations

4 Dimensions of Office Politics that Matter Most

Conversation Starters that Strengthen Relationships

5 Steps to Love Your Job

Leadership Lessons from a Dishwasher

The Right Kind of Discontentment

How to Enable People to Step Up

7 Ways to Prepare for One-On-Ones Like a Pro

Imagination – Not Logic – Drives Leadership

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4 Ways to Seek Help Before You Need It

Chew the Gristle: Taking Responsibility Like a Leader

The Simple Path to Your Best Self

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Dear Dan: My Boss Doesn’t Give Me Feedback

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