Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

From Counting to Quality: Help Your Busy Team Work Smarter Last week, we talked about meaningful metrics , focusing on the game, not the score, and identifying and isolating the daily habits most likely to lead to success. Of course, there are lots of reasons for this.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. Here are ten important questions to start with when building a high-performing team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

How to Overcome FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and Share Your Ideas. You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. So it’s important to make your event remarkable.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When presenting to executives, don’t forget what makes you an expert. You’ve been working hard, and the project is totally on track. And now, the executive team wants an update. Follow these tips to have more confidence when presenting to executives. Remember, this is not about you. Your customers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact. Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. We once coached “Jane” a woman executive (she, her, hers), the only member of an all-male, executive team (he, him, his). No question, we had to address that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To distinguish yourself as a young leader, build your knowledge, focus on results and relationships, and speak up. You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And there’s nothing more frustrating than being told, “Not now. What’s the end goal—the reason for the work?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

T HE REASON for writing Mind Shift is to destroy our internal limitations. Every time you want to elevate your level of execution, performance, or effectiveness, it will require a mind shift.” Mind Shift #2: You Don’t Need an Audience You don’t need an audience to reveal your greatness. Get on with it. “If

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

While there is genius in his high-tech visions, some of his opinions and antics leave some people disturbed if for no other reason than they don’t align with their own. Did you think I was also going to be a chill normal dude?” Below, you will find some excerpts that give you a taste of what you will find in Isaacson’s Elon Musk.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

They call it the CEO test because the intensity and consequences of these challenges grow as you move into higher levels of leadership. They believe that “to succeed in a leadership role, you have to achieve a certain threshold level of proficiency in each of the skills” highlighted in these seven tests. Why is it important?”

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Next Level Blog

MAY 3, 2022

Fortunately, that happens a lot including as recently as a few weeks ago when I was talking with Rishi, a country manager on a leadership team I’m coaching. In a prep conversation for an upcoming team coaching session, I asked Rishi what’s been working lately with the team he leads. One is that it encourages action.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

Powerful Phrases to Confidently Confront a Bully at Work Looking back I feel I should have stood for myself and not give into this bully. – Female, 47 Dubai (from our World Workplace Conflct and Collaboration Survey) You would think by now, we’d be past the need to write about dealing with a workplace bully. .

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2019

Here are a selection of tweets from January 2019 that you don't want to miss: 6 Tips for First-Time Managers by @JesseLynStoner. If You Think You Can, You Will by @DougConant. What if we started asking " What problem would you like to help solve? " @FahdAlhattab. Asking the Right Question by @BobQuinnUofM.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

More than two-thirds of them never deliver a positive return to investors. Profit Formula: This is your plan for making money. Team: If the other elements in the diamond-and-square framework are aligned, a weak team is unlikely to deal a death blow to the venture. T HE FACT IS most startups fail.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2020

On the other hand, put blinders on to what is (reality), what could be (possibility), and what should be (vision). and your nine lives in leadership will expire quickly. There’s a growing wake of individuals and companies who tanked in time because they dispensed answers instead of asking great questions. The Rule of 5.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. John Stoker of DialogueWORKS contributed Are Your Assumptions Getting the Best of You ? Communication. Find Dana on Twitter at @DanaTheus.

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Great Results Team Building

AUGUST 31, 2021

If you are a smart leader, you understand the importance of communication. The quality of your communication determines how successful your team will be. The problem is that many team meeting agenda templates suck. But the best teams have a productive meetings. share the main reason you are meeting .

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2020

Specifically, Pete was in charge of the team that led the transition. While he had previous experience helping smaller teams of 3 to 6 people shift to a virtual setup, the larger group was proving to be a challenge. 3 Key Steps to Preventing Disasters in Implementing Decisions.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For instance, a recently published study by McKinsey shows that the top three reasons why employees leave is they don’t feel valued by their organization, they don’t feel valued by their manager and they don’t feel a sense of belonging. The exhaustion and burnout have an impact on everyone – executives, managers and team members alike.

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Nathan Magnuson

JULY 6, 2020

What’s the quality of your conversations with your young professionals? More specifically, what questions are you asking them? The reason is a matter of simple mathematics. The question isn’t if. If you’re a leader, a big part of that responsibility falls on your shoulders.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2019

I T SHOULD go without saying that coaching as opposed to just managing people, is the key to developing high-performance organizations and teams. It is the job of the coach to maintain a healthy discomfort for those on their team. When you change what you input into an environment, you trigger Complexity.

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HR Digest

MARCH 29, 2024

mWhile getting ready for an interview, one of the hardest tasks is preparing for common behavioral interview questions that you might be asked. Even if you look at behavioral interview questions examples online, just glancing at them is rarely enough to answer the question with ease.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2023

It is a question that every business leader asks themselves at one point or another because when you oversee so many people, you want to make sure that you do a good job. This leaves you in a weird twilight world where you have to guess what the right leadership move is without anyone to feedback to.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

When it comes to managing up, there are two scenarios: when you’re on good terms with your boss and when you’re struggling with them. Managing Your Boss in Good Times & Bad. You must build strong relationships with some of your boss’s peers. Profile Your Boss. Situations change.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

If your team is struggling with poor results, apathy, and feelings of being overwhelmed, stop and consider if they really understand the big picture. As we continue our series on the biggest mistakes team leaders make , we focus on the perils of under communicating the big picture. Why Team Leaders Forget to Connect the Dots.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

He had put together a team of runners to run the Ragnar Michigan relay. The team consisted of 12 runners, a driver, and two volunteers for the event. One line of the song went like this: Eight people in a stinky van, a couple more couldn’t hurt. Many runners run more than 15 miles in multiple legs of the race.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

to some things I should not have said?YES?to.”?? even say NO when we know we should – it is easier to procrastinate or avoid , which ends up meaning YES.? . ?Or examples of how you might avoid saying NO.??. Company directors or organisation trustees should make their decisions on considered facts. reasons.?

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 2, 2020

If you travel by air, you’re acquainted with the standard safety instructions that are demonstrated by flight attendants before the plane takes off. Among other things, you are given a heads-up about what to do with oxygen masks and life vests and how to find the nearest exit. (And Will all these factors converge?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In turn, they shy away from even initiating such conversations and asking the important questions. Strong leaders , on the other hand, happily ask these questions with an eye on making things better for their team. If you don’t ask, who will? What is your overall satisfaction with your team?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Mary Ila Ward of Horizon Point Consulting shared Is Your Workplace Full of Facts or Opinions? She asks: “How often do you get fact and opinion confused?

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CoachStation

AUGUST 26, 2022

Employee discretionary effort and focus are being challenged for many reasons, including the labour market and working from home. Developing the skills to engage team members is important. Maybe, no more so than right now. Where we work has rarely provided more options. You have options.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Jennifer summarizes: “ Are you planning a department reorganization or a big change? Team Building. Communication. Jennifer V.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. John Stoker of DialogueWORKS contributed Managers, here’s your guide to effective feedback. ’ Will it be you? Communication.

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HR Digest

APRIL 24, 2024

Crafting a sample termination letter is a critical task in the realm of human resources, serving as the formal notification that outlines the reasons behind an employee’s dismissal and the specifics surrounding their departure from the company. Termination letters also play a critical role in protecting the legal interests of a company.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2018

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2018 that you might have missed: 6 Big Career Mistakes That Can Sabotage Your Future by @LollyDaskal. 5 Core Reasons You Continually Trust The Wrong People And How To Stop by @kathycaprino via @Forbes. 4 Questions Every Leader Should Ask To Be Successful by @TanveerNaseer.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Here are some ideas to help teams to stay connected while minimizing online fatigue.” Communication. Find Sean on Twitter at @leadyourteam.

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HR Digest

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We can feel our psychic sense tingling and we know that you had to resist the urge to google “ what to do when you hate your job ” more than once this last month. We also know that you did google it at least once. but the answers to the questions are fleeting. What to Do When You Hate Your Job?

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