Leading with Trust

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That’s simple truth #46 in my book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , co-written with Ken Blanchard. i] Evidence from animal research, clinical studies, and brain neuroimaging suggests the desire for control is a biological imperative. In reality, they resist being controlled.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 21, 2021

However, before that he worked as a manager—at one time he was in charge of more than 400 people working at more than 35 different sites scattered across the United States. Here, according to a survey by Better Buys, are the top-five toxic behaviors you’re likely to encounter at work: 5 Toxic Behaviors at Work: —Consistently late.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The winners make the shift from Founder to Leader. They may not be the first to go; but eventually, and in many cases when it’s too late, the founder who hasn’t made the turn will be removed by the investors or by the board of their newly public company. By Thomas Brattle Gannett and Dr. Greg Giuliano. You came up with an awesome idea.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

The following is a guest piece from author David Amerland. When organizations were hidden behind opaque operational fronts and top-down, one-way marketing, a leader was expected to play the role of an omnipotent god. Everything was compartmentalized and everything was strictly managed.

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Reality-Based Leadership

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This is an easy, free, and practical way to start removing the drama and producing better results. a leader or manager who wants to train your team. looking to share this philosophy with senior management in your organization. What are common BMW driving conversations you hear from time to time?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Effective delegators spend time planning work assignments and organizing resources to achieve business goals in the most productive way possible. Effective delegators spend time planning work assignments and organizing resources to achieve business goals in the most productive way possible. Maintain open lines of communication.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Working with a team of 5 Executive Directors from a company that employs ~2000 people we identified a gap in the Managerial Leadership Training , Mentoring and coaching of employees prior to being promoted to a Manager Level within the company. Increased customer complaints about service and interactions.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Even though I will from time-to-time slip and refer to something as “Best Practices&# I am attempting to extricate that phrase from my vocabulary. I have actually come to cringe every time I hear a so called expert use the phrase in an authoritarian manner as a justification for the position they happen to be evangelizing.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Developing innovative ways of teaching and developing Managerial-Leadership programs is fun for me! While the themes and content remain rather constant, ensuring that the lessons & messages are absorbed in a way that can be applied within the context of its use is necessary. Above is an image from a wall in my office.

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CO2

AUGUST 13, 2010

In some ways, that’s the least of your concerns. When faced with inconsistency, you must act to change that outcome with training or removal. If you’re not trustworthy, they say, why would anyone follow you? While trustworthiness is certainly very important as a leader, it’s also very important that YOU trust your co-workers.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 26, 2012

The church is in turmoil and my wife and I feel released from our commitment here. Here is my expanded reply: Leaving is never easy, but many times, even in the worst situations, it can be done in a way that doesn’t further disrupt the church. Don’t throw punches on the way out. I find that true many times.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Have you felt this way? What is the number #1 characteristic of an employee/contract worker that hiring managers look for when hiring? ​ Click "READ MORE" to learn from the career advice of the experts. “If you are an INFJ on the Myers Briggs test , then you should choose from this list of careers for infj.”

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

It’s about “how to release yourself and those you lead from the constraints of the mind’s own making and those of our organizations.”. He cites a passage from General Gordon Sullivan’s book, Hope Is Not a Method , that is particularly instructive. Imagination is about removing those blinders Sullivan describes.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2017

One of the most exciting and — sometimes anxiety-producing transitions in a career — comes when you move from being an individual contributor to becoming a manager. So, as a new manager, how do you build an authentic and connected leadership presence that has a positive impact on your team and colleagues?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2016 that you might have missed: 7 Questions the World's Top Executive Coach Asks Every Single Time by @pauljsohn 5 Things Insecure Leaders Wrongly Believe by @cnieuwhof. Seven leadership lessons from Brexit via @LBS. Start Your Day Stress-Free by @SarahLandrum. by @SteveTobak.

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Curious Cat

MARCH 10, 2015

This post in an excerpt from The Quality Leadership Workbook for Police by Chief David Couper and Captain Sabine Lobitz ( buy via Amazon ). Begin discussion with top management team and train them. Discuss and ask employees; get feedback from them. Share feedback with the chief and his management team.

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Women on Business

NOVEMBER 25, 2011

Being organized and productive is an essential part of business, so there has to be a way to keep your to-do list in check. When you have never ending and unorganized task lists you can work all day and not feel like anything has been removed from the list. Turn it around and realize that you set the bar too high.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 3, 2015

With so many different generations in the workforce, each expecting different things from their employers, exactly what kind of relationships should companies be fostering with employees—and how should they go about doing so? It takes a careful mix of mission, management, and culture. Insight Center.

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Tim Milburn

JUNE 27, 2012

These days, it seems that the same common concepts are stressed over and over in order to ensure team success. But I believe, from pee-wee to pro, that this standard coaching paradigm is simply not bringing out the best in our athletes. I found this article to be very challenging to my own thinking and current paradigms.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 2, 2012

Welcome to today's guest post (and some new ways of thinking about teams) by Garret Kramer , author of Stillpower: Excellence with Ease in Sports and Life. By Garret Kramer These days, it seems that the same common concepts are stressed over and over in order to ensure team success. Then see if any of them make sense for you.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Even though the tasks mount up, you have a knack for performing magnificently under deadline, stress and high expectations. Therefore, it does not fully grow and bloom. Often, it withers and dies an early death.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 7, 2016

While there are many influencing factors that separate top performers from poorly productive workers, from workspace design to environment to strength exercises, I've compiled a list of 31 work productivity hacks to increase your efficiency and effectiveness at work. Do Higher Noise Levels Equal Higher Stress? ​Let's go!

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2016

You and your founding team used to feel like members of the same small tribe; now you’re working with unfamiliar layers of staff hired from companies whose culture is not like yours. He’s just trying to manage the chaos and avoid catastrophe. Your business is a success, but you feel like a failure. What’s going on?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 5, 2017

The 9-to-5, Monday-to-Friday schedule has its “origins in the Industrial Revolution,” says Nicholas Bloom, a Stanford University professor. ” Still, working from home has a bad rap. “They refer to it as ‘shirking from home’ or ‘working remotely, remotely working. .”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

The social critic Linda Stone has coined the term continuous partial attention to describe the fractured way we now focus. Staying singly focused on a task in this digital era is like trying to resist eating while sitting in a bakery as cookies, pies, cakes and tarts emerge fresh and fragrant from the oven.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Feeling stressed? It is more or less impossible to be any kind of professional these days and not experience frequent bouts of intense stress. It is more or less impossible to be any kind of professional these days and not experience frequent bouts of intense stress. Of course you are. This is life in the modern workplace.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2016

Here are a selection of tweets from August 2016 that you might have missed: How Ordinary People Can Become Extraordinary Leaders by @LollyDaskal The Great Leadership Cop Out : Why “That’s Just Who I Am” Is Derailing Your Results by Karin Hurt. 5 Ways to Remove Stress from Management by Mark Ellis.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 1, 2012

When Manning and the Colts ownership decided to part ways, there were no less than 12 different NFL teams that were lined up waiting to woo the QB to their respective franchises. Less than 14 days after his release from the Colts, Manning signed a life-altering deal with Denver for $96 million over five years.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 15, 2019

More importantly, he offers concrete examples of how any organization—large or small, and regardless of industry—can innovate in ways that delight customers and attract top-level talent. Why should customers have to rekey their data over and over when buying something? How did we become such nincompoops? Will it ever stop?

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