Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2016

As an employer, you know that striking the balance between being respected and being liked is a stunningly hard task. I would like to offer you a type of management that refuses this premise entirely. The most successful employers work with all their employees, and are often seated alongside their lowest tier employees. This model completely smashes the damaging hierarchical system that most companies have.

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

One of our greatest responsibilities as leaders is to help others become better versions of themselves. We do this through a tireless commitment to teaching, coaching, and investing in those around us. Great leaders are always on the lookout for opportunities to ply this trade. What follows is a little “advance scout” help, a set of eyes on the front lines of daily work life if you will.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

How do I engage the next genera­tion of employees and customers? That’s the question I get asked most these days. Fine, I’m paraphrasing. What I really get is “$$##@! %^&$#! millennials what the $#@!# *&^%$! hell?”. To which I reply, “So what you’re asking is, ‘How will you empower your team to deliver value and results to you as a leader, and to themselves, the company, and your customers?’”.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Conflict has a bad rap. When I ask audiences what’s the first thing that comes to mind when they hear the word “conflict,” I usually get answers like, “run away,” “somebody gets hurt,” “I hate it,” “fighting,” or “war.” Most people have negative associations with conflict, usually from personal experience. Maybe it is from growing up in a home where conflict turned nasty and people got hurt.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2016

After 15 years of working for other people, I quit my job—I finally realized I needed to do something on my own. I was frustrated and demoralized, my ideas were being marginalized and I wasn’t waking up in the morning looking forward to a new day. With my wife, Paula, and our business partner at my side, I started a lecture agency, with no experience or real plan.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Work-life balance has been a perennial hot topic and a big reason why is because no one seems to know how to achieve it. The reason, I believe, is because work-life balance is a myth. It is about as real as a unicorn. But, what is real is the successful management of the two? Here are four simple strategies to overcome the challenges of aligning career and family, your personal and professional life: Set boundaries at work and home.

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OCTOBER 19, 2016

Self-development is more about igniting the fire from within instead of external factors. External influences only act as facilitators to the goal of development. The goal could be to quit smoking, become more available to your family, take classes to learn new skills or practice philanthropy. Development encompasses factors such as how much time you are willing to dedicate to a particular task.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Polarization of historic proportions, racial divide, technological challenges and globalization—we are all experiencing stress and uncertainty in our volatile, complex and uncertain environment. Closed-mindedness and miscommunication are at the heart of this uncertainty causing damage to relationships, bottom lines and lives. What are leaders to do?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

This post is part of our 2016 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from leadership coach and author Kimunya Mugo. This was completely new. Waking up every morning was a major struggle. It was like someone glued my eyes shut every night. My mind was tired, my body wrecked and my spirit crushed. For two months, I survived through life.

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

With the demand to do more with less, we are asking a lot from our people to do the same amount of work. That means we look for efficient ways of getting things done and doing more to fill the gaps that were left by their peers that left or were let go. Leaders are presented a great challenge to continue to lead their people and meet business goals.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.” ~ Hafiz of Shiraz. A story from my early adulthood: Someone I loved, one of the first young men I had felt intensely about, had broken up with me in a rather spectacular and dramatic (to me) way. Whether or not his delivery was spectacular and dramatic, the result was that I was spectacularly and dramatically devastated.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2016

There are three competencies that are necessary to have if a CEO is to be successful. A CEO clearly needs to be good at the many competencies that all good leaders need, but these three aren’t quite as critical for leaders at other levels. A CEO who masters these skills drives the success of their organization, commands a significant salary, and sometimes becomes legendary.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Conflict, from your home to the workplace, is inevitable. In fact, did you know that according to a Gallup Poll, negative conflict drains the U.S. economy by $350 BILLION a year in lost productivity and wasted energy? But conflict gets a bad rap. According to Nate Regier, co-founding owner and chief executive officer of Next Element , a global advisory firm specializing in building cultures of compassionate accountability, it shouldn’t be seen as an energy drain but as an energy source.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

At your core there exists a unique set of abilities. We refer to them as strengths. These are not difficult to discover. There are many “strength finder” type assessments that are more than capable of pointing these abilities out. What usually go unnoticed are the multiple enablers that surround our lives and enhance our abilities. They make our abilities come alive.

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OCTOBER 10, 2016

We perform our best when we are in the energy and flow of the moment. Think of a river running downhill on the side of a mountain. The water is perfectly in balance with the rocks it is flowing over and the width of the stream bed, as gravity naturally draws the stream downwards. No matter what you are doing, it will always be better when you are tapping into your natural energy and flow.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Respect. It’s such a simple word that carries so much power. It commands: “Respect commands itself and it can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.” (Eldridge Cleaver). It empowers: “We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without fearing it.” (Thomas Jefferson) It elevates: “We must build a new world, a far better world – one in which the eternal dignity of man is respected.

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