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10 Practices for the Leader as Coach

Leadership Freak

APRIL 24, 2024

Leaders who love telling people what to do can’t coach. The use of authority creates conformity. The leader as coach ignites vitality. Here are 10 essential qualities of the leader as coach.

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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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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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How to Manage the Danger of Untended Wounds

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Untended wounds become rot. People - like pears - decay from the inside. You don't notice it at first. How to protect your team and yourself from justifying toxicity caused by. 1. Unspoken expectations. 2. Negative assumptions. 3. Untended wounds.

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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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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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Stop Gift Giving at Work

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Obligatory gifts aren’t gifts. Generosity requires freedom. Generosity delights everyone. Gift giving at work doesn’t. Here are 5 rules for gift giving at work (if you can't escape it).

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Thanksgiving Lessons from a Bone Turkey

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

We celebrated our first Thanksgiving as a married couple 1,600 miles from home. It was a proud moment until I tried to carve the turkey.

4 Rules for Great Relationships at Work

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Enemies don't help each other. People bring their best when they pull for each other. What do great relationships at work look like?

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Personal Transformation Requires Aspiration Awareness and Accountability

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I'm hosting another great book giveaway. Christian Greiser's new book guides personal transformation. Don't miss this opportunity to get a wonderful book.

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The Toe Dippers Dilemma: 7 Ways to Take the Plunge

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Dabblers repeat the past and call it progress. Toe dippers feel smug when others fail.

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Choose Humble Strength Over Arrogant Weakness

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Every leadership skill is made beautiful by humility. We're giving away 5 copies of our new book, "The Vagrant," on today's post.

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The Surprising Source of Unintended Toxicity

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Good intentions don't guarantee positive results. Toxicity is almost always unintended. Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win our new book, The Vagrant!

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How to Build Stability during Turbulence

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 31, 2023

My brain never leaps to the best thing that could happen. People usually jump to negative conclusions. Imagined catastrophes make stability unlikely.

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When Problem-Solving is a Problem

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 11, 2023

The way you deal with problems is more important than the problems themselves. Dysfunctional problem-solving makes problems worse. 10 questions that enable effective problem-solving.

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How to Bridge the Unseen Gap between Perception and Intent

Leadership Freak

JULY 6, 2023

Perception determines response. You respond to frowns different than smiles, unless the smile seems disingenuous. The way you’re perceived governs how people respond to you. This wouldn't matter if leadership was done in isolation.

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Awaken Your Potential Today: 20 Powerful Ways to Make Life Bigger

Leadership Freak

JUNE 19, 2023

Potential is an unexplored ocean. But the shore offers many delights. I believe you will find something to awaken your potential on the following list. For example. Write a description of your best future self (not your best life). Adapt it every day for a week. What sticks with you?

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Low Goals: 7 Unexpected Advantages

Leadership Freak

JUNE 5, 2023

Better to set a small goal and meet it than a grand goal and feel defeated. I set a low goal for riding my stationary bike, 85 minutes a week.

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Smart Help – 7 Questions to Ask Before Helping

Leadership Freak

MAY 23, 2023

Successful leaders help people, but helping has disadvantages you might not see. Don’t rush to help. Strength rises to challenges. Don’t get in the way. Ease bores talented people.

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4 Simple Questions to Clarify Complex Challenges

Leadership Freak

MAY 9, 2023

When facing complex challenges reflect on urgency, necessity, and perfectionism. Here’s how. #1. How important is finding a solution now? Make progress by leaving the most complex challenges until later.

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A 3-Minute Adventure

Leadership Freak

APRIL 28, 2023

Leadership is an adventure with an elusive destination. It would be easier if stability was common and turbulence less frequent. But busyness blinds us to the most important adventure.

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3 Ways to Expose Deceptive Emotions

Leadership Freak

APRIL 13, 2023

Things that feel good can be bad. Emotions lead you astray – sometimes. When bad feels good: In the moment, it felt good to lie to my boss. Going fast doesn’t feel good.

3 Essential Culture Rules all Leaders must Apply

Leadership Freak

MARCH 7, 2023

3 essential culture rules for high performance culture: aspire, amplify, and adapt. Image a of bright sunrise.

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Resist Conformity – Don’t be a Hypnotized Chicken

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I woke this morning with a blurred recollection of my uncle teaching me how to hypnotize a chicken.

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5 Proverbs for People with Big Dreams

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 26, 2023

#1. An average person in motion is better than a lazy genius with big dreams. #2. Talk inflates. Action humbles. A long list of past and current actions validates character.

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Efficiency is the Enemy of Humanity

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I started complaining about back-to-back meetings six years ago, but change is slow. I came across research that proves it’s not efficient. Intoxicated with self-importance: I feel important when I rush.

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How to be Happy by Complaining More

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Complaining done well increases happiness. Don’t get the wrong impression. Curmudgeons are toxic. The difference is ego. Big shots are never happy. They complain because the world revolves around them.

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7 Ways to Teach Humility in Team Meetings

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

You can be right in many ways and dead wrong in others. I asked a world-renowned leadership expert what humility had to do with success. He said, “Nothing.” Teach humility if results matter.

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3 Ways to Quiet Constant Complaining

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Constant complaining feels good to grumblers. Lousy leaders complain like squawking crows. If they didn’t feel unhappy, they wouldn’t feel anything. Even when you do well, lousy leaders bellyache.

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Leading Inclusion: Three Ways to Make Your Organization Inclusive

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 11, 2022

New Book Giveaway! 20 copies available!! Leave a comment on this guest post by Dr. Gena Cox to become eligible for one of 20 complimentary copies of her book, Leading Inclusion.

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7 Powers of Life Purpose

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Living without purpose is easy; just run around doing stuff as fast as you can. Life purpose is living in service to something bigger than yourself.

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Saturday Sage: How to Become a Go-To Person

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 27, 2022

When your friends face critical life-decisions, you want to be their go-to person. When knees buckle and people are stressed, you want to give strength.

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5 Ways to Become a Better Learner Leader Using Question Thinking

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 23, 2022

Book Giveaway!! 20 copies available!! Leave a comment on this guest post by Marilee Adams Ph.D.

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Leadership Communication: 10 Reasons to Shut Your Mouth Before it’s too Late

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 4, 2022

“Being able to effectively communicate is the most important skill any leader can possess.” Richard Branson Leadership communication: 10 reasons to close your mouth. #1. You dozed off.

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5 Steps to Making Habits that Create Your Future

Leadership Freak

JULY 13, 2022

Making habits is easier than breaking habits. “You are what you repeatedly do.”* The things you repeatedly do create your future.

2 Ways to Use Adult Peer Pressure for Advantage

Leadership Freak

JUNE 21, 2022

When I was a kid mom said, “If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?“ Looking back, adults were just as susceptible to peer pressure as we were. Maybe more.

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4 Ways to Stop Saying Things You Regret

Leadership Freak

JUNE 20, 2022

Saying things you regret usually follows these six words, “Let me be honest with you.” Being honest isn’t saying everything in your head. Some thoughts shouldn’t become words. Things you regret: Unfiltered words.

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7 Lessons from the Naïve Leader

Leadership Freak

MAY 27, 2022

One day a naïve leader decided to explore the desert. He was smart enough to know he needed water and clothing for protection from the sun.

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5 Ways to Matter More in the World

Leadership Freak

MAY 2, 2022

You matter more when you reach beyond yourself. #1. Don’t strive to matter more. “People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

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3 Ways to Give Feedback that Works

Leadership Freak

APRIL 6, 2022

Teachers use feedback when they correct our schoolwork. People persist in doing wrong things apart from feedback that works. Improvement requires feedback. How to give feedback that works: #1. Check intentions.

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