Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

What does it mean to be resourceful? In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” So how do you teach and encourage resourcefulness in your leaders and on your team? And guess what?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. They long to know that people care about them for who they are, not just what they can contribute. ” What a great way to think about building a compassionate team.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Expect to Do Some Heavy Lifting by @artpetty How to Facilitate – as Opposed to Dominate – Your Meetings by @suzimcalpine 5 Important Lessons I Learned Growing Up from @wallybock Leaders, Objectivity vs. Detached Coldness by @KateNasser How Writing Your Obituary Can Help You NOW! ChatGPT is everywhere.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teaching your team how to think and act like an entrepreneur. If you want to hire people with the capacity to think like an entrepreneur, ask about their experience.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk is full of revealing, behind-the-scenes anecdotes that provide insight into why Musk does what he does and why he does it that way. Below, you will find some excerpts that give you a taste of what you will find in Isaacson’s Elon Musk. He learned to shut down fear,” she says. “If

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. By the time of my baby shower, we had a lot to celebrate with a highly engaged team getting it done. How to Scale Your Leadership For Lasting Results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

How do I lead well now?” What do I do now?” ” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. What does “regular” mean? What happens in those one-on-ones? How do you balance responsiveness with productivity?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

You care about your team and the work they’re doing. And if they’re like so many teams we work with, they yearn for better recognition. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out? Focus their efforts on what matters most. Focus their efforts on what matters most. Keep them growing.

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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. If you’re not feeling confident about speaking up , you’re not alone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. And, use that insight to help us plan for what would serve you most in the new year. As we continue to support you and your teams in your human-centered leadership journey, we would love to hear from you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We would love to hear from you. How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (February 2021).

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

And we all make mistakes. Here, in overview, are the nine rules with the author’s comments: Rule #1: It’s Not What Happens to You That’s Important, It’s How You Respond Realize that you can’t change others, but you can and do influence them by how you respond. How do you respond when stuff happens? How about you?

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 15, 2023

I didn’t know what to expect going into A Man Called Otto. In this Reel Leadership article, we take a look at the leadership lessons in A Man Called Otto. We don’t know why people want the things they do: Otto had gone to the local hardware store called the Busy Beaver. We think kindness has no place in business.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

What we once glossed over now requires our attention and action. Mostly it requires that we be more intentional about relationships. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

D ESPITE what the title Teaching By Heart might imply, it is really a book about servant leadership. Using himself as a case study, DeLong generously shares what goes on in his head and heart as a teacher. You will learn what it takes to teach and lead better. I’ll deconstruct why this is so.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

T HERE’S something about our first jobs that stick with us. They teach us things we didn’t expect to learn and shape the person we become later in our professional lives. What would you say are your greatest strengths and weaknesses? Lesson 2: Making it Fun Makes a Difference. I didn’t know.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2020

Recently, Karen and her team launched TKMG Academy —an online learning destination where business leaders and improvement professionals can build or deepen their business design and performance improvement capabilities. Here’s what you need to know! What inspired you to start TKMG Academy? And now we do!

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I find this time of year is an excellent time to reflect on what’s come and what is to come. Only one more week until we’re in a new year. I want to talk about Christmas. There’s also a lot to learn about leadership through the Christmas story… 5 Leadership Lessons From Christmas.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

What good is empathy in an uber-competitive, saturated marketplace where leaders need to capitalize on every opportunity to stand out? The Empathy Edge definitively answers these questions showing how for-profit leaders can use empathy to gain the upper hand. So, what’s in it for the leaders themselves? Listen More, Stay Humble.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 7, 2024

The challenges refugees face in the labor market are well known, whether due to a lack of connections, an unfamiliarity with how labor markets work, or the unrecognized status of their credentials. This complementarity is happening because of highly motivated individuals who are very responsive to what happens around them.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 9, 2019

Leadership is about leading. When team members don’t do what (or how) you want them to do, you send them off to a training. When team members don’t do what (or how) you want them to do, you send them off to a training. Teach them how to give feedback, for example. What Organizational Culture Is.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Whenever I tell someone I’m teaching an evening MBA class entirely devoted to “managing difficult people” the response is the same. But as we dug deeper, the issues were far more complex. With a little risk and creativity, we experienced some significant turn arounds. The Power of Writing it Down.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Suppressing your uncertainties, impressions, or questions to try to appear like you always know what you’re doing. The Performance Paradox is the counterintuitive phenomenon that if we want to improve our performance, we have to do something other than just perform,” explains Briceño. “No avoiding mistakes to expecting mistakes.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Of course, we talk about developing more leaders, but if we actually made it a priority, we would have more leaders. You need to know what you are looking for. What does a potential leader look like? Maxwell offers six As to guide us: Assessment of Needs (what do you need?), Learn their perspective.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

So how do you fix your leadership mistake? How do you make it right when you really screw up? We can learn a lot from what Warner Bros. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Even the best leaders make mistakes When we really screw up, there are best practices to follow David Sazlav at Warner Bros. But not so fast.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

And making too many personal sacrifices, wanting to leave your job, and having a bad or cynical attitude about your work. Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. They can handle the discomfort of learning curves and uncertainty.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It isn’t easy for people to be honest with us, even when we ask them to be. In addition, those that we ask may not have the professional expertise to offer us the insights we need to work through difficult challenges. Ron, I really love what you are teaching us, but would you like some feedback?”

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Guest post by Clint Babcock: Recently I was teaching a class on negotiation for salespeople. I specifically narrowed this role play down to this one issue; neither one of them knew what they were selling. Such a scenario allows participants to focus on how best to work through the money issue. A better approach.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

They scored themselves at the lowest levels we’ve seen on our Team Dynamics Survey. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. The bad news is we’re lost. The good news is we’re making great time.” Okay…but how much of it really mattered?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 24, 2018

Encountering those leaders brought home just how many myths exist, particularly among those who have no previous experience of leadership development. The simple truth is this – as people, we are all different. If this is not happening, how good is your leadership? You can teach leadership – it’s easy!

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Last week, I ran a poll on LinkedIn on one of the biggest things I coach executives about – making the shift from being the go-to person to building and leading a team of go to people. Not surprising necessarily, but how do you do it? But the secret sauce is in helping them know HOW to work together efficiently and effectively.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 9, 2017

We welcome Mark Miller for the second post in a five-part series defining the core principles of Leaders Made Here. Yes, But How? Step #2 — Teach It. In my previous post , I began the story of how the Leaders Made Here strategy was born. What they repeatedly asked for was, “What’s next?”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 10, 2019

None of us were built to handle what we are all dealing with on a daily basis. Many of us wake in the morning and immediately reach for our phones which we strategically placed on our bedside table the night before so that it will be the first thing we see each day. So, what can we do? Stress is a killer.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2019

T O GET FROM where we are to where we want to be requires a shift in our thinking. We serve people differently. We’re all different but we all need to make these shifts. Essentially they all boil down to making the shift from me to we. As leaders, we must stop wishing and start working. It’s about sacrifice.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 27, 2018

A Reel Leadership Article What do you get when you cross My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a cast of Asians? Rachel learns the truth about Nick’s family (they’re crazy rich and cray cray ). Crazy Rich Asians is also a great movie to learn leadership lessons from. We don’t have to treat someone rudely.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Or, the been-there-done-that guy who’s “just about done” with all the rookies. Door Number 2: Be the brave leader who has the tough conversation which changes the game, and helps them truly realize their potential. How to Address Arrogance: What To Do Behind Door #2. Everyone else does.”).

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 20, 2016

This month’s festival gives tips about professional development for leaders. Next month’s Frontline Festival is all about favorite apps and technology. What tools do you use to stay productive? There are two ways to participate…either submit a blog post on the topic, or your 1-2 sentence answer to the question.

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