Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 8, 2024

People are more likely to hold onto a negative experience with speaking up or taking a risk, than a positive one. This activity reminds your team of the times they WERE BRAVE and how it made them feel. Then, invite them to reflect on the following questions: What motivated me to be courageous in this circumstance?

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Lead from Within

MARCH 27, 2024

Understanding and adapting to the unique characteristics of each generation is a crucial aspect of effective leadership. Therefore, they must do the following: Embrace Digital Proficiency: Gen Z grew up in a digital world, making them exceptionally tech-savvy. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 17, 2023

Listen to understand: It’s important for leaders to actively listen and pay attention to what their employees are saying during one-on-one meetings. Make sure to clearly communicate expectations and follow up on any action items or goals discussed during the meeting.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Why didn’t the business partners know how to set up the desired communication so that expectations could be met? If you are given the code words of what others desire, then active listening becomes more automatic than what most experience in daily conversations. Expectations were unmet, and voices were raised.

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Modern Servant Leader

AUGUST 29, 2023

Your first 90 days in a new leadership role are critical to your success. Processes Workflows, planning, and even politics follow under this perspective. Soak up as much knowledge as possible. Ask lots of questions and simply listen. These 7 principles are based on the Acronym Model of SERVANT Leadership®.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. It’s about asking the kinds of questions that help leaders come up with their own answers and insights.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Welcome to the September Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, leadership, productivity, team building, and more. Follow them on Twitter at @jhaudan and @therootinc.

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Lead from Within

MAY 4, 2023

However, by following a few key strategies, you can make difficult conversations easier and less daunting: Be clear on the intent : Before you even start the conversation, it’s important to be clear on your intent. By actively listening and engaging in the conversation, you can build trust and understanding.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Bring empathy to the table Be sure to practice active listening. Don’t just seek to have your needs met; actively look for creative opportunities to find mutually beneficial solutions and outcomes. But don’t randomly offer up items as a compromise. Give respect Respect and trust are closely connected.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 2, 2023

7 Ideas to attract trust to your work-culture organization: Listen actively : Listening is essential when people share their feedback or concerns. Share 1-3 things you heard are going well, 1-3 things that need improvement, and choose 1 item to follow up on and improve for or with those people. Build the middle.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Leadership has become more dynamic and fast-paced as organizations go global and technological integration increases. With these demands, leaders may feel the pressure to speed up, potentially sacrificing important leadership strategies along the way. Instead, slowing down enables them to actively listen.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Use these words, and others like them to foster connection, create clarity, show up a bit more curious, and move the conversation toward resolution. This powerful phrase is gold when working through workplace conflict because it also helps clear up misinterpretations and misunderstandings. Powerful phrases to show up curious.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 20, 2017

The following is a guest piece by Jackie Edwards. Are you part of the 25 per cent of leaders who aren’t really listening to their employees? Even though you might have great analytical skills and intelligence, not listening properly decreases the effectiveness of your leadership role.

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 23, 2023

In fact, I don’t feel comfortable sharing ideas with our leadership in general. Are you or your organization struggling with one of the following: Clarity. When teammates or direct reports speak up, are you actively listening? Showing up with candor, not armor. Showing up with candor, not armor.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

The team needs a way to relieve the pressure brought on by these ups and downs – but it can’t happen in public. The Cheerleader - This is where I call “leadership relentlessness” comes in. There are no playing favorites, and no dog houses. The mountain is never too high. The wall is never too thick.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Perhaps you are familiar with the Situational Leadership ® Model but could use a quick refresher to refine your understanding. Or perhaps you have never heard of the Situational Leadership ® Model but are interested in learning whatever you can about viable methodologies with proven track records for developing leaders.

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Empathy is a must-have for any leader who wishes to excel in their leadership role. In this article, we explain what empathetic leadership looks like and some of the tips and tricks of an empathic leader. What does empathetic leadership look like? The empathy of a leader helps them put their followers before themselves.

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Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

It’s important for business owners to have strong leadership skills first and foremost to ensure that the business succeeds, thrives and is able to remain in business. Leadership skills help provide a vision for business projects/products/services and are necessary to help motivate employees to be their best.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health? We visited the current “Trust of the Year” that has nurses queuing up to work there. Intriguingly, it also has an operational team largely made up of Chartered Managers. Intriguingly, it also has an operational team largely made up of Chartered Managers.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 10, 2019

When you keep up that core, you’re constantly growing your team’s trust. Successful leaders understand the importance of being approachable and accessible when you’re building trusted leadership. People have faith in that credibility and follow its lead. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

Top leaders engage in the following practices to increase engagement from their teams. They use stand-up huddles and regular team meetings, as well as digital communication. Active listening. This may be the most underrated of leadership skills. Work on the team, not just as a team. Engage workers individually.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 26, 2023

Listen Without Judgment or Preconceived Notions Ask clarifying questions, listen without immediately responding and try repeating what you believe the person is trying to say. These active listening techniques help clarify matters. Provide Examples and Be Specific During your meeting, give examples and provide details.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2024

Dick is an expert in leadership development and organizational effectiveness, with a notable background that includes leading learning initiatives at IBM and facilitating several of our Apollo Leadership Experiences. This endeavor requires active listening and, consequently, a heightened level of cultural awareness.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You can be an official or a manager by following a particular set of rules to judge your credibility. Leaders not only teach their followers but also influence them greatly. Some critical traits that make you a leader are as follows: 1. Their active listening skills also hold great importance in this regard.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

There’s an opportunity for leadership in that experience that is generally overlooked. It’s a generally accepted leadership competency, working with individual team members, one-on-one. To that now familiar leadership style it’s time to add team leader as team coach: the ability to work with the team as a whole.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Active listening. When a meeting leader paraphrases, checks for understanding, and asks follow-up questions, it encourages more participation and keeps the discussion flowing. Learn how to use logistics to encourage great participation and remove barriers. Asking questions. Great questions stimulate great discussion.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 25, 2018

Leading change is one of the most stressful responsibilities of leadership. Active listening enables the coach to pick up not only what the leader is saying, but what she isn’t saying, as well as nonverbal cues. The leader’s self-discipline and follow-through ensure progress toward her goals.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

The interesting thing about coaching is how dynamic of a leadership role it is. Coaches Listen. Listening is hard work. If you don’t think so, practice active listening the next time someone walks into your office. Following advice is a lot easier than exercising critical thinking. Mentors can coach.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art. It is active and powerful.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 10, 2013

After ingraining trust in your employees, there are three key practices leaders must follow in order to create the open and collaborative culture for which they are striving. Eisenhower once said, “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”. Learn to Listen.

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 6, 2013

The supervisor is accountable for leadership and output of the shift / section they supervise. Many times when promoted to a supervisor role the person is knowledgeable about the technical needs of the work BUT is lacking the skills in people management and the different ‘tools’ that are required for supervisory-leadership.

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Modern Servant Leader

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic, Resolute, Virtuous, Authentic, Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. But it must be genuine.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 12, 2016

The following is a guest piece by fellow author (and Canadian) Michael Bungay Stanier. Laziness as leadership? More telling is the fact that only two people have ever stuck up their hand when I’ve asked, “Who has too much Great Work?” You jest, sir! Surely that can’t be correct. “I What is this, clickbait? In fact, no.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 11, 2014

Driven: Many good leaders are so naturally focused on the work of getting things done (which is often why they have been promoted to management positions) that they haven’t recognized approachability as a significant leverage point for great leadership. a follow on question about their interests, or b.) Try to find: a.)

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Career Advancement

JULY 19, 2021

Practice active listening. Get your stress under control in ways such as the following: Talk through challenges with a trusted mentor instead of bottling up your anxiety. Hopefully, you’ll end up with several mentors who can help guide your development as a leader and coach for your own employees.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 7, 2015

New managers want to pick up the slack. By the time an executive assignment comes around, leaders can sometimes be addicted to addressing smaller issues – at expense of their own effectiveness with a staff trained to consistently feed their problems up the chain. This is where your active listening skills come in handy.

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Nathan Magnuson

DECEMBER 7, 2015

New managers want to pick up the slack. By the time an executive assignment comes around, leaders can sometimes be addicted to addressing smaller issues – at expense of their own effectiveness with a staff trained to consistently feed their problems up the chain. This is where your active listening skills come in handy.

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