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7 Effective Leadership Skills Every New Manager Should Know

Lead from Within

It’s a role that demands not only technical expertise but also effective leadership skills. To succeed as a new manager and lead your team to excellence, you’ll need to hone specific leadership skills. In this blog, we’ll explore seven essential leadership skills that every new manager should know and cultivate.

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Leadership U: The Six Degrees of Leadership

Leading Blog

T O LEAD people from one place to another in good times and in challenging ones requires a framework like the one presented in Korn Ferry CEO Gary Burnison’s concise book, Leadership U: Accelerating Through the Crisis Curve. The framework is called, The Six Degrees of Leadership. Degree #1: Anticipate. Degree #5: Learn.

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Leading Thoughts for March 11, 2021

Leading Blog

Mike Hayes on delegating and an insight as to why we lead: “We don’t need to assert the greatest amount of authority that we’re entitled to. Source: Never Enough: A Navy SEAL Commander on Living a Life of Excellence, Agility, and Meaning. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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12 Core Competencies For Great Leadership

Lead Change Blog

At its root, leadership is a collection of competencies. But when conditions change or obstacles emerge, they are agile enough to generate and evaluate new solutions on the fly. Whatever the task at hand, they define leadership with their example of attention to detail and personal accountability for outcomes.

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What’s Your Leadership AQ?

Lead Change Blog

I’m sure you’ve heard of the terms Emotional Quotient (EQ) and Intelligence Quotient (IQ); but few people have heard of Adaptability Quotient (AQ), especially as it relates to leadership. In part due to their agile and adaptable leadership style, they are able to create self-managing teams that collaborate together on projects.

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Learn to Master the Skills You Need to Lead

Lead from Within

As a leadership coach, I have found that leaders are usually measured more by who they are than what they do. Skills and reputation is incredibly important in leadership. No matter what great things you do, your leadership will be impaired if you’re not the person you should be and you are not doing what you should be doing.

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126: Holacracy – An Agile Management System for a Rapidly Changing World | with Brian Robertson

Engaging Leader

On Engaging Leader, we’ve often discussed how 21st-century teams require going beyond traditional command-and-control leadership (which I call Influence 2.0) is delegating authority for planning and decisions. to a more interactive mode that I call “engagership” or Influence 3.0. One crucial principle of Influence 3.0

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