Leading with Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

According to a recent survey , 33 percent of managers lead with fear. As the study’s authors point out, if you were to ask a manager if they lead with fear, most will say no. Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. Well, it’s fear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

Too often senior leaders “manage by announcements,” publishing a set of expectations or rules that they declare are to be embraced from that moment forward, yet they do not actively demonstrate those expectations themselves, measure how well others embrace those expectations, etc.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2015

Today we congratulate Instigator Ken Blanchard and his co-author, Spencer Johnson, on the launch of their book, The New One Minute Manager. One Minute Goals are the first of the book’s three secrets to One Minute Management. The second secret to One Minute Management is the ability to dispense One Minute Praisings.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

If your goal was to coach an Olympic gold medal hockey team, wouldn’t you want only the best of the best players on your roster, with both precise skills and impeccable character? As you embrace proactive relationship management, pay close attention to my “big three” – engagement, service, and results.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

How do you manage competing values? After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Rather than viewing Quiet Quitting as a challenge that must be managed, I encourage leaders to look at it as an opportunity to be seized. Surveys consistently show that people rank things like career growth, autonomy, appreciation, and recognition, higher than compensation in what they value most about work.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team building, and more. We think that since ‘we’re management now,’ we need to interact more with upper management so they can see how brightly our star shines.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 3, 2020

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 1, 2016

This month we are featuring Eunice Parisi-Carew , Author, Consultant, and Co-Founder of the Ken Blanchard Companies. Most recently, Eunice co-authored Collaboration Begins With You with Ken Blanchard and Jane Ripley. She has also co-authored The One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams (Rev.) , High Five!

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2019

“Retired in position” refers to an unengaged employee, a term which I first heard used by Ken Blanchard. Is there a function they would like to learn, such as project management? Do they want to lead a bigger team? Does this sound familiar? Well, it should. Per Gallup research, an astounding 70 percent of U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

There are so many good things to learn in the book, Helping People Win At Work , by Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge. It allows us to succeed as a team while excelling as individuals. Among those is the section about how to define meaningful work. Their definition consists of these seven attributes. It fuels passion!

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Eric Jacobson

JUNE 21, 2019

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Chris Edmonds : Every morning, your team members rally themselves to come to work. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves. Those team members don’t have to work hard to rally themselves. Other team members are not enthused about what they’ll experience in your team’s work environment.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Ken Blanchard and I hold that belief and we’ve seen it proven throughout our careers. When team members believe their leader has their best interests at heart and is there to support them in achieving their goals, trust in their leader grows by leaps and bounds. When you have the trust of your team, all things are possible.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 3, 2017

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

These leaders’ teams demonstrate inconsistent performance and poor service (to internal and external customers). They must design their desired culture through an organizational constitution , which specifies their team or department or company’s present day purpose, values and behaviors, strategies, and goals. They don’t know how.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 15, 2017

Fortunately, I've benefited from having great mentors throughout my career. Ken Blanchard You'll also learn why developing effective communication and relationships across generations through mentoring can be a tremendous opportunity for companies and individuals alike. Bestselling author, Ken Blanchard, Ph.D.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

From Nelson’s books to Ken Blanchard and Spencer Johnson’s New One Minute Manager (and its predecessor) to Michael Lee Stallard’s Connection Culture (my favorite), the inherent need to create an approach and culture that validates your people is powerful and proven. The simple “Thank You.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Our understanding of our team environment is “OK.” They used a variety of activities to stay connected to what was really happening with their team. They knew which team members were putting in the time and effort to move the organization forward and to serve customers effectively. They knew which team members were not.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2015

So far, most people have said this rings true for them as they consider their best bosses, how those bosses behaved, and how they inspired top performance and great team citizenship. After a 15-year career leading and managing teams, Chris began his consulting company in 1990. I’d love your feedback, as well.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

David summarizes, “Whether you are a team leader, a mid-manager, or even the President, CEO, or Executive Director there will be times in your career where you are asked to meet goals that you did not speak into or, in some cases, even disagree with. David shares how you and your team can still thrive in these situations.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 4, 2012

Art Petty serves up some Leadership Caffeine-12 Shots of Leadership Espresso from his Management Excellence blog. When I ask executives and hiring managers what their biggest challenge is, at least 90% of the time I get the same answer: “People.” Blanchard's culture guru, S. Hint: it starts with the radio station WIIFM.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Everybody Lies by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz HR teams understand better than anyone that people lie. The first time I read Paradigms almost 25 years ago, it led me to disrupt and then change my career. That's how I felt while reading One-Minute Manager Meets the Monkey over 20 years ago. That's too bad, even foolish.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

I asked each leadership blogger to give me their favorite NFL team. Posts are organized by NFL team conferences and divisions. Those that did not provide a team were slotted under a random team. This post seems to be a good fit for my favorite team, the Bills: How to be a Leader in a Crappy Culture. Buffalo Bills.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Don’t Manage Time, Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits. It was inspired by my friends Ken Blanchard, Eunice Parisi-Carew and Jane Ripley’s new book, Collaboration Begins With You. .” Find Art on Twitter at @artpetty.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

I recently spoke with Olivier Blanchard, one of the co-authors. ” -Olivier Blanchard. If we manage the growth of smart automation properly, and plan for it adequately, it can be relatively painless. meaning that they can already perform key business management functions. Machines can prepare meals now.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. Your company has no positive values : Without positive values, your people will require micro-management and consistent course correction.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. I have discovered throughout my career that one’s character is rarely tested by making the right choice but more by what you do when someone points out that you’ve made the wrong choice and everyone is watching.

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Roundtable Talk

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

The more mature you get, the better you get at managing ego.” “In Management is not a science, it is an art.” Your team is being untethered!! Challenge will be to manage them!” When technology, access, information and how consumers buy changes, so must management.” Kudo’s to the team at @TheArtofEvents.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 16, 2015

And you may establish a rule of confidentiality … that there will be no sharing of the discussion with other team members. Conversation is reduced to the road conditions on the way to work or how someone’s football team is doing. You may decide there will be no snide remarks, no matter how heated a discussion might become.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

He began his Chick-fil-A career working as an hourly team member in 1977. Mark Miller is a business leader, best-selling author and communicator. In 1978, Mark joined the corporate staff working in the warehouse and mailroom.

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Roundtable Talk

AUGUST 12, 2010

Blanchard’s philosophy is that, if you want to get more of the “good behaviours” from employees you need to reward them every time you see them in action. It’s a great, but often ignored, fundamental management principle. Last week, my six year old reminded me of Blanchard’s what can happen when positive reinforcement goes awry.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 13, 2009

And, while on this topic, the leader must also: Be Clear about Performance Goals and Expected Accomplishments Ken Blanchard has some ideas about maximizing individual performance. Here’s a video of Mr Blanchard explaining his philosophy. There is a personal accountability there that the manager has given to the employee.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Last year at BIF-7, Angela Blanchard 's phrase, " You can't build on broken " became our rallying cry. Because their people were dedicated, creative, loyal and tight knit; they were treated as a part of the family; and because management had enough "evidence" to hope that they could pull this off if they all pulled the same direction.

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