Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 31, 2018

This is the most significant finding from the Hawthorne Works research: Making team members and teams feel valued as well as helping them find meaning and purpose beyond their own tactical skill application boosts employee well-being and productivity. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. It’s a skill that leaders need to learn and develop to foster trust with their team. Our friend, Garry Ridge, former CEO of WD-40, modeled this principle during his career. Click here to join.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Surveys consistently show that people rank things like career growth, autonomy, appreciation, and recognition, higher than compensation in what they value most about work. This career discovery process starts with conversations between you and your people. And that value is not just related to money. That’s a win-win.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

Treat Employees As Your Primary Customers Create a safe, inspiring, respectful work environment of trust, giving your employees the opportunity to apply their knowledge, skills, and hearts to serve the team and organizational constitution daily. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more. Certainly, leaders need people skills, execution skills, a deep knowledge of industry trends, the ability to articulate a vision, and more. What’s below the waterline?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

They create avenues for team members to learn new approaches, develop new skills, and gain confidence to put those skills into action in the workplace. They don’t allow team members’ skill sets to stagnate. They align all players to norms that enable sharing of information, skills, and support across their team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 12, 2017

Their jobs are immensely stressful and demanding, and 99% of them serve with grace, skill and speed. Skill alone doesn’t make a firefighter or law enforcement officer effective. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

Top leadership expert Ken Blanchard calls the book “a wake-up call for leaders at every level.” Benefiting from the concepts first introduced in Bill’s bestselling books, participants come away with stronger leadership skills, improved team performance, and more career backbone.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2015

Those conversations inspire, discount, validate, or erode others’ skills, ideas, efforts, and accomplishments - whether we’re aware of it or not. I believe we are at our best as leaders and influencers when we express gratitude for people’s skills, efforts, and ideas. Our conversations with others might have neutral impact.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

It’s a challenge most leaders face at some point in their career. The colored bits are like fundamental skills that swirl together to create deeper insights just as the kaleidoscope creates amazing images. Take this quiz to determine if you have the fundamental skills of an insightful leader.” Resist the urge to intervene.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Disagreements about ideas are conducted calmly without denigrating the leader or team member's commitment, skills, or role. Validation - This quality level demands the active valuing of team members' skills, ideas, enthusiasm, and talents. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 13, 2017

More than 10 years ago, I had the privilege to co-author The Secret with Ken Blanchard, a book about Chick-fil-A’s point of view on leadership. Did they want to know my career plans or what time my flight was going to leave? Leadership skills are not innate. In the beginning, I wasn’t really sure what people wanted to know.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

I attended college to learn skills for life, and lifelong learning for me afterward was a hobby. My girls went to college to learn the skills that could garner them their first job, and lifelong learning for them is a necessity for every job thereafter." Favorite Quote: “Average is officially over. That's too bad, even foolish.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 7, 2012

Train it – The skills of creativity can be learned. The point is simple — train your team on the skills of creativity. ?Practice Practice it – Creative thinking and problem solving are skills — just like golf, tennis or a foreign language. Like any skill, you get better with practice.

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 19, 2012

Skills Still Matter – Tim has a lot to learn as an NFL quarterback. His skills are not where they need to be. Heart, passion and drive are huge — but insufficient over the long haul without the skills. He began his Chick-fil-A career in 1977 working as an hourly team member. Tim knows that.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Beth recaps, “Beth Beutler refreshes us on an important leadership skill—saying ‘no’ with grace.” But is it a smart career choice? Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog submitted Don’t Let Your Work Speak For Itself: 3 Ways to Increase Your Visibility. .” Let’s Get Started.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

I recently spoke with Olivier Blanchard, one of the co-authors. ” -Olivier Blanchard. ” What ways can aspiring leaders prepare and futureproof their career? “The best partner for an increasingly better machine is an increasingly better human.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

This client has the heart, skills, and commitment to help his organization evolve. After a 15-year career leading successful teams, Chris founded his consulting company, The Purposeful Culture Group, in 1990. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

But, being able to recognize what kind of leadership is required in a variety of situations and to supply it in a timely way is a skill worth acquiring. Here’s: Something to Read: Leadership and One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard. Where might you make some adjustments in your approach?

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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. I think he’s right.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Well-intentioned talent management systems are frequently to blame for undermining the quality of career conversations. Blanchard's culture guru S. Grow Your Own" helps companies think about what their responsibility is in closing the skills gap through developing talent within. Miami Dolphins. Denver Broncos. Oakland Raiders.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2018

And just as we have honed our clinical skills by reflecting on patient outcomes, we have evolved a similar studied approach for mentoring. In both, we have learned how to incorporate mindfulness to focus on what’s best for the mentee and his or her career. We have had the good fortune to have many mentees come to us for advice.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career. The biggest mistake people make when trying to change careers is delaying the first step until they have settled on a destination. Clark recommends listing the “concrete skills you need to develop in order to be successful at pursuing your passion full-time.” Herminia Ibarra.

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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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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. What they were looking for was the kind of experiences and skills I had, and so I applied for the position and was hired in the beginning of 1990. What Advice do You Have For Developing Servant-Leadership Skills? Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

Developing Servant-Leadership Skills Developing 6:52 27:28. What they were looking for was the kind of experiences and skills I had, and so I applied for the position and was hired in the beginning of 1990. What Advice do You Have For Developing Servant-Leadership Skills? Trends impacting Servant-Leadership Trends 3:56 16:41.

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