Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

Today we’d like to introduce you to Eileen Hahn, a leadership consultant who partners with organizations to assist them in hiring and leading exceptional people. We talk about the organization’s vision, goals, and challenges, and together we develop and implement plans to enhance the organization’s effectiveness.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

” ~ Ken Blanchard. She felt like she was slipping under the radar and needed to increase her visibility in her organization. Now that Haleigh had developed both of them, she was ready to start exerting her influence throughout her organization. Leverage your influence fully throughout the organization.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2019

She writes: “It’s important for organizations to be transparent about their financials and ensure all stakeholders, including donors, board, staff, and volunteers, understand the numbers. Paul shares: “Growth is exciting but an organization can quickly have it’s culture lost in the process.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Pat is also active is several civic organizations and is committed to ensuring that all students have the opportunity to get a high quality education which enables them to becoming contributing members of society. Ken Blanchard. Does Ken Blanchard really need an introduction?! Ken Blanchard. Ken Blanchard.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Pat is also active is several civic organizations and is committed to ensuring that all students have the opportunity to get a high quality education which enables them to becoming contributing members of society. Ken Blanchard. Does Ken Blanchard really need an introduction?! Ken Blanchard. Ken Blanchard.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

I ask you--do you have a group of people around you that are committed to your success, who push you to keep learning, and who hold you accountable to your values and purpose? From my best boss , I learned how important a strong board is to the success of an executive's organization - and, personally, to that executive 's success.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

To me, a blue lobster is a person who views and organizes the world differently, who rejects the status quo, who loves to try stuff, learn, fail and try again, who is interesting because they are interested and who has impact. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 12, 2020

If the people in an organization don’t trust their leaders, they won’t buy-in to the change. Address people’s concerns – Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change. Will the organization provide the necessary resources? Will I win or lose?

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

Blanchard LeaderChat Perfect for those seeking diverse, expert insights into leadership and team management from seasoned professionals. The Blanchard LeaderChat podcast is a dynamic and insightful series that brings leadership concepts to life.

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Leading with Trust

APRIL 18, 2023

I know remote employees aren’t working eight hours a day,” said a leader when I recently asked him how his organization was dealing with remote/hybrid workers. Productivity Paranoia ” has taken hold in a large number of organizations as leaders struggle to adjust to new ways of managing remote workers. Control is the opposite of trust.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I recently spoke to leaders in two different organizations about the difficult dynamics in their work environment. Both organizations are experiencing “senior leaders behaving badly." Worse, the bad behavior by these leaders has been tolerated by the top leaders of their organizations - so it continues, unabated.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

That’s no way to create a high performing, values-aligned organization. Do they act as committed, responsive members of the executive team to present a united voice on how the organization operates, not just how it performs? Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Simple and genuine acknowledgement yields committed people and sustained performance. Thanking your people for their everyday efforts is a simple and easy way to make a powerful lasting impression in your organization. It’s because of the power of giving value to your people and acknowledging their efforts.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 1, 2017

Today, Greenleaf’s servant leadership can be found in the work of authors and educators like Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Margaret Wheatley, Jack Zenger, and Warren Bennis. Whether the “other” is an organization, a family, or a planet, the underlying message is that we can make this work together.

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Mills Scofield

APRIL 29, 2019

To me, a blue lobster is a person who views and organizes the world differently, who rejects the status quo, who loves to try stuff, learn, fail and try again, who is interesting because they are interested and who has impact. When you get enough of them together, you create a blue lobster organization – one that creates positive disruption.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

That’s how it feels, especially when an organization that promotes itself as being committed to an engaged culture is led by a CEO who is unfocused, unserious, unkind, or simply doesn’t get it. Any day some horrible headline about some unethical behavior committed by an executive will cause the whole company to come crashing down.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 15, 2013

One of the biggest challenges facing most leaders today is how to improve the current levels of employee engagement in their organization. It was certainly an issue that Alan* has been struggling with in his organization the last few years despite numerous attempts to try and improve the levels of engagement found in his workforce.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Other management theorists such as Ken Blanchard focus on leadership as enabling the full potential of subordinates/peers to be contributed to an organization. However, an organization needs clear direction and a clear set of rules. I consider it to be defining what needs to get done and assuring that it is done. So What to Do?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

If you lead as a confident partner and not as a doting parent you’ll receive motivation, not movement; commitment, not compliance. That advantage requires a work force committed to success and enthusiastic about excellence. As Ken Blanchard is fond of saying, it takes catching employees doing things right.

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Leading with Trust

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

As my colleague Drea Zigarmi and I wrote in a March 2019 article for Workforce Magazine, employee engagement is a broad and complex problem that organizations spend $720 million a year trying to solve, according to a Bersin & Associates report. Too many organizations discount the power and importance of teams.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 9, 2019

Your laboratory is an organization with hundreds of leaders at varying levels, and with technology, you can watch and listen to them 24-hours a day over an extend period of time. Servant leaders don’t care who gets the credit; they care about helping people and the organization succeed.

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QAspire

MAY 25, 2014

My fellow guest was Jesse Lyn Stoner , who is a business leader, executive coach and co-author with Ken Blanchard of International best seller “ Full Steam Ahead: Unleash the Power of Vision ”. Why is emergent leadership important in today’s organizations? How can organizations promote and encourage emergent leadership?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 24, 2017

When it comes to leadership, there are many facets that we examine and explore in our drive to learn how we can succeed in leading our team and organization. Indeed, a recent study by The Ken Blanchard Group found that more than 80% of leaders don’t listen to their employees.

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Leading with Trust

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That’s simple truth #46 in my book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , co-written with Ken Blanchard. The more autonomy a person has to freely choose their course of action, the more motivated and committed they will be to that decision. In reality, they resist being controlled.

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Leading with Trust

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Don’t follow through on your commitments – One of the quickest ways to erode trust with your followers is to not follow through on commitments. Ken Blanchard likes to say that selfless leaders don’t think less of themselves, they just think about themselves less. A hallmark of trusted leaders is their open communication style.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 26, 2015

These researchers found that when managers felt stressed, exhausted or had a negative outlook about their work, their emotional state gave rise to negative work attitudes among their employees, leading to increased levels of employee burn-out in their organization.

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

It was first proposed by Dr. Paul Hersey and Dr. Ken Blanchard , who believed that leaders chose their leadership style based on the maturity or level of the follower,dividing up the necessary leadership behaviors into four different quadrants. SITUATIONAL LEADERSHIP THEORY.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 28, 2015

Indeed, a recent Ken Blanchard Company study found that over 80% of employees complained that their bosses don’t listen to them, a number that’s regrettably understandable when we consider how these growing communication channels also serve to increase the number of demands on a leader’s time and attention.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Approaching a meeting with the CEO of his organization, one of my culture clients (a senior executive of a major retailer) said, “I’m going to ask him whether he thinks we are a power-driven company, a profit-driven company, or a purpose-driven company.” This client has the heart, skills, and commitment to help his organization evolve.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2012

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. Katzenbach and Douglas K. What is a Raving Fan Customer?

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Building Personal Strength

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

Stephen Covey, American author (1932- ) On COMMITMENT - "Theres no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character."-

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

In addition, a strong work ethic is instrumental in helping an organization achieve success. As Ken Blanchard, leadership expert and author, said, “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses; only results.”.

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Rajesh Setty

MARCH 12, 2012

Chris Edmonds is a speaker, author, and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. As Blanchard’s culture guru, Chris has helped dozens of organizations create high performing, values-aligned work environments. Well-being ally, Lisa Zigarmi , supports individuals and organizations on their development journeys.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2013

So how you do you continually commit and re-commit to going the extra mile for your customers? But if you want to create a more collaborative culture in your organization, decide what’s fair and what’s off-limits and communicate it clearly. How do you stay focused in the face of crazy busy workloads and constant change?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

StrategyDriven effective executives, efficient employees Home About The StrategyDriven Organization Our Company Our Contributors Karen K. Ken Blanchard Co-author of The One Minute Manager and Golden Gavel Award recipient “Finally! Juliano Howard T. Dickens Jr. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Thanks, Nancy!”

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 15, 2018

In no small measure you know people are increasingly finding one another through servant-leadership and through the many organizations and associations that are working with servant-leadership today. Ben : Wow! I love the way you framed that right. Ben : Yeah! Ben : Hmm-hmm. Ben : I love it.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

But remember: organizations have goals that must be accomplished. Ken Blanchard and I share how to navigate this tricky intersection in our new book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. And they’ll speak highly about your organization to their friends and colleagues. Be Compassionate.

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