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Your Leadership Heritage

Lead Change Blog

They’re part of your heritage, your leadership heritage. If you take the time to reflect on your leadership heritage, you will become a better leader. You’ll be able to explain yourself better when others ask about your leadership choices. Who were the people who formed your first ideas of leadership? Growing Up.

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Avoid a Common Leadership Mistake: Empower Your Team

CoachStation

Leaders empower their team members and hold them accountable for delivering agreed results. However, to inspire and empower you must have a connection with your team members…a relationship. The session formed part of a week-long focus on leadership. Effective leaders make shared goals clear.

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April 2019 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April Leadership Development Carnival. 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. Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context provided 16 Answers to What is Good Leadership?

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The Three Indicators that Your Team is Still in Pain

Lead Change Blog

As a leader, you have three choices when a problem situation comes up between two or more members of your team: Fix the problem Coach them to fix the problem Ignore the problem Options 1 and 2 both require your time, energy, and focus. Have you read Sonia’s story of Brave Apple, endorsed by Ken Blanchard?

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4 Strategies to Remove Fear from Your Leadership

Leading with Trust

Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. They think pointing out mistakes, being critical, or even yelling at team members will get them to perform better. It’s a skill that leaders need to learn and develop to foster trust with their team.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2019

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2019. Maxwell helps leaders gain the ability and willingness to make leadership changes that will positively enhance their organizational and personal growth. Relationomics : Business Powered by Relationships Dr. Randy Ross with a Foreword by Ken Blanchard.

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Six Things Great Leadership Teams Do

Great Leadership By Dan

Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. They include: 1.

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