Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Not only do they not typically work, but they are also no guaranteed plan for lasting change. That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. Vision and Your Leadership of Change.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

It’s never too early to start planning for 2015. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. Career Development Team Dynamics Value Creation opportunities Planning strategies' What do you want to accomplish? How are you going to get there?

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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. Together, they would need to put the right measures in place, in a development plan, to ensure the current duties do not deteriorate due to the additional responsibilities. Does this sound familiar? Well, it should.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Note down your top four personal values, the desired principles that guide your day-to-day plans, decisions, and actions. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Or are all of your personal values “tied for first?” Here’s a way to test this idea.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 8, 2019

Chris Edmonds : When leading a culture change initiative, scrutiny of senior leaders’ plans, decisions, and actions increases heavily. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. Guest post from S. Yes, even senior leader behavior away from the workplace is scrutinized.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 24, 2018

She’s constantly checking to see whether her plans, decisions, and actions build relationships effectively NOW – and she refines those actions if they don’t. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. She invests the time, energy, and passion because she legitimately cares about others.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2013

My historical method, and the process I’ve started for 2014, has been to create a plan – complete with goals, strategies and tactics. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. She said, “If [.] Mark began writing about a decade ago.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

A clear set of KPIs helps everyone align their plans, decisions, and actions to those metrics. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

You would guess the vast majority of leaders would have a plan in place to deal with such a widely accepted, high-priority business issue, right? The number of leaders who have a defined plan to address this issue? No wonder only a third of leaders have a defined plan for building and maintaining trust in their organization.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 18, 2021

the newsletter of The Ken Blanchard Companies. I was interviewed about the opportunity to build trust as organizations develop plans to return workers to the office. They are concerned about losing some of these positive changes as companies begin to roll out their plans for returning to the office.”.

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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. There’s no cost for the book club (other than purchasing your own Simple Truths Playbook) and it’s open to all members of the Blanchard Community (free to join). So, what’s the antidote to fear?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2019

Based on research from The Ken Blanchard Companies, procedural justice was ranked as the most important organizational factor for employee retention. People who plan the battle rarely battle the plan. Putting all your cards on the table eliminates doubt and mistrust.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The beliefs and principles we hold dear guide our individual plans, decisions, and actions. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading at a Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 12, 2020

Address people’s concerns – Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change. Share information liberally – Ken Blanchard is fond of saying, “People without information cannot act responsibly. People take ownership over plans they create and implement.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 23, 2022

In our new book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , Ken Blanchard and I share fifty-two Simple Truths about leadership that will help leaders everywhere make commonsense leadership common practice. Admit what you did, apologize if necessary, and then put a plan in place to not repeat the mistake.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 10, 2022

Because the process feels uncomfortable and managers don’t have a plan to follow, they either do a poor job at addressing underperformance or they just don’t do it all. Managers can confidently and successfully deal with underperforming employees by following an eight-step plan. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 12, 2020

The Ken Blanchard Companies recently unveiled the results of their 2020 HR Learning and Talent Development Trends Survey. Leaders who are good coaches know how to build trust and establish positive relationships, collaboratively establish goals and action plans with team members, and partner with them to ensure accountability for results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 25, 2019

Navy SEALS Lead & Win”, “They must believe in the cause for which they are fighting, they must believe in the plan they are asked to execute, and most important, they must believe in and trust the leader they are asked to follow.” But as Navy SEALs Jocko Willink & Leif Babin remind us in their book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 10, 2020

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? Continually planning and executing without the value of a review can blindside you. Here is some great advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 11, 2018

Align all plans, decisions, and actions to your valued behaviors. Aligning all plans, decisions, and actions to your valued behaviors becomes a never-ending project. He has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. for the rest of their lives (!). This coaching, praising, redirecting, etc.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 9, 2017

Shortly after Ken Blanchard and I published The Secret , I began to receive calls to speak. If you have a point-of-view on planning, teach all your leaders. I believe EVERY leader should have an individual development plan that is updated regularly (at least annually) and discussed often with her or his supervisor.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? Continually planning and executing without the value of a review can blindside you. Just a little more advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

H atch a plan. Hatch a Plan. After you’ve found your gaps, make a plan to close them. The best development plans incorporate a blend of activities, leveraging the 70/20/10 model of learning: 70% of learning is from doing. Self-assessments and development plans are great, but they are not enough. Ken Blanchard.

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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.” Bill and Giant Leap have provided strategic planning services to corporate, non-profit, and academic research settings. As Steve jobs famously said, “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2019

We talk about the organization’s vision, goals, and challenges, and together we develop and implement plans to enhance the organization’s effectiveness. The Ken Blanchard Companies Situational Leadership II methodology remains my go-to approach to leadership. Your website catchphrase is “Live & Work in Joy.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 30, 2015

Plan ahead, be of service, and dive in. Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies. Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies. How might you live the leader’s purpose in your next interaction?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Do they willingly engage with their team peers in strategic discussions and plan how to inspire aligned behavior across the company’s leaders and associates? Since 1995, Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies. His blog posts, podcasts, assessments, research, and videos can be found at [link].

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? Continually planning and executing without the value of a review can blindside you. Here is some great advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work.

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Project Review Blanchard Advice 50

Leading with Trust

APRIL 18, 2023

As I share in my recent book with Ken Blanchard, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , the very nature of trust requires one party to take a risk and extend trust to another. Trust vs Control If the consequences of monitoring remote employees are so obviously bad, why do organizations do it?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Once defined, leaders must align all plans, decisions, and actions to that constitution. Chris has also served as a senior consultant with The Ken Blanchard Companies since 1995. He is the author or co-author of seven books, including Amazon best sellers The Culture Engine and Leading At A Higher Level with Ken Blanchard.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 10, 2015

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? Continually planning and executing without the value of a review can blindside you. Here is some great advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work.

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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? In the beginning, I wasn’t really sure what people wanted to know. Were they asking about my next book?

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

Here are some of my favorite pieces of advice from Ken Blanchard's and Garry Ridge's book, Helping People Win at Work : All good performance starts with clear goals. Continually planning and executing without the value of review and learning can blindside you. You don't want to save up feedback until somebody fails.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2013

The basic concepts presented in this article are derived from the “Situational Leadership Theory Model,” developed by Ken Blanchard and Paul Hersey. I was privileged to study with both Professor Hersey and Professor Blanchard at Ohio University. By so doing, they encourage and inspire employees to do their best at all times.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2013

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? Continually planning and executing without the value of a review can blindside you. Just a little more advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? Continually planning and executing without the value of a review can blindside you. Here is some great advice from the authors of, Helping People Win At Work.

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Project Blanchard Review Advice 50

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 4, 2012

Planning work. It’s about developing yourself and others to become high performers, putting processes in place that support accomplishing goals and ensuring that tasks are accomplished well. Management behaviors include: Goal setting. Defining roles. Organizing resources. Measuring progress. Directing and facilitating progress.

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