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Jason Kelceā€™s Retirement: a Master Class in Leadership

Modern Servant Leader

There is no shortage of sports analogies and examples in leadership development. Yet this example stands out amongst all the rest as it comes not from the height of someone’s career, not at the moment of peak celebration, but at the announcement of retirement. We walk through each example in this video.

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Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

” Why is a Check for Understanding a Powerful Leadership Communication Best Practice? Of all the leadership communication techniques we share in our leadership programs , the check for understanding always rises to the top as one of the easiest to do, while having the fastest impact. Communication is a team sport.

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7 Ways Leadership is Like Sports

Modern Servant Leader

Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. In his book, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership , John Maxwell calls this the Law of the Lid: “The Lid represents the limit of our leadership abilities.

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How Leadership Team Coaching Benefits More Than Executives

N2Growth Blog

For that, executives can partner with an experienced leadership team coach. One Stanford study demonstrated that while about 75% of CEOs say they don’t receive any leadership advice, almost 100% of CEOs want this advice and welcome coaching. What is leadership performance coaching? What does a good leadership coach do?

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Is Business a Combination of Sport and War?

In the CEO Afterlife

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. Iā€™m going to admit at the outset that I was a strong proponent of Herzogā€™s concept for most of my career. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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February 2021 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the February 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! Weā€™re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shared The Top 5 Qualities of a Great Leader.

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Leadership Is a Contact Sport

Marshall Goldsmith

My career as an executive coach began many years ago with a phone call from the CEO of a Fortune 100 company. I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEOā€™s human resources department. Itā€™s not easy, but Iā€™ve developed a leadership development model that has now proven to work with thousands and thousands of people.

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