Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2023

More than the list itself, it’s the conversation that it provokes that each of us finds compelling: “Really, that was your favorite… interesting.” ” What are your year-in-review highlights? How would your highlight reel compare to the year-in-review highlights from your team?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Here is a selection of Posts from February 2024 that you will want to check out: Using Stories To Heal Ourselves from @JohnBaldoni Reaching for the Executive Ranks?

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

9 Reality Rules to Steer Your Life Back in the Right Direction. They offer the rules with stories and a few exercises to help us get the point. Up to now, you’ve operated on the stories you believe in, your own personal little dramas, your own soap operas that you act out every day. Count your blessings.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

It doesn’t matter if it’s a good thing or a bad thing; it’s going to change. It’s just as true in your professional life as it is in your personal life. For instance, you can work really hard to build a great team and then things change. Someone leaves or someone joins and the dynamics change as a result.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

How do you free your voice to lead effectively as a human leader leading with empathy, vulnerability, and authenticity, and break away from the outdated myth that leaders must be superhero leaders: infallible, unflappable, and fearless? 14:44 Questions to ask to free your voice and transition from the mind trap to the mind shift.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 24, 2024

Play Video about Mentoring Secrets Thumbnail 01 Choose Your Champion: Self-Select Your Mentor The best mentoring relationships can come from self-identified pairs. It’s okay if your goals begin with something simple. Then, evolve your goals to be more specific as you strengthen the relationship. So is their time.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Over the years, as he has thought deeply about where creativity comes from and where it doesn’t, he has learned that being an artist isn’t about your specific output, it’s about your relationship to the world. These are wonderful stories. The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It changes us. It changes the game. Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. Every day people make a choice to be a part of your team. Every day people make a choice to be a part of your team. But that’s only half of the story.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Cultivate these five skillsets—part one, developing as a strategist by @artpetty Paul Giamatti: Master Your Craft By Reflecting On It from @JohnBaldoni Firing everyone from a previous administration says a lot about a CEO’s belief in their ability to lead. Are you teaching your employees to resist change? Let your brain play!

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Master of Change : How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

And we saw changes at the start, but now it feels like we’ve stagnated. You did a fantastic job thinking about your culture and engaged the entire organization to define the values. But the culture hasn’t changed. Let’s say two of your values are “Quality” and “Speed.” Can you feel their pain?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Brave Together is a deep exploration into how we can live and lead as co-creators, filled with unexpected stories, powerful principles, and a future-oriented framework. Mindstuck : Mastering the Art of Changing Minds by Michael McQueen We’re told you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. But what if this is not true?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 11, 2024

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Donald Miller on finding meaning in life: “To experience meaning, you have to accept the fact of your own agency and move into your life with intention. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To Change Your Reputation Set Human-Centered Goals and Stick With It It can be super challenging to move beyond the stories of the past that affect your leadership reputation. If you’re looking to change your reputation, today’s Asking for a Friend is a start. Leadership is never handled.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Pick up your copy on Amazon. Those habits haven’t changed. His book helped me understand the importance of your Why. Find your copy on Amazon. Harper tells the story of a CEO who thinks he’s on the edge of the end. Throughout the story, you will see the Biblical principle of Proverbs 16:2 play out.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2021

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. The story we create about fear matters more that the fear itself. We control those stories and can craft either a negative one of doom and gloom or see fear as a cue for growth. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully. Diagnostics are your pickaxe , helping you identify fault lines before they cause fissures.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 8, 2023

She often felt overwhelmed with the magnitude of changes she believed she needed to implement to impress her superiors. The story of Jennifer isn't unique. Many professionals get lost in the race to make massive changes, thinking that's the only way to achieve massive results.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

The Secret of Culture Change : How to Build Authentic Stories That Transform Your Organization by Manoel Amorim, Jay B. Barney and Carlos Julio Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company’s culture fail. They improve your emotional well-being. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

The story we create with the data makes all the difference. Successful people and companies combine the story and the spreadsheet, and by doing so, restore the soul of business.” Through interpretation you can enrich the data with meaning; you can identify the story it’s telling.”. What is your intent? – It’s a balance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Whether you’re presenting to a group of 17 or 70,000, live or virtually, present like a confident change-maker, without fear or imposter syndrome, no matter your experience level. And of course, understanding not just what they know about your topic, but also understanding what their expectations are and what their needs are.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And as plant life slows down and the leaves change color, we should make the time to reflect and take stock of where we are and where we need to go. If you trust your doctor, you might decide to follow a simple rule for medical decisions: Do whatever your doctor suggests. They improve your emotional well-being.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2024

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Source: Ego Free Leadership: Ending the Unconscious Habits That Hijack Your Business II. Hanging your identity on an outcome is a recipe for defeat. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. It fuels us with energy and vigor.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It all changed here! What is the story of Brave? Brave tells the story of a stubborn, prideful girl named Merida (Kelly Macdonald). She wasn’t willing to change, even if the change would help her daughter. She wasn’t willing to change, even if the change would help her daughter.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And that might have been the end of the story, except for some sugar. Here are a few questions to spark your thinking. Get specific to help you determine your approach. Then you’re going to need to find some opportunities to showcase your work and your accomplishments. What do people not see that I wish they would?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2018

Are you listening to your team and the stories they tell? During times of change and uncertainty, your team is desperate for information. They’re looking for the story behind the story. The post How to Know What Your Team is Really Thinking appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With Christmas just around the corner, I thought it would be great to change up the book recommendations for the month of December. Whether the struggle is personal, relational, or related to your role as a leader, we need these reprieves to help us recover. You’ll enjoy it and grow your leadership. Pick it up on Amazon.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2023

Combined, they tell a story. You can train yourself to get over your fatal fears and become an action taker. You can take action by doing the following: Take a small action: The action you take doesn’t have to be life-changing. Eventually, you’ll see them add up to life-changing moments. I love this phrase.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 23, 2021

In this heartfelt and moving conversation, Debbie Cohen and Kate Roeske-Zummer help you chart a path that brings humanity (yours and your teams) to work through awareness, choice, and courage. 10:50 – Why human-centered leadership is always your responsibility. It works—and it works better. Humanity Works Better.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2023

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. John Daly on the importance of repetition: “There is a wonderful story of a man who was so in love with a woman who lived far from him that every day, for 500 days, he mailed a love letter to her. On the 500th day, she married the postman.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2020

You can call this your “personal brand.” I like to think of it as the stories people tell about you. No matter who you are or what you do or where you work, people will tell stories about you. . It’s especially easy if you’re ambitious and you love your work. . I needed to make changes. What’s Your Legacy?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To lead through chaos, clarify what matters most and define reality for yourself, your team, and your manager. When you take the initiative to lead through chaos you’ll give your team the confidence they need and protect them (and yourself) from burnout. They’re not experiencing your problems and challenges.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

To achieve culture change, you don’t want to be scared of the conflict between values. When people know your values as an organization, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change. Culture Change Not Working? 00:20 Hey, welcome to the show.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Your word is only as good as the next person who you want to like you. That uncertainty can erode your team’s morale and productivity if you don’t address it. So how can you resolve these conflicts, maintain your team’s morale, and your leadership credibility? Be upfront about what you can and cannot talk about.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

W E KNOW GREAT STORIES are the foundation of great communication. It’s not the idea but the story about the idea that begets followers. The question is, are you telling the right story? And by story, he means “a narrative about something that happened to someone.”. Each story has a specific objective.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2021

While part 1 focused on the 5M framework as a comprehensive planning tool for communication, Simple Visual Story (SVS) is a great model for executing the components of the […]. Will your spokespeople or other characters resonate appropriately with the real-life people in your audience? Story: Connection.

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