Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

People don’t have to follow you, don’t have to show up, and don’t have to bring their creativity or initiative. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. How they will show up. 1) Focus on the Person, Process, and Outcomes. Acknowledge the person, the process, and the outcome.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive. Seventy percent of corporate “change programs” fail to achieve their stated goals. Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Any goal worth achieving, whether it’s a personal goal, a professional aspiration, or building a great workplace culture, requires a delicate balance of tenacity and extraordinary patience.” It is an ongoing commitment. Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.”

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 29, 2023

To develop your value proposition, consider the following: What problem does your business solve for your clients? Before attending any event or engaging in networking opportunities, create a plan outlining your goals and the steps to achieve them. What unique products or services do you offer?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Chances are, it’s for one of the following reasons: They don’t feel connected to the vision of the business, they don’t feel heard or appreciated, there’s a lack of communication, or there’s a lack of opportunity for growth. There’s no way to reach a goal when everyone is rowing out of sync. This is what leads to employee turnover.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 29, 2024

To make these discussions a bit less painful, follow these strategic steps to effectively communicate with your team. Determine the Desired Outcome: Consider the goals you want to achieve by delivering the message. Outline specific actions and associated timing for employees to follow.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Employee onboarding is a critical process that sets the stage for a new hire’s success within an organization. According to a study by Brandon Hall Group , an organization with a strong onboarding process can improve employee retention by 82 percent and productivity by 70 percent. But is it really?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

All leaders have the same goal. Start by getting to know your team members—their dreams and goals, as well as their problems and frustrations. Ray Kroc, founder of McDonald’s restaurant picked up wastepaper in the parking lot to demonstrate the importance of cleanliness. When you’re upbeat and positive, people follow your lead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Use This Powerful Process to Empower Your Team. The following nine questions will empower your team and help you to free up your own time and increase your team’s ability to think and problem-solve on their own. What is your goal? Click the image for more detail on the 9 what’s process. Commitment.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 17, 2024

Standing out and moving up the ladder requires more than just showing up and doing your job. Action Steps: Regularly brainstorm potential improvements to your team’s processes. Continuous learning demonstrates your commitment to personal and professional development, making you a valuable asset to your team and company.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 11, 2021

I must follow up on everything or we miss deadlines. You can help your team be most effective and lower your stress by creating a common understanding and shared commitments through these five steps. And by using the tools that follow, you’ll find you need less emotional energy to get things done.).

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 16, 2013

When it came to individual development planning and coaching, I never used to be a fan of adding a lot of muckety-muck to the process. I’ve always felt that way when it comes to most HR and leadership development processes – simple is always better. Sometimes the most valuable benefits take a while to bubble up.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 11, 2023

You can use these habits to assess how you’re showing up to influence your team. They take time to describe the desired future with specific goals, expectations, and measurements of success. “This (work, project, process, procedure) is so important because…” 4. Next up: Curiosity.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We can become so focused on our goals that “the people in our life may quickly go out of focus.” Commit to greatness when you have no audience. Commit to greatness when you have no audience. Be ready to step up when the call comes.” Great leaders also know that great teams form when there is a sifting process.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

They fail to appreciate how much commitment and rigor is needed to create and implement them. It's one thing to write about how to create and implement the ideal executive IDP process - it's another thing when you are dealing with real, live human beings, as well as organizational culture and politics. Tracking and follow-up.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Repeatable processes and procedures add great value in stable and predictable times. Principles, not process and procedures, provide the overarching guidance in any situation for making the right decisions and taking the best action. Five Paradigm-Shifting Principles. Those are not the times we live in today or likely in the future.

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Rich Gee Group

MAY 31, 2023

As seasoned professionals committed to aiding executives in their career transitions, we've noted specific patterns and pitfalls that can hamper the job search process. Not Following Up Many executives send out applications and then wait passively for a response. Extra Credit: The 50lb.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To distinguish yourself as a young leader, build your knowledge, focus on results and relationships, and speak up. Not just the process you follow or the output you have to produce. What’s the end goal—the reason for the work? Can you help me understand the big picture goal here?” Give it time.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Ask yourself if a meeting is the best way to achieve the goals you’ve defined. What process will you follow? Following up after the meeting is important too. Once it’s all clearly defined, document everything in a follow-up email to the team. Make sure you have the right people in the room.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

” What an ineffective boss calls “teamwork” is often about exhorting everyone to pull together to meet the manager’s goals and follow their direction. Highly effective teams use processes and practices that actively engage everyone. Wrap up meetings with a short team reflection and learning session.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

As we waited for our food to arrive, I got up to wash my hands. I followed his strange instructions and when I returned to the table, Jim said, “Of the conversations you heard, how many of them were complaining–about their boss, a co-worker, or a problem at work?”. People are working toward different goals. What would you add?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

workforce is disengaged, burned out, and fed up. In addition, research continually shows that Millennials and Gen Z’s in particular, plus an increasing number of other generations, are wanting to work in places that are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. It’s very easy to come up with a few cool-sounding words and phrases.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

They deal with anxiety and health issues that weigh heavily, financial and personal matters that keep them up at night, and a host of other problems that make their day more stressful than needed. Leadership is about inspiring and developing others to accomplish a compelling common goal – and that is most effectively done with QUESTIONS!

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

Second is their belief in the process of self-improvement. It’s “the ability to turn it up when you need to, even when it feels as if you were already giving 100 percent. “The first thing that Tom Brady and Desmond Howard had in common is that they were hungry for input, hungry for information, hungry to learn.” You must adapt or die.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 29, 2019

It’s a test of your ability to hold yourself 100% accountable to follow through on what you promise (or commit) to doing. However, we often get caught up in thinking about getting things done, or looking to others to guide us through difficulties. Next, you must have 2 or 3 actions every day to do to achieve this goal.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 29, 2015

It’s something that’s important not just for my readers as it allows them to know when to expect my latest leadership piece, but it also helps me to overcome those inevitable bouts of procrastination that every writer has to grapple with in the process of creating a new work.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

As a leader, you try to keep the spirits up and to motivate others. It is a process of building up relationships and getting to know the personality of those you are working with to help. It is a process of building up relationships and getting to know the personality of those you are working with to help.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

We can become so narrowly focused under pressure that our ability to process information shrinks, and our ability to absorb helpful information diminishes. In peak pressure moments, the goal is simple: perform.” It’s about keeping importance front and center in the midst of all the ups and downs that accompany any busy life.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Marshall Goldsmith

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The Six-Question Process for coaching is an approach that I have seen work consistently well with executives. This process has produced measurable change in effectiveness (as evaluated by direct reports) with four CEOs that I have personally coached. The Six-Question Process. by Marshall Goldsmith.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. In this account, we learn of his efforts to change his leadership approach from leader-follower or thinker-doer to a leader-leader approach that allowed for everyone to lead, think, and do. Commit, Not comply. No variations.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Building trust is an ongoing process, something you need to work at every day. Good communication includes being clear about what you have or have not committed to and what has been agreed upon. Follow through on commitments and do what you say you’ll do. If trust isn’t present, you can’t lead successfully.

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 23, 2022

Effective leadership is an influence process where leaders implement everyday, commonsense approaches that help people and organizations thrive. Then follow up with “This is so helpful,” and “Is there anything else you think I should know?”. Here are some best practices you can follow: Be prompt. Help People Win.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

” Follow Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg. Bernd Geropp provided How to set goals with your employees. Bernd shares: “Goal setting with employees is not easy. What do you need to do, to not just set but agree on goals with your people?” Follow Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1. Here’s how to do that.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2021

Too many parameters have changed, people’s mindsets and behaviours have changed, our business processes and systems have changed, and in many cases, our entire product offering has changed and adapted to meet the ever-changing needs of our clients. . better collective decision making and goals. lack of trust and/or relationship, .

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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. Step 1 : Did I set clear goals?

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