Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Welcome to the March 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’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. David Moser of Decisive Blog writes The Power of “And” in Leadership Communication.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2022

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2022. Two world-renowned strategists detail the seven leadership imperatives for transforming companies in the new digital era. Smart Leadership : Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact by Mark Miller. Digital transformation is critical.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 29, 2020

I recently had the privilege of speaking with Mehdi Tazi Chief Executive Officer at Beassur Marsh , a Morrocan based insurance brokerage during our global leadership tour. JH: In a recent international leadership survey, over 80% of CEOs answered that they do not have the talent to execute their current corporate strategy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Drawing on her twenty-year career as an advisor to the C-Suite, Davey shares real-world examples and practical tools you and your team can use to handle even the most contentious conflicts as allies?instead Maxwell (HarperCollins Leadership, 2019) In Leadershift , John C. instead of adversaries. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Guest post from Leo Bottary: Leadership lessons exist all around us, all the time. Let me offer two examples – one is about growth and the other involves the power of declaring victory. One of my favorite fictional characters provides a profound lesson in leadership in a wonderful book called The Offsite by Robert H.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

R OBERT IGER has worked for the same company for forty-five years: twenty-two of them at ABC, and another twenty-three at Disney, after Disney acquired ABC in 1995—the last fourteen of those years, as the CEO of Disney. These priorities have guided the company through all of the growth and acquisitions since he was named CEO.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 10, 2023

“You can’t waste your mental energy looking for a way out or an alternative plan. All of your energy needs to be directed toward your goal or you’ll never reach it.” And sometimes, you are not the one to lead the company forward. There are behaviors and thinking that strongly influence our outcomes.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

Leadership is not something just reserved for the top bastion of an organization. It exists everywhere, and right now we are witnessing some great leadership and also some really poor leadership. There are plenty of examples of companies adapting to this change. I’ll leave you to decide which is which!

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

I am honored to host the December installment of the Leadership Development Carnival, a collection of helpful leadership advice from top bloggers. This month’s carnival doesn’t adhere to any particular theme, but rather features content on a variety of leadership topics and issues. Leadership Skills. Neal Burgis, Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

E THICS IS NOT a word used very often behind the walls of companies and organizations. Many companies have a set of values and company policies. However, very few companies educate leaders about ethics and encourage leaders to discuss ethics with their teams. Control of energy involves communicating with a positive tone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Productive leaders focus their time and energy on the activities that produce results and build relationships despite the crush of activity – or perhaps it’s not “despite” the demands for their attention, but because they embrace the challenge. Back to the customer retention example. Mindset Example To get a sense of how the M.I.T.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

These eight strategies will help you maintain your team’s energy and morale when goals change frequently. Whether you work in a fast-growing startup or a more established company that’s adapting to a rapidly changing world , priorities will change. For example: “This was our goal. Set Expectations. Advocate for Your Team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2019. In Sailing True North , Admiral Stavridis offers a much more intimate, human accounting: the lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Walgreens Boots Alliance leadership just announced three new members for its executive VP team with the aim of improving its healthcare services and strategy, which includes Elizabeth Burger Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), Mary Langowski President for the U.S. She held a similar role of CHRO at Flowserve as well as HanesBrands Inc.,

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Learning to self-observe is a powerful leadership practice.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Partner with cultural anthropologists to analyze company rituals, communication styles, and decision-making processes. Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Remember, culture isn’t just perks or dress code; it’s the fabric that holds a company together.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 15, 2018

I’d guess it’s unlikely that you think of your leadership team in this way. So you might be surprised when I say that many companies including yours are following a Superhero leadership strategy. A Superhero strategy isn’t necessarily bad, and it’s certainly better than having no leadership strategy at all.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Welcome to the May 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided 8 Steps to Avoid Flipping Your Lid in Challenging Leadership Situations. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Change: Drive Your Desired Culture.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to hear David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around speak about the frameworks to creating leadership throughout an organization. Words, acronyms, and stories are key components to your company language.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 20, 2017

But we all know people in the business world who do a terrible job in leadership positions: awful bosses, disengaged department heads, ineffective team managers, and otherwise bad bigwigs in nice offices who make the work environment an unpleasant one. THE ZOMBIES This approach to leadership is thoughtless, passionless, and lacking in energy.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2019

Welcome to the June Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Chip Bell shared The Secret Sauce of Leadership Communications. Communication. Who is Mary Follett? What happened?

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm. After watching me grind it out around the fifth time I delivered the program, the company’s director of leadership development asked me if I wanted some feedback.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 8, 2020

I have seen examples in multinational enterprises, where the appointment of a new CEO resulted in a change of atmosphere within a few weeks. The impact was felt in areas of the business thousands of miles away from the company headquarters. I am always surprised by the impact that just one person can have on a team or an organization.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 12, 2023

Since then, I’ve come a long way, leading many successful and profitable companies, and I’ve learned a few things about the best way to do it. Trust Trust is perhaps the most important principle in leadership. If someone can do the job, and build that trust with me, they deserve to play an integral part in the company.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 26, 2018

These problems can usually be solved if you learn to improve one very important leadership skill: managing priorities. Without clear priorities, you will struggle to get anything done, because everything will seem equally important and you won’t know how to most effectively spend your time and energy. Martin Lanik, Ph.D.,

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Information, Communication and Feedback on Performance —With presumed employment for life largely a thing of the past, employees want more than ever to know how they are doing in their jobs and how the company is doing in its business. Start telling them how the company makes money and how it spends money.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2021

Will we ever have a company off-site again? See Also: Leadership Skills- 6 Competencies You Can’t Lead Without. Knowing that natural ups and downs are going to happen, and they are happening to everyone, will help you save vital energy for what matters most. What if we reorganize… again? What’s Going to Happen Next.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

This means you need to dedicate time and energy to actually get to know your team and learn how to work well together. And in the video David and I unpack this for ourselves so you can hear examples directly from our work which will hopefully get your wheels churning around what your responses might be.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, working with a social prompt app can significantly improve employee connection if your team struggles with interoffice communication. For example, notifying team members about birthdays and workplace anniversaries, especially for remote team members, can help everyone feel connected socially.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 9, 2022

Take control of your business and future by looking into securing a business line of credit so you have more flexibility with your money and growing your company. You not only need the technical skills and knowledge to do your job but also the soft and leadership skills that you’ll find are necessary to run your company effectively.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. Tommy’s boss saw that Tommy had freed up time and refocused his energies on what the manager needed from him, and told him, “I’ve been waiting for you to figure this out.”. For example, they are decisive when they need to be collaborative.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This is a basic truth I learned early on in my business career, and it has sustained me throughout a succession of leadership roles — right up to my present work as an executive coach. Within five years, the company had nearly 50 employees, 30 of whom were in the field, with revenue approaching $28M. Examples include: Achieve Now!

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Lead on Purpose

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Essential Leadership Traits in the Successful Small Business Owner — Guest post by Linda Forshaw. “A While there is merit attached to not being afraid to get your hands dirty, in essence to lead by example, the smart small business owner will place a greater emphasis on a wider leadership strategy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Ego Free Leadership : Ending the Unconscious Habits that Hijack Your Business by Brandon Black and Shayne Hughes “Anytime we know intellectually what to do, but our actual behavior is inconsistent or in contradiction, it is a sign we are being short-circuited by our egosystem. Uniquely human skills. Blog Post ). Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 7, 2021

As one client example, the rapid and mass dispersal of its workforce of eighty staff to previously unused remote working practices changed the company’s culture overnight. . Is a return to 80:20 or 60:40 working a control objective or a practical aid to the company’s smooth, productive and profitable running?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). revenue increase for companies with high engagement levels. The problem is leadership on autopilot. The problem is leadership on autopilot. Rethinking Leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

That rest and recovery did me a lot of good, because I sit here today with a ton of renewed energy and focus. “ And, he quoted a Harvard analysis that estimated that “sleep deprivation costs American companies $63.2 Ultimately, it’s all a matter of leadership expectations, and the examples that we set.

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