Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

And, if we’re unsure how to provide constructive feedback thoughtfully to others, fear of their reactions will hold us back for sure. The Power of Constructive Feedback A key misconception about constructive feedback is that it’s a critique. Additionally, the impact of constructive feedback extends beyond individual development.

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Lead from Within

MAY 9, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve had the privilege of working with leaders from various backgrounds and industries. These questions serve as a compass, guiding them through the complexities of leadership. These questions serve as a compass, guiding them through the complexities of leadership.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In the world of leadership and professional development, executive coaching has become an invaluable tool for achieving personal and organizational success. Resisting Feedback: Executive coaching often involves receiving constructive feedback. Resisting or dismissing feedback can impede your growth.

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CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is Bad Leadership? Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

I gave a workshop to the Buffalo Niagara Partnership BN360 group on Creating change in a leadership role. While many models portray change as resistant, hard, and require leaders to be more directive than desired, this does not have to be the case. The post Creating change in a leadership role appeared first on mikecardus.com.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 24, 2021

” -Steve de Shazer ‘The Death of Resistance’ Change and the metaphors you use will impact how you see and navigate change. How will we listen to multiple voices to best understand and co-construct our future and change? cooperating and resisting cannot be perceived at the same time. How will others notice?

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 1, 2024

Just like a key needs the right grooves to unlock a door, your leadership approach needs to adapt to different personalities to achieve truly productive communication. Their leadership skills inspire others to achieve goals. Their control-oriented nature may lead to micromanagement or a resistance to new ideas.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2021

Most people value strong leadership, but they resist control. Give feedback that’s constructive and do it kindly and privately. Even smart leaders can do dumb things and develop bad habits—what makes them smart is recognizing when they’re going astray and making the changes they need. The Leadership Gap.

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Mike Cardus

JUNE 14, 2020

A recorded webinar on how you can make change happen and develop a daily check-in process to support your progress. A workshop focused on identifying what you would like to change, where that change is already happening, and not happening, then developing an accountability practice of daily habits to make progress on that change.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Rather than deal with reality in a constructive way, we engage in drama. Handling defensiveness and/or resistance to feedback. Ego resists things like “Mental flexibility, self-reflection, taking full accountability, forgiveness, letting go and moving on.” Leadership is love.” T HE WORLD IS full of drama.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2019

Leadership takes courage because it requires making bold decisions that some people won’t agree with or support. That’s why it’s crucial to instill courage in those you lead, both in their development and training programs, but also by leading by example. TRUST Courage involves resisting the temptation to control other people.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2018

Lifting your gaze outside yourself while looking inward to remove the roots of resistance is how you become more conscious.” Become more honest and intentional in leadership and life, overcoming the pitfalls of being too safe and cautious while embracing reality. Conscious is the new smart.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2020

Many leadership books and coach training programs outline rules for asking good questions. Even just taking a coaching approach to your leadership conversation should be a process of inquiry, not a series of questions. Offering observations when clients deflect, hesitate, or show resistance. Avoid Why questions.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements — Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 22, 2017

Especially when it comes to giving and receiving constructive feedback? Teams and entire companies can become feedback-resistant, and will inevitably suffer. About Angela Sebaly: Angela Sebaly, author of The Courageous Leader (Wiley, spring 2017), is co-founder and CEO of the firm Personify Leadership, a training provider.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Psychological safety is not about taking all of the bumps and ruts out of the road (which sadly is becoming more and more prevalent in leadership thought today). People will learn where to draw the line with constructive feedback. Creating a psychologically safe workplace is an ongoing function of leadership. It is an enabler.

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 28, 2013

These complaints often construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards each other. Rather than focus on the problem, focus on the solution by developing a folkloric construct that is reinforced by the shared language , actions and stories of the team about the “others”.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2012

When you find yourself in a stressful situation and caught in a downward negative spiral, Hedges recommends that you: Stay vigilant and recognize when it’s purely pessimism and not constructive. Learn to challenge your thoughts before, during, and after a stressful situation.

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Mike Cardus

DECEMBER 29, 2020

When you describe what you are looking for, you can use the feelings and expressions of resistance and cooperation to highlight or spotlight progress steps to control and see patterns. What navigation tools and skills you earned, developed, or discovered through your challenges?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Develop healing connections to keep burnout at bay. In other words, these responses, whether they’re positive or negative, constructive, or destructive, worked to alleviate our stress. Getting unstuck from ingrained stress-response patterns is not a small task, and many of us will find ourselves resistant to change.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 10, 2018

Lead by both/and : challenge the status quo through constructive dissent, respectful irreverence, and purposeful discomfort. ? To resist our tendencies to make right or true, that which is nearly familiar, and wrong or false, that which is only strange.”. ? Start with the carrot, not the stick. ?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Leadership traits likely also figure on the list as everyone wants to witness and learn from the skills of effective team leaders who know how to inspire the workforce. Building communication skills is the very backbone of developing the good qualities of a manager. What Makes a Good Manager?

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

They recognize that even the most reasonable comment or idea, presented in the most constructive way possible, may still fall flat or lead to trouble if delivered at the wrong time. Shaking while talking, going silent, or literally fleeing the situation because we’re scared at the first sign of resistance doesn’t help.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 11, 2010

A CEO’s ability to perform effectively is so closely tied to their ability to form a clearly articulated vision, evangelize the vision and then to execute on their vision, that no real discussion on executive leadership should take place without an emphasis on vision.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2012

Joining a team in leadership position is an opportunity to gain team’s respect and support. Yes, there are issues in this team, processes are not optimized and there is some resistance. Or, they ignore resistance. Resistance is negative energy, but energy nevertheless. Both will boost levels of resistance.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 17, 2022

In his new book, NAVIGATE THE SWIRL: 7 Crucial Conversations For Business Transformation , Hawkes shares what he has learned guiding hundreds of organizations, large and small, on their growth journeys and lays out a playbook for leading transformative change, applicable at any stage of a company’s development. ” -Richard Hawkes. .

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Much of what is written about leadership falls into the category I call ‘trait-centered leadership’: someone deemed ‘at the top’ who uses his/her personality, influence, and charisma to inspire and give followers – possibly not ready for change – a convincing reason to follow an agenda set by the leader or the leader’s boss.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2016

Constructive feedback, on the other hand, which helps people grow and improve, is on everyone’s most wanted list. So what’s the difference between negative feedback and constructive feedback? ” When you provide constructive feedback, your attitude and thought process must come from a space of help and support.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 10, 2015

Much of what is written about leadership falls into the category I call 'trait-centered leadership': someone deemed 'at the top' who uses his/her personality, influence, and charisma to inspire and give followers – possibly not ready for change - a convincing reason to follow an agenda set by the leader or the leader's boss.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 29, 2016

In their new book, T hanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well , Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen advocate for developing skills in learning from feedback “even when it is off base, unfair, poorly delivered, and, frankly, you’re not in the mood.” My anxiety shifted to interest in my own development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 18, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership regular contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: Webster’s Dictionary defines a “leader” as a person who has commanding authority or influence”. If a leader only has authority and is unable to influence others, then his leadership will be short lived. What are the critical methods to leadership influence?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

They inspired others by evoking emotions, and they circumvented resistance by deploying smart grit.” The trick is to encourage constructive fights in meetings with cognitive diversity. Getting other people on board takes more than just explaining the merits of your project. You’ve got to inspire them. Fight and Unite.

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Coaching Tip

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

Trust is something that the highly successful leader constructs over time and then nurtures over the course of any relationship. Your relationships will be more rewarding, you will be better able to resist negative influences, and you will build self-respect. Develop Leadership Skills: A Mobile Reference Guide.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 22, 2021

“By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements— Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace —you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your leadership impact,” explains Amy Jen Su , author of the book, The Leader You Want To Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

How do you spread constructive beliefs and behavior from the few to the many? And yet] plenty of people and teams find ways to master this mess, take satisfaction in their daily accomplishments, and take pride in spreading constructive beliefs and behaviors far and wide. How do you scale up excellence?

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 14, 2012

BTW – I am teaching a Professional Development class for University at Buffalo School of Social Work in Solution-Focused Leadership. These complaints construct the reality of how the team operates and how the people within the team treat and act towards others. Barnlund 1981. Steve de Shazer 1988.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 15, 2020

If you want to create a working atmosphere that is all about development and independence than you need to create a sense of stimulation rather than demand. The best managers are ones who encourage suggestions and are even open to constructive criticism; employees could easily have an idea that hadn’t even entered into your head.

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