Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2022

When they know you’ve seen and heard them, it diffuses some of the emotional intensity and builds a connection that allows you to move to constructive next steps. For example: “It sounds like you’re really frustrated with the lack of response from marketing and that’s sapping your motivation. Do I have that right?”.

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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. Noticing energy shifts, changes in tone of voice or pace of speech, and adjustments in posture or gestures.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without losing your soul. Your source for practical leadership, inspiration, tools, and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. How to be a less negative leader. See if this sounds familiar.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2015

This invites the constructive participation of all stakeholders and that requires a high degree of listening. Gaps exploration, around your organization’s leading values and ideas, is a great sustainable energy source.” In terms of leaders creating a connection with those they lead, the example of Leonard Bernstein is instructive.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2013

Struggle is a part of any human endeavor and leadership is no different. But as Joe Badaracco has pointed out, “ leadership is a struggle by flawed human beings to make some important human values real and effective in the world as it is.” The Adaptive Leader Profile is available from Snyder Leadership Group.)

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In that regard, this article will shine a light on the role confidence plays in and with effective leadership. Shift Your Mindset Genuine leadership is an “inside out” function. Accept Constructive Feedback Confident leaders invite and embrace both feedback and feedforward! Spoiler alert—it’s crucial!

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Wasting time and energy may be one of my biggest pet peeves as a leader. Does it ever feel like you are wasting valuable time and energy? It can be frustrating to feel your most valuable commodity – time – has been wasted or you invested good energy on the wrong things. Plus, bad structure is an energy-drainer.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Welcome to the November 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival. Leadership blends the demands of setting a vision for people and the rewards of seeing them achieve that vision. The contributors to today’s carnival each looked at various facets of leadership. Let’s Get Started. It’s work – but it’s worth it.”

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Nathan Magnuson

AUGUST 4, 2014

Redirect the Energy. The attention of an error usually tends to be the negative outcome – and along with it negative energy. Unless you redirect the energy to something positive, the focus stays in the wrong place. Provide Constructive Feedback. Feedback that is constructive is useful for positive change.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 9, 2018

When goals are fuzzy or non-existent, energy is diffused and productivity suffers. MasterChef Junior Example of Clear Goal Setting. MasterChef Junior Example of Coaching. Example of MasterChef Junior Performance Evaluation. All good performance starts with clear goals. Evaluation.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 10, 2018

If you Google the word leadership you can get about 479,000,000 results, each definition as unique as an individual leader. Here are 100 of the best ways to define leadership–choose the ones that fits best for you. Then people will appreciate your leadership.” This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.”

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 20, 2015

Construct bicycle generators to power laptop computers. They will develop engineering and math skills while learning a simple, clean energy technology to generate electricity. Destiny, Annabelle, and their mom, Maria are examples of this transition. electrical energy generated by the students. Children of Inmates, Inc.,

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Ed Catmull, President of Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Animation Studios, describes what he’s learned about leadership and corporate culture in his excellent new book, Creativity, Inc.: With the leadership change, Disney began to produce hits such as Tangled and Wreck-It Ralph. Care about people first.

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Leading with Trust

MARCH 24, 2019

click to tweet ) All of us, in various areas of our lives, have constructed cells that imprison us and constrain our ability to experience true freedom and joy. In the realm of leadership, some of us are career criminals doing hard time and the only life we know is within the four walls of our prison cell. Why do you lead?

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Wasting time and energy may be one of my biggest pet peeves as a leader. I firmly believe when we get rid of some common drains on our time and energy we dramatically improve our performance as leaders. With this in mind, I’ve observed in my own personal development some ways to eliminate time and energy wasters.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 13, 2019

Construct A Really, Really Good Question. Example: “What must we do in the next 12 months to drive necessary changes in mind-set, action, and behavior to fully realize the benefits of…?”. Frame the issue with a good question. A complex issue needs a question that addresses the complexity. “A Target A Requisite Variety of Solvers.

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The Practical Leader

JANUARY 25, 2023

But waaayyy too many meetings waste time and zap energy. How’s your meeting leadership? Too often meetings suck time and energy out of everyone. The only explanation seems to be ignorance — of their own meeting leadership effectiveness and that meetings can be soooo MUCH better. That’s because…many do.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 2, 2014

There has been a lot a talk lately about how stand-up meetings create energy, increasing a meeting’s productivity. Your power shapes meetings The question faces every leader: How do I use my power to construct meetings that build teamwork among the participants and advance the work of the organization?

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

  With more energy and enthusiasm, the man said, "I'm shaping these rocks into bricks."    Construction on the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore began in 1296 and ended 170 years later.   That doesn't mean, however, that your leadership can't build a legacy that outlives you. . 

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

With passion and purpose working for you, you bring more energy per hour of work. The trick is to encourage constructive fights in meetings with cognitive diversity. Passion is ‘do what you love,’ while purpose is ‘do what contributes.’ Purpose asks, ‘What can I give the world?’ Passion asks, ‘What can the world give me?’”

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Eyes roll, and credibility slips when the team knows this person is a chronic underperformer and usually an example of what not to do. A “recognition sandwich” delivers corrective or “constructive criticism” between two slices of — often hollow — praise. Making Your BUT Look Big.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 13, 2015

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. ” To minimize these challenges, he recommends to set the right example.

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CoachStation

JUNE 8, 2021

Listening effectively is a key cog in effective leadership and building trusted relationships. These questions gently challenge old assumptions, but do so in a constructive way. They are someone you can bounce ideas off of — and rather than absorbing your ideas and energy, they amplify, energize, and clarify your thinking.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

For funding in education, healthcare, construction, urban development, criminal justice, and the arts, look inside the beltway. Ranking third in Popular Science ‘s list of ‘America’s Greenest Cities,’ Boston is putting its recovery money toward clean-energy initiatives. Governor’s Conference for Women.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The reason is energy leakage. I break down the archetypes of naysayers in the corporate setting that stymie innovation – for example, the Withholders who deny praise in order to destabilize rising stars, especially those who are wired to be pleasers. This is the biggest takeaway, and the foundation of my entire book.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 6, 2014

The implications for how extroverts interact and gain energy are a lot different from introverts. ” Here are some examples: I shouldn’t have to be friendly to every new person I meet all the time. It’s up to us to use the results constructively, instead of destructively. And the list goes on and on.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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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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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2015

I know I can learn from both sides of this example. The entire 4 hours we spent together I wondered how much energy it took to “not participate.” I have more constructive things to do. Another woman involved in the accident was verbally berating her. Carry a chip on your shoulder. I told him again how he was right.

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leaderCommunicator

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Bold leadership or bad decision? In reading the poorly constructed memo to employees, I can understand why many are upset. How will the CEO and senior leadership lead by example? Clearly, tough times call for tough decisions and bold leadership. Don’t try to wrap a decision in rah-rah. Or change its mind.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 21, 2010

I’m asked frequently by clients and colleagues alike how I construct my presentations (see a typical slide to the right). Energy – Get them active, wake them up. at 9:50 AM Steve Jobs and Seth Godin are good examples of powerful presentations without using bullet points. People LOVE stories. Again, my opinion.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

But to the surprise of most leaders today, increasing overall performance has become a complex, and in some cases, a Bermuda Triangle-like mysterious process that continues to baffle even the smartest people in the field of leadership and change. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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CO2

JULY 25, 2013

It’s important for repressed leaders to recognize and release the parts of themselves they’re hiding–and to do so in constructive, not destructive ways. When you are cloaked, you draw so much of your energy to stay hidden that you cannot move quickly. The post Repressed Leaders appeared first on | Elements of Leadership Blog.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 5, 2017

For example, what are the characteristics (or personality traits) of effective leaders, what do effective leaders do or what are process models in which the nature of the work is connected with the type of leadership that is effective? Many theories and models try to show us the way. And that isn’t really such a strange idea.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 6, 2019

Examples of cultural attributes are values like collaboration, creativity, learning, and professionalism. A strong collective culture fuels the individuals and therefore fuels the mission, since when the individuals are supported and motivated, they contribute toward the collective mission with energy and dedication.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Negative energy had sucked all the air out of their relationships. It literally gave them the energy and confidence to focus on the complex task of running their organization. This anecdote is a good example of an old Chinese parable, “There are two dogs inside of every person. The one that dominates is the one that is fed.”.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

If you are ready to stir the pot and lead by example, Soup is a fun and engaging story that supplies you with the tools you need to build a winning team – at work, school, or home. When people realize that you’re this kind of teammate, they’ll take on your projects with confidence and energy. The Chronic Deadline Dodge.

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