Lead Change Blog

APRIL 30, 2021

Good leadership skills may differ across businesses, yet few of these skills prepared leaders to manage the turmoil over the past year. Gone are the days of equating winning only with profit and equating leadership only with assertiveness. It takes cooperation across the team to sustain purpose.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. Susan Mazza of Random Acts Of Leadership submitted Living a Life of Significance.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

But there is no guarantee that cheering on a colleague on the sports field will make that same team member more cooperative at work the next day. By engaging in cooperative team building activities – not competitive ones. Remove the element of competition and build on the benefit of cooperation. Here’s an example.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2015

The Smart Leadership™ program of the Center for Women defines this as “the process of recognizing, balancing, and using conflicting yet complementary attributes to drive cultural change for success in a global economy.”. 5 leadership paradoxes for maximizing differences. Ready to flex some paradoxical leadership muscle?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

A leader builds the culture of communication on the principle of cooperation and respect. Once you put yourself above any of your teammates – you will lose respect as a leader and instead of cooperation, you will have a risk of split in the team. It is not my fault. Then whose fault is it? I’ll handle it myself.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Even if the weather doesn’t cooperate, walk a circuit inside the house, ride a stationary bike, bench-press your toddlers. Physical activity works best if it is done first thing in the morning and then periodically during the day. Begin each morning with some form of aerobic activity of any intensity.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

The Lead Change Group was incubated by people who wanted to capture the idea of leadership being espoused by a group of leaders in social media and Internet channels in the summer and fall of 2009. The term character-based leadership rose out of this group’s efforts and eventually led to the book, The Character-Based Leader.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

My role required that I balance the demands placed on me by my responsibilities and by my bosses with the desire to have my direct reports be productive, happy, and cooperative team members. That’s not a healthy environment for productivity, inspiration, cooperation, and growth. More often than not I felt I was set up to fail.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 10, 2017

Peter Cooper, industrialist and philanthropist. And accept that while we may change the situation, we’re never going to change someone else. That’s how we keep our dark spot in check and assure we’re working toward the greater good. I have endeavored to remember that the object of life is to do good.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 1, 2015

One definition of synergy is the cooperation of two or more people to create something greater than the sum of the individuals. In a recent article, Becky Robinson of Weaving Influence asked How Can A Leader Of A Virtual Team Express Servant Leadership ? Team Dynamics leadership coaching self leadership team dynamics'

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2016

Are functions siloed or is there proactive communication and cooperation? When I interview leadership teams as part of the “discovery” process before starting a culture refinement initiative, I learn about all the lousy practices their leadership team’s culture tolerates. How healthy are your teams at work?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A formal definition based on the work of Pierre Bourdieu is: value that can be derived from social participation and cooperation. Communication is one way to influence people to cooperate with you, get work done, or have a favor granted. If they scowl at your email, text or call, your social capital is low. What is social capital?

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

A reassuring touch on the shoulder or warm embrace causes the release of oxytocin in the brain, a neurochemical that promotes trust, cooperation, and sharing, and also lowers blood pressure and fights the negative effects of the stress-inducing hormone cortisol.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 25, 2015

In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership-related topic. In every case one team member proposed cooperation for the goal and once embraced by the team members, progress became easy. If you are new to the Chip Shots green, welcome. Today’s Question.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Practices include how decisions are made, how inclusive discussions are, how transparent the organization is, and how leaders see their role (dictating, cooperating, etc.). Hiring – who gets hired for leadership or frontline roles exposes a culture’s bias for new thinking or “it ain’t broke” (even it it is broke) approaches.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2015

In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. David Dye – In my experience, the key to effective interdisciplinary efforts, cross-departmental cooperation, and breaking down silos is a clear focus on one organizational priority. Today’s Question.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Scientists have discovered that the small, brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain light up with quiet joy. Present your thoughts less in terms of how they benefit you and more in terms of how they benefit the team, organization, community, etc. Keep sharing.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 4, 2015

I don’t cooperate for our success. Leadership Development engagement Leadership results' That dynamic frequently causes players to shift to a self-serving mode (“I win, you lose”) to survive the battle each day. I withhold information. As engagement grows, people produce more. That’s a very good thing.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 23, 2018

It will also encourage cooperation as the team pulls together to achieve the objectives, and everyone wins. As a leader, we all know that it is not the hours worked that is important but rather the outputs delivered. Model The Way. As a leader, your team looks to you to create a positive example for them.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

But, the first rule of making them look good is completing your tasks fully and successfully, and cooperating amongst your coworkers. If you feel overwhelmed in your job, chances are your manager feels it more. If you do that, you’re saving your manager from spending time micromanaging you on deadlines.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Always Make Your Cooperation Greater Than Your Status. Joshua Lee Henry is the Director of Coaching on Purpose, a biblically-based leadership development consultancy that operates as a “BAM” –business as mission, organization. Always Make Your Performance Greater Than Your Applause. Always Make Your Enjoyment Greater Than Your Effort.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Her contact with the software company was not cooperative. Claire was having a hard time getting what she needed to get her job done. She was on a team implementing a new software program. You could even say he was actively uncooperative. She went to her project manager.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Be a mediator – when no one wants to play ball or cooperate, be the voice of reason and mediate for both parties to come to common ground. Don’t talk to fill the space – the last thing you need to do is talk for the sake of talking. Please don’t do that. It wastes time and people will get annoyed at you.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2015

A balance of meaning and results enables players to act from inspiration and cooperation, not purely from competition. That’s not surprising, since it’s very likely that their bosses – present and past – focused exclusively on results, as well. My best boss had this balance down to an art form.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2016

If peace means we are getting along, cooperating, and not hurting each other, then we can’t get there without addressing our differences and disagreements. Passive-aggressive gossip, manipulation, avoidance, withholding information, and power plays are the rules of the game. Diversity was built into the universe from the beginning.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 9, 2017

Welcome to the January 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Charge: The Right Culture Matters. David shares a better way to meet your leadership challenges.” ” Find Beth on Twitter at @bethbeutler.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution…One Person at a Time in celebration of its five year anniversary along with quotes from the authors about their experience. Insigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. Leadership Is Influence.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The following post is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of The Character-Based Leader: Instigating a Leadership Revolution…One Person at a Time in celebration of its five year anniversary along with quotes from the authors about their experience. Insigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. Leadership Is Influence.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2021

a leadership coach?who It implies a strong emphasis on team working and close cooperation between group s and partners. In my view, t hese assumptions plague modern business environments and need eliminati on. If not stopp ed, we should all undoubtedly exercise greater caution in their use.? .

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2016

As a leader’s ability grows, whether through personal development or leadership training, they may be able to advance through the categories, improving productivity and overall performance. Here, ranked from least effective to most effective, are the seven leadership types. Speculator. Ambassador. Specialist. Experimenter.

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