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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HR Digest

OCTOBER 26, 2023

If there’s one thing Nicole Olver, Chief People Officer at Inspire Clean Energy (Inspire), knows how to do, it is disrupting the Human Resources (HR) space. Let’s take a closer look at some of the specific examples that have had a significant impact on employee engagement and satisfaction.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

While virtual tools are invaluable, there’s something about gathering, and feeling the room’s energy, that can supercharge a team’s cohesion and creativity. First, it’s amazingly high-energy. You invite them to share something general like “their leadership best practice.”

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 5, 2019

Welcome to the March Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Who’s Here? Creativity & Inspiration.

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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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Lead from Within

AUGUST 23, 2022

When we think of great leadership, we usually think of an outgoing individual who commands attention when they enter a room. But introverted leadership can be just as effective. Individuals who are quiet and sometimes even awkward in a crowd may not fit the usual mold of successful leadership, but they bring their own strengths.

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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. But how you handle those changes makes all the difference in whether or team adjusts and engages with energy or gives up with futile frustration. For example: “This was our goal. Set Expectations. Advocate for Your Team.

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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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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

So a goal for me as I’ve grown as a leader is to limit my activities doing things that waste my time and energy. Does it ever feel like you are wasting valuable time and energy? It can be frustrating if your most valuable commodity – time – has been wasted or you invest good energy on the wrong things.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2019

It’s vital to create space in each day to let your thoughts wander beyond your immediate job responsibilities, to turn things over in your mind in a less pressured, more creative way than is possible once the daily triage kicks in. What follows are 20 leadership lessons from the book but stripped of the stories that brought them to life.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 29, 2019

Non-stealing in leadership involves not stealing (but instead giving) opportunities, knowledge, and acknowledgment to team members. Non-attachment enables creative problem solving and the generation of new ideas. Positive communication and mindfulness foster focus and protect valuable energy.

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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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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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” In fact, that phrase consistently ranks in the top “ Asking for a Friend” questions in our Leadership Development Programs. The consequences of micromanagement include frustrated and disempowered employees who feel a lack of autonomy and consequently don’t approach their work with energy, creativity, or initiative.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

But the reality, as Marshall Goldsmith says , is that “In leadership, it doesn’t matter what we said. See if this sounds familiar: During a leadership meeting, your boss proposes an idea that has a shiny, attractive quality. For example, you might say, “That’s a creative way of looking at this.”. “A This step is critical.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 24, 2013

Let’s do this instead… “Busy” has an energy about it. Of course, you can insert any energy that doesn’t serve you here: “It’s hard” or “It won’t work” are two of my favorites for sabotage, letting ourselves off the hook, and/or retreating when we’re scared.

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Lead on Purpose

MARCH 1, 2014

We all know people who inspire us, who encourage us—through their actions and example—to work hard, to persevere through difficult circumstances. While every circumstance is different, leaders find … Continue reading → Leadership build confidence creativity energy example factors inspire motivate optimism'

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Welcome to the April 2020 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. Paula Kiger of Big Green Pen shared Overcome social distance with empathy in leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

And while you are at it, try framing issues in creative ways by stating the basic question that needs to be answered. . They set a positive example. They bring optimism and energy to every interaction and meeting. . Author and leadership guru John Maxwell said that when you’re passionate about something, you’re all-in.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

Scenarios are also collaborative—typically involving teams of people, often from various levels within an organization—and there is often a creative dimension, as opposed to being purely based on quantitative number-crunching. Scenarios provide longer-term, multiple futures based on unknown risks and uncertainties (e.g., the results of a U.S.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Guest post from Christy Whitman : Above all other qualities, vision is the most essential to extraordinary leadership. Most of the world is not living in a mindset of true leadership, but has instead fallen into the habit of simply reacting to whatever is going on around them. In every moment, we are either doing one or the other.

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Center for Creative Leadership

JULY 10, 2020

We’ve worked with senior executives from all over the world at our Leadership at the Peak program. In this training, we help C-suite leaders become more “Fit to Lead” in every respect, including by focusing on the connection between health and leadership. 4 Components of Health and Leadership.

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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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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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Skip Prichard

JULY 8, 2019

I had the opportunity to speak with Alf about his new book Innovation for The Fatigued: How to build a culture of deep creativity. As a result, I come across a lot of the same stuff: the same examples, the same models, the same cheesy one-liners. It dawned on me quite gradually, and at first I thought it was just me.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Creative qualities. Analytic and creative qualities have both a general and an expertise-specific part to them, whereas the remaining two qualities are more general in nature. When a team member isn’t functioning, for example, whose responsibility is it to address this issue? The ability to organize. Self-sustainability.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

” This question came in from one of our “Asking for a Friend” segments in a recent leadership development program. So free yourself from the feeling that you must do it all and focus your energy on making a real difference. Get them an assignment that helps them stretch or practice leadership? What should I do?”

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

When people become tired and fatigued, they switch to a quicker, more efficient, and less energy-consuming form of decision-making. Their decisions become reckless, as they act impulsively instead of expending the energy to think through the consequences. By doing nothing, leaders exhibit the ultimate form of energy conservation.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

Welcome to the March 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! They range from how to lead in a crisis to how to develop leadership qualities when things are calm. shared Success at Leadership, Life – and Volcanoes. David shares a personal and inspiring story of how to overcome these common leadership doubts.”

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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). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 12, 2023

Neuroscientist and Emotional Intelligence author, Robert Cooper, made several trips to Tibet as part of his research on the inner side of leadership. It is through emotional depth that we begin, for example, to discover, and commit to, the unique potential which defies our destiny and leads us to the fulfillment of our larger purpose in life.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

“If we are to generalize, we can say that you advance as a leader, the technical and tactical skill you need—distribution expertise, for example—pale in comparison to the strategic and interpersonal.” They divide leadership capabilities into two groups: complexity skills and sophistication skills. Purpose Stall. Authority Stall.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Wasting time and energy may be one of my biggest pet peeves as a leader. I firmly believe if we get rid of common energy wasters we can dramatically improve our performance as leaders. With that in mind, I’ve spent time in my personal development finding ways to eliminate time and energy wasters. Even reading a book.

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The Empowered Buisness

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The demands on a leader’s energy and attention throughout the year are endless. This article provides you with 3 critical leadership steps for transitioning from the end of this year to 2016. Let’s first address what are transitions. Why Are They Important to Leadership Growth? 2. Eliminate “energy drains”.

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HR Digest

MARCH 6, 2024

This is why we need to return to devising creative ways to retain employees to ensure organizations stay whole. Employees who have seen the number of jobs dwindling and the number of layoffs increasing might convince themselves to hold on to their jobs, but they will continue to struggle to find the energy to do these jobs well.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2015

They invite exploration and creative work. Gaps exploration, around your organization’s leading values and ideas, is a great sustainable energy source.” Talgam looks at the leadership styles of six great conductors in terms of how each of them did or do embrace ignorance, explored gaps and listened.

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