Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Part of my growth as a leader has been developing of a leadership vocabulary. I once sat in on a leadership meeting for another organization. This leader had a terrible leadership vocabulary. Here are some examples of a good leadership vocabulary: “Why not?” The best leaders I know are always learning.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 22, 2024

What are some indications your team is dysfunctional? Chances are, if you’ve served on very many teams, you’ve served on a dysfunctional one. There are no perfect teams. And all teams are all dysfunctional during some seasons. Team members never feel valued or appreciated. Mediocrity is celebrated.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 10, 2023

An important leadership principle was shaped for me during what seemed to be a normal season in our organization. It seemed things were healthy on the team. We had the right players and clarity of vision, however, team friction developed. This isn’t unusual on teams. We have to get along to be a healthy team.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 24, 2022

There is an important leadership development principle I try to help teams I lead understand. For some people, I have to remind them of an important leadership development principle: Just because you can do something better, doesn’t mean you did anything wrong. It’s not that they did something wrong.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

There are leadership bottlenecks all leaders need to avoid. When the bottom line of continuing to exist as a company depends on productivity being at its highest, and a bottleneck develops, you learn what the term means quickly. I have also learned that the term bottleneck matters in the field of leadership.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Edmondson - (September 2023) We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 14, 2020

If any organization expects to grow, they need to attract, develop and retain quality leaders. I have found there are legitimate reasons leaders tend to leave – quit an organization or team. This goes for all team members, but certainly for leaders. So it’s equally important to know how to keep them. And, it will.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 15, 2023

With every team or organization I have led there have been people who get frustrated with someone else on the team. There are common ways we frustrate other team members. 7 ways we frustrate other team members: Promising to do something and not following through. People are depending on each other on a team.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2023

As a leader, I often read the Bible through a leadership lens. Likewise, some of my best principles of leadership have been inspired by Jesus. There are many leaders I admire who have influenced my own leadership. I love a good leadership book and have read most of the primary authors of them – too many to have a favorite.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 16, 2020

But there are some phrases you must ban when developing ideas. Phrases to ban when developing ideas: We’ve never done it that way. Nate and I have finished our fall semester at the Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast. The post Phrases to Ban When Developing Ideas appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 6, 2021

One of the more common is something like this: “Ron, how do you develop people you lead?” ” Often they are hoping I will consult with their team. I should point out that development of your people may be one of the more important investments a leader can make. ( Model integrity and good leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 22, 2021

There are some common ways to lose favor with leadership. Now before that sounds arrogant, please know I can be pretty hard on senior leadership. Having been in such a position for over 30 years, I know the bad side of senior leadership. When I’m coaching other leaders, predominately I’m coaching senior leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I have served in some toxic leadership cultures in the past. I was once a division manager for a large sales team and sales were down due to the economy. Even more, I have hired people out of them and helped dozens of other leaders recover after being in a toxic leadership culture. They simply give up trying.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The way a leader handles correction of someone on the team is important if the desire is to keep quality people on the team – and a healthy team dynamic. Using authority without an established relationship may work in a bureaucratic organization, but not in a team environment. The problem could be them or the team.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Leaders who are easy to follow inspire people to join them on a journey and they develop loyalty from their team. Considering some of the reasons He was able to develop such loyalty among the people He led helps us learn why He was easy to follow. They pace the team until the team is ready for greater challenges.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

But, the process of doing church requires leadership. One way to grow a church is to expand the leadership base. And, one way to ensure a church doesn’t grow is to limit leadership development. In fact, if a church isn’t growing — one major reason may be they haven’t developed enough leaders.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

How does a team become idle? . Team idleness is a term I use to describe a team failing to move forward towards its desired goals and objectives. Therefore, team idleness means for a span of time there is no – or very little – forward progress for the team. What causes team to become idle?

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Introducing 5T Leadership. Ron (and his strategic partners) coach and consult churches, organizations and leaders in 5 critical areas of leadership. The way you begin and end a leadership position often determines the degree of success you will have in the position. Team building. I know the horror of an unhealthy team.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 3, 2024

Mostly because they distract the team from the vision and from being healthy attempting to achieve it. See, here’s there thing about leadership. All that is part of a healthy team, as well. But on a team the lines should be blurry at times as we all pitch in to get done what needs doing. They make us cringe.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Possibly nothing frustrates me more than lazy leadership. It’s also annoying and ineffective in leadership. The fact is, however, many of us have some lazy tendencies when it comes to leadership. Please understand, I’m not calling a leader lazy who defaults to any of these leadership practices listed.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 6, 2017

Recently, I sat in on a leadership meeting for another organization. This leader had a terrible leadership vocabulary. Part of maturing as a leader is developing a language which will help the organization and it’s team members achieve greatest success. How is your leadership vocabulary? The problem?

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Leaders are too hard to find, we certainly want to keep leaders on our teams when we have them. The goal then is to find ways to keep a leader energized to stay with the team – so I thought a companion post was appropriate. Here are a few suggestions to keep leaders on your team: Give them an unsolved challenge.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Y OU’VE CAREFULLY put your team of people together, spent a lot of time getting the right people on the bus, your best and brightest, and yet you’re underperforming? Your team isn’t giving you everything they’ve got. Creating a psychologically safe workplace is an ongoing function of leadership. Some better than others.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, building and maintaining trust is critical to good leadership. I’ve found trust develops over time and experience – as we witness trustworthy behavior. I have some non-negotiable things in leadership – things such as responsiveness and mutual-respect – and I share them with our team.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

7 powerful questions leaders should use often: What is one thing about how we function that you think changing would improve us as a team? I’m not talking about dumping on people, but when a leader asks this question and genuinely invites the team into the decision-making process they feel empowered. It fuels momentum.

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 4, 2012

Teaming has a positive effect on people's experience at work. In organizations where teaming is common, employees learn from each other, enjoy a broader understanding of the work and how it gets done from start to finish, and can better see and act on opportunities for improvement. Leadership Actions Can Promote Teaming.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 6, 2023

We confuse certain words in leadership. Anyone who has ever served with me on a team could probably agree I am not a wordsmith. I get that and often need help from our team in shaping the right words. I’ve noticed we confuse a lot of words in leadership. Delegating requires more leadership than that.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As I write this I’m preparing to meet with someone with much more experience in leadership than me. Wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. Being wise in leadership comes with time and experience. Frankly, I have known few in leadership whom I would consider truly wise. All of us can have moments of wisdom.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, with growth bad leadership becomes apparent. I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest or changing the most. Leadership development becomes more important.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2024

In each life cycle, the most successful organizations I have been a part of had a team skilled at three separate functions. BTW, every team needs these people to be successful.) It could be to improve things, close them gracefully or transition things to a new season of leadership. Personal example: I love being a starter.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While I’m not quite sure that was a healthy demonstration for building team morale, I think there ARE ways a person can make themselves invaluable on a team. Here are 7 ways to make yourself invaluable to a team: Be a chief encourager. Be a verbal proponent of the overall objectives of the team and where things are going.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I must admit I have a good number of pet peeves in leadership. If I had to name my top leadership pet peeve – it would have to be the one I share with you here. . Like many of my leadership principles, this one starts with a personal story. . In fact, he didn’t know the people on my team.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 12, 2011

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Leadership » Business » 8 Random Leadership Axioms 8 Random Leadership Axioms January 12, 2011 in Business , Leadership , Organizational Leadership , Team Leadership with 18 Comments My mind thinks a lot about leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 19, 2021

Dangerous leadership practices. . A leader can be doing everything else right and one flawed practice overshadows and jeopardizes all the good leadership principles we know. Some people have a negative view all the time and about everything (and I don’t personally think leadership is their thing). Not enjoying the journey.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 22, 2022

There are things which injure the health of any team. Perhaps understanding how it develops can help. Just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy culture doesn’t happen without intentionality. 10 ways to create an unhealthy culture: Make people question their role or performance on the team.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Chances are, if you’ve served on very many teams, you’ve served on one which is dysfunctional. There are no perfect teams. If you have been on dysfunctional teams before you’ve probably seen one or more of the common traits. Team members never feel valued or appreciated. Mediocrity is celebrated.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

I try to create a leadership culture where failure is considered a part of the learning process. It’s okay to fail on our team. It may seem unproductive to some, but many times I have watched someone on my team fail. If, for example, someone on my team wants to try something new. At times I allow them to fail.

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