Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Outside of the SEALs, he’s run meetings in the White House Situation Room, negotiated international arms treaties, and developed high-impact corporate strategies.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of business, leadership and management are often depicted as two distinct circles. For CEOs and executives, understanding when to embrace leadership and when to lean into management is crucial for success. The Art of Management: Management involves developing, organizing, and overseeing systematic processes and systems.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 4, 2016

Welcome to the July 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Although mid-summer is a time when many of us slow down (as we should), this compilation of excellent cutting-edge leadership thinking will help motivate you to hit the ground running when your vacation or other summer relaxation period ends.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 22, 2023

Developing an effective employee engagement program is essential to foster a positive work environment and maximize employee satisfaction. In this article, we will explore strategies and best practices to develop such a program that can boost employee engagement and contribute to overall organizational success.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Patrick is President of Fulcrum Connection LLC, and is a facilitator, leadership trainer, and professional speaker. The research literature on leadership finds that the most effective leaders are excellent managers and excellent leaders. 6 I have found two key approaches for team leaders to develop this rare combination of skills.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2019

As we move towards a new decade, my mind turns to the leadership practices needed to make transformational change a reality. At the heart of the first leadership practice lies the notion of intent. Do you use that data to create an offer that meets those expressed needs, and have you designed a delivery system that matches that offer?

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 25, 2023

It doesn’t explain why some people born into leadership positions aren’t good leaders. A more recent theory is called the “systems” theory. This theory says that leadership is not just about one person but the whole system or group. A recent theory is called “distributed leadership.”

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 17, 2024

I’ve just completed a two-day retreat with a fast-growing leadership team. Rarely do we see a leadership team as dysfunctional as this one. Broad, system-wide, cause-and-effect issues aren’t identified and addressed. Project teams work with bits and pieces of processes and systems.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 11, 2020

Despite organizations investing in a broad array of team development strategies, research shows only 15% of mergers and acquisitions succeed, 9 out of 10 organizational change initiatives fail to achieve their intended results, and teams consistently fail to meet their goals. Why is this so?

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 11, 2021

That there remains a gender gap in leadership roles is sadly still undeniable, despite efforts and legislation designed to improve matters in recent years. “This can only exacerbate the slow progress of women moving more fully into senior leadership roles—something that organizations and society must be fully attentive to correcting.”

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior. Leadership Team Planning ( click for typical agenda).

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Lead from Within

APRIL 26, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve worked with many busy professionals who are looking to improve their leadership skills. Therefore, by communicating effectively, busy leaders are able to foster a sense of collaboration and teamwork among their team. Stay organized: Successful busy leaders are highly organized.

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Chart Your Course

JUNE 23, 2016

There is a direct relationship between leadership and project success. Transformational leadership will drive the achievements of your project, but it is team building that makes it happen. Think of team building as the truck that carries the leadership to the project’s success — it is the No. Golf Ball in the Bag.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. And it is an article I will continue to update – Because at every event I get the opportunity to meet and see new speakers that might be a great fit for past clients of mine.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 12, 2024

Encourage employees to develop AI-related skills and stay updated with the latest technological advancements. Empower Human-Machine Collaboration: Encourage collaboration between humans and AI systems. Develop Ethical AI Practices: Be a role model and lead by example in the responsible development and deployment of AI technologies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2017

John Hunter of Curious Cat Management Improvement reminds us to take care to design the system to minimize risk of failure and maximize the advantages each employee brings to work every day in Take Advantage of the Strengths Each Person Brings to Work. Looking for teamwork quotes? Follow John. Here are some unique ones from Inc.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 19, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, it’s important to ensure that my clients address these challenges. Provide ongoing training and development opportunities to help them stay up-to-date with AI’s evolving capabilities. Employees have less time for peer learning, and AI-enabled digital tools continuously adapt on their own.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A CCOUNTABILITY is essential for human systems to function. At worst, it can result in people developing a “that’s not my job” mentality, which can seriously undermine morale, capacity, and results. Blame-oriented: When something goes wrong, oftentimes, the first question asked is, “Who needs to be held accountable?”

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

Managers needed to take more leadership and empower people. His stunted learning showed his stunted leadership. ” Change This: Transforming Us to Transform Them An organization’s culture reflects the dynamics and behavior of its leadership team. Culture development is intertwined with leadership team development.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

This is a basic truth I learned early on in my business career, and it has sustained me throughout a succession of leadership roles — right up to my present work as an executive coach. This is as much a soft as a hard skill, and clearly relevant to leadership. Achieving now is about accomplishing things that you want to do.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 29, 2024

From the 2008 global financial crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and the ongoing, devastating effects of war and conflict, real leadership is required to navigate these challenging times. What is VUCA Leadership? If businesses are to get through difficult experiences, strong leadership is essential.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

They divide leadership capabilities into two groups: complexity skills and sophistication skills. How you think and behave so your people eagerly receive your leadership. We tend to focus on and fall back on Complexity skills rather than grow and develop our Sophistication skills. Complexity Skills and Sophistication Skills.

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The Practical Leader

JUNE 7, 2023

The person on the front serving line is a symptom carrier of their organization’s processes, systems, and culture. The cause of this confusion is that people are visible, but the systems and culture shaping their behaviors are largely invisible. Develop highly engaged teams. Develop highly engaged teams.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. Leadership is the driving force of strategy. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 7, 2012

To become a successful customer focused business, your leadership must develop a holistic strategy that impacts every department, and revolutionizes the way you do business. Leadership is the driving force of strategy. It’s generals that craft military tactics, so it must be your executives that develop a business strategy.

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Chart Your Course

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

This program was developed for the City of Seward, Alaska. Employee Appreciation Lunch: MeritCare Health System employees decide within each service to have a variety of activities throughout the week; draw Secret Service, and do something nice for each other on the special day of the week.

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CO2

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Executive coaching has become a pivotal strategy for businesses aiming to navigate the complexities of modern leadership. These can include enhanced leadership skills, better team performance, increased employee engagement, improved productivity, higher employee retention, and overall business growth.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2019

Do they help create collaboration and teamwork or internal competition? Do they help us coach, mentor, and develop our people? Does management use performance appraisals to judge, blame, and rate individuals on their performance when instead, they need to be focused on how the system performs? What are the results of the system?

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HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

A 360-degree appraisal system provides an elaborate set of criteria to evaluate an employee. Edwards and Ewen’s 1996 book 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement is one of the earliest discussions of the 360-degree feedback systems but the multi-rater concept goes as far back as WWII.

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CO2

JULY 11, 2015

Because of growth, it looks and feels like chaos to everyone inside the system.” It begins with the leader developing certain attributes that I will define as awareness, commitment and action. – Steve Jobs Next I borrow from Beckhard who developed this simple model about team effectiveness in 1972.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 16, 2023

One morning, I asked a group of very quiet participants a series of questions about their organization’s climate and leadership effectiveness. His observation points to a big leadership problem, “The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. I was getting very few responses. This was going nowhere fast.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 14, 2018

Research and experience demonstrate that the only difference between so-so organizations and high performing ones is the quality of the teamwork and the collaborative networks that exist within an organization. What great leadership does is to use presence (demeanor an modeling), practices and processes to multiply E.I.,

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

O NE OF THE MOST challenging leadership problems is to get people to speak up , especially as it concerns realizing the value of the “small voice in the room.”. Somebody on the team always knows about a problem before it is detected by some kind of oversight system. Unfortunately. He holds a Ph.D. Knox, Kentucky.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Murphy says debriefing is the essence of teamwork. But it is an opportunity to improve and to see if something systemic might have caused the problem. Teamwork' None of these behaviors lead to a good outcome.” Organizations that don’t debrief often equate failure with retribution or negative consequences.” (And

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 7, 2014

Despite the prevalence of language exalting teamwork, Schein notes that promotional and rewards systems in many companies remain almost entirely individualistic. Get Out of Your Own Way Women’s leadership has been pronounced dead as a topic of interest many times over the last 25 years.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In business, leadership infrastructure is the sum total of all the management systems, processes, leadership teams, skill sets, and disciplines that enable companies to grow from small operations into midsized or large firms. Leadership infrastructure is every bit as real as roads and bridges, electrical grids, and the Internet.

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Lead from Within

MAY 1, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I advise my clients on leveraging these insights to create values that not only resonate but also drive positive outcomes for both their teams and their organizations as a whole. Accountability and Recognition: Create a system of accountability for values. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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