Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? They ask for something to be redone over and over, never seeming to know what they want? Or they change their mind after you’ve already finished what you thought they asked for? We need to do it differently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 20, 2022

Karin and Jess Pettitt, author of Good Enough Now , answer the question: “How do I become a more compassionate and skillful listener?” She also provides more info on her background and her desire to help people do the best they can with what they’ve got for some of the time. preparing for interviews).

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent. Or, perhaps you’re not quite sure if your idea is a good idea.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. And of course, if your executive is closer to the day-to-day challenges you face, they’re better positioned to share, solicit and respond to ideas and remove roadblocks.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2024

To do more, clarify who owns the decision and know when it’s time to move Is your team full of good intentions and meaningful conversations that don’t translate into action and results? Do discussions regularly bog down in analysis paralysis? 7 Ways to Help Your Team Do More 1. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Do More 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2022

Have you ever experienced a scene like this? Someone asks, “How was everyone’s weekend?” ” “Did you do anything fun?” But instead, he says, “Yeah, you know. ” His body language is telling you something’s not quite right, but you don’t want to pry.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. How do I get Sue to hold her team accountable, without micromanaging?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How do we solve the right problem quickly and get ourselves and our team back to work? When someone walks up to you and says, can I talk to you for a minute? How do you respond? When people are confronted with problems, a lot of times you get one or two reactions from managers. We’ve got a problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2023

Care Enough to Put the Fish on the Table and Start the Conversation It’s so tempting to ignore conflict at work. Sometimes it just feels easier to pretend everything’s good, keep the conversation light, and vent when you get home to anyone who will listen. Thank you for your courage and willingness to open the dialogue.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. Promote leaders aligned with your culture and you build momentum. Get this wrong and you’ll undo all the good you’ve done. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership. Do they use power judiciously?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Is it micromanagement or the support you need? One of the biggest requests for help we receive is, “How do I deal with my micromanager boss?” ” In fact, that phrase consistently ranks in the top “ Asking for a Friend” questions in our Leadership Development Programs. Start with You.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2021

“Hey Karin, I want to develop critical thinking I really do. But…you would be surprised some of the decisions they make or things they do. How do I get my team to think more strategically? Ensure your team has a clear understanding of where you’re headed strategically. AskingFriend. Our I.D.E.A.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Everything looks easy until you try to do it. You can learn a lot about leadership by observing good leaders and watching what they do. You can spend time thinking about how you would handle leadership issues. You can read books and blog posts and articles about leadership. It’s not enough.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

This article gives you some practical tips for better influence and less stress. You glance at your phone, and your heart does a mini samba. Sure, you’re all for ideas and collective wisdom, but why couldn’t this epiphany have struck a week ago? ” (which you have). Sound familiar? ” 2.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence—or erode your credibility. Reflect to Connect.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2021

The phone buzzed with her final thought: Have you experienced her frustration? But like you, most leaders don’t intend to give poor feedback or hurt people, so what goes wrong? People need to hear what they’re doing well. This frustrates people who want to do a good job. You rocked it back there.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Let’s listen to team members explain why they have a hard time hearing or acting on the feedback you might share. “I’m trying to do better, I really am. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to get it right, so I’ve learned to just block him out and do the best I can.” How do I do that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. We bet you’d give that leadership development program a high probability of igniting real culture change. Now, imagine if you had leaders at every level doing that with their teams. Wait, What?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2020

What can you do to improve your leadership style? Leadership styles refer to the alternative ways you direct, engage, and empower people to make needed changes. When dealing with inexperienced people, you need to start by directing them. State clearly what you expect, how you expect it to be done, and when it is due.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Days are filled with tons of activity, but you end the day, week, or month and have nothing to show for all that effort. But doing those habits without the right focus on outcomes can become a box-checking exercise. Some team members will do what they know how to do or are comfortable with doing.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

When you can’t take long stretched of pen thinking time, Funt uses what she calls the Wedge. What keeps us from doing this are the Thieves of Time. Associated with overload) We impulsively grab the next to-do on our list because we feel we should always be active. They help us to separate. associated with frenzy).

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Did you think I was also going to be a chill normal dude?” Below, you will find some excerpts that give you a taste of what you will find in Isaacson’s Elon Musk. If you’re unwilling to invest in a company, he felt, you shouldn’t qualify as a founder. He learned to shut down fear,” she says. “If

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The holiday season gives you a human-centered leadership map for navigating change Is your holiday season a time of celebration? A time of nostalgia and reflecting on what you appreciate most? Of remembering the traditions, stories, and people you have come before you? A time to connect with friends and family?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2022

There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. Leave If You Must. Recently, we had one of our global leadership development participants ask how we would lead through a no-win scenario. He concluded his question by asking: “What is your Kobayashi Maru ?”. Own the UGLY. Collaborate.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

T HE IDEA behind Never Enough isn’t perfection or even a state of dissatisfaction. Bush and Barack Obama, Mike Hayes, says Never Enough is about aiming for excellence, agility, and meaning in everything we do. Never enough means realizing our full potential—intentionally. Never Excellent Enough. It’s never easy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

A PROBLEM OF OUR TIME—and perhaps every generation—is that we ask the wrong questions. The wrong questions divide us. Great questions break down assumptions and create possibilities. Simply put, better questions give us better answers. It’s all about the question. Better questions help us to get there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, my results will suffer. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, our results will suffer. What should I do?” ” This question came in from one of our “Asking for a Friend” segments in a recent leadership development program. You only have time for what matters most.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. Here’s why: none of us can see ourselves as others do.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 18, 2024

Those authors, Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, recommend you ask the following six essential questions whenever you do a project review : What did we set out to do? What will we do next time? What should we continue to do? What should we do differently? What actually happened?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 7, 2020

Many leadership books and coach training programs outline rules for asking good questions. Common ones include: Don’t ask closed questions. Ask open questions that start with What, When, Where, and How. Avoid Why questions. Coaching and asking questions are not synonymous.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2020

These are the people you work with. These are the ones you lead. Here are six questions leaders should use with their teams to get the conversation started. How are you taking care of yourself? Is it enough? Perhaps if you’re the turnaround consultant or politician running for office.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 22, 2023

If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Plane is an action movie that will have you at the edge of your seat for most of the film. You’ll watch Plane with your attention fixed on the screen. Daniella asks her father if he’ll be home for New Year’s. They begin to ask questions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? It’s the actual work we do.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 28, 2023

"If your job is making you miserable, it's like being in a bad relationship – it's time to re-evaluate and find a new partner, or at least a new attitude." In this article, we will explore some tips and strategies that can help you achieve this. To find meaning in your work, ask yourself why your job matters.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Why do they have to be so rude, dismissive, abrasive, etc.? This is the first question that you need to ask yourself. Schedule 1-1 time with the employee, as soon as you notice a pattern of bad behavior. If you find that there is a reason behind their behavior and not just their personality, then it’s time to help.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

If it is, I offer some thoughts to help you reorient yourself as a successful leader. Are you leading with humility? So, how are you approaching that challenge? Are you balancing pride and humility, even when you are the best at what you do? Are you leading with your character?

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