Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 8, 2015

Mentoring, at it’s best, is a magical elixir which shaves years off your learning curve through mistakes unmade. Thank God, I’ve experienced the transformational spirit of amazing mentors. Please God, let my mentoring have made a difference for others. Ask anyone who’s ever had an amazing mentor where that experience ranks in their growth as a leader, and I’d bet money they’d put their mentor ahead of any keynote, consulting program, book they’ve read, and pot

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General Leadership

JULY 8, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. “ Mother Theresa. I think the story goes like this: Wife chides husband, “You never tell me you love me; you never say “I love you.” Husband replies, “What are you talking about?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2015

There are opportunities every day to engage in some form of conflict. Someone cuts you off while driving. The customer service rep on the phone gives you the runaround. Your coworker undermines you in a meeting. A friend lets you down on a promise made. Want to de-escalate conflict? Don’t do these things. For some reason it is easier for me to describe what to avoid, rather than how to creatively deal with conflict.

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Leading Blog

JULY 8, 2015

The Front-Line Leader by Chris Van Gorder is about leading with not over employees. To be effective as a leader you have to connect with people. You must get to know them—really know them. Van Gorder has carried with him lessons he learned as a security guard and a police officer to lead Scripps Health from near bankruptcy to a dominate market position.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 8, 2015

This post was recently published in SmartBlog on Leadership : According to a new study by the Korn-Ferry Institute, “knowing thyself” isn’t just a nice-to-to; self-awareness flows directly to a firm’s bottom-line I’ve been sharing this information with my network and it’s generating a lot of interest. While we’ve all know that awareness of strengths and weaknesses and how we are perceived by others is essential to being an effective leader, it’s interesting to see a connection made to a firm’s f

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 8, 2015

O ur good friend John Maxwell has always said that leadership is influence. I firmly believe that. Leading requires us to have a certain amount of influence on others. Yet we’ve also mistaken what influence truly is. Image by Marco. What Influence Isn’t. Influence isn’t getting others to do what you want them to do. Influence isn’t controlling others.

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Women on Business

JULY 8, 2015

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Leadership Freak

JULY 8, 2015

Experience suggests that leaders are control freaks. You know you’re a controlling leader if: You’re ideas are always the best. Teammates have stopped offering suggestions. People constantly ask you questions.

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QAspire

JULY 8, 2015

This post is inspired by a tweet from the legendary Tom Peters which deeply resonated with me. I once had such a major disconnect with the Head of HR that I had to walk out of his room. And the disconnect was not that of ideas because I could not even start the discussion for which we were meeting. Every time I attempted to start, a text message on his cell phone or something on his computer screen distracted him.

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Chart Your Course

JULY 8, 2015

Many of our clients are facing a serious talent crisis. One of our clients could lose all their senior leaders in the next five years. What happens when your senior leaders retire and there is no one qualified to run the organization? A recent global SHRM survey on succession planning showed only 50% of organizations have adequate bench strength to assume critical leadership roles.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JULY 8, 2015

Throughout his long career, historian John Ferling has specialized in the American Revolution. He taught numerous courses on the Revolution, America’s Founders, and U. S. military history. He is the author of thirteen books, the latest of which is Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It (2015). His other books include biographies […].

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David A Fields

JULY 8, 2015

“Sunny day. Sweepin’ the clouds away.” These opening words to a classic TV theme song are an apt description of how we feel when a client says “Yes” to a project. (Extra points if you name the TV show.) The moment a prospect turns into a client is affirming, a vote of confidence, and a signal that we’ll soon engage in what we enjoy most: applying our experience, expertise and skills to help others succeed.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 8, 2015

As business folk, we hold meetings regularly. Yet often we don't accomplish what we set out to achieve. Why? The Purpose. Meetings are held to accomplish a specific, beneficial outcome requiring the attendance of the right people with the right agenda. The Problem/Pain. Often we end up with miscommunication, wasted time, incomplete outcomes, misunderstanding, lack of ownership and ongoing personnel issues - sometimes an indication of internal power and faulty communications issues.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 8, 2015

Leaders need to remain motivated so they can help motivate their team. Leaders also need to be keenly aware of how motivated their team is at any given time. I have found over the years that regardless of how motivated I am if the people around me are unmotivated, we aren’t going to be very successful as a team. Which is why it may be even more important a leader learns recognize when a team is decreasing in motivation.

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Rapid BI

JULY 8, 2015

Let LinkedIn Find You a Job Ok so you have a profile but how do you go about Harnessing the power of LinkedIn? However, you need to help it before it can help you. If you took the time and effort to click a link that leads to this article, you’re either: a) unemployed and looking […]. The post Top Tips For Harnessing The Power Of LinkedIn To Get Your Next Role appeared first on.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Money wasn’t the only thing that enabled financier Cosimo de’ Medici to become de facto ruler of Florence for much of the Italian Renaissance. He exemplified a special leadership skill — the ability to get diverse teams of contending bankers, merchants, and traders to collaborate effectively. How? He identified with each group’s sentiments and mindsets.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 8, 2015

In "Light a Fire under Your Business" former Los Angeles Fire Department Captains turned business executives Tom Pandola and James W. Bird share principles for management, leadership and success. "Firefighting is a hot, dirty and dangerous environment," notes Pandola. "And yet, it has also been a great place for us to discover real-world business practices that work.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Conferences are an overwhelming rush of presentations, conversations, and potential meet-ups, and it can be tough to know where to focus your time. How do you figure out which sessions to attend? Should you skip the keynote to meet an important contact? How many coffee dates are too many? And what should you do if you’re an introvert who hates small talk ?

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The Idolbuster

JULY 8, 2015

I’ve come across an interesting dilemma. My Mussar studies this month focus on leadership. Rabbi Avi Fertig teaches that Leadership is not a single soul trait, but the result of multiple soul traits working together. He suggests a reflective exercise to examine three examples I demonstrated good leadership, and three where I did not. For each case, I am to identify two soul traits.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

The human body interacts with the physical world in subtle and sophisticated ways. Our eyes see a rainbow of color, our ears hear a range of frequencies, and our hands are great for grabbing whichever tool our creative brains can invent. But today’s technology can sometimes feel like it’s out of sync with our senses as we peer at small screens, flick and pinch fingers across smooth surfaces, and read tweets “written” by programmer-created bots.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

It’s an age-old complaint: executive team meetings are “a waste of time.” Probe further and you’ll hear they’re “boring,” “serial one-on-ones with the CEO,” and a place where “decisions are avoided — not made.” Executives and consultants have tried to improve ExCom (or ExComm depending on your acronym of choice) meetings through decision-oriented, inclusive agenda setting or by bringing in facilitators to keep people on topi

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

What behaviors drive successful salespeople? Last year, research by my people analytics company VoloMetrix identified three things that were highly correlated with top performing reps: More time spent with customers; larger internal networks; and more time spent with managers and senior leadership. These three behaviors persisted regardless of region, territory, or sales role, suggesting that they are foundational ingredients for success.

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Career

Harvard Business Review

JULY 8, 2015

Matthew Wiebe. Recently, a California court ruled that a driver for Uber was entitled to benefits as an “employee” rather than a “contractor.” Uber has since appealed the ruling. But the case raises anew the question about whether such legal actions could eventually lead to higher labor costs for the ride-sharing service and other businesses like it in the sharing economy.

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