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

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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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

JULY 5, 2023

What was unusual was a new manager I had not seen before. And I really don’t have to say apparently, because she made that quite clear as she complained rather loudly about her absent team members throughout our visit.) The only difference on this day than any other day I had been to this restaurant – a new manager.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 19, 2022

My leadership is different now than it was at the beginning of 2020. Covid has forever shaped my leadership. Five ways Covid has shaped my leadership: More short term planning. I’ve almost dropped the five and 10 your plans from my leadership. More appreciative of all team members. That’s a good thing for leaders.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amy Edmondson , in her book, “ The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace ” defines “Psychological Safety” as – “Psychological Safety is broadly defined as a climate in which people are comfortable expressing and being themselves. Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 60+ HD Sketchnotes.

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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. We all—most of us—manage our image. Edmondson admits that this is not an easy process. Setting the Stage.

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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

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

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. Good managers are comfortable maintaining progress, but a leader needs to be leading change.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amy Edmondson , in her book, “ The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace ” defines “Psychological Safety” as – “Psychological Safety is broadly defined as a climate in which people are comfortable expressing and being themselves.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 4, 2021

I like to lead leaders, so I prefer to be a macro-manager. This means I try to cast the vision for a team and get out of the way, releasing each team member to do his or her work in their own individual way. 5 times I tend to micromanage: When a team member is new to the organization. His team was devastated.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 17, 2021

I’ve written a fair amount about management versus leadership. We need good leadership and good management. But this is a leadership blog. And if you want to be a leader, you can’t focus more on managing the organization than you do on leading the organization forward.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 21, 2023

What is your leadership capacity? I use the term leadership capacity to describe a leader’s maximum potential to effectively lead others to accomplish the vision. A leader exceeds their leadership capacity when they no longer have the ability to effectively manage or lead the organization to reach its potential.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, building and maintaining trust is critical to good leadership. This means you must not be controlling, micro-managing, or negative towards every new idea they bring to the table. 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 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

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

One of my first managers frequently reminded us no one is irreplaceable. 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.

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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. Maintainers Maintaining involves setting up and managing systems in an effort to continue the progress usually begun by others. BTW, every team needs these people to be successful.)

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Do you ever struggle to keep the keep the leaders on your team motivated? Certainly, you want the maximum potential out of the team. You want their best contributions to your team. Learning how to motivate leaders on your team is a critical step in leading well. Which is also why every good leader needs a good manager.)

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 18, 2017

One of the chief goals of this blog is to encourage better leadership, so I normally write about leadership issues. In this post, I’m including the term management. Effective leaders and managers learn to manage their “BE” Here are 7: Be aware. To be effective you have to know your team.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 2, 2024

The church looks to him to lead and, wisely, he knows he needs to develop his leadership skills. Here are 3 suggestions I gave him to develop as a leader: Form a peer leadership group There are people in the community who own small businesses. Start a book club Recruit leaders in the community to read a leadership book together.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The following is a guest post by Jessica Edmondson. Ever wonder what is the best path to effective management? Effective management begins, grows and thrives when the right candidates are hired. Team members can sense right away when someone isn’t a good fit, and they are often the ones who must pick up the slack.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In her book “ Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands” , Nancy Ortberg talks about the need to differentiate between “ a tension to be managed and a problem to be solved “ One example for me is the constant tension between the administration/money side of ministry and the discipleship/hands on side of ministry.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The way you begin a leadership position often determines the degree of success you will have in the position and the impact or value you will bring to the organization. Therefore, a part of 5T Leadership focuses on transitions coaching. So, I would love to help you transition well into your new leadership role. Turnarounds.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the early days of a leadership position I have some intentionally bad leadership practices. . Not with everything, but I need to manage some things closer so I get a handle on where things are currently. I even tell our team to expect it. Yet, a team is looking for leadership. I like new ideas.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I’ve learned a lot about leadership from the life of David. . The best book from which to find leadership principles is the Bible. From his time in the wilderness and serving as king, good and bad, I learn a great deal about leadership and what is required to successfully lead by observing David. We could manage that.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When you fail to remember this principle of leadership – that people are different – you frustrate those you are trying to lead. You get poor performance from the best leaders on your team and, worst of all, your team fails to live up to its potential. Here I am referring to the DNA and culture for the entire team.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 10, 2020

Do you ever struggle to keep the keep the leaders on your team motivated? Certainly, you want the maximum potential out of the team. You want their best contributions to your team. Learning how to motivate leaders on your team is a critical step in leading well. Which is also why every good leader needs a good manager.).

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 30, 2018

A decade ago, Marcial Losada’s research promoted a meta-model of learning for teams that involved three variables at a ratio of at least three to one. Edmondson coined the term psychological safety to capture the degree to which people believe their environment is conducive to taking these risks. What is important to you?

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You know the kind… I talk weekly to ministers serving on church staffs around the country who are struggling with the leadership of the church where they serve, mainly because of the leadership…or lack thereof…coming from senior leadership in the church. I simply asked: What does successful leadership require?

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

Organizations are increasingly relying on the collective power of teams to meet today’s business demands, but many teams aren’t living up to their full potential. Thinking style data, which reveals a number of important clues about how a team works, can be assessed and used as a starting point for discussions and activities, she says.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 6, 2020

Here is a list of recommendations from people leadership practitioners. Ron Edmondson Consultant, Pastor, Teacher Mustard Seed Ministry Consulting Communication Communicate. Dr. Jack King USAF Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) United States Air Force Military Care Leadership without love is no leadership at all. Want to help?

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Do you want to attract a leader to your team? If the answer is already found, you can hire a manager for the job – and you’ll likely want and need a good one. You’ll have other problems to solve and a good manager can free you up to lead. It’s what can attract a leader to your team.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2021

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, the more growth that occurs the more bad leadership becomes apparent. As a leader for the last several decades, I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest. Resources are stretched.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 2, 2023

They almost always involve the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power. But also the way some people respond to others on a team. Bully management Some leaders attempt to get results by force. This has always seemed like cowardly leadership to me. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The delivery truck principle is a sobering reality in all leadership decisions. . It was through watching that process a leadership principle came to me. Delivery Truck Principle of Leadership. This principle points to a tension which exists in all leadership decisions. Let me know if I can help you.

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