Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2023

“As a young manager, having not done well at leading, my team approached me and addressed what they saw needed to change. Dr. Amy Edmondson, the pioneer of psychological safety, often talks about how people are more likely to discount the future benefits of speaking up and overweight their current fear.

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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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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. Micro-Habits of High Impact Managers. Leadership Starts with Trust.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 17, 2022

My goal is to help you be more effective – in leadership and management. In this post, I’m including the term management. Therefore, whether you lead or manage a large or small organization or a church there are principles for being effective, which work with either leadership or management. Be responsive.

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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 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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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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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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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

MAY 17, 2021

I’ve written a fair amount about management versus leadership. We need good leadership and good management. 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. Management is about guiding healthy systems.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2024

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. It means you must empower, delegate, and give authority to people.

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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

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

JANUARY 27, 2020

One of my first managers frequently reminded us no one is irreplaceable. While I agree with him that we can all be replaced, I was never sure it was a healthy demonstration for building team morale. While I agree with him that we can all be replaced, I was never sure it was a healthy demonstration for building team morale.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Effective delegation and management is necessary. The post Leaders Must Grow as the Organization Grows appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Current systems need improving. More people are needed to do the work – likewise they are often hard to find. Leadership development becomes more important. Resources are stretched.

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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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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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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I was once a division manager for a large sales team and sales were down due to the economy. A person can stay on the payroll as long as they “play by the rules” and “stay out of trouble” Often when you find there are no longer innovators on the team it is a sign of a toxic culture.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 2, 2024

Even in the smallest communities, someone owns (or manages) the local grocery store or serves as the bank brach manager. By the way, in these meetings, I’m trying to learn leadership and management practices – not theology. These can be mid-level managers or senior executives. They meet a payroll.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

You get poor performance from the best leaders on your team and, worst of all, your team fails to live up to its potential. I have to actually want to hear from people on my team – even the kind of information which hurts to hear initially. Knowing what my team really thinks empowers me to lead them better.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Speaking up at work is generally seen as a good thing, and the likes of Harvard’s Amy Edmondson have spoken and written at great length about the value of psychological safety at work. New research from the University of Pennsylvania explores why employees tend to be uncomfortable with speaking up, and what managers can do about it.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. There seem to be two key reasons.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 19, 2022

More appreciative of all team members. Who on our team have we taken for granted? Hopefully, we learn to manage those emotions. The post 5 Ways Covid Has Forever Shaped My Leadership appeared first on Ron Edmondson. People seem more willing to jump into a change project faster than they might have in past.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 18, 2017

In this post, I’m including the term management. Whether you lead or manage a large or small organization – or a church – there are principles for being effective, which work with leadership or management, These I call the “Be” principle. To be effective you have to know your team.

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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

MARCH 25, 2021

This means you must not be controlling, micro-managing, or negative towards every new idea they bring to the table. I have written previously about the non-negotiable things for me in leadership – things such as responsiveness and mutual-respect – and I share them often with our team. People trust a teachable leader.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2010

5 Examples of Leading Outside the Norm 4 Times a Leader Should Strategize on Making a Decision About Ron Edmondson: Church planter and pastor with a heart for strategy, leadership and marketing; especially geared toward developing churches and growing and improving the Kingdom of God.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 9, 2021

Speaking up at work is generally seen as a good thing, and the likes of Harvard’s Amy Edmondson have spoken and written at great length about the value of psychological safety at work. New research from the University of Pennsylvania explores why employees tend to be uncomfortable with speaking up, and what managers can do about it.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2021

Effective delegation and management is necessary. Join Nate (or Chandler) and I for the Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast. The post Leaders Grow as the Organization Grows appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Current systems need improving. More people are needed to do the work – and are often hard to find.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

If you have leaders on your team, no doubt you want the maximum potential out of them. You want their best contributions to your team. How do you motivate them to achieve their best – personally and for the team? One difference in managers and leaders is that managers like (and need) to bring structure.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 2, 2022

There is so much stress in hiring the right person for a team. Who joins our team is vital to our culture. Over the years, I’ve made plenty of mistakes, but I’ve also managed – in the business world and the church world – to develop some pretty healthy teams. Add people to the team you trust.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 2, 2023

But also the way some people respond to others on a team. Bully management Some leaders attempt to get results by force. The post 7 Things That Annoy Me In Leading People appeared first on Ron Edmondson. There are some things that annoy me (most) in leading people. And I have probably been guilty of many of these in my career.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 26, 2016

One of my first managers frequently reminded us no one is irreplaceable. While I agree with him on some levels – even though I’m not quite sure it’s a healthy demonstration for building team morale – I think there are ways a person can make themselves more valuable to a team. Be a known team player.

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