Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Sports trainer and mindset expert to Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and others, Tim Grover (with Shari Wenk) provides a look at what it takes to perform at the highest levels in any field in Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness. You want energy. Invest in your education and your skills. Forget secret codes.

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leaderCommunicator

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

They often follow their listening skills with these critical approaches for commanding a room: They are self-aware and true to themselves. They have an abundance of energy, are positive and share it. They understand their own leadership style but can easily read and adapt to the style of others. They have a voice.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 25, 2018

There are many other examples of sports teams and company teams around the globe that had talent, leadership, and heart, but were unable to finish. Evolve, Learn & Refine Daily With your standards now defined, spend time and energy paying attention to the quality of the work environment and your team’s performance.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 16, 2017

Leaders who fail to invest in skill development for team members implicitly enforce a rigid hierarchy that inhibits innovation. A lack of leadership development also undermines a key aspect of culture that drives high-performance: trust.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Entrepreneurs, c orporate executives and managers know from experience that the best teams sport a rare mixture of friction, freedom and alignment. Diversity and complementary skill sets are key. Accidentals bring passion to your company and that energy can be contagious. So how do you assemble a great team?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 14, 2018

T HE FOUNDATIONAL PRINCIPLES of leadership don’t change over time. While character, patience and empathy are important for a leader to sustain their leadership, they are not necessarily the behaviors and practices needed to get to the top of their chosen profession. They are indeed timeless. How do you become the best at what you do?

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Here are some of the qualities they share—if you see them in yourself, great, and if not, work on incorporating them into your leadership: They’re all about the people and less about the process. Many people treat conversation like a competitive sport you can win by talking the longest, making the cleverest point, or getting in the last word.

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Coaching Tip

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The coach doesn't have to play the sport as well as I do. I have come to learn that to cancel a coaching session is to lose energy for a week and to lose focus. They are a way of moving any negative energy from within me as talking out loud helps how I am feeling and where I am at and to stay present. Its just not possible.".

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Living 13 miles away from Loudon, New Hampshire, places me next door to New England’s largest sporting venue, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Are positions posted and everyone given a fair chance to show their talents and skills? A large mile-long track attracts numerous events throughout the racing season. Yellow flag. Black flag.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 15, 2015

To galvanize your team toward achieving the possible… Make winning feel like a sport. In sports, nothings more fun than winning when the odds are stacked against you. Tap into the sporting side of human nature. Identify specific skills and behaviors needed for success in every role. ” mindset.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

At that time most people still assumed that coaching was done primarily in sports not business. When companies hired a coach for an executive then, it was primarily because that executive needed some assistance to improve their leadership and management skills; that they weren’t meeting the expectations of their position.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2015

If I knew what it looked like and how it operated, then I would know what to shoot for in my own leadership. It could be any kind of team – sports, work, project, or community. The purpose is what focuses energy and drives interdependence and performance. Everyone shares in team development and leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 24, 2017

From the younger years playing sports, to those high school days when we put on plays and entered singing competitions. I’ve used those skills and even paid them forward over the years. It was pretty silly, actually, because we had never played that sport together. We studied our strengths and focused our energies there.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 17, 2011

In other words, what does it take to lead an organization — whether it’s a sports team, a nonprofit, a start-up or a multinational corporation? There’s an energy from people who have it. Are you willing to make surprising career moves to learn new skills? What will determine who gets the next promotion, and the one after that?

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 6, 2014

One of the reasons people are interested in leadership development is because it so closely aligned with personal development. Working on one’s leadership capacity requires some work in the area of personal growth and an understanding of one’s temperament, personality, and skill set. But learning leadership is a contact sport.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Monday, December 13, 2010 Refine Your Dialogue Skills - Some Tips and an Illustration When people share opinions, they can discover either common ground or points of conflict. Below are some tips that will help you refine your dialogue skills. A huge chunk of Go Green depends on energy storage. It’s like I was passed over!

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 31, 2016

In leadership, arrogance is telling people you’re awesome, and confidence is giving other people the opportunity to feel and act awesome. This brings us to psychological swagger, a learnable skill that’s part of the secret sauce of successful leadership. Will this build my brand? You put doubts in your doubts. Rob Fazio, Ph.D.,

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Since my compulsion is to look at most things from a leadership angle, here are a few lessons I've learned so far from the practice of yoga that seem to apply to the practice of leadership.   Leadership lesson learned? .    Leadership lesson learned?   Leadership lesson learned? . 

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

The truth of the matter is that leadership IS personal. Leadership is a human journey Leadership is an evolving process, a human journey. Successful leadership requires you to change in such a way that seems indulgent and selfish. All of the above statements came from clients and readers recently.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. A couple years ago, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. They know it’s a team sport and cooperation and assistance from other managers, divisions, and departments is critical for victory. Nurture this special skill set in all your team members. Already you are spending valuable time thinking about it. I will show up. What’s Next?

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Center for Creative Leadership

JANUARY 10, 2019

To practice active learning, mindfully focus on what you’re trying to learn (rather than multitasking), ask questions, test your memory and recall, and regularly practice newly acquired skills. Focus your mind and energy on your breathing. Then we can relax and use our cognitive energy to focus on other things.

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Skip Prichard

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Leadership Tip: Hiring managers would produce greater value by spending more resources on finding rare, star performers. Instead they spend too much time, energy and resources putting out day-to-day fires and trying to improve the performance of average or sub-par performers. Consider a Different Recruiting Philosophy.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 6, 2015

One of the most interesting examples of resilience today comes from the world of sports where Kirk Cousins, a Washington Redskins quarterback who has been consistently underestimated, is helping lead the turnaround of a team that has had only one winning season over the last seven years. How does he do it? Team Cousins.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Here are some incredible books that you can grab to build your confidence, charisma, and image: Executive Charisma: Six Steps to Mastering the Art of Leadership By D.A. This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. This book teaches you the secret language of silent speech and body language. Unported License.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Women, at present hold significant leadership positions across the globe. Just listening to these instances can be ever inspiring and motivating for other women and would spread positive energy across the organization. A sport like a cricket match or football can be held for both the women and men. Fun Activities.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

It is refreshing to see a blog with questions that make us ponder life, leadership, and the simple questions that so few people stop to think about. Questions can give us a goal in life for fighting, questions can provide a tremendous power and energy to achieve our goals. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it.

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Before the energy conglomerate’s collapse in 2001, I had the opportunity to review Enron’s values. When I conducted leadership training for J&J, one of its very top executives spent many hours with every class. See “Leadership Is a Contact Sport,” by Marshall Goldsmith and Howard Morgan, s+b, Fall 2004.)

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Posted in Uncategorized 4 Responses to “Thought-full Thursday: Beginnings&# Rhett Laubach : January 2, 2011 at 11:44 pm I stumbled on your blog via a “best of leadership blogs for managers&# list. My new country is only a mindset away, one that reflects my core values and will focus my energy into building a circle of trust.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 15, 2019

Stay hydrated after breaking a sweat by stocking up on plenty of Halo Sport so you can replenish your body with all of your lost fluids. You’ll find you perform better at work when you have a lot of natural energy to carry you through the day and are committed to practicing self-care. Have A Positive Attitude.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. In my experience, at one point in my leadership career, some colleagues have labeled me as the ‘terminator’ jokingly. Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)!

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What's Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Perhaps a book that will help you improve your leadership skills. Awhile back, members of five groups on the professional social media web site LinkedIn voluntarily recommended their favorite books about leadership. They responded to a group discussion question, "Best Leadership Books -- What''s Your Favorite?"

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 7, 2017

"It is a driving passion of mine to get people to understand that improv skills can be effectively translated into the business world with powerful results," says Bob Kulhan , veteran improv performer, university professor, and author of the fascinating new book, Getting To "Yes And": The Art of Business Improv.

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Building Personal Strength

DECEMBER 18, 2010

I just get on an intense roll sometimes, and then I have to deal with problems and before I know it, Im losing energy. Like knowledge, skills, values, attitudes and forms of power, personal strengths help us be more effective when working through tough challenges. And its not the coffee. since 1987.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 27, 2017

That’s why, above and beyond any specific techniques they learn, every sales manager needs to re-frame their thinking around leadership mindsets so their decisions will be driven by what’s good for the team not what’s good from a salesperson’s perspective. Effective salespeople have high energy. Sales management is a contact sport.

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