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How to Respond To Employee’s Wacky Ideas (Tool & Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

In almost every Courageous Cultures leadership development program we do we get this question. “Karin and David, I think these tools are great, but my problem isn’t that I don’t get ideas from my team. But for now, we are focused on training humans on human-centered leadership.” I get too many of them.

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Approaching Leadership Excellence Through New Angles

Leading Blog

The physics of a prism can also be applied to leadership: In an agile work environment, it is valuable to slow down and reconsider which leadership angle to take in particular situations. The PRISM Model offers five angles to leading people and forms the bedrock of leadership excellence. What is your purpose in life?

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The Best Leadership Articles of 2021 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year?

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How Did Leadership and Culture Improve on the North Pole?

Let's Grow Leaders

A Retrospective: Santa’s Big Leadership and Culture Change Is there anyone more beloved than Santa Claus? Today, the North Pole is a paragon of human-centered leadership and culture. In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. Santa’s leadership led to dysfunction at every level.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Cy Wakeman proposes a radically different approach to HR leadership. Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. This is backwards. And expensive.

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Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics

Let's Grow Leaders

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they’ll work together to help you, your teams, and organization thrive. This type of meaningless work saps morale and wastes precious time and energy.

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How People Are Like Trees and Why That Will Help Your Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

You’ll help your leadership when you can embrace and recognize the strengths that people bring and invest in that. How People Are Like Trees and Why That Will Help Your Leadership. Until next time, embrace your people for who they are, and help your leadership by being the leader you’d want your boss to be.