Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2019

We’ve all seen and been a part of this: we come back from a workshop, conference, strategic planning session, or other great event excited to make great changes. Great new ideas, lots of energy, and a broader vision have been instilled and you’re ready to effect change. The workshop was just for show.

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QAspire

JANUARY 3, 2023

I have seen countless meetings, planning sessions and leadership off-site sessions that were organized to facilitate conversation – but often end up being a forum for people to protect their ego, show their status or demonstrate their power through the words. First, a disclaimer – I am no expert in having great conversations.

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QAspire

MAY 27, 2018

In one of the leadership workshop I attended in early years of my career, the trainer beautifully described humility as. Leadership in any form is about others. Like banks of a river, leader holds the context together in order to channel the energies of people. A leader is just a means to an end.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Mental Fitness Strategies for Sharpening Focus, Boosting Energy, and Winning the Workday ”. The first is prioritizing and acting on your strengths-based goals and second is managing the energy of your brain. Part 2 offers excellent brain booster exercises, strategies and tips to refuel the brain energy and avoid burn-out.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

My book, The Next Level , had been out for about a year and I was asked to be a regular speaker at a companywide leadership program for a major investment firm. After watching me grind it out around the fifth time I delivered the program, the company’s director of leadership development asked me if I wanted some feedback.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2023

The HR Director of a large engineering firm where I (David) was about to start a day-long workshop had taken me aside to warn me. A few powerful phrases can help redirect that energy to more positive outcomes. It can be very helpful in your leadership coaching conversations.) What does ‘bad’ look like?” “He

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The more they inject enthusiasm, energy, and excitement into a typical workday, the more loyal and engaged each associate will be. Get rid of the gossip, the behind-the-scenes drama — some people will bring the energy of the group down with just one well-placed juicy tidbit, "I hear they're reorganizing".

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 31, 2014

As a leader, you have three choices when a problem situation comes up between two or more members of your team: Fix the problem Coach them to fix the problem Ignore the problem Options 1 and 2 both require your time, energy, and focus. Leadership Development leading teams problem resolution'

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

They can make a job exhausting and confusing, eating up energy that could be better spent enjoying life beyond the nine-to-five. For managers, leadership isn’t one-size-fits-all. Each individual must take their own unique mixture of real-world experience and personal talents to forge their own leadership style.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Looking outward from inside our bodies, we see out into the world but can’t observe the effects of our own energy and behaviors on others as easily as those who are paying attention can see us. We also might gloss over some weaker points we’d benefit from addressing sooner rather than later.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 18, 2023

During a workshop designed to identify Moose-on-the-Table issues, Jon was surprised by the very clear and strong feedback from his organization that his management group weren’t acting as a team. She writes, “At root, the tendency to rely on command energy stems from a leader’s own anxiety and lack of confidence.”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

This White Paper is excerpted and adapted from Ultra Leadership: Go Beyond Usual and Ordinary to Engage Others and Lead Real Change (Giuliano, Lioncrest, 2016). The problem is leadership on autopilot. In such an underperforming state, without leadership that can drive real change, organizations are trapped in a vicious cycle.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Individuals and companies who grow significantly put more energy into learning and less into what they’re already good at doing. Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 60+ HD Sketchnotes. Visual Thinking and Sketchnote Workshop – Feb 2022 Edition. Visual Thinking and Sketchnote Workshop – Feb 2022 Edition.

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2023

Whether they are doing their first TEDx talk or just trying to scale the leadership ladder at work, they almost always feel fear and anxiety about the effort. I do two things with fear and anxious energy when I’m presenting, and you can too: 1. Lean into the fear. Channel the fear in the right way. His new book is The A-ha!

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In 2021, I stepped out of matrix after 23 years in corporate life playing diverse roles in technology, communications, corporate quality, consultative selling, team leadership, functional leadership and organizational leadership in global environments. Visual Thinking and Sketchnote Workshop – Jan 2022.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 8, 2021

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley. Through active leadership , you can support your direct reports through these transitions. Promote self-confidence and leadership ability. Foster collaboration.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Year after year, Christmas after Christmas, I’ve watched the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer TV special and cringed at the atrocious leadership displayed by nearly every adult character. The workshop foreman ridicules Harvey (the elf with dentistry aspirations). Donner rejects his son. The Effective Executive.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I’ve extensively quoted and cited the expanding body of emotional intelligence (EI) research for many years in my writing and workshops. EI brings empirical science and greater clarity to the fuzzy topic of leadership. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron. Something is missing.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The publication date of this post, December 1, 2020, marks the 20 th anniversary of our leadership development company, The Eblin Group. Likewise, we’ve had around 700 rising leaders participate in our Next Level Leadership® group coaching program since the first cohort we ran in 2005. When the group’s energy is high, yours is high.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2020

They need to establish a dominant leadership to ensure growth and progress. A compromise on the leadership could mean a lack of motivation, loss of objectivity, and low work efficiency. Fortunately, there are several tried and tested methods to enhance your leadership skills. Set Goals & Advance Strategically.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Leadership Acting versus Leadership Being Some people are good leadership actors. They can “do their leadership thing” and deliver convincing performances. Skin-deep leadership destroys trust and zaps energy. The harder these leadership actors try to make an impression, that’s the impression they make.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 3, 2023

Many people in leadership roles don’t act like leaders. A central theme in my decades of trying to understand, apply, and teach leadership skills is that leadership is an action, not a position. Leadership is what we do, not who we are. Wallowers set up destructive magnetic energy fields of negative vibrations.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In 2021, I stepped out of matrix after 23 years in corporate life playing diverse roles in technology, communications, corporate quality, consultative selling, team leadership, functional leadership and organizational leadership in global environments. Damning this flow is so often counterproductive.

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Avoid the unnecessary expenditure of energy and capital. Revitalizing Strategic Planning is a process that is established to; Achieve integration of the plan throughout the goals and objectives of the organization. This is accomplished by limiting the field (methods) for working on a task.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

For example, I recently talked with an assistant general counsel during a leadership workshop that I was doing for the big company she works for. I asked if her energy was more extroverted or introverted. Batch by Energy Impact : One thing this leader was extremely tuned into was her energy.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Back in the days when I led leadership workshops in physical rooms, I would illustrate the power of transformational listening by having my leaders break out into groups of three and take five minutes each to answer the question, “What are you grateful for?”.

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The Practical Leader

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

For many years I’ve been facilitating a 360 assessment and leadership development process for a deeply technical science/engineering association. However, their overall leadership scores are generally well below those of other less technical groups. So weak STEMM leadership effectiveness is especially critical.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 21, 2013

They feel employees’ enthusiasm and energy — or lack thereof — and recognize the bad results of an organization with overall morale problems. They respond with enthusiasm and energy when their supervisor shows he or she cares. Michael Lee Stallard speaks and teaches workshops on leadership and employee engagement.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 24, 2012

I have done the match-making and developed and led the workshops. What I do believe in is investing time, energy, and commitment [.]. I have developed and implemented plenty of mentoring programs over the years.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 27, 2015

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. In our Chip Shots feature, our Leading Voices are invited to provide brief insights into a leadership dilemma. Interdisciplinary Workshops. Today’s Question.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Welcome to the November, 2012 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For you reading pleasure, this month's Carnival offers up a Fall harvest of posts from some of the best leadership bloggers from around the world. Think of it as leadership graffiti. (-: Bon appétit! Google's Blogger was not being very cooperative.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2016

Whether you’re a veteran leader or a millennial recently promoted into a leadership role, leading your younger team members can feel like an endless struggle. Your younger team members can be an incredible source of talent, energy, and productivity. Magazine’s list of great leadership speakers. Why don’t they understand?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Several years ago I led a professional development workshop for the alumni association of my alma mater. The title of my presentation was “Toy Box Leadership” loosely based on the book by the same name, with a subtitle “Leadership Lessons from the Toys You Loved as a Child,” by authors Ron Hunter and Michael Waddell.

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Kevin Eikenberry

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

Consulting Speaking Training Products KevinEikenberry.com About Blog Home Blogs I Like Leadership Learning Subscribe The Leadership Walk by Kevin Eikenberry on September 6, 2010 in Leadership , Learning We are all on a walk. Each of these is part of your leadership walk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

Their four main sections are Organizational Strategies, Approaches for People Leaders, Resources for Employees, and Assessments, Tools, and Workshops. Approaches for People Leaders — has an index of dozens of topics and actions on concerns, leadership skills, and team building. Are you having fun?

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 19, 2014

.” – William Arthur Ward When it comes to effectively leading teams and organizations in today’s fast-paced, 24/7 global economy, it’s becoming more and more evident that the days of command-and-control leadership are well behind us. Consequently, we expend less energy to perform these very tasks.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 2, 2012

He was at the centre of the work we and the CEO were doing on culture and leadership development. The article, Harnessing the Energy of Change Champions gets into another critical aspect of this discussion and provides a list of how-to implementation ideas. Resistance is energy. Apathy is the real problem.

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