Lead Change Blog

APRIL 22, 2019

Nothing frustrates me more than the amount of time, energy, and resources that we waste on a daily basis simply because we are not effective and productive and don’t have efficient, aligned business practices in place. Convert a book into a workshop. Take a workshop and develop a coaching programme around it.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

The company ran the program four times a year and my role was to come in each time they did to deliver a half day workshop for managers on the behaviors they needed to either pick up or let go of to lead at the next level. When the room is high energy, you’re high energy. When the room is low energy, you’re low energy.

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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. Unfortunately, this can be an overwhelming process for new managers to undertake without support.

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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. At their next management meeting, he “read them the riot act.” Are You an Anxious Micromanager?

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 19, 2019

What you can do, however, is manage your week in a way that gives you the best chance of living and leading at your best. 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.

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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. We don’t want to look dumb, disappoint someone, or use energy to think more deeply. What does ‘bad’ look like?” “He

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Mike Cardus

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Completion Times Need to be Continually Extended – Because of inadequate planning and Management Oversight NOTHING got done…Because NO-ONE Planned! Strategic planning is necessary part of every Managers life. Avoid the unnecessary expenditure of energy and capital. Because NO-ONE Planned! THIS WILL FIX THAT.

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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

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. We’ve come to believe that highly intelligent people make the best professors, doctors, managers, scientists, and so on. If we’re green and growing , we can smarten up.

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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. For instance, she could deliver a report-back on your team’s recent project or give a mini workshop on a topic you want everyone to learn about. Foster collaboration. Provide learning resources.

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Great Results Team Building

JUNE 12, 2014

This list of 28 great quotes to inspire and help manage change may be useful to remind yourself and your coworkers of the needs and benefits that motivate successful people to not only welcome it, but to become advocates and champions for progress. After five years, look at it with suspicion. Alfred Edward Perlman. Warren Buffett.

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Mills Scofield

JULY 19, 2011

In May, I was honored to be part of Steve Denning's workshop on his Radical Management principles for redefining 21st Century management. Recognition that we need to find a new way to ‘manage' work is gaining ground. These companies shun command-and-control!

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Our core team of our events and program coordinator Joanne, our tech and customer support guru Mary, our financial manager Deb and our web designer and brand strategist Andy have been with us for years and have helped make it possible to deliver on our promises. When the group’s energy is high, yours is high.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Measurement : Energy, water, or plastic reduction levels. Get Personal ity Assessments : When was the last time the team completed a MYBTI , DiSC , or similar personality assessment workshop? Metrics, Metrics, Metrics: You cannot manage what you cannot measure. Don’t wait for legal obligation to hit your company.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 24, 2016

Your younger team members can be an incredible source of talent, energy, and productivity. He has shared the stage with other notable business icons like Sir Richard Branson, Sir Bob Geldof and even presented a workshop in the presence of President Barack Obama. The good news is that it doesn’t have to be this way.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 3, 2024

Reviewing the research , the Indeed Editorial Team notes, “Even though 87% of executives and managers agree that improving work wellbeing gives them a competitive edge, a mere 19% said that wellbeing was a strategic priority in their organization. There’s an index under those categories on the right column of our Resources page.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 2, 2012

” These are discussions I tend to have during many workshops and executive team retreats. We have a selection of Change Management blog posts and articles. 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.

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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. Look for companies to invest in interdisciplinary workshops that bring the entire company together to gain perspective on sales, marketing, and customer experience. .”

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 27, 2017

Visualizing What and How: One of the standard things I cover in any Lead at Your Best; Live at Your Best workshop is to share tactics and strategies that will help the participants show up at their best more often than not. To help manage all of that gear shifting, you can adopt a simple self-coaching method that I teach my workshop clients.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Skin-deep leadership destroys trust and zaps energy. Trust is More Than Skin Deep I was once asked to deliver a workshop for a senior leadership team to “relearn/develop trust and empowerment in his/her team members when the team members feel they are not getting the trust or empowerment from their leader to do their jobs.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Create policies that promote energy efficiency, reduce waste and water conservation. Simply asking your employees to turn off all of the lights before leaving can make a huge difference in energy conservation and how they feel about the environment. Honoring the Environment Ask your employees to contribute to a better world.

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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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Next Level Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

The coaching, the workshops and the speeches could all be delivered online. So, I’m also looking forward to getting back from time to time to being in the room with people to share the unique energy of an in-person event. And then, last February, that was eliminated from my life.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 28, 2023

Engaged employees willingly invest not only their time but also their energy and creativity, resulting in heightened dedication and output that directly impacts overall productivity. Regular updates, informative meetings, and personalized discussions between managers and team members play a pivotal role in bridging communication gaps.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Working with consultants from GISC, he deepened his commitment to quality workplace by honing his own management skills. In order to delegate more effectively, he arranged for his managers to develop their leadership skills further as well. I wanted to be back in the kitchen, and developing my managers enabled me to do that.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Especially when managers become overbearing, aggressive, or intrusive, employees can become more reluctant to come to work and do anything that they haven’t been explicitly asked to do.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 1, 2011

The essence of management is goal-directed behavior. Understand the relationship between goals and time management. " "This leadership program helped me to step out of my everyday management routine and focus on how I interact with other managers, what my leadership strengths are, and the impact of my style on the team.

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Change Starts Here

JUNE 21, 2016

Several years ago, in preparation for a transformation workshop with a client’s top management team, I was designing the feedback to collect at the end of the session. It tells you what is capturing their hope and anticipation, and what gives them the energy to move forward. What are you most excited about?

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 3, 2022

A big excuse managers have for not having a conversation is “I already know what they’re going to say.” You don’t have the energy for listening to them try to convince you, so you say yes. When we’re at capacity, we use the one or two tools in our toolbox to manage conflict: shaming, intimidating, or some other tactic.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley. For instance, she could deliver a report-back on your team’s recent project or give a mini workshop on a topic you want everyone to learn about. Foster collaboration. Provide learning resources.

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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 workshop was a success. Before it is launched, it has stored potential energy–when launched, that energy force becomes kinetic energy. Repeat as necessary. It is messy, noisy, and chaotic.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

I’ve been working with organizations, leaders and managers, and people inside organizations for a couple of years. When you overcome this challenge, where are your focus and energy going? I’ve found through interactional workshops with groups. Where is your energy going? What questions do you ask?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Consider for a moment that Thompson could have given Sam any job at the hotel – general manager, bellman, concierge, etc. (Or, She is charged with achieving a lofty goal, has a solid plan to achieve that goal, and then begins to implement the plan with all the energy in the world.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2019

In a quarter century of training and coaching, Judy Ringer has worked with dozens of managers and leaders who struggle with this question. A third-degree black belt in the martial art aikido, Ringer uses aikido principles to bring to life key conflict skills such as self-management under pressure and appreciation of other viewpoints.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

If you’re like most of the managers and executives I speak with in my presentations, workshops and programs, you’re operating in a do-more-with-less environment. They’re really tuned into what they need in their life to lead and live at their best and manage their time and energy so they get that. They’re not slackers.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 14, 2016

Ben graciously reminded me that he was one of the participants in a Mindful Leadership workshop I conducted at his company a couple of years ago. He went on to say that he is still using and benefitting from a number of things we went over in the workshop. I apologized for missing the connection and he couldn’t have been nicer.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

If you’re looking to move up from an entry level position to a management post, or from junior management to senior or executive level management, you have to be prepared for these interview formats as they are a norm for jobs with a leadership capacity. Tips: Bring some light snacks and energy bars to fuel you up.

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