Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the September 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. They don’t believe in your leadership. Bill shares: “ Ethics matter.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Author Gary Cohen calls this tendency the “just tell” style of leadership. Best Questions to Lead By The most effective leaders ask a variety of strategic questions, including: Values: “Are we as focused on ethics as profits?” ” “Is there alignment between our stated and operating values?”

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Power Drucker Self-aware Ethics 78

HR Digest

MAY 19, 2024

Any leader who believes in a gentle, supportive approach to management must pause to ask themselves, “What is positive leadership?” This is where the concept of positive leadership comes into play–a transformative approach that can profoundly impact organizational culture, employee engagement, and overall productivity.

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Positioning Leadership Styles Leadership Self-aware 52

CO2

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is Bad Leadership? Bad leadership encompasses a range of behaviors, qualities, and styles that negatively impact an organization , its employees, and its goals. Here are some key aspects that define bad leadership: Poor Communication : Bad leaders often fail to communicate effectively with their team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Because leadership requires working together, it’s important for leaders to demonstrate humility (feeling and displaying deep regard for others’ dignity) to create healthy working relationships. This natural curiosity applies to leaders in a more penetrating way because leaders have power and influence. Where are we going? Who are you?

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Ethics Self-aware Competitive Advantage Learning-by-Doing 292

Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Harvard professor Max Bazerman believes in the power of noticing. The Power of Noticing guides us through what happens when our focus can prevent us from seeing the critical information we need to make better decisions. Loyalty creates “blinders to full awareness and action.” Personality cults end badly for this very reason.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

It’s all well and good to talk about leadership and aspire to show it, whether it’s in our families, social situations or work environment. To really show leadership and represent everything it stands for, you need to develop a leadership mindset. What’s the Real Meaning of a Leadership Mindset?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 29, 2020

T HE leadership question is top of mind for many people here in the United States and throughout the world. In a recent LeadershipNow blog, Mark Sanborn wrote about six warning signs of why leaders fail: a shift in focus; poor communication; risk aversion; ethics slip; poor self-management; and lost love.

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There’s not a lot we can do about the processing power between our ears. This rigorous and ever-deepening research provides hard evidence for the catalytic power of “ soft skills ” in personal, team, and organizational performance. EI brings empirical science and greater clarity to the fuzzy topic of leadership.

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Cooper Workshop 97

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Leadership is a trait that many people strive to possess, but it doesn’t come naturally to everyone. Some people are naturally charismatic and confident, while others may struggle to assert themselves in a leadership role. They will define your leadership style and guide your decision-making.

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How To Self-aware Leadership Styles Loyalty 144

Leading Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

The Power of Framing by Gail Fairhurst is about understanding the meaning—the shared reality—created in our communication. The Power of Framing is an essential leadership book that will help us to understand the context-shaping features of our language so that we can then better manage the meaning of our communication.

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Power Emotional Intelligence Ethics Uncertainty 271

Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 6, 2012

The distinction is that we perceive power differently in hierarchical organizations than in other types of relationships. The courage to speak truth to power is unfortunately more uncommon than most would prefer. But for now, we face this crisis of trust and uncertainty within our leadership. The Roles We Play.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2020

Transpersonal Leadership is a concept that my colleagues and I at LeaderShape Global have been developing for over 10 years. We realized that leaders could be emotionally intelligent but also manipulative and self-serving. This phenomenon is driven by excessive egos that want power, prestige, recognition, and reward.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

It surveyed top professionals from more than 120 countries about the skills needed for effective leadership in the decade ahead. Millennials and Generation Z crave purpose as well as ethical behaviors from their bosses. These leaders show you who they are as human beings, rather than hiding behind a mantle of power.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 11, 2018

In my new book, The Leadership Gap: What Comes Between You and Your Greatness , I illustrate what it takes to be a great leader. Much of it concerns how not to get stuck spinning your wheels with skills that may have been useful in the past but are no longer relevant to your life or leadership. Give them permission to make mistakes.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2018

Guest post by John Knights: How many of those in leadership roles we encounter slot into this description of Rational, Ego based, As usual Leaders. They’re more concerned about how things will look to others when they make decisions which they do to make themselves look good, or for power, prestige, recognition or reward.

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Ethics Self-aware Follow-up Learning-by-Doing 191

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2015

In my opinion, leadership starts with deep reflection to be aware of any limiting blind spots. Anger: You’re extremely critical of yourself and other people, and judge others harshly believing you are ethically without reproach. Awareness Hint: You may feel your childhood was lost and you were forced to grow up too quickly.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2016

In rummaging through the bits and pieces of my life, I was delighted to rediscover my “7 C’s of Leadership.” 7 C’s of Leadership. Leadership 7 C. You walk the leadership walk by bringing a win-win orientation, trust, respect, motivation, inspiration and a feeling of collaboration and partnership. Capability.

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Leadership Self-aware How To Active Listening 150

Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

This Leadership Development Carnival is the first of 2015 and the first since the Lead Change Group has taken the reins from Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership. Since the first Leadership Development Carnival in July 2008 , our community has grown, evolved, and thrived. Powerful communications result from powerful intentions.”

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Coaching Tip

MAY 1, 2013

Build Effective Leadership Skills. To maximize our potential in a rapidly changing global economy, people recognize the need for leadership ethics more than ever before. Coach Agno believes we must develop leadership qualities to achieve the success we seek. Free Leadership Coaching Tips by subscribing at: [link].

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Tips Leadership Self-aware Goleman 113

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 28, 2012

It also requires performance trust, self-trust, and relationship trust. Right” in this context implies operating with ethics, integrity, and a positive use of influence others can count on. Being self-aware. Authentic leadership yields natural followership. Becoming an independent thinker.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Studies have been conducted to prove that leadership is achievable. But leadership is a combination of some tangible things and some less tangible qualities. Leadership is a constant grind that one has to work on every day for the rest of their life – if they want to keep being leaders, that is. Former leaders are emulated.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Follow-up Self-aware 150

HR Digest

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Edwards and Ewen’s 1996 book 360° Feedback: The Powerful New Model for Employee Assessment & Performance Improvement is one of the earliest discussions of the 360-degree feedback systems but the multi-rater concept goes as far back as WWII. The evaluation report is a compilation of feedback from managers, peers, and juniors.

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360-Degree Feedback Company Peer Review Review 110

Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Here are the core attributes: Act out of caring instead of self-serving motives. It means being aware of their emotions but being strong enough to manage them in the face of unavoidable discomfort and challenge. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness. A Leadership Manifesto: A Guide To Greatness.

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Development Succession Self-aware Commitment 150

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 22, 2022

To make such an impact on people, you need to attain courage, self-awareness, integrity, respect, and remarkable communication skills. This might be an underappreciated trait, but it plays a vital role in leadership. The second thing that holds great power is the leader’s confidence in their decisions. Conclusion.

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Skills Innovation Motivation Self-aware 132

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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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Politics are about power, the acquisition of power, the distribution of power, the uses and abuses of power. Any relationship--personal or professional--becomes political the moment power is introduced. "In Becoming “political” is the equivalent of becoming socially aware. Related articles.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

It''s about the story and conversation, the power of intangibles in "Asking with Confidence", "Embracing the Pause", and "Knowing When to Leave.". Leadership Communication. The Power of Reframing. Data is about the who, when, where and what; intuition and art are about grasping the how and why. Related articles.

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Sports Self-aware Long-term Ethics 121

Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 5, 2013

Welcome to the August 5 th , 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For this month’s Carnival, I asked an all-star collection of leadership experts the following question: What is one piece of advice would you give to a new leader/manager? I recommend that people new to a leadership role do the following six things.”.

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CO2

APRIL 20, 2012

14 Fascinating Theories from Leadership Studies. If you’ve never delved into the field of leadership studies as a businessperson or college student , you really should. Taking a look at trait theory, you’ll see that it is in many ways related to Great Man Theory when it comes to understanding leadership. TRAIT THEORY.

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Leadership Contingency Theory Leadership Styles Proposal 131

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Let me be clear: leadership and diversity should have nothing to do with one another. This blog was recently nominated for Kevin Eikenberry’s Best Leadership Blogs of 2010 , and I noticed recently that Kevin was taking heat from the gender police for having only one woman on the list of nominees.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2018

We live in a world of accelerating change that we can either tune out and avoid, or evolve with, lead and transform by awakening and expanding our minds with heightened awareness. Source: Bob Rosen: Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life. They call this state of mind "conscious.".

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Talent Management Ethics Diversity Power 97

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard. Here are CMI's highlights from 2022 and 2021.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 11, 2024

Your behavior influences others in powerful ways. The egotistical way to manage blessings is to focus on self. When you face failure, mind your resilience Facing failure is an inevitable part of life and leadership. Effective leadership is about more than just guiding—it’s about inspiring others to achieve their best.

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Coaching Tip

JULY 23, 2018

We live in a world of accelerating change that we can either tune out and avoid, or evolve with, lead and transform by awakening and expanding our minds with heightened awareness. Source: Bob Rosen: Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life. They call this state of mind "conscious.".

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Talent Management Ethics Diversity Power 70

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

But power does not corrupt everyone. Our research suggests that key personality characteristics predict unethical leadership behavior. We collected personality data and supervisor ratings of ethical behavior (e.g., Creating an Ethical Workplace. Here are a few tips, based on our findings: You and Your Team Series.

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