Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Taylor’s organization recently set up a pop-up coffee house in the middle of the Oculus at the World Trade Center complex in New York City to bring attention to the issue and its new report titled “ The High Cost of a Toxic Workplace Culture: How Culture Impacts the Workforce—and The Bottom Line.”.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 2, 2013

Be engaged and curious by asking questions and then ask follow-up questions to clarify. connection culture E Pluribus Partners employee engagement business speaker connection cultures employee motivation employee productivity employee retention fired up or burned out keynote speaker leadership speaker michael lee stallard'

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 24, 2017

When my colleagues and I set out to make culture clear so leaders could become more intentional about developing and maintaining a healthy culture, we came up with the following simple definition: Culture is the predominant attitudes, language and behavior of the organization. . Culture is a vague concept to most leaders.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

or “where did you grow up?”. These questions typically open the door for you to ask follow-up questions. Questions unrelated to work might include “what are your interests outside of work?”, “what do you like to do during your free time?”

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 23, 2014

The following season NAIB officials invited Indiana State again, and this time decided they would allow Clarence to play, provided he didn’t stay at the hotel with his teammates and wouldn’t be seen publicly with them. The coach decided to accept the NAIB’s offer, and the team packed up to head to the play-offs in Kansas City.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Jesse Lyn Stone of the Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog explains that one face of leadership looks forward to the future, while the other face looks back at your followers. Neal writes, “Creativity is often described as the catalyst to innovation, and creativity does not need to be left up to chance.” Neal Burgis, Ph.D. Character of a Leader.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2016

As the following story illustrates, inspiring identity is a crucial factor in team performance and can help organizations overcome tremendous obstacles. In the fall, soon-to-be Brigadier General Leslie Groves was appointed to head the project following his stint building the Pentagon. Inspiring Identity and the Manhattan Project.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 10, 2016

They follow through on their commitments. People with integrity strengthen Voice in a culture because they speak up and say what they believe rather than withhold their thoughts or lie because they want to say what others want to hear. Be a risk taker and stand up for what you believe in. They don’t exaggerate. They don’t lie.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 7, 2013

To learn more, check out the video interview I did with Michelle Pokorny of Maritz Motivation following the keynote speech I gave at the Recognition Professionals International Annual Conference in New Orleans.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Great leaders master how to connect with just about everyone and that’s one reason why people want to follow them. Consider the following examples: You are focused and deep into working on a project when someone walks into your office and begins chit chatting. We connect with some people and not with others. The idea is simple.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 22, 2015

The following steps can help leaders to identify and establish core values that are meaningful and encourage connection across the entire organization: Identify the values that matter. Navy, describes the values he strives to meet, which ones he expects sailors under his command to follow, and why each value is important.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 30, 2013

Be engaged and curious by asking questions and then asking follow-up questions to clarify. When interacting with people, be present in conversations. Get in the habit of staying focused on them and giving them your full attention. Listen carefully to words and observe facial expressions and body cues.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 15, 2017

Schwab faced many challenges because it catered primarily to the poor, including gang members who required rehabilitation following injuries from gun violence. Yosko found people were afraid to speak up so she encouraged them to share their ideas and opinions in order to find opportunities to make the organization more effective.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

Follow up with a written summary of action items, responsibilities and due dates that come out of the meeting. Discuss which values are most important to your team’s success, which values your team is strong in, which values it needs to develop and what can be done to live them out.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 23, 2014

Pixar has been phenomenally successful with the likes of Toy Story , The Incredibles , Finding Nemo, and Up, to name but a few of its films. The harm done to employees, and what could have happened to the child, was a wake-up call that solidified Catmull’s core belief that people must always come first. He identifies three reasons.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 22, 2014

Following are seven practices that helped Mulally save Ford by transforming its dog-eat-dog culture into a sled dog team that pulls together. When problems are identified, follow-up meetings are scheduled to dig deeper and identify solutions. This culture drove Ford to the verge of bankruptcy. Communicate an Inspiring Vision.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 6, 2011

.&# (You can purchase the published research findings on Psychnet at “ Work-Based Predictors of Mortality: A 20-Year Follow-up of Healthy Employees.&# ). Connection boosts hormones and neurotransmitters that make us feel more alive, more energetic, more confident, more creative and better problem solvers.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 24, 2012

Coach K is a servant leader who creates the “Connection Culture” that we wrote about in Fired Up or Burned Out. To learn more about Coach K’s leadership style and the surprising story of how he evolved as a leader, check out this inspiring article entitled “ Follow Me.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

When you add up the hours spent on the job, commuting and doing additional work at home on our laptops and smartphones, many of us are devoting more hours to work than we ever have. Consider the following data. It led us to develop the 100 Ways to Connect e-book (which you can get at no cost by signing up here ).

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

It follows that teams and organizations with cultures of connection have employees with a superior cognitive advantage, higher employee engagement, better strategic alignment, superior decision-making and greater innovation. That adds up to a powerful performance advantage (and a competitive advantage). His opinion means a lot to me.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 19, 2014

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick summed it up: “There are no strangers here,” he said. “I it all adds up to an enduring example of the power of common cause, and of working together and turning to each other when we could have easily turned on each other.”. I hope that as we remember the dead and the injured we remember community.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 12, 2015

Choose an action or actions they suggested and then follow up. #80 Ask: “What Can I Do?”. Periodically ask your direct reports what you can do to help them do their best work. In particular, look for obstacles that you can help remove. This is the eightieth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 7, 2010

In Fired Up or Burned Out , we wrote about Frances Hesselbein, the former CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and current chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute As we were about to part following lunch, I’ll never forget Mrs. Hesselbein looking me directly in the eyes and saying “just remember, to serve is to live.&#

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2021

Out of many states (which, up until then, had been thirteen separate British colonies), one nation: the United States of America. It was also informed by their knowledge of 150 years of religious wars in Europe and the resulting massive loss of human life following the Protestant Reformation that began in the 1500s.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 15, 2016

He was known as a patient, careful listener who was slow to speak and slow to become angry, wisdom he may have picked up from reading the Bible (see James 1:19). Following Lincoln’s death, the letter was discovered in an envelope on which Lincoln had written “never sent.”. We would all be wise to follow Lincoln’s example.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2015

Texans know every herd follows a lead steer. On several days throughout the year, you can see a herd in the old cow town of Fort Worth, Texas, a city of approximately 800,000 people, following its lead steer. Mayor Price encourages citizens to speak up and get involved by frequently saying, “It’s your Fort Worth.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Players pick up on these things.” In workshops and seminars I teach, I ask participants to think about leaders they followed by giving their best effort and to share what it was about that leader that made them engaged. He’ll say, ‘I remember what you did for me. I remember what you did for this organization.’”.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2011

People are much more likely to give their best efforts when following a liberator than a dominator because this type of leader helps the people he or she leads and, in doing so, develops a bond of connection. I highly recommend this book. Leadership Is Dead certainly contributes to that end and more.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A trauma, critical care and acute care surgeon by training, Dr. Ivy grew up in the U.S. Following the Navy, he completed a fellowship at Yale in surgical critical care then held a series of increasingly senior leadership positions at hospitals in Connecticut. His experience and accomplishments communicate grit and resilience.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

The right degree of challenge fires them up to produce positive results. Show you are engaged and interested by asking questions and then asking follow-up questions to clarify. If they are too challenged, they become overwhelmed by killer stress. If they are under challenged, they grow bored and lethargic.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 3, 2016

By still face managers, I mean supervisors whose lack of emotion makes it difficult for them to connect and to get people fired up. People follow a still face manager because the manager has authority to hire, fire, promote and pay. Do you have “still face” managers in your organization? the amygdala).

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 28, 2010

She follows sports, not out of a love for it, but because it gives her a language to connect with her boys. My brother and I grew up in a neighborhood of boys near Rockford, Illinois. About Michael Find out about Michaels latest book, Fired Up or Burned Out. This is consistent with my own personal observations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

After doing my own research I wrote the following which became one of the chapters on 20 leaders in Fired Up or Burned Out. Richard Neustadt, Presidential Scholar at Harvard University, observed the following about George Washington: “It wasn’t his generalship that made him stand out. —— First in Their Hearts.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Without a sense of connection in the virtual workplace, productivity will drop and burnout is sure to follow. He is the author of “Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity” (Thomas Nelson). Colton Perry is an intern at E Pluribus Partners.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

If you’re familiar with our work, you will have picked up on the similarities in this step of the realignment process and a “knowledge flow” session. I recommend that you make the W4s available to the team as a natural follow-up, even if a particular W4 doesn’t pertain to each individual.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 21, 2013

He is the primary author of Fired Up or Burned Out: How to Reignite Your Team’s Passion, Creativity and Productivity (Thomas Nelson). Follow Michael on his blog , twitter or on LinkedIn. Michael Lee Stallard speaks and teaches workshops on leadership and employee engagement.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 29, 2018

In 2007, we introduced Connection Culture Theory in our first book Fired Up or Burned Out. We’ve also continued to follow developments in the science of connection and loneliness. Now is the Time. Since that time, our clients have helped us advance Connection Culture Theory by identifying many examples and best practices.

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