Lead Change Blog

MARCH 9, 2016

If I asked you what qualities a great leader has, chances are you’d mention traits like intelligence, vision, and determination. While these are certainly important to have, research shows that softer qualities like being sensitive to others’ feelings and listening well are just as, if not more so, important.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

We saw, over and over again, that leadership doesn’t depend on mystical qualities or inborn gifts but rather on the capacity of individuals to know themselves, their strengths, and their weaknesses, and to learn from the feedback they get in their daily lives – in short, their capacity for self-improvement.

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 18, 2021

In his book, Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman writes, “No matter how intellectually brilliant we may be, that brilliance will fail to shine if we are not persuasive. That use of language paints a vivid word picture and, in doing so, lends a compelling and tangible quality to the persuader’s point of view.”

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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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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Tanveer Naseer wrote a wonderful post recently where he asked, “ Is Leadership an Art or a Science? Great leadership behaviors require a lot of blending and the ability to balance seemingly contrasting behaviors; a lot of this’s and that’s. They are what makes the practice of leadership hard and rewarding.

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My Own Coach

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

How do you define your organisation’s leadership style? It strikes me that there are many leadership style models out there, such as Lewin’s Leadership Styles, Six Emotional Leadership Styles (Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee), Transformational Leadership and The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes and Posner) to name as few.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 7, 2010

Some thoughts about what you can do to make relationship-building at work a priority: Make building and sustaining high-quality relationships a priority: What will it take to put “building relationships” at the top of your “to-do” list? The improvement of the economy is slower than most would like. Thanks for sharing this one.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 27, 2010

It was in his journey from Superman to being trapped in a body following a tragic accident that we can begin to understand how we, as leaders, might choose to respond to the adverse and trying times that happen in our leadership and our lives. Wouldn’t you also say that leadership is so very human? What shape are they in today?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 27, 2010

I have a feeling that if you are, your leadership and the work of your organization is effortless. Our team was very focused and hard-working but also enjoyed each other very much and it made a HUGE difference in the quality and scope of our work. Also, I remember a time when I worked for a big University. We were productive to no end!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Respect is an important quality that many people seem to forget about these days, whether it be respect within a family, respect within a friendship, or respect among fellow employees and their superiors. It it is so often that this quality is voided from the workplace, and that stems from the fact that most people do not have good manners.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Often what it comes down to is that their manager is not willing to wait for the time it takes my client to make some changes to their leadership. In my experience, at one point in my leadership career, some colleagues have labeled me as the ‘terminator’ jokingly. Don’t Fire That Person (Yet)!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 5, 2010

Most leaders that I work with could insert more inquiry into their leadership style. Sure, there might be some resistance as you change to incorporating more inquiry into your leadership style. What’s really keeping you from trying to incorporate more inquiry into your leadership? Perhaps that’s one of the reasons for pushback.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

They aren’t waiting for anyone to hand them leadership development on a silver platter. These organizations create the kind of environment that supports leadership development. I just tried to compare myself with the characters of best leaders and my organization with the qualities of best organization.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 25, 2011

" When it comes to assessing the service/quality levels delivered by our teams/organizations just who’s perception of reality are we using? What is value to the customer is always something quite different from what is value or quality to the supplier. We often hear the axiom that "perception is reality."

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus : October 23, 2010 at 7:20 am Raj, respect and belief are two qualities that are important to cultivate. Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I’m wondering how you do so?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

The quality of the relationships you form are dependent upon your being present so that you can react and interact appropriately with those around you. Do you see how meditation might improve your leadership? Fulfillment: I’ve noticed a growing personal satisfaction with “what is&#. What would be keeping you from trying it?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 30, 2010

Mary Jo Asmus A former executive in a Fortune 100 company, I own and operate a leadership solutions firm called Aspire Collaborative Services. I am married, have two daughters, and a dog named Edgar the Leadership Pug who exemplifies the importance of relationships to great leadership. That’s why they touch us.

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The Practical Leader

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Five decades of research shows the huge impact of organizational culture on outcomes like Return on Investment, stock prices, service/quality levels, productivity, sales, profitability, cost-effectiveness, and similar results. What do they say about meeting leadership and culture? Who attends them? Who gets most of the airtime?

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JANUARY 21, 2009

If you are unfamiliar with it, I strongly advise that you explore it because Emotional Intelligence is a critical component of good leadership. Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Quote of the Week The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. Emotional Intelligence!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

However, there are some things that you can do to provide the best chance of getting quality feedback when you ask for it. Tanveer Naseer : September 28, 2010 at 1:34 pm Mary Jo, these are some valuable actions that leaders can implement to gain a better understanding of their leadership role.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Former executive Janice Marturano, who led the company’s internal classes, has left the company to launch the Institute for Mindful Leadership , which conducts executive courses in mindfulness meditation. These are the qualities of the mindful leaders I have worked with, taught, mentored, and interviewed.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 17, 2013

We’re fast, we’re efficient, and we do high-quality work. But when we carry this mindset into our first leadership roles, we confuse doing with leading. But the pacesetting style can also carry a high cost – Goleman notes that it “destroys climate [and] many employees feel overwhelmed by the pacesetter’s demands.”

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The behaviors of the leadership team are THE single biggest influence on what’s expected/rewarded and discouraged or unacceptable for everyone else. ” We’ve facilitated dozens of team development sessions (often as part of a virtual or in-person leadership team retreat ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Since Daniel Goleman 's Emotional Intelligence , we've recognized the importance of tuning into social and emotional factors in the workplace. Indeed, a final study in this same paper asked people to evaluate potential leadership candidates. But many popular depictions of the workplace don't show any evidence of that sensitivity.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Warning : This series is also intended to exorcise excuses, infiltrate and stretch comfort zones, and push toward personal transformation so we can climb up the leadership stairs. On Becoming Being a Leader My lifetime of work in personal, team, and organizational leadership led me to define leadership as an action, not a position.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

However, as described by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee in Primal Leadership: Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence , the effects on executive effectiveness are just as profound. Yet another would end a grueling day of work listening to jazz on a professional quality sound system installed in the basement.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

To find the answer to that question I attended a session on leadership at the World Economic Forum in Davos. It was led people by who have devoted their career to this topic and included Daniel Goleman, coiner of the term "emotional intelligence." This is where the leadership principle of authenticity comes in.

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Ask Atma

MAY 20, 2012

Similar to creating a learning environment, building an organization that not only supports virtuous principles but also causes them, requires you to invest heavily in leadership. So you must demonstrate very strong leadership. Improves participation and the quality of decision making. Fosters humility in upper management.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Eichenger and Michael Lombardo According to Day and Lord (1986), differences in the quality of executive leadership explain as much as 45 percent of an organization’s performance. People like Goleman , Boyatzis , and Spencer (2001) all report that this skill set is often missing. They read people accurately.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 9, 2017

Among the various core ingredients of talent and career success, few personal qualities have received more attention in the past decade than emotional intelligence (EQ), the ability to identify and manage your own and others’ emotions. But what can those with lower scores do to improve their intrapersonal and interpersonal skills?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 22, 2015

When this deeply instinctive function takes over, we call it what Daniel Goleman coined in Emotional Intelligence as “amygdala hijack.” We pay attention to the different qualities and textures of the sensations, and the way things change and shift. Step 4: Finally, breathe. Everybody knows that it helps to breathe.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Here’s a deeper look at how the four key traits of EQ, as defined by Daniel Goleman , relate to the PM role: Relationship management: Probably one of the most important characteristics of a great PM is their relationship management skills. These PMs also know when to take a breath and step away if needed, to regroup.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

The focus was wholly on execution of mass production, and managerial solutions such as specialization of labor, standardized processes, quality control, workflow planning, and rudimentary accounting were brought to bear. By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 15, 2014

I must confess I am not a great fan of the popular focus on long lists of leadership competencies and their use in everything from leadership training to executive recruiting. Meeting Leadership. Quality Orientation (Attention to Detail). to challenge poor decisions or poor leadership instead of turning a blind eye.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2012

As Daniel Goleman has written , "Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are almost as powerful as those to our very survival.". For example, start by thinking about what positive qualities, behaviors and contributions you currently take for granted among the members of your team. That's unfortunate.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

You’re Not the Boss of Me Skip to content Home About Me About This Blog ← Leadership Style Part II – Command & Control A Leader? Reply Leave a Reply Cancel reply Quote of the Week The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. What do you think?

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