Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. To us,” he explained, “that comes across as either you don’t like us or you think you’re better than us.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

So how can you resolve these conflicts, maintain your team’s morale, and your leadership credibility? Make the connection that your discretion now means they can count on you in the future. Here are some specific phrases you can use to build trust with a combination of appropriate discretion and honesty.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

To build a great corporate culture, don’t ignore the conflict between values When it comes to building a great corporate culture, one of the most common frustrations we hear from senior leaders and executives is that “We involved everyone. He says culture is simply “People like us, do things like this.” People feel like they can’t win.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. This article gives you some practical tips for better influence and less stress. They didn’t wake up that morning thinking about how to make you angry.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

I wonder how many times she’s done that? And today, when our manager asked us for our ideas, that credit stealer immediately chimed in and shared MY idea as if it were her own. Credit stealing is clearly a significant source of conflict and frustration in the workplace. How do you suggest we approach this?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

We’ve curated this list of curiosity habits and resources to make it easier to infuse curiosity into your team’s culture. Note: This is part three of our four-part “Better Teamwork” series. Part 1: Better Teamwork: 12 Practical Habits to Build Deeper Connection. Learn more here).

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

These are just a few ways people use rituals and traditions during the holidays. These moments call us back to our values and what matters most. Evolve Your Traditions As important and meaningful as traditions can be, you can also get stuck and stressed out trying to maintain a practice that no longer makes sense.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

And, use that insight to help us plan for what would serve you most in the new year. What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year? How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback. End-of-Year Meeting: How to Make Yours Remarkable. How to Deal with Team Conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, when you don’t pay attention to tactics and effective management, you create needless conflicts, frustrations and hurt feelings. When you lack these elements, your team will experience the “injuries” of frequent conflicts, frustrations, and misunderstandings that derail productivity and quench morale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2024

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” If you want your team to get better at strategic thinking, start by helping them challenge assumptions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Ignite Action: Turn intentions into activities Habit: I get things going—moving the conversation to create specific plans When your team has tight conversations that lead to meaningful results, trust and morale improve along with the team’s capacity to make even more meaningful decisions. But are they really?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

Expect common breakdowns to help your team work better together. You can prepare and make your team work better together by planning for these breakdowns and turning them into opportunities for growth and connection. 4 Ways to Make a Team Work Better Together by Planning for Breakdowns. Plan for and Train Recovery.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

To achieve culture change, you don’t want to be scared of the conflict between values. When people know your values as an organization, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change. Basically what we’re talking about is conflict between values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2023

Leadership perspective creates different kinds of creative solutions that make far more sense and have more support than the limited but obvious approach you might have started with. It’s about workplace conflict and all about powerful phrases that you can use to deal with workplace conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders. You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. 6 Ways to Deal with Team Conflict. Reflect to Connect.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

But if you don’t pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you’ll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings. So I was really focused on the ground and making sure that I wasn’t tripping over anything. Does your team know how to discuss and resolve day-to-day conflict?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

If you want better insights, ask clearer questions. In this article, we share insights to help you prepare better courageous questions to gather the insights you need. What makes a courageous question useful and how to craft your own). Well, no one ever asked us about the speed. Not to respond immediately.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In our daily lives, too many of us favor the comfort of conviction over the discomfort of doubt. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. It's an invitation to let go of views that are no longer serving us well and prize mental flexibility over foolish consistency.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Are you making the most of it? Mostly this seems to work for us. It seems to protect us and our core identity. But in volatile situations, our ingrained reactions cause us to miss opportunities to learn and grow in more productive ways. This helps us to recognize when we have entered an Adaptive Zone.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Effortless : Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most by Greg McKeown. And the more depleted we get, the more effort it takes to make progress. Getting ahead doesn’t have to be as hard as we make it. High Conflict : Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out by Amanda Ripley. That’s what “high conflict” does.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

Some of it is good for us. We grow from it, it moves us forward, and it makes life more interesting. However, there is a kind of conflict the seems to reoccur no matter how hard you try to resolve it. And some of that becomes self-perpetuating as we react in ways that cause even more conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Stop Workplace Gossip from Stirring Up Conflict and Distracting Your Team I first heard this frustrating bit of workplace gossip from my wonderful, human-centered executive assistant back in my Verizon days. And, neither of us was headed to Jamaica any time soon. This story ends better ending than you might imagine.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 23, 2024

Because leaders who listen can better navigate the complexities of today’s workplace. Discover how the power of listening can transform your approach. I think that a lot of us go into “listening mode” with specific plans in mind. Conflict resolution. We listen to make sure we understand the situation and requirements. .”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Here’s why: none of us can see ourselves as others do. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2023

Care Enough to Put the Fish on the Table and Start the Conversation It’s so tempting to ignore conflict at work. Or as one of our favorite Courageous Cultures clients in Switzerland tells us, “sometimes you just have to put the fish on the table and talk about what’s stinking up the place.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

He primarily sought truths upon which he could act and ideas he could use in his office.”. Reading gives us a chance to reflect on our lives, grow our knowledge, and become more creative. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. Pick at least three and take some time to make yourself better this summer. *.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. How to Respond to the Most Infuriating Kind of Performance Review.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2023

When Dealing with Difficult Customers, Show Up as an Empathetic Expert Most of the time we write about human-centered leadership, but the challenges of dealing with difficult customers came up so frequently in our World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Research, we thought we’d take a break from our regular programming to help.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The Four Workarounds shows how seemingly intractable problems―from public urination to the challenges of delivering lifesaving medicine to remote communities―were addressed using unconventional tactics. Some of the world’s biggest and most admired companies are already using Savaget’s research to transform the ways they do business.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 29, 2023

Strong Work Relationships Start Better Questions I’m so excited to share this week’s Asking for a Friend all about work relationships. I hosted Michael Bungay Stanier live on LinkedIn for a conversation about how to have better relationships at work and talk about his new book, “How to Work with (Almost) Anyone.”

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It turns out there’s a bit of a conflict between what’s good for individual people and what’s good for groups. For individuals, having fewer social connections can sometimes be better. But for groups, it’s often better to have lots of close social ties. This helps them focus and learn better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

And if you’re a parent, you’ve probably pulled a peanut butter-stained, “How to Stop a Bully” flyer from your kid’s backpack and thought wistfully, “I wish they talked about bullying when I was in school. Surely, this focus will make for better grown-ups.” We should all know better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

The Power of Workplace Culture in an AI Universe: A virtual conversation about Empathy and Innovation Note: This article on Workplace Culture is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of our book, Courageous Culture: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates. In too many businesses, the answer is “not nearly enough.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2023

But that kind of conflict at work is stressful and draining. She used the dolls, as requested, for our benefit. Thankfully she got the point when one of us went to the shelf and switched the dolls. When you can give specific examples, it helps your moody boss look in a mirror and make a decision to do something differently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

How to Help Your Boss Stop Wasting Time with Bad Delegation ( 02:07 ): A question of bad delegation? Alright, today’s question comes from a manager named Declan, and that is not Declan’s real name, but we’re going to use the name Declan here. Yeah, but I don’t like this. It’s not what we need.

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APRIL 9, 2024

Making Hybrid Work for you and your Team Managers can face challenges when implementing effective hybrid working. The research highlights the crucial role that management skills play in overcoming the obstacles to making hybrid work and the impact of targeted training. Line manager Want to make flexible working work for you?

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