Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

And if nothing changes, it’s worse than if you never had a conversation. Now you’ve wasted time, trust drips away, and people lose hope. The answer is to build shared agreements – commitments – that move you from words to action. Commitment is vital to effective teamwork, collaboration, and results.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Today we go a level deeper with a practical way to ensure your team’s busy day is worth it– giving them the breakthrough results they’re working so hard to achieve. It’s really easy to have a busy, busy day, with alarmingly little to show for it. Here’s the sad truth. We’ve all been there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 3, 2023

Show Up With More Confidence, Find Your Voice, AND Leverage Their Expertise, If you’re choosing to read this, we know you know the type. The dude who thinks they know-it-all, and doesn’t hesitate to pontificate, question, and debate everything. A know-it-all can challenge you to think more deeply.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

What’s equally difficult is helping your team recover, establishing a new normal, and figuring out how in the world you’ll get it all done with fewer people. I know it’s hard. Or, it could be you are worried about how to sustain momentum with a reduced staff. After a Heartwrenching Layoff.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

Create Space for Letting Go and Moving Forward. It was one of my earliest moments of workplace disillusionment. I worked hard and gave the project my evenings and weekends until it was done. No recognition that I’d busted my tail to get it done. Frustrated doesn’t begin to describe it. So good did come of it.).

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s Last Minute Linda. The clock’s ticking down to your big presentation, and Linda decides now is the perfect time for her “Eureka” moment. The clock’s ticking down to your big presentation, and Linda decides now is the perfect time for her “Eureka” moment. Sound familiar?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” When employees come to us venting their frustrations that their boss doesn’t value or appreciate their hard work, it’s usually not about who got the plaque in the end-of-year meeting. Of course, the time you spend on getting your formal employee recognition right matters. But you know what matters much, much more?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It’s impossible to prepare for every workplace conflict. But it can be remarkably useful to prepare for inevitable workplace disagreements by considering what you might say before you need to say it. When you’re in the heat of a workplace conflict, it’s hard to find the right words. You’re mad.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 21, 2023

If you’re reading this, it sounds like you’re feeling a bit frustrated and stuck, because your well-intentioned accountability conversations aren’t fixing a repeated issue. But they have one important behavior that’s SABOTAGING THEIR SUCCESS… and they don’t seem to be able to fix it. What can I do?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s about time, I’ve been killing myself all year without even a thank you! Just like a great Thanksgiving meal is nice, but not sufficient when it comes to letting your family know how grateful you are, it’s hard for a grand gesture to make up for week after week of feeling over-pressured and undervalued.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? They ask for something to be redone over and over, never seeming to know what they want? How to Help Your Boss Stop Wasting Time with Bad Delegation ( 02:07 ): A question of bad delegation? It’s not what we need.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 15, 2022

Karin, with our new work-from-home policy, and flexible work arrangements, I have some of my team working from home most of the time. How do I ensure I don’t give preferential treatment to the people I see most often? How do I prevent this thing called proximity bias #AskingforaFriend. Measure it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? It’d be like a football coach saying, we’ve got to score more points, we’ve got to score more points.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

To Change Your Reputation Set Human-Centered Goals and Stick With It It can be super challenging to move beyond the stories of the past that affect your leadership reputation. Why It’s Hard Have you experienced this? They have great ideas, BUT lack the leadership know-how to make things happen.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2023

M AKING the most of every moment requires that we slow down and create some space between the challenges that are thrown at us and how we react. To master pivotal moments in real-time, David Noble and Carol Kauffman offer the M.O.V.E. framework in Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Move When the Stakes Are High.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

It’s a frustration we hear all the time. It’s like they have a wall and just won’t listen.” ” We get it. Let’s listen to team members explain why they have a hard time hearing or acting on the feedback you might share. But it’s all just too much. Feedback Flood.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Empowered teams will transform results, solve problems you didn’t know exist, and rapidly respond to change. Avoid these common roadblocks and you’ll release your team to be their best: Soak up their time. Empower” is one of those business lingo words that risks losing its meaning because it’s used so often – and often incorrectly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

I called out a friendly “passing on your left” and as they moved over to allow me to pass, I focused on the trail ahead where I would pass them, and I sped up. I called out a friendly “passing on your left” and as they moved over to allow me to pass, I focused on the trail ahead where I would pass them, and I sped up.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 9, 2024

To move forward, you need to take responsibility for the things you can control—your behaviors and reactions—and getting uncomfortable. To help you on your journey, they offer five Power Principles to bring clarity and the inner strength to move forward. Fast forward one year and ask yourself, “Where do I want to be?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you see a consistent pattern of negativity from someone on your team, it can be tempting to jump in and try to coach them out of it. When you see a consistent pattern of negativity from someone on your team, it can be tempting to jump in and try to coach them out of it. No one wants to waste their time or effort.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 22, 2023

How to Know If You Should Stay or Go One of the heartbreaking findings in the World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Survey was the number of people who said if they were faced with this workplace conflict again, they would quit, or quit sooner. Or as one guy from Denmark warned, “If you meet a psychopath at work, run!”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It takes a mind shift to move from where we are to where we want to be. It takes a mind shift to move from where we are to where we want to be. “If If my mind can be structured for failure, then it can also be structured for success.” It’s a choice. If we think in toxic ways, we will get toxic outcomes.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 4, 2024

"Procrastination is like a credit card: it's a lot of fun until you get the bill." - Christopher Parker Are you tired of feeling like your goals constantly slip through your fingers? Do you find yourself putting off important tasks until the last minute, only to regret it later? It's a skill that improves with time and practice.

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

L IFE IS HARD at times for everyone. Sometimes stuff happens, and it hurts. It’s easy to get frustrated, cynical, and angry. But a few grounding rules will help us prosper in spite of it. How do you respond when stuff happens? is like asking, “Okay, what do I do now, in this instant, to handle this and move on?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Save Days, Weeks, Even Months of Lost Time. For example, “Thanks so much for your time today. It’s why we include it as one of the 6 leadership competencies you can’t lead without in all of our foundational programs. It creates clarity and saves A LOT of time. Not Just For Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2021

– It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable. If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. Will office work remain fully virtual, or move to a hybrid model? If they sell our building, how will we do our training? It will be one of those weeks. You will know you did the best you could.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everyone is watching how you respond when a high-performer quits. When a high-performer quits, it can feel like your world is imploding as you scramble to keep the work going AND find the right unicorn to fill that spot. Of course, there’s never a good time for a high-performer to quit. But, what you do next matters.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 19, 2024

He’s #AskingforaFriend , but we know it’s a common query: How do you foster remote team building and bonding? Kermit aptly states, “Ever since we moved to a work-from-anywhere environment, I’m finding it tricky to maintain a rainbow connection. ” -Kermie.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2022

It can feel easier to keep the conversations light, particularly if that’s your team culture. But at a time when people are longing for compassion and connection, taking the conversation a level deeper can make all the difference for your employees’ mental health, as well as for building deeper trust. ”Ahh, good, man.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2023

It’s getting worse. A candidate has multiple, promising interviews , and the hiring manager “ghosts” leaving the candidate hanging… not knowing whether to give up and move on or to remain hopeful. Someone reaches out asking for a meeting, you schedule it, and they don’t show up.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

From experience keeping an eye on a candidate’s knowledge of how a specific business model works are essential and non-negotiable. It is imperative to probe candidates into the delicate subtleties of your business, for instance, how return on capital is impacted by elements deep down in the production stage.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. It’s a quality that shapes our quest to meet unmet needs of customers. And…it helps us as a society move forward in creating new opportunities for all.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Some we quickly move past, and some stop us dead in our tracks. But they all make us uncomfortable because something is not going the way we planned it. And it seems no matter what we do, we are frustrated by our inability to control it. It’s a good description of the world we live in. It’s not very logical.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

T HE TIME TO THINK about power is before you get it. Power is part of leadership, and it can be used in the service of others or for personal gain. She says that while some clients appreciated her perfectionist tendencies, it sometimes left her colleagues cold. “My How do we do that?

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I know — we've all attended those 2-3 hour status meetings that drone on forever, stray WAY off course, and never get anything accomplished. Now move that into a virtual world which makes it SO MUCH WORSE. Now move that into a virtual world which makes it SO MUCH WORSE. How do we make our meetings better?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 15, 2023

Move your organization beyond representation in three to five key areas and move away from ticking these boxes as the success to boast, I want to hear the story of the wide variety of who is in the room contributing and leading outcomes; this is our new north star. Get to know the humans you are recruiting as humans.

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