Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2023

But with so many digital distractions and competing priorities, how can you ensure that your team is paying attention to what matters most? In our leadership development programs, we help managers get better at remote team communication by tapping into four key principles of memory: recency, repetition, recall, and emotion.

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Ross Dawson ’s new book, Thriving On Overload , provides you practical insights and strategies to build a positive relationship with information and excel at work and all your ventures. Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and 25 years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2021

Here’s a proven, human-centered “how to respond” technique that recognizes the effort while providing information to help them contribute more relevant ideas in the future. How to Train Your Team to Bring You Better Ideas. How do I respond to them without shutting them down, or wasting a lot of time?”

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Ross Dawson ’s book, Thriving On Overload , provides you practical insights and strategies to build a positive relationship with information and excel at work and all your ventures. Dawson draws on his work as a leading futurist and 25 years of research into the practices that transform a surplus of information into compelling value.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It also helps organizations excel during the executive transition, adjust to their new executive leadership, and support their new executive. Let’s dive into how to use this process to set your people and company up for success. At the same time, the current team will be informed of the hire, and first introductions might be made.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

” How to Say No at Work. In our leadership programs, we always recommend facing difficult conversations with confidence and humility. “Yes… And” As David Dye shares in, How to Help Your Team Say No at Work, one way to do this is by affirming the request and the value the request might represent—that’s the “yes.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Focus on Being Effective, Not Right Set aside right, and focus on how you can be effective with your difficult stakeholders. If Distracted Donna is feeling stressed and slowing you down by asking for information you’ve already shared, then the way you’ve been communicating isn’t working. When emotions run high, clarity suffers.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Humanizing Leadership Mentors. During the book writing process, I reflected on the multitude of individuals who graciously shared their time, words, wisdom, and encouragement with me along my personal leadership journey. How they showed up as leaders and how they engaged was critical to my leadership development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence—or erode your credibility. Gather Information with Three Quick Questions. Depending on the circumstance, it may be an opportunity for them to grow, for you to improve your leadership, or a moment to connect and build a stronger team. 6 Ways to Deal with Team Conflict.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In this heartfelt episode, Tim Lupinacci, CEO and Chair of Baker Donaldson Law Firm shares his leadership journey and how you can invest in continuous learning and personal growth. You’ll get practical tools for a leadership journey of continuous growth, resilience, and empathy. And can further your leadership journey.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 17, 2024

This proactive approach shows leadership potential and a vested interest in the company's success. Reach out for an informational interview or casual coffee chat. Share what you learn with your team to demonstrate thought leadership. How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

The loss of translation from leadership to implementation teams and across groups that have to collaborate can lead to costly implications. This also means creating the capability — typically through a Process Center of Excellence (COE) — to build and maintain this information for long-term value.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teaching your team how to think and act like an entrepreneur. Make information accessible. ” As you can imagine, the answer was often.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Hi Karin, “I attended your Courageous Cultures, how to Read Courageous Cultures with your team book club, and we loved it. I continue to respond with regard (with gratitude, information, and an invitation) to the ideas I receive. Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

You might miss a big chance to improve your leadership, fix a problem, or truly help the person be more effective. Your Leadership. One common cause of employee negativity is poor leadership. Eliminate these toxic behaviors from your leadership before doing anything else. Lack of appreciation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 22, 2020

You’re smart, informed, and know your work backward and forward. In this episode, you’ll discover challenges leaders face when they’re overly focused on being right and how to let go of being […]. The post When Being Right Frustrates Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

As companies strive to stay ahead of the curve and maintain a competitive edge, the need for effective leadership at the executive level becomes paramount. With the help of a skilled coach, executives can identify and address their blind spots, develop critical leadership skills, and navigate complex organizational challenges confidently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Insights on Leadership Trust from Stephen M.R. Covey Leadership trust begets trust. The conference was all about COURAGEOUS leadership. Watch this # askingforafriend video for PRACTICAL tips to do this well, as well as some practical ways to restore leadership trust once it’s broken. Covey shares how.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But one thing that has largely remained unchanged has been the approach to leadership development. Limiting the definition of leadership Many have asked me how to define a leader, but I have refused. Limiting the definition of leadership Many have asked me how to define a leader, but I have refused.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They maintain that “useful information” is a crucial driver of effective leadership—that their job is primarily to educate and inform their teams with facts and figures. As a result of this information-centric mindset, these leaders: Read the content on PowerPoint pages but don’t explain why it matters.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. Now you want them to be leadership coaches too?

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2022

It’s interesting to me how trends come in waves when I coach executives. Lately, the trend has been leaders asking, “How do I get my team to think like me?” The question has come from members of senior leadership teams, individual senior executives, and mid-level leaders. How does that inform your thought process?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 28, 2021

These include external coaches, reverse performance appraisals, facilitated focus groups, meeting reflections, project reviews, external assessments, informal networking, and so on. In their Harvard Business Review article, , Zenger Folkman offers this sidebar: An Informal 360. What leadership skills do you think are strengths for me?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Establish Your Leadership As a mentor of mine, Gail used to say, “Where there is chaos seize control.” Give the visiting executives some information in advance. See Also: Presenting to Executives: How to Have More Confidence Ask for What You Need. Know the story you want to share, and help your team get ready.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2022

Recently, we had one of our global leadership development participants ask how we would lead through a no-win scenario. Your information will never be perfect. But informed action builds momentum. We would love to hear from you: how have you or another leader you respect navigated seeming no-win scenarios?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2020

Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking. The post How to Draw Out Your Team’s Best Ideas appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. In this episode, you’ll get a powerful tool to draw out your team’s best ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Karin and I are no strangers to the stress and anxiety that come with leadership. They chose the human-centered leadership that we’d let our stress undermine. If you don’t recognize what’s happening those stress responses will short-circuit your human-centered leadership. It Happens. An unforeseen ball is dropped.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The pandemic has shaken the nature of work and leadership to its core. More than ever, leaders need to establish platforms and forums where information is available and accessible. You want people to find information they need and for information to be exchanged through channels that are clear and convenient.

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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. Empathy can’t be outsourced to computers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 4, 2021

?. Nothing burns time, energy, and leadership credibility like wasted training. 0:25 – How leaders at different levels can use this information. 1:48 – The first mistake that undermines your training (especially leadership training): lack of executive sponsorship. Three specific mistakes undermine training.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Many competencies play a role in great leadership, but the most critical is probably emotional intelligence—the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and to understand the emotions of others. The Leadership Gap. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. How to Lead Your Team When The Future Is Uncertain.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 29, 2024

Determine whether everyone should hear the news simultaneously or if some individuals need to be informed first. Encourage dialogue to gain real-time insight into how employees are receiving the information and gauge their understanding. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In the rapidly evolving world of leadership, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Here are some ways, AI can keep leaders more informed and effective decision-making. This knowledge forms the foundation for making informed decisions. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 12, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have seen time and time again how successful leaders unknowingly sabotage their own success through certain habits that they fail to recognize as detrimental. The way to avoid this is to be aware of how your words and actions may be perceived by others.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 22, 2023

By learning how to use adversity in leadership to improve your thinking, you can become a more resilient and effective leader. Here are some ways to use adversity in your leadership to improve your thinking: Discover your inner philosopher: Adversity often forces us to confront our beliefs and values.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Remember, understanding these nuances provides invaluable insights for informed action and a smooth transition. Transparent and consistent communication from the CEO and leadership team is crucial. Utilize town halls, email newsletters, and internal social media platforms to keep everyone informed and engaged.

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