Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

They look at the work they’re doing and ask “how can we” do this EVEN BETTER? How do we better leverage the strengths of every team member? How do we best communicate? What are our most important strategic priorities (and how do we best achieve them)?

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 17, 2024

Standing out and moving up the ladder requires more than just showing up and doing your job. Share your successes and learning experiences with your team to build credibility. Be clear about what you hope to learn or achieve through the mentorship. Invest in learning new skills relevant to your career goals.

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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. Focus on Being Effective, Not Right Set aside right, and focus on how you can be effective with your difficult stakeholders. Sound familiar? It’s Last Minute Linda.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

What recommendations do you have to form a great first impression with my new team? askingforafriend Show up Interested and Interesting For a Great First Impression Your team wants to know you care about them and are interested in who they are, what they do, and the challenges they face. What do you want me to know ABOUT YOU?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

These are certainly valuable.And when we ask the tens of thousands of leaders and managers we’ve worked with about the most valuable practice they’ve learned through our work together, one the most frequent answers is to “Check for understanding. Then do it again the next day. It’s not flashy or charismatic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2024

Let’s talk about how to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. What advice do you have #askingforafriend? Do Your Research About The Company… (and look for patterns) Start by doing your homework. Self-Reflection: What Do You Want in Company Culture? More on that research here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

We love learning about what’s resonating, and most importantly, how teams are applying what they’re reading as they grow leaders and encourage courage and innovation. You’ve got to do something with what you read. We also make it easy for teams to read together and discuss what they’ve learned.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. Consider this post a starter kit for how to lead with Socratic questions. What’s the evidence for our assumptions?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI? So where do you start? How do you truly measure the ROI of remote vs. in-person work? 3:40 Companies are asking how to know what is better for the company and the employees now that there is a choice in the work location.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

Before addressing a negative team member’s behavior, do a self-audit of these common frustrations and make sure you’re not inadvertently causing the negativity. Eliminate these toxic behaviors from your leadership before doing anything else. Do you consistently encourage and recognize people? Your Leadership.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How often do you stop what you’re doing to step back, pull up and look at the patterns of what’s going on in your environment, and ask questions like what’s working, what’s not, and what’s next? Effective pattern recognition is a key learning strategy component for any executive leader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

You care about your team and the work they’re doing. They want to know their work matters and that you (and your boss) appreciate all they do. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out? And, strategically spending your time doing what mattered most. They’re working hard.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

We constantly hear, “We’re doing so well with our office occasional/remote team, but gosh, I really miss THIS! It’s hard to do THIS on Zoom.” Let’s talk about some practical ways to do that well. We like to do this right at the start of an all-hands meeting for a few reasons.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Or, it could be you are worried about how to sustain momentum with a reduced staff. I learned so much about being a leader during that time.” How to Lead Well After a Layoff or Downsizing. Much of what I learned from employee engagement came from that time. You might have some survivor guilt. I’ve been there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Whenever anyone asks me what leadership lessons I wished I’d learned sooner, I always have the same response. ” This goes beyond, “having a best friend at work,” (which according to Gallup only 30% of us have— which is too bad— since those who do are more engaged and productive). What would add? An Encourager.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2022

How do you give your boss bad news well, while avoiding the proverbial shooting of the messenger? To learn to speak the truth with candor, and work in organizations that encourage them to speak up, share their ideas, and train them to do this well. ” And, what does that have to do with giving your boss bad news?

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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. What did you do with it and what happened as a result? How did you work to resolve the conflict?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

It’s a constant parade of senior leaders looking to learn and looking to help. Or do they think these visits benefit you and your teams by providing moral support and encouragement? ” One way to do this is by setting clear expectations for these executive visits. What does success look like? Your turn.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. Until… Four weeks into my maternity leave, my boss called: Karin, I hate to ask you this, but how soon can you come back? Teach your team how to think.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 24, 2023

These are people who will show you where they’ve been, the steps they’ve taken to get there, and what they’re doing now. Go find a guide… But how do you find a guide for yourself or your business? Go find a guide… But how do you find a guide for yourself or your business? Go to these!

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 8, 2024

Remembering micro-moments of courage makes it easier to do the right thing next time. This activity reminds your team of the times they WERE BRAVE and how it made them feel. How do I feel about this incident? what… do you notice about yourself? Did you learn?) What did I expect to happen?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! When we do this work with teams in our strategic leadership programs , most employees find aligning on the values is the easy part. Empower innovation.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

First, why do these programs fail? The second and more important question remains: How do organizations achieve success? That same year, Apple introduced the iPhone, which revolutionized the industry with its superior touchscreen interface and robust app ecosystem. Nokia just couldn’t keep up.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For three of my client companies, this is the third consecutive year that they’ve asked me to do this kind of work with them. 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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Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

In How to Change , behavioral scientist Katy Milkman says we need to tailor our approach to fit the obstacle and our circumstances. If you are doing well, a fresh start can be an interruption and become a setback. If you are doing poorly, the disruption can work to your advantage. Instead, we focus on what we intend to do.”

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Leading in Context

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

This means letting go of preconceived ideas of what might be true, and being open to what may unfold as you learn more. As you know from completing puzzles with lots of pieces, a few pieces do not show you the whole picture. As you know from completing puzzles with lots of pieces, a few pieces do not show you the whole picture.

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Career Advancement

MAY 10, 2021

Striving to be a top performer, not only doing what is expected but taking on higher-level projects and responsibilities whenever possible. The favorites know how to work the system in their favor, which ultimately means building a strong support base throughout all corners of the organization. Here are some tips for doing just that.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

So what do we do when faced with a wild problem? Do the right thing and respect yourself. Do the right thing and respect yourself. One way to do this is to have rules that you follow no matter what. It helps to make deciding what to do simpler. Stop doing the stuff that isn’t for you.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Lessons learned from our experiences alone do not make for Experiential Intelligence alone. Your abilities represent broader approaches to how you do what you do, so you can apply what you know how to do in different contexts. Know-How: Your knowledge and skills.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Let’s do this differently and we get that. They do this by addressing six components of culture: legitimacy, ownership, relevance, attainability, authenticity, and impartiality.” Hand-drawn visuals like sketchnotes are a wonderful tool to learn immersively, collaborate and see problems clearly. Enroll Today!

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

N O MATTER WHAT you are doing, you can be motivated by the work you do. Even if you hate your job, you can learn to love any activity. The key is to create excitement around the experience of doing what you do – intrinsically. You are the best measure of how much you have learned, improved, and grown.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 17, 2023

Follow these tips to learn how to make your processes smooth and efficient for a more satisfying experience for everyone involved, including you. This is especially true when you have just designed a highly-proficient presentation only to turn around and do it again. It does not have to be this labor-intensive.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How To Make Failure A Regular Part Of Your Life. We also learn what does work once we shift our attempts. To make failure (and growth) a regular part of your life, do the following: Do something you’ve never done before: Most failures come from doing something you’ve never done before.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. Workers with specific EI skills know how to successfully cope with stressful work environments and experiences. They can handle the discomfort of learning curves and uncertainty.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

And if you do not address the many issues that a corporate merger or acquisition present regarding your culture, you will soon lose many of the people that could propel your organization forward successfully. Establish mentorship programs where employees from both sides can learn from each other.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Learn how to influence the key stakeholders above you. Learn how to influence the employees below you. Learn how to influence your peers. In doing so, you’ll cultivate strong relationships by making them feel valued—and by giving them exciting opportunities, you’ll show you’re someone who gets things done.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

They then spent the day in conversation with President Obama’s former aide and “body man”, Reggie Love ; learning how to build their personal brands, getting career development advice from a panel of black executives, and coaching each other on setting actionable goals. You can see it in the pictures that accompany this post.

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