Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Is it micromanagement or the support you need? One of the biggest requests for help we receive is, “How do I deal with my micromanager boss?” Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. What is Micromanagement?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.) Knowledge and Wisdom as a Young Leader We rarely know as much as we think we do. Get to Know Your Business How does your business make money?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2024

Take initiative to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. You’re looking for a job, perhaps even your first “real” job out of school. Let’s talk about how to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. What advice do you have #askingforafriend?

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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. Most managers will say they want those outcomes and that they believe in an empowered team, but unintentionally prevent their teams from doing their best. One Big Reason Managers Disempower Their Team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you want to be an effective human-centered leader, you’ve got to keep learning and growing. 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. And can further your leadership journey.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact. Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. But, what’s REALLY tragic is to see well-intentioned leaders with great ideas getting talked over or ignored, because of HOW they contribute. .”

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

How do I lead well now?” What do I do now?” ” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. Teach your team how to think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

We normally wait until the end of the year to share the top 10 leadership blog posts of the year (you can see the 2020 collection here). However, so many of the articles from the first half of the year are so timely now, we wanted to give you a chance to read any you may have missed. We would love to hear from you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

Avoid These Big Mistakes When Recognizing Employees. Done well, these programs will have a positive impact on culture and can also serve as a vital part of your 5 x 5 communication plan. Avoid these 8 employee recognition program mistakes. You work to make every bride’s and corporate meeting planner’s dreams come true.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

How I Learned the Secret to Better Results the Hard Way. Before I share this secret to getting better results, I’d like you to think back to your senior year in high school. Do you remember being really sensitive to all the “lasts?” The last show you were in. You know your “guitar.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Have you ever felt like this? You’ve worked hard to build your leadership brand, but the negative perceptions linger. You can improve your reputation and your leadership brand with this proactive approach. Put simply, your leadership brand is how others would describe you in one sentence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Your human resources professionals can be wonderful strategic partners and collaborate with you to achieve amazing results—but it takes trust and a solid relationship to get there. You might not be aware of what your HR professionals offer. Or maybe you don’t know how to leverage those relationships.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Meaningful Business Metrics Aren’t About the Number When it comes to business metrics, there’s a secret that top-performing leaders understand, but might not tell you aloud: “Your customer doesn’t care about your internal scorecard.” But sometimes, that stack rank was an hourly reminder of all the work I, and my team, had to do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2021

My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager. The phone buzzed with her final thought: Have you experienced her frustration? But like you, most leaders don’t intend to give poor feedback or hurt people, so what goes wrong? People need to hear what they’re doing well. So, address both.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 10, 2024

Let's explore practical and professional strategies for responding to condescension, empowering you to maintain your composure and assert your worth in any challenging interaction. Understanding Condescension "I'll handle the technical part; you just focus on the simple stuff. We don't want to overwhelm you."

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. Perhaps you’ve been promoted and your team has tripled in size. How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. If you have too many of these freak-out moments, your people will conclude that kindness is only for the easy times. Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. So how do you teach and encourage resourcefulness in your leaders and on your team? No fancy budget.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

Successful Working Managers Relentlessly Prioritize, Invest in People, and Delegate “I’m a working manager – not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work, besides having to lead my team. What should I do?” What is a working manager?

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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. Culture Change Not Working? 00:20 Hey, welcome to the show.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2023 curated just for you. The Leap to Leader : How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership by Adam Bryant The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But oftentimes, problems exist with how accountability is understood and how it’s enacted that make it ineffective or even counterproductive. Theodore Roosevelt once said, “If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.” Did you hit your numbers this quarter?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

Achieve Success Together: How Great Teamwork Turns Talent into Performance Are you ready to learn how great teamwork can propel your organization into high performance? So, what are the key lessons from successful leaders and how do they foster and nurture great teamwork within their teams?

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CoachStation

MAY 8, 2023

Do you fear that you will eventually be discovered as a fraud and you might get found out at any minute? Then you are experiencing something often referred to as imposter syndrome which stems from a sense of inadequacy, despite objectively being competen t. Our doubt comes from our desire.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Personal Perfectionism: For many, there's an ingrained belief that they must achieve perfection in everything they do. The more you achieve, the more you have to lose, leading to a perpetual cycle of self-doubt. Start by journaling your feelings when you experience a setback, and then write what you learned from it.

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

And we all make mistakes. There are, without a doubt, a lot of things going on around us that can easily take you off-track. How do you respond when stuff happens? You say, “Next!” is like asking, “Okay, what do I do now, in this instant, to handle this and move on?” You must have the facts.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of the best ways to ensure you are successful as a business owner is to build and cultivate trust. It’s important that you do so within your company walls as well as with your customers and other business leaders. How far you can get in your career depends on this and will impact what you’re able to achieve.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 18, 2023

Here are some tips for doing what you say you're going to do: Set clear and realistic goals: Before committing, make sure that you understand what is expected of you and that the goals you set for yourself are straightforward and practical. This will help you to stay focused and motivated.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 10, 2021

Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire. As a human-centered leader, you might just be tempted to hold onto an obviously bad hire too long. And, holding onto a bad hire (after you’ve done all you can) is one of the biggest leadership mistakes you can make. “When did you know he was a bad hire?

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I managed large teams for over 15 years in corporate and have been coaching C-Level clients for 15 more. During this time, I've probably run into every scenario a manager can experience. Here are my top 20 hacks to make you a better leader (in no special order): 1. It's a lot harder, but you will like the results a lot more.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! We would love to hear from you in the comments. Which leadership article resonated most with you and why? What leadership topics are of most interest to you in the coming year?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A good book helps us to do just that. Here are ten books to help you get back into the world of work and make plans for an improved future: How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 27, 2024

Decades of psychology experiments show strong links between our sense of control, well-being, and satisfaction. ” They found that many managers are using this issue as a scapegoat for their organization’s poor results. Mistake #2: Signaling you’ve lost trust in workers and managers.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 25, 2023

You want to jump; you know you can, but a nagging voice at the back of your head tells you it’s not good enough unless it’s perfect. So, what do we do? Do we just give in and never jump? Do we stay in our comfort zone forever? Nah, that’s not how we roll. I’m not calling you dumb here.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Their curiosity and love of learning drives them to do more and do it better. They love what they do, and they love solving problems. In addition, it demands a new kind of 10x management. There is the talent, and then there are the people managing and developing that talent. They work well on teams.

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