Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 13, 2023

Stop that Credit Stealer and Get the Recognition You Deserve “I was in a meeting the other day, and one of the executives thanked my boss for the success of a project I’ve been working on all year. And you know what she said next? Thank you. I was sitting right there. It was 100% me.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2023

The people you’re leading who are closer to the work will inherently know more about it than the leader, so the question is, can you learn? Can you change your mind? If listening is the willingness to have your mind changed, can you learn to listen and learn to be comfortable with being wrong?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

Learning How to Be Less Negative Will Make You More Effective. When your team or supervisor thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. And these shifts will help you bring your best qualities to every team and conversation.

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Great Results Team Building

JANUARY 5, 2024

IF YOU WANT TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN WINNING TEAMMATES IN YOUR ORGANIZATION, YOU NEED TO CELEBRATE THEIR POSITIVE IMPACT… I’m always honored and excited when I get invited to conferences to share a message to develop Effective Leaders and help companies build an exceptional workplace culture.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Empathy also means understanding how you affect others. Your empathy practice also includes adjusting what you say, how you say it, and what you do accordingly.” Why are you telling the story? What is the message you are trying to share? Am I undermining my competence as a leader?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2021

If you’re looking to move beyond a “check the box” approach to LGBTQ inclusion and create a more inclusive workplace, you won’t want to miss this important episode of Asking For a Friend. In 2016 I received this amazing note from Tammy Cravit on her journey of authenticity and inclusion. AskingForaFriend.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

Have you ever heard that you’re negative, or have you worked with someone who you thought was too negative? When your team thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. And how do I know?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

Powerful Phrases to Confidently Confront a Bully at Work Looking back I feel I should have stood for myself and not give into this bully. I only feared hurting her and not getting into an ugly argument. However, this has made me not decide so many things for myself like my career path, my job etc…at that time.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 4, 2022

One thing I am beginning to believe is that deconstruction isn’t only for those in the church. Some questions those deconstructing their faith may ask are: Who am I? What do I believe? How do I interact with the church community? I think we’ve actually seen this happen in the business world.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 23, 2019

Louie has had an annoying habit since the day I adopted him almost six years ago. I cannot train it out of him, and I cannot coax it out of him. He walks right in front of me. On our walks, he usually stays beside me, but he will cross paths in a blink of an eye right in front of my feet. Subtle Clues.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

B ASED on the premise that leadership is influence and so we all are leading whether intentionally or not, Sam Collier writes in a short 68-page monograph, Find Your Voice , “You may not even know you’re being led. Or you may not even know you’re leading someone else.” Then you begin to manage it. What are they following me?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

As a leader, you try to keep the spirits up and to motivate others. You have that one person who chooses the pathway of “Oscar the Grouch.”. I had an Oscar. It is a process of building up relationships and getting to know the personality of those you are working with to help. I don’t know what is good about it.”.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 19, 2022

Do you remember growing up? You always had questions. Rarely did you have answers. The older you got, the fewer questions you had. The more answers you seemed to find. Today, I want to encourage you to ask questions. As children, we asked questions because we wanted to know the answer.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2021

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. With a background in public relations, marketing, and internal communications, HR had become an accidental specialty – I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 2, 2022

You need a bigger house. You deserve a faster car. You have to have a larger salary. Are You Content? Are you content? For me, most of the days, I think I am. For me, most of the days, I think I am. I get discontent. You have these moments too.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

Some of the best teams we know are great because they stay curious and creative. You can check out the other dimensions and their powerful habits here. Seek New Approaches Habit: I explore possibilities and look for alternative paths to achieve goals. And, curiosity is one of those skills that can feel hard to teach.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

For many years I have been discussing how the skills of leaders needs to change to meet the needs and demands of the 21 st century workforce, and the recent pandemic has just highlighted this even more. In the past, leadership was all about what skills you had and your ability to get results. These seven qualities are: . Credibility.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

I am sure we have all heard the leadership adage, never walk past a piece of trash on the grounds of your workplace because it sets a precedent for those working for you to follow. Hang with me this will get better, I promise. I know what you are thinking, “what the heck is McRay writing about.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Have you ever felt this way? You’re in the middle of a challenging workplace conflict, and you’re at a complete loss for words. You’re mad. Maybe you even say something you can’t take back. And then in the middle of the night, the perfect words come to you. You see them.

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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? This week on #AskingForaFriend I have a conversation with my friend Dr. David Burkus about what makes a great team. What are the characteristics of a great team?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 12, 2021

Mother Norman, I am so sorry for the loss of your husband.”. “Oh Oh daughter, I know, let me introduce you to my son.”. Mother Norman, ” as I have called her for years, was the teacher who I looked up to as I learned to be a teacher. Thank you, Mr. Tate. I understand.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Before digital clocks, engineers were restricted to nine-minute snooze periods by the gears in a standard bedside clock — and because the consensus was that 10 minutes was too long and could allow people to fall back into a “deep” sleep, clockmakers decided on the nine-minute gear. If anything, it can make it harder for you to wake up.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 30, 2022

I’ve been listening to a wide range of audiobooks recently. I’ve been introduced many great authors and concepts. I’m learning about topics that were never taught (or I don’t remember) during my school years. Listening to Ben narrate the story of his life with Denali touched me.

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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. I suspect the answer to all of the above questions is no.

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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. About a month before each offsite, I conduct 20-to-30-minute structured interviews with each participant to learn what everyone thinks are the most important challenges and opportunities facing the team.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2019

The team I worked with were characterised by lack of confidentiality, conflicting personal and political agendas, lack of respect, and a lack of trust. Why did I succeed? In part, my success came about because I am familiar with working within such environments. The survey enabled me to access my MoralDNA profile.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

I, like many other leaders I know, would leave work to run home to… work more. I would get home, handle a few items around the house and then open my laptop or get on my desktop to get back to playing catch up at work. In addition, I would be quick to reply to late night emails and even quicker to send them.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2021

My manager caught me in the hall, beaming. “ Let’s have you do more of that.” I smiled back, “sign me up!”. That was a long time ago and the first notably positive feedback I can remember getting from a boss. I simply kept attempting jobs in which I could not thrive.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A few months ago, I was approached by a local pastor to do something crazy. The thought of it reminded me of the Five Iron Frenzy song Superpowers. I guess the guys and gal in Five Iron Frenzy were right. One leg of the race is overnight, in the dark, along roads you don’t know. Yeah, it’s easy to do that.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 17, 2023

On Good Friday this year, I found myself in an operating room with my arms literally stretched out like Jesus on the cross as ten medical professionals prepared me for surgery. To my surprise, as a mask was placed over my nose and mouth to administer general anesthesia, I felt grateful rather than scared.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 16, 2019

Twelve years after launching culture change consulting services, I am finally sitting down to write about six defining values of a leadership culture. Before I unpack the six values, let me paint the backdrop of how it all began. As I dug around the internet, three data points came to light.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

It is a journey into self-awareness so that you can serve those you lead or seek to influence in spite of your self-doubt, anxieties, and insecurities. I completely agree, and it is easy to see the parallels. You will learn what it takes to teach and lead better. You will learn what it takes to teach and lead better.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

On a recent visit to our N2Growth EMEAA headquarters in Rotterdam, Netherlands, I visited with my new friend Gerard Coops, Managing Director of HuReMa Consulting, to discuss his views on leadership as it relates to giving feedback and providing coaching. The higher you are within the organization, the less feedback you get.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 14, 2020

However, how do you get better at that in the face of increasing complexity? Because it is how good you are going to be, that matters. How good can you be? What stands in your way of becoming the best you can be? First, you struggle to recognise the obstacles in your way. However, am I a good coach?

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 30, 2022

I hate bullies. Peers valiantly try to one-up you by making you look bad. Support staff do the bare minimum and push you around because it’s not your area of expertise (like IT or Finance). Support staff do the bare minimum and push you around because it’s not your area of expertise (like IT or Finance).

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 1, 2021

Recently, two clients asked me to conduct confidential 360 assessments of vice presidents at two different companies. “What I say isn’t what you hear.” Is there something I am missing?” ” “What can I do differently?” “Here’s what I heard.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Source: The Age of Uncertainty. * * *. Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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