Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

” In fact, that phrase consistently ranks in the top “ Asking for a Friend” questions in our Leadership Development Programs. Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. The manager constantly wants to know what everyone is working on.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Leading through a layoff is one of the most unnerving challenges you can face as a manager. If you’re going through or recovering from a layoff, first let me say, I’m sorry. And, I had lost some of my best managers- – many of who had become close friends. Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. We sabotage ourselves all the time.

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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.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 23, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen firsthand the consequences of trust-breaking mistakes in organizations. Lets explore the ten common trust-breaking mistakes you should avoid at all costs. Micro-Managing: Excessive control and micromanagement signal a lack of trust in employees’ abilities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. But what if you carved out an hour a month to have the most critical conversations to lead your team toward high performance?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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)?” Make information accessible.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact. Subtle word choice makes all the difference. But you know what else was happening nearly every time she spoke up? 3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Leadership Influence at Work. Jane’s story. Jane’s boss, the CEO.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

Avoid These Big Mistakes When Recognizing Employees. If you really want to reward employees, be sure to do it in a way that positively impacts employee morale by avoiding these (sadly quite common) mistakes. Avoid these 8 employee recognition program mistakes. To provide more meaningful recognition, avoid these common mistakes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

So I’m pulling into the stadium and I can hear the cadence of the marching band coming around the track … Actually, I think this story will be more fun if I tell it to you this way: Communicating Clear Expectations is Not Micro-Managing, It’s Empowering. You’ve already got a long list of the most important things.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Karin and I are no strangers to the stress and anxiety that come with leadership. It Happens.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Overcoming an Outdated Leadership Brand. 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. What is a leadership brand? Imagine a meme or a billboard on the highway describing your leadership.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 4, 2024

Be willing to share your knowledge, resources, and time. Own Your Mistakes: Nobody’s perfect. When you make a mistake, own it, learn from it, and move forward. Show Integrity: Act with honesty, integrity, and professionalism at all times. Communicate Effectively: Clear, concise communication is crucial.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Perhaps you make mistakes that sabotage your opportunity to transform results. Recently, I interviewed three human resources professionals from organizations where we partner to deliver long-term leadership development. Strategic partnerships with human resources professional can be game-changers. Strategic Partnership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

Maybe it will reduce a big frustration for your customers, or save you and your co-workers a ton of time. Why You Should Try First, inertia is real. And even if your idea will make life easier, it still takes energy to consider doing something different. So what do you do when a co-worker won’t listen?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. However, in high-stakes situations, our doubts, self-talk, low awareness, ill-preparedness, and instinct-led execution can make or break our attempts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. 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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

Start Here 00:02 Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without Losing your soul, your source for practical leadership, inspiration tools and strategies you can use to achieve transformational results without sacrificing your humanity or your mind in the process. If you spend more time on quality, you go slower.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! Other Very Popular Leadership Articles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. Not to mention that no one can concentrate on twenty-seven metrics at a time.

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

L IFE IS HARD at times for everyone. And we all make mistakes. Performance strategist John Alston and Emmy Award-winning director-producer Lloyd Thaxton present nine uplifting and inspirational Reality Rules for dealing with trying times in Stuff Happens (and then you fix it!) Sometimes stuff happens, and it hurts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 10, 2021

Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire. And, holding onto a bad hire (after you’ve done all you can) is one of the biggest leadership mistakes you can make. We see so many managers hold on to false hope, increasing the agony for everyone. The Bad Hire Question I’ve Asked Hundreds of Times.

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Nathan Magnuson

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Stress and resilience have been my most requested leadership topics for over a year now. How are we supposed to learn to manage stress effectively? How are we supposed to learn to manage stress effectively? It’s not covered in most higher education programs. Just recently, I received another request. (

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Welcome to the July 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Remote Relationships: How Far Can You Coast ?

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 27, 2024

The first group of residents on the floor with more control were “happier, more active, and more alert (as rated by the nurses, not just by the residents), and these benefits were still visible eighteen months later. times and makes them 2.3 times less likely to leave the organization.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 16, 2023

Leadership involves a range of emotions and can be a very personal experience. This can help you avoid making rash decisions or saying something you’ll regret later. Avoid making assumptions: It’s easy to jump to conclusions or make assumptions about a situation, but this can often lead to misunderstandings and conflict.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 7, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I often guide my clients on the importance of having the right perspective as a leader. There are four key perspectives that I believe a leader must have in order to make a meaningful impact on those they lead. These four will help leaders and their teams do their best work.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. The new year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. ” We’ve heard this sentiment from so many managers. What important activities are most critical to your success? ” We get it.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 1, 2024

Be a visionary: The most effective leaders have a clear vision of what they want to achieve and are able to inspire others to work towards that vision. Be a strategic thinker: Business needs good strategic thinkers and the most effective leaders are able to think strategically and plan for the long-term.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

T HE FACT IS most startups fail. Tim Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School, where he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager , a required course for all of their MBAs. Customer Value Proposition: This is the most important. Customer Value Proposition: This is the most important. It is easy to blame the founders.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2023

We rarely include intentional trust-building as part of our preparation work for negotiations, and this is a mistake. For a long time, experts couldn’t agree on how to define trust, let alone how to build it. Someone suggested to me recently that it’s because women are thought of first as mothers and nurturers.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2021. We listen to opinions that make us feel good, instead of ideas that make us think hard. Throughout the book, Novelli argues that you can make a positive social difference regardless of what business you are in or where you are in your career.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 3, 2023

When Dealing with Difficult Customers, Show Up as an Empathetic Expert Most of the time we write about human-centered leadership, but the challenges of dealing with difficult customers came up so frequently in our World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Research, we thought we’d take a break from our regular programming to help.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

Through trial and error and a whole lot of perseverance, he opened the first Texas Roadhouse in 1993. It is a great mix of the lessons, the mistakes, the rejections, personal growth, and the counterintuitive ideas that worked. Stress should not manage you, and friends, family, business, and health should not pay the ultimate price.

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CoachStation

MAY 8, 2023

Image courtesy of Kristina Flour on Unsplash One of my favourite leadership experts, Madeleine Blanchard covers imposter syndrome in an excellent post. The first step is to ask yourself: Have I received an official notice from my boss that I am not meeting performance expectations? It was embarrassing, but she kept her job.)

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