Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. Let’s take a look at the anatomy of character, how it establishes itself, and what leaders can do about it.

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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. You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. Wait, What?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

If you change your leadership assumptions, can you create a powerhouse with the organization or team you already have? It looks like a small taste of flexibility and freedom has made many of us rethink the nature of the work we do and how we do it. Society just kind of works better when work works better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2023

#AskingForaFriend This fantastic question came in during one of our recent leadership development programs. Not modeling the way I can’t tell you how often someone in our leadership programs raises their hand and says, “This is fantastic! Have you taught my boss? ” “You need to be more empathetic.”

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 22, 2023

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Plane is an action movie that will have you at the edge of your seat for most of the film. You’ll watch Plane with your attention fixed on the screen. The action really starts now.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 19, 2024

Where we once saw the need for change, we now shrug off and move on. In Look Again: The Power of Noticing What Was Always There , Tali Sharot and Cass Sunstein ask what if you could, to some extent, dishabituate ? What if you could once again appreciate what you now take for granted? W E habituate everything.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

T HE context of leadership has changed. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances. But what matters more is how leaders lead other people.” High performance equals high potential for leadership.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 15, 2023

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. The film shows Otto’s multiple attempts at suicide (if you’re contemplating suicide, please reach out for help. He is saved over and over again.

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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. How do you get there?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. 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. All the results are sliding backward.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2023 curated just for you. The Wisdom of the Bullfrog : Leadership Made Simple (But Not Easy) by Admiral William H. And they must do it all with a sense of grace—calmly, collectedly, and compassionately.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2023

Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. Today’s #AskingForaFriend came in from our Micro-Learning Lab. Or, drop us a note.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. And, use that insight to help us plan for what would serve you most in the new year. Human-centered leadership work is always challenged by distractions.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 31, 2023

People regularly ask me why I continue to participate in endurance sports. You have to prepare to succeed in any such endeavor. Long runs require many hours of training and conditioning when you don’t feel like practicing. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Leadership Is An Endurance Sport Leadership isn’t easy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We would love to hear from you.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Forget the old concepts of time management and the hustle culture of working until you burn out. You and your entire team can get more done, in far fewer hours, with the right blueprint. Sound familiar?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2023

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. They understand what we’re doing and why we’re doing it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2023 curated just for you. Leading with Significance : How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture by Joey Havens Can a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? Absolutely! Chaos does not have to be confusing or debilitating.

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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. Julie Winkle Giulioni shared Remote Relationships: How Far Can You Coast ? Communication.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 26, 2024

William Ury says, “We actually need more conflict, not less—if we are to learn, grow, evolve. But if you start from that assumption, that is most likely where you will end up—it’s impossible. But if you start from that assumption, that is most likely where you will end up—it’s impossible. We’re human.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2024 curated just for you. So how do we sustain performance, while avoiding burnout and maintaining balance? Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. Glad We Met : The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven G.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

You connect with one another, establish clear success criteria, get curious, and build on one another’s suggestions, but nothing happens. Your conversation needs to produce action, or nothing changes. And if nothing changes, it’s worse than if you never had a conversation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Use this Simple Technique for a Better Career Elevator Pitch. Do you ever think of exactly the right thing to say — your perfect career elevator pitch — the moment you walk away from the conversation? Ok, so the story I share with you in this video is seriously right on point. And guess what?

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

A few months ago, I was approached by a local pastor to do something crazy. That’s a lot of people, with most of them being inside a 15-passenger van. One line of the song went like this: Eight people in a stinky van, a couple more couldn’t hurt. Leadership Lessons From A 200-Mile Ragnar Relay Race.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 11, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. This is a movie that needs to be seen. It’s a story that needs to be told (and it was in this movie and a book ). We need to remember Jesse Brown.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What to say next when you’re overloaded at work (without sounding whiny) Ever found yourself cackling at the monstrous to-do list glaring back at you, thinking “Right, that’s not happening,” only to gulp back a sob as you realize none of it’s optional? You’re overloaded at work.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Erwin Raphael McManus begins by reflecting on a statement he once heard, “Some people are simply structured for failure.” Every time you want to elevate your level of execution, performance, or effectiveness, it will require a mind shift.” Mind Shift #1: It’s All About People Life is not about things. It’s a choice.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

When Henry Ford began to build his Model T, he didn’t need a lot of freethinkers on the assembly line. What he needed was people to consistently perform in an efficient manner. And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It’s easy for true gratitude to get lost in the swirl of formal recognition programs, everyday courtesies, and the relentless push for more and better. You need recognition. We need them. You won’t find gratitude in a spreadsheet or calendar. Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. It changes us.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But even those sitting at the top need to identify ways to optimize themselves, bettering their work and diving deeper into their highly specialized skills. For that, executives can partner with an experienced leadership team coach. What is leadership performance coaching?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 14, 2023

Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. It’s hard to do THIS on Zoom.” We’d love to hear yours!

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2021

As we study math and science we learn a great deal about measurements. Leadership encompasses all of these components. Leadership encompasses all of these components. John Maxwell’s book 360 Leadership is a great book. His description of organizations needs leaders who can lead in every direction. Action Plan.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2022 curated just for you. Productivity advice works—and we need it now more than ever—but it’s just as vital that we also develop our capacity for calm. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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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. 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.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 22, 2022

There’s so much to unpack with Christmas, especially if you’re a Christian. There’s so much to unpack with Christmas, especially if you’re a Christian. There’s also a lot to learn about leadership through the Christmas story… 5 Leadership Lessons From Christmas. Jesus was born.

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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. Think Again : The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant. We see disagreement as a threat to our egos, rather than an opportunity to learn. Conflicted : How Productive Disagreements Lead to Better Outcomes by Ian Leslie.

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