Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To distinguish yourself as a young leader, build your knowledge, focus on results and relationships, and speak up. 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.) Give it time. You’re not ready yet.” (And

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It opens the door to making a relevant and trustworthy referral they can consider – And while they appreciate hearing a few names of tremendous speakers I know and trust, it is also a great to help promote people that I know will be fantastic on their stage. It’s an honor when clients or friends refer me for a speaking engagement.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 13, 2020

A question I hear often—from colleagues, board members, HR directors, recruiters, and people at workshops and conferences—is how you can tell whether someone will be a good or a poor leader. What are the signs, qualities, traits that predict excellent leadership? Of all leadership qualities, it’s the most important.

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How To Quality Workshop Morale 218

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 25, 2017

When leaders are confident, they have a deep belief in their ability to make a difference in the world. Confidence is an important competency in leadership, and it is critical to a leader’s success. Arrogance destroys the valuable, and absolutely essential relationships a leader has with other team members. To everyone.

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Open-book Teamwork Learning-by-Doing Motivation 361

Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2017

Welcome to the July 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Dan Rockwell of Leadership Freak wrote recently about assets that help leaders extend their influence. Before highlighting each of the assets, Dan wrote, “Leadership isn’t about status, position, salary, or title. I hope that’s the case.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 14, 2018

How can I take stock? How do I want to be remembered? And the way to create a great leadership legacy is to carve your name on the hearts and etch it into the minds of others, creating the stories that will make up your legacy. Character plays a vital role in leadership. What is my role in life? What am I good at?

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

If you want to make a name for yourself and be recognized as a leader in your field, remember: It’s not who you know, it’s how you know yourself. You can spend a lot of time crafting your leadership skills, but it will be your character—as seen through your words and actions—that tells the story of your leadership.

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Leadership Morale Executive Coaching Skills 167

Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 28, 2017

Boost your leadership with these actions To be valued by your followers and to have an outstanding and high performance in work is every leader’s ultimate goal. Leadership is a large role in any career development, and one has to put in the time, hard work and commitment to achieve results. Image by Evan Rummel.

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Social Capital Leadership Learning-by-Doing Advertising 183

Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

E VERY CRISIS places a leader between two fronts: Issue and Fear. Dutch says organizations need to approach the crisis with a more “ entrepreneurial, innovative, and forward-looking leadership stance and convene a process to solve these problems in real-time. There are different kinds of crises, but this dynamic applies to both types.

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Crisis Uncertainty Education Crisis Management 375

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

How to Earn Trus t and Lead Teams. Whether you are new to studying leadership or have practiced and studied it for many years, I am sure you will benefit and enjoy the leadership lessons today’s post provides. A subordinate’s trust in their leader is the most important factor in the success of any organization.” “A

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Mike Cardus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

However, the question remains: How should we address the nuances of organizational values, especially in an evolving work environment? The true measure of an organization’s culture is not found in its mission statement but in the employees’ perceptions of top management’s trustworthiness and ethical behavior (Guiso et al.,

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P&L Mission Statement Collins Influence 78

The Practical Leader

JULY 5, 2023

The fox heard him, and recognized him at once for the ass he was, and said to him, “Oho, my friend, it’s you, is it? The fox heard him, and recognized him at once for the ass he was, and said to him, “Oho, my friend, it’s you, is it? Can I recognize my own inner voice? Ringing true to me is hard.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 17, 2022

One of the chief goals of this blog is to encourage better leadership, so I normally write about leadership issues. My goal is to help you be more effective – in leadership and management. So, effective leaders and managers learn to manage how they are perceived as well as how they perform.

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Management Leadership Learning-by-Doing Bond 62

The Practical Leader

MAY 3, 2023

Many people in leadership roles don’t act like leaders. Conversely, people without formal authority can be very strong leaders. Leaders are inspired and inspire others. A central theme in my decades of trying to understand, apply, and teach leadership skills is that leadership is an action, not a position.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2018

After decades of observing teams as an executive leadership coach, I’ve come to realize two things. Think about the teams you’re involved with as you read through and see if you recognize any patterns: Weak leadership. When a team isn’t meeting expectations, the problem often lies not with the team but with the leader.

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Great Results Team Building

MARCH 1, 2023

As a team leader or employee, the quality of your days and the quality of your results is likely impacted significatnly by the quality of your teammates. But as you know, you don’t have to be an athlete to appreciate the impact of a great teammate.

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Teamwork McKinsey Conference Survey 169

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. Clearly the difference possessed by all great leaders is that they refine, develop and build from their foundation – they don’t ignore it or take it for granted.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Over the next 90 days, you can build not only your business but also your personal leadership beyond what you may have thought possible. Let this be the year you become the leader you want to be–in your business and in life. The best leaders truly know themselves. Goal-setting is an important part of being a great leader.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Self-aware Open-book 139

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 19, 2015

In my opinion, leadership starts with deep reflection to be aware of any limiting blind spots. The following nine (9) deadly sins will help you reflect on how you may be limiting yourself both personally and professionally as a leader. President, N2Growth Australia. Therefore, you often aim for unachievable goals.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 11, 2017

A Reel Leadership Christmas Throwback Article I usually start the Christmas season off by watching my favorite Christmas movie on Black Friday or that Saturday. And plenty of leadership lessons in Die Hard. Let’s take a look at the leadership lessons from Die Hard below! . Leadership lessons and quotes from Die Hard.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Planning Follow-up 164

Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Much has been written, talked about and studied regarding trust in the realm of leadership. Yet very little is said about how leaders can develop it aside from “Do what you say you will do” That’s good advice, but it’s not enough. What can you do about it?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Much has been written, talked about and studied regarding trust in the realm of leadership. Yet very little is said about how leaders can develop it aside from “Do what you say you will do” That’s good advice, but it’s not enough. What can you do about it?

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Morale Influence Mentor Advice 100

Brigette Hyacinth

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The biggest danger of leadership: Arrogance. According to research from the University of Washington Foster School of Business, humble people are more likely to be make the most effective leaders. There is still an expectation that successful leaders are more arrogant than humble. Humble leaders: 1.They Jim Collins.

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Coaching Tip

APRIL 12, 2011

Jeremie Kubicek, author of " Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It ," sees leadership as a vehicle to influence people and have a positive impact on them. "The In many cases, employees are becoming victims of these unresponsive leaders as well," Kubicek explains. People first follow the person, then the plan.

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Influence Leadership Advertising Learning-by-Doing 108

The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The Covid-19 pandemic is emerging as many things, not the least of which is a crucible for leaders. Bennis has said that such experiences shape a leader and, “Great leaders are not born but made—often by tough, bitter experience.”. How do we lead effectively and in the moment at a time when everything is unstable?

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 20, 2013

They tell you how far you’ve come. They tell you how far you have to go. Consider how your actions reflect your true self. How are you fulfilling your mission within each role? E veryday – This is the one action that is a MUST for effective self-leadership. They nod for a couple of reasons: 1.

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Development Leadership Travel Conference 133

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Guest post by Jen Shirkani : I write about the damage done when, as leaders, we don’t fully allow employees to have control over their tasks, projects or budgets. It plagues leaders from the top to the bottom of an organization: new leaders, old leaders, promoted from within, hired from the outside.

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Micromanagement Emotional Intelligence Delegation Servant Leader 252

Lead on Purpose

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

John C Maxwell defined leadership when he said, “The true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more and nothing less.” If you want to further understand John Maxwell’s viewpoint on this, you’ll probably need to look at what types of behavior are most commonly associated with effective leadership. Encourage others.

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Learning-by-Doing Self-aware Influence Skills 236

Lead from Within

JANUARY 14, 2014

Leaders know that to be respected or trusted they must be accountable. They must be willing to be responsible even before they know how things will turn out. Accountability is about trustworthiness. Successful leaders front load accountability into their leadership development. It means you are responsible.

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Influence Leadership Development Consultative Commitment 167

Career Advancement

JUNE 18, 2018

Can you help me figure out how to navigate these new waters? Here’s how to give them what they’re looking for. Be Trustworthy. You’ll see firsthand how they work best, so you can serve as a better coach. I don’t want to be that stereotypical boss who stays behind a desk except to give criticism. Work Alongside Them.

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Management Human Capital Trends Loyalty 149

Leading with Trust

MARCH 20, 2022

Brock is a Channel Partner with The Ken Blanchard Companies, an executive leadership coach, servant leader, and a man of integrity. However, I have come to realize that people think very differently about a person’s good character, from how they define good character to how they determine a person is not of good character.

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Ethics Servant Leader Execution Survey 95

Leading with Trust

APRIL 1, 2020

Now, more than ever, people need leaders to step up and lead from the heart. The coronavirus pandemic has turned our world upside down, and people are looking to their leaders for direction on how to move forward when it seems like life has ground to a halt. So true…leaders are dealers of hope.

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Human Needs Uncertainty Morale Learning-by-Doing 117

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I credit my altered career path to The Lead Change Group’s book The Character-Based Leader. Inside, however, I felt the effects of being in a place where my values were out of alignment with the leadership of the organization. Many months later I think I was one of the first to purchase their book, the Character-Based Leader.

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Ethics Morale Books Review 150

Leading with Trust

JUNE 2, 2020

Coaching has become a ubiquitous term these days in the field of leadership. It can mean anything from giving advice, teaching, encouraging, training, mentoring, or even using a specific leadership style that incorporates a defined set of behaviors. A good place to start building trust is getting connected relationally.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 8, 2013

You might be first-line supervision or midlevel in your organization, and you might also be a high-potential or high-performing leader. What choices can you personally make about how you’ll feel about a situation? You are an accomplished person who’s worked your way to get where you are by using significant talents.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 17, 2017

Good, kind, empathetic leaders (yes, they’re out there!) Staying in that place of negative self-talk can only harm your psyche, putting a strain on your leadership. How will you recognize the trigger that caused you to harm someone, and what will you do differently the next time? Does this sound like you?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 9, 2013

Many of the leaders I work with are considered “high potential” to move to higher levels within their organizations. All of those smart people are recognized and appreciated for what they know, just like you are. If you’re just as smart as everyone else, how will you differentiate yourself in a sea of smart leaders?

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