Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Team dynamics is one of the overlooked parts of a business. Yet it affects so much of a how a business operates, from the individual in the team to the company as a collection of teams to the entire market place. If a team is out of sync or out of flow, things happen slowly or at worst not at all. Michael Jordan.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the November 2020 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. And yet, what we hear from their teams is quite a different story.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

At a candid team meeting, someone asked his role, “I have been sent by corporate to be your manager.” We get overall leadership from Marc, which is all we need. It got me rethinking the true role of leadership. . Service leadership is about realness, not about roleness. A manager will just get in our way.”

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 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. Your silence may be doing more harm than good. An Evolving Definition.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Welcome to the January Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds shared Creating Your Leadership Footprint through the Practice of LESS is MORE.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

No leader sets out to lead an ineffective team. In fact many leaders invest a lot of time and energy agonising over how to create the perfect high-performance team that works effectively and consistently delivers results. Many leaders create teams that lack diversity and are too large. Just think of a soccer team.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Welcome to the October Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, engagement, team building, and more. Team Building. Wally states: “ You can’t prevent all crises on your team.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development “Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.” Lao Tzu Leadership is about results and positive outcomes, and so leaders want the hearts and minds of others directed toward a unified purpose. Connect with Tal on Twitter @tshnall and his leadership/teamwork blog Leadership Cafe.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 22, 2018

Recently as I prepared for delivering a Leading Through Change programme I thought I would research the different leadership models that exist. In essence, they forget that the leader is an integral part of the situation and that a leadership style is not something you can simply adopt. It must be something that comes from within.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Welcome to the November Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, customer service, development, engagement, and more. Steve Digioia of Steve Digioia provided Leadership Series: Ron Kaufman. Communication. shared Work is Broken.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Welcome to the February Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, productivity, development, engagement, team-building, and more. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership shared Things We Don’t Say Often Enough.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

Have you thought through your target operating model? It is about developing a sound leadership and management practice that will serve you well for a lifetime. Three simple practices to grow your leadership thinking. Better still your team and your organisation will ultimately benefit too. On The Future.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Whilst intuitively leaders knew that the level of trust in the organisation impacted team performance and company value, there was no concrete evidence to support this. Trust needs to become baked into the DNA, strategy, and day-to-day operations of all aspects of business because it impacts relationships with all the business stakeholders.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

What do you think characterises modern-day change leadership practice? How not to do change leadership! When applied to change scenarios, the consequences can be shocking for the individual, teams and the whole organisation. Unfortunately, highly effective change leadership is that most valuable and rare commodity.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The improving economy has prompted many companies to reinvest in their employees through team building activities. With the purse-strings less tight, leaders try to create a fun atmosphere and help team members bond with each other. The reality is that team building will not likely have beneficial impact on your day-to-day operations.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 10, 2019

We are pleased to present this excerpt from The Leadership Killer by Bill Treasurer and Captain John Havlik. Leadership is hard. Sure, leadership can be attractive and rewarding, but that doesn’t mean it’s obligation free. Leadership is a role, a part you play in front of many audiences.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Back in my formidable days of being a twenty-something manager, Jack, one of the senior leaders of our theme park department, would spend time throughout his days discussing various leadership and operational strategies with us. One of the lessons I learned from Jack was how to seek team members who complemented each other.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 5, 2018

Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Read more to find out what they are!

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Business stakeholders—customers, investors, and team members—are now demanding more from the businesses they “work” with. A number of recent surveys from McKinsey research have identified three traits that are becoming leadership imperatives to respond to this growing demand for social accountability. Transparency. Cognitive Empathy.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development Chaos It was a mess. The World Wide Widgets leadership team had gathered to decide how to use surplus funds. After the President shared a few of her ideas regarding equipment or new hires, the VP of Operations suggested they take a vote. Author information David M.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Thank you all. Learn more about RLI here. Let’s Get Started.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Other leaders operated machines. Leaders aren’t super-powerful beings that design and operate organizations. Today, it makes more sense to think of a leader as gardener, not a machine designer or a machine operator. As a leader, you should pick a team that has all the skills you need to do the job. Tend the Plants.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Welcome to the September 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! New Leadership. Cy Wakeman of Reality-Based Leadership provided Three Habits that Zap your Productivity at Work. Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided Developing Team Norms, Why it Doesn’t Work and what to Do Instead.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 5, 2015

Fans, players, and coaches can be heard loudly bragging that “their team won,” much to the chagrin of the opposing team’s fans, players, and coaches. However, that emphasis can cause leaders and team members to tolerate lousy behaviors and practices so long as their team “wins.” – is OK.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2015

When I first started working with teams, I heard the phrase High Performing Team (HPT) used frequently. I understood that a this type of team produced consistent quality results and its members cared about each other. I wondered, though, what it was that made this team different from the rest of the pack?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2020

Strategic Resilience is the practice of thinking forward while leading through present turbulence – adapting to difficult operating circumstances while looking beyond current conditions to keep focused on the horizon. The context for Strategic Resilience is dynamic fluidity in the operating environment.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 13, 2018

Management of a successful workshop depends to a great extent on the organization of ideas and the environment within which you operate. Workshops are mainly about making people work together as a team. The post Team Engaging: How to Run an Effective Workshop appeared first on Lead Change. Consider the Design.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As most of you know, the team at Weaving Influence took over stewardship of the Lead Change Group blog in 2014, and has been consistently providing near-daily leadership content that all of you have contributed to on a monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly basis. We will continue the Leadership Development Carnival through 2021.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

However, while often not “planned”, our research shows that many leaders’ paths follow this pattern because they have been operating with a serendipity mindset. A serendipity mindset is not a mythical power that only specific leaders are born with but a way of operating in both our professional and personal lives that can be learned.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the great leadership challenges is making the transition from subject matter expert (SME) to leading teams of SMEs. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. So you’ll need a more collaborative style of leadership. How do we want to attack this as a team?” Shift from “Me” to “We”. News Flash!

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 11, 2020

Leadership is not something just reserved for the top bastion of an organization. It exists everywhere, and right now we are witnessing some great leadership and also some really poor leadership. This is particularly true when so many team members are working remotely. I’ll leave you to decide which is which! Resilience.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 21, 2020

Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. Great leaders empower others to success by setting the GPS for the business and then rallying the team members to follow.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Posted in Leadership Development Last fall, I attended the Arizona State Fair after a 25-year hiatus, mostly due to my misgivings of safety, security, and my favorite, the dreaded carny. Handing my ticket to the operator of a roller coaster who reeks of liquor and marijuana and looks like they are ready to fall over dead at any given [.].

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And continuing using the metaphor of head and heart, whilst the head gets things done (20 th century leadership) it is the heart that is essential to pump blood around the body, and so enable the head to operate. The benefits are not only commercial but also include improving the culture and the well-being of team members.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

This is the time to practice 2020 hindsight, looking back at learnings from all the chapters in your business story this year and asking: What did we learn as an organization that can help us define expectations and activities for our team in 2021? What has become more clear about our business and the way we operate this year?

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Welcome to the November 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I was reviewing this month’s submissions to the Leadership Development Carnival, I was wishing we could all get together in a room to exchange these ideas more deeply and directly. Thank you all. Learn more about RLI here. Let’s Get Started.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 22, 2020

In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams (2011), Great Leaders GROW (2012), and The Heart of Leadership (2013).

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