Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team will end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. When you can embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they will work together to help you, your team, and your organization thrive. Does everyone know what success looks like?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

I’m a great leadership thinker too. Which is why I’m inviting you to play along with our next crowd-sourced adventure: A look at the biggest mistakes TEAM LEADERS make. The team leader’s job is arguably the toughest job in most companies and organizations. The Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders Make.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 16, 2017

This month’s festival is all about team time. The question for the month is: What is an area of growth you are focusing on, either professionally or personally? This month’s question was: What tips do you have for working well with a team? You may discover that your team is nothing more than a committee in disguise.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now. As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. Equip your team to solve problems on their own.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2014

Every year, I take time out to work on my leadership credo. How to Build a Leadership Credo. This exercise pairs well with a discussion on leadership authenticity. This exercise pairs well with a discussion on leadership authenticity. Each credo should include the following components: Core leadership values (e.g.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

When’s the last time you looked at the competency model for your job or for the members of your team? I’ve spearheaded many such initiatives over the years, including the modeling of all the leadership jobs that were used in merger selection of the executive team. call center directors, team leaders).

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Practical Advice to Deal with a Blind Spot and Make it Work For You How do you become aware of a blind spot in your leadership? Embrace the idea that diverse cognitive styles, such as those of the operator, strategist, rainmaker, visionary, tech futurist, and orchestrator, are all crucial for a balanced and effective team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Stuck in a world where productivity meets panic and trying to be a ‘team player’ feels like a conspiracy against your sanity. For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. You’re overloaded at work. The boss says.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

In this episode, Jeannie Diefenderfer gives you what she found after conducting the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance 2022 Study on How Human-Centered CEOs Fuel Performance. Fueling Human Centered Performance 07:11 Using curiosity in leadership. 09:21 How to create self-regulating teams, with high performance expectations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2023

Learn how to uncover your hidden assets, remove invisible barriers limiting peak performance, and amplify strengths to achieve breakthroughs for yourself, your team, and your organization. 27:27 – A practical application for XQ is in hiring and building teams. Examining them and making choices about them is key.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After all, you want to be helpful, responsive, and a team player. “Yes, my team can do that for you,” might mean, “I’m going to have to postpone our team’s strategic planning offsite. In our leadership programs, we always recommend facing difficult conversations with confidence and humility.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Even if it all feels warm and wonderful, your team needs you to remove roadblocks. Three Roadblocks Your Team is Longing For You to Remove. Roadblock #1: You’re clear about what you want, but your colleague in the other department is sending an equally strong message to his team leading them in another direction.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

We once coached “Jane” a woman executive (she, her, hers), the only member of an all-male, executive team (he, him, his). 3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Leadership Influence at Work. What Your Team Needs Now. Leadership Skills: 6 Competencies You Can’t Lead Without. Jane’s story.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 4, 2017

I usually write for your teams (and how to help them deal with you ;-) But today, I write to you. Because when senior leaders practice winning well behaviors, the culture shifts that much faster– and results not only go up, they stay up– and teams feel excited about what they’re up to. Not my usual M.O.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2013

But– watching your team do one is down right scary. Help your team to build more powerful presentations. Help your team to talk strategy. The post Powerful Presentations: Teaching Your Team To Talk Strategy appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You care about your people, and these things can get ugly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

Particularly during times of uncertainty and change, one of the easiest ways to know what’s really going on is to (1) get clarity about what you don’t know and (2) ask your team some courageous questions. Her team had been holding user experience calls each week and the feedback had been great! “Is

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 12, 2017

We’ve gotten to know Tanveer through his fantastic leadership writing and thought leadership over the years. Leadership today has certainly become a complex endeavor. This is where relationship-building becomes critical to our ability to succeed at leadership. Relationships For Complex Times.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2016

I want to address what I believe to be one of the most important aspects of your workplace leadership. In many leadership forums, many leadership books, and not a few social media memes, what I’m about to say would be skewered, and yet… your credibility and influence depend on it. What is this leadership heresy?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Whenever anyone asks me what leadership lessons I wished I’d learned sooner, I always have the same response. And of course, as a human-centered leader, you focus on connecting with and developing your team. He was my technical expert— he knew everything about the network and call center operations. An Encourager.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

It’s quite possible your team is tired. In our research for Courageous Cultures, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” So what do you do when a co-worker won’t listen? How do you get them to take your idea seriously?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The world goes nuts when someone finds a simple name for that universal feeling that makes you think more deeply about your leadership: Who Moved My Cheese , Flow , fill in your favorite blank __. Leadership vision, challenge and hard work all become simplified in the naming process. 5 Ways to Use Naming in Your Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

As a follow-up to our discussion about the Biggest Mistakes Team Leaders make, Bruce Harpham offers his insights on the biggest mistakes NEW leaders make. Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. Do you give credit to your team? Nobody likes to make mistakes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

You may go for another level, you may iterate, you may do some other things, but that’s how you operate and you would expect other people to do the same. Other times seeing and touching that work product makes them realize just how much something different will better meet the teams or the customer’s needs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. Once my leadership blog started gaining traction, I began paying attention to who else was in this human centered leadership space. Does it align with my values?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Laura,” a senior exec working to build leadership throughout her team, looked up from her salad and confided. Winning Well leaders know that making the right decisions is clearly only the beginning, it’s also about building decision making competency throughout your team. Be Crystal Clear on Your Values.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. Paul LaRue of The Upwards Leader shares How Leadership Can Break Down Walls. Jim Bouchard of The Sensei Leader shares that leadership by example should be part of the culture at every rank. Want to get the most out of your time and your team?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 26, 2015

If you’re like most managers, you know the importance of helping your team see the bigger picture. If you want your team to truly “get it,” sprinkle little bits of big picture reinforcement into their week. Teaching Operations Reviews. Help your team see the bigger picture. ” -Simon Sinek.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 6, 2015

Your team is starving for information, reassurance, guidance and support. “We’ve got some exciting changes next year which will include an important restructure to streamline efficiencies and operations. Common in large companies, “the planning team” thinks it make sense to go one department at a time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Every manager and team member will be more effective with greater skill in this arena. But, tackling the topic head on will save a lot of wasted time and emotional energy, for you, and your team, while preparing your team members for larger roles in the process. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal With Ambiguity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

I want to take my contributions to our team up a level this year. We often include these DIY 360s in our leadership development programs. Open up just a bit more—and let your team learn something new about you. ” the most frequent answer is that they would address the performance issues on their team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The power of getting small, a small habit repeated daily will transform your life, your team, and your outcomes. This principle holds true and it holds true for your leadership and your work. It’s hard to believe we’re in season 12 of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul already. Getting Small.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

If there is something employees could do that is more valuable, that contributes more directly to the team and to the results you’re trying to accomplish, why on earth would you want them in your meeting where they are less productive? Your meetings should also move the mission of your group, team, and organization forward.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2017

This month’s festival is about handling conflict in your team. What approaches are you and your team using to build your organization’s brand? How to Handle In-fighting on Your Team Follow Robyn. 5 Tips to Ensure Your Values Unify Your Team, Not Divide Follow Jesse. Submit your relevant blog posts here!

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2022

This Asking For a Friend question comes up so frequently in our leadership development programs, particularly now with such a focus on retaining high-performing employees. A bonus for digging a bit deeper here, this conversation helps to ensure that their hard work is focused on what will have the biggest impact on the team’s results.

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