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Coaching is a Participative Sport

Lead Change Blog

One of my biggest and hardest life, love, and leadership lessons was learning the power of seeking to understand and doing so before offering advice or solutions. Leadership, as it’s often practiced today, rewards people for having all the answers, being right, and being assertive in sharing those right answers.

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Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

” Why is a Check for Understanding a Powerful Leadership Communication Best Practice? Of all the leadership communication techniques we share in our leadership programs , the check for understanding always rises to the top as one of the easiest to do, while having the fastest impact. Communication is a team sport.

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The Power of a Naked Leader

Lead Change Blog

It reminded me of a doctor whom you have never met coming into your hospital room sporting a white medical coat, name tag, with a stethoscope around his neck, and introduces himself as “Dr. There was no giant desk or nameplate or other symbols of power. Here are three keys to naked leadership. What is a Naked Leader?

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Leading Thoughts for March 21, 2024

Leading Blog

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Sport executive Scott O’Neil on keeping what’s most important front and center: “What matters more than anything else to you? Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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The Power of Asking

Mills Scofield

Vala is now at Salesforce, Twitter is X, and Sidney is still changing lives - the power remains. Let me share a brief story about a couple of normal (well, in their eyes) people and a kid to illustrate the Power of the Ask. But let’s face it — Providence, RI, where Sidney lives, is not exactly a professional sports powerhouse.

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Tom Ryan’s Philosophy: Becoming Elite in Life and Leadership

Skip Prichard

His journey is compellingly told his book Chosen Suffering: Becoming Elite in Life and Leadership. It doesn’t matter whether you follow, or even enjoy, the sport of wrestling. Wrestling is more than a sport for Ryan. Leadership. Tom told me that successful leadership takes vulnerability. Initiative. Teamwork. .”

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4 Key Strategies for Becoming a More Powerful and Trusted Leader

Lead Change Blog

What thoughts or feelings do you have when you think of power? Perhaps you picture an organizational chart where the boxes at the top are imbued with more power than those below. Or perhaps the word power conjures up feelings of nervousness, anxiety, or fear, based on negative experiences you’ve had in the past.

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