Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In other words, is your team picking up what you’re putting down? You ask your team to repeat back what they heard you say in a friendly, non-confrontational way. I just want to be sure my communication was clear so you can explain this new strategy to your teams. Communication is a team sport.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 19, 2023

New Book Giveaway! Leave a comment on this guest post by Dr. Richard Safeer, Chief Medical Director of Employee Health and Well-Being at Johns Hopkins Medicine, to become eligible to win a complimentary… Continue reading →

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 7, 2023

Make Taking Risks a Team Sport Taking risks at work can feel remarkably lonely. This week on #AskingforaFriend I share practical approaches to making taking risks a team sport. In this video, I share three leadership best practices to help your team work together to strategize, analyze and execute appropriate risks.

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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. Furlong held senior global leadership roles at TD Securities, retiring in 2012 as vice chair.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article. Were you picked last for sports or business? Yet, the teams in the NFL didn’t want him. Have you ever felt like an underdog? Sometimes we feel like no one wants us. That’s how the football player Kurt Warner (Zachary Levi) felt. He knew he was good. He knew he could play.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

If you’ve ever played a team sport like soccer or basketball, you quickly learn that while it is helpful to have an “all-star” player, the best teams leverage the talents of all their players on the field and elevate everyone’s game in order to consistently win.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 27, 2012

Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. In his book, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership , John Maxwell calls this the Law of the Lid: “The Lid represents the limit of our leadership abilities.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 25, 2024

His tenure at Ohio State has been marked by significant achievements, including leading the team to their first NCAA National Championship in 2015. Under Ryan, the Buckeyes have seen seven Top 3 NCAA finishes, been NCAA team runner-ups five times, and have claimed three Big Ten team titles. Leadership. Initiative.

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General Leadership

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

“The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. The summer of 1992 marked the first time the United States would present a basketball team to the Olympics composed of current players from the National Basketball Association (NBA). The post 7 Essentials for Building a Dream Team appeared first on General Leadership.

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Mike Cardus

JANUARY 23, 2012

I am not a sports fan, and when I am leading team building & leadership retreats for Corporate Teams the topic comes up. I have lead programs with professional and college level sports teams, and learned a great deal about the similarities and differences. Are you a sports fan? What do you think?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Sport executive Scott O’Neil on keeping what’s most important front and center: “What matters more than anything else to you? Your WMI might change, and it might be different for you today than three years from now, and it might be different for home with your spouse or with good friends or coaching a team.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in October 2023 curated just for you. We celebrate gifted students in school, natural athletes in sports, and child prodigies in music. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 5, 2022

He had put together a team of runners to run the Ragnar Michigan relay. The team consisted of 12 runners, a driver, and two volunteers for the event. I saw so many leadership lessons in the Ragnar Road Michigan relay that I participated in that I couldn’t resist writing an article about my time running. Keep going.

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 19, 2020

How can leaders provide the resilience their teams so desperately need? Here are six questions leaders should use with their teams to get the conversation started. Resilience is a team sport. When leaders attempt to shoulder the load as an example of strength, the team follows suit – to everyone’s detriment.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Welcome to the August 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. Practice these steps to improve your coaching, leadership, and parenting.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 2, 2019

.” While gravely ill last fall, Tyler predicted on national television that unranked Purdue football team would beat the heavily favored, top 5 ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. The post The Upset: Life (Sports), Death … And the Legacy WE Leave in the Middle appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Welcome to the February 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. Team Building. Communication. Connect with Marina on LinkedIn.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in August 2023 curated just for you. Greg Harden spent over 30 years building them at the University of Michigan and gained national recognition when 60 Minutes Sports profiled him as "Michigan's Secret Weapon." Champions aren't born. They're built.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Strategic leadership means leading for today, tomorrow, and beyond. Leading the long view takes place by engaging team members in creating co-ownership of the future-state vision and strategy that brings the vision to life. When environmental changes accelerate, a strategic leadership approach becomes essential.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

FIFA just threatened to penalize any team wearing an armband showing support for LGBTQ and other marginalized communities in the World Cup. Where is the leadership at FIFA ? If they should get another yellow card during the game, for any reason, they will be ejected and their team must play down a man. Beyond Sports.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 4, 2018

Yet, it also speaks volumes about Kerr’s sharp understanding of team dynamics, and his acceptance of the new-age role of a coach. In days gone by, sports coaches took a more hard-line, militaristic approach to leading. As Kokoskov says, “there is no such things as a perfect coach, only a perfect coach for a particular team.”.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

Only the strongest teams will survive and while their defensive pressure, explosive running game or deep shooting might define their style, their success rests on five obsessions. These obsessions are common to champions and may very well help your team in your competitive endeavor. . The teams that do this best will move on.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MARCH 12, 2017

If you are a sports fan, there is always lots of talk about the importance of offense and defense in the making of winning teams. The post Leadership Offense: Aligning Your Front-line Leadership Team appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Think about it this way.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

F1 racing has historically been a male-dominated sport, but that is changing rapidly. Currently, no rules prevent women from competing in the sport, but the current grid of drivers is exclusively male. The sport has recognized the importance of engaging with fans and providing them with an unforgettable experience.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 7, 2021

In fact, current economic challenges demand that our entire team communicates and works together at the highest efficiency. We can certainly understand that some teams have become rusty and have experienced challenges to their productivity levels along the way. The leadership advantage.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JUNE 24, 2014

I had just given a leadership clinic to the CEO’s human resources department. Since then I’ve worked with more than 150 CEOs and their management teams. And, the catch is that as more is expected of you as a leader, the less time you have for development, and yet improving your leadership skills is more important than ever.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 25, 2021

When you are in a leadership role, one of your jobs is to make sure that the morale is good within your teams. This is why you need to be creative and make sure that your teams are kept happy at work and allow them to have a little fun in the office rather than it being all work and no play. Betting on Sporting Events.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

From analyzing the regulatory environment and building the right team to deciding which risks to take and managing and mitigating these risks by devising effective strategies, an entrepreneur is responsible for playing many roles all at once. However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JULY 2, 2012

The notion of business as a combination of sport and war was attributed to Emile Herzog (1885-1967), a French author who used the pen name, Andre Maurois. As in war, a common enemy is a great place to unify and motivate a team behind a worthy cause. As for sport, the game of market share was an easy way to track success.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Here’s the thing – the foundational elements of leadership require no skill or talent whatsoever. In today’s post I’ll share 6 leadership characteristics that require zero talent or skill. In most sports I’m aware of you cannot play if you don’t suit-up and show-up.

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 7, 2014

In her book My Life in Leadership , Frances Hesselbein, former CEO of the Girl Scouts, CEO of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute, and one of the greatest leaders I’ve ever met, wrote one of the best descriptions of listening and leadership I’ve ever read: “Listening is an art. You say something – I get mad.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2017

T HE AMERICA'S CUP is the world’s oldest international sporting trophy, first contested in 1851 when the schooner America crossed the Atlantic and beat 15 British yachts. This year at the 35th America’s Cup in Bermuda, Team New Zealand beat the defending Oracle Team USA. Great Teams Serve Each Other. Great Teams Innovate.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

But there is another way a leader can manage accountability and that is by setting up their team to be accountable. On accountable teams when someone fails to meet expectations and aren’t doing something different to get those results, the team members step in. First there was a real and meaningful shared fate on the team.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 5, 2016

How healthy are your teams at work? Do team members work purely on their own individual tasks or do they also help their colleagues when the pace demands it? If your team’s interactions fall somewhere between those extremes, effective team work is eroded. My experience with teams is probably like yours.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 30, 2017

by Sam Walker Tune in to any sports talk show on a slow sports day, or sit at the bar of any local sports hangout, and this question will inevitably come up: What is the greatest team ever? This eternal question was asked by Sam Walker, who led the introduction of a sports section at […].

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 14, 2013

Everyone could benefit from a daily dose of the best team leadership that podcasts offer. I have shared below the 15 best free team leadership podcasts , in my humble opinion…. 15 – GRANTLAND SPORTS. Okay, so if you aren’t listening to sports talk, you still need your fix, right? 14 – THE HBR IDEACAST.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 18, 2014

Are there any leadership or management lessons to be gleaned from fantasy football? May a few, but read my latest post over at About.com Management and Leadership to find out Why You Shouldn’t Lead Your Real Team Like You Manage Your Fantasy Football Team. fantasy football fantasy sports leadership management'

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