Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 3, 2020

When I joined Merchants Fleet as CEO in 2018, I knew I was joining a team of some of the most experienced professionals in the fleet industry. To make this happen, we put a system in place with six key focus areas: 1. Previously, the leadership team had only met on a monthly basis.

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Anese Cavanaugh

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In our previous article , we shared insights around focusing on the importance of energy accountability with your leadership teams and workforce. One leverage point here is to create an eco-system that supports and inspires an inside-out approach enabling personal energetic accountability AND high performance for each individual.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Want to empower your team? During times of uncertainty and change, it’s easy for your team to get lost in the chaotic swirl of indecision —to wring their hands and wait and see. It’s also the perfect time to empower your team, to step up and take the lead. Everyone had a new boss and a new team.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2024 curated just for you. All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. Systems perspective. The Goodwill Jar : Reflections on Leadership and Legacy by Nick O.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Teams go through mood changes. No doubt you’ve felt it after a great team success or alternatively, the gloom and doom when things do not go as planned. It’s a team experience. It’s mostly invisible, but it affects team performance. There’s an opportunity for leadership in that experience that is generally overlooked.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

.” Weak managers don’t leverage the strengths of their teams. In Working with Emotional Intelligence , Daniel Goleman, reports, “a study by the Center for Creative Leadership of top American and European executives whose careers derailed, the inability to build and lead a team was one of the most common reasons for failure.”

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 13, 2024

As I wrote about the accountability mess , a good person in a bad system or process sets that them up for failure — and blame. About 85% of the time the fault is caused by the system, processes, structure, or practices of the organization. These core systems either boost or block performance.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Come Up for Air : How Teams Can Leverage Systems and Tools to Stop Drowning in Work by Nick Sonnenberg “There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done!” Sound familiar? Come Up for Air is that blueprint.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Importance of Executive Coaching in Leadership Development Executive coaching is pivotal in developing leaders, allowing them to unlock their full potential and drive organizational success. This highly specialized form of coaching is specifically designed to address the unique challenges and complexities that executives routinely face.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 22, 2024

Every team needs some inexpensive ways to develop people on the team. This is dangerous for a team, which wishes to remain healthy and continue growing. If a team is not learning and improving it will soon struggle to maintain any level of success. So, build into your system some inexpensive ways to develop people.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Doing the right things to get the right things done requires a GPS system to achieve high performance-driven execution.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2020

W HILE the introverts at the office may not be top-of-mind when it comes to assembling a project team, you could be overlooking valuable contributors. Management guru and prolific author, Patrick Lencioni, wrote about the three characteristics of an ideal team player – hungry, smart, and humble. Create team member user manuals.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Understanding the Role of Embracing AI in Future Leadership Strategies As the transition towards a digital economy accelerates, Artificial Intelligence (AI) emerges as an influential element in shaping leadership strategies. Thus, the advent of AI tools induces a compelling transformation in leadership strategies.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the world of business, leadership and management are often depicted as two distinct circles. For CEOs and executives, understanding when to embrace leadership and when to lean into management is crucial for success. The Art of Management: Management involves developing, organizing, and overseeing systematic processes and systems.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 22, 2023

When Sarah, a promising team leader at SmartTechCorp, began spending more time with her superiors, her team started to notice a shift in her priorities. Meetings with her team became less frequent, and candid conversations dwindled. Leadership is a complex entity, shaped by more than just individual drive and capabilities.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In Voyager, women finally had a realistic representation of female leadership aboard a Star Trek vessel, one that was determined and decisive but also empathic and willing to listen. In fact, she’s almost a prescient paragon of what good leadership looks like in the 21st century. Someone who sees the system.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 19, 2023

However, all too often, teams rush to find solutions without taking the necessary time to define the problem clearly. Here’s a problem-solving process you can follow: Agreeing on the Problem: Before diving into solutions, it is crucial for teams to establish a shared understanding of the problem.

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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. The Five Graces of Life and Leadership by Gary Burnison. Five simple qualities that captures the essence of outstanding leadership today. The Net Promoter System shines as their guiding star. With Amy Herman’s Fixed.,

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A new addition to every workplace, organization, and school should be an SOS (System of Support). Readiness, training, resources, and collaborative supports are essential pieces for a system of support. Leader/Team Responsible. Leadership team. Call for help-an SOS? Example Plan Template. Key Objective.

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Leading in Context

DECEMBER 6, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton Discouraging Unethical Leadership One of the most important responsibilities of the senior leadership team is to discourage unethical behavior and build an ethical culture.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

Entrepreneurial leadership is a mindset. It is a mindset that is even more critical in today’s unstable world and is the sine qua non of crisis leadership. He shares these in Entrepreneurial Leadership: The Art of Launching New Ventures, Inspiring Others, and Running Stuff. Five Types of Leadership. Secure a Team 4.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 10, 2023

An important leadership principle was shaped for me during what seemed to be a normal season in our organization. It seemed things were healthy on the team. We had the right players and clarity of vision, however, team friction developed. This isn’t unusual on teams. So, the best teams will have friction at times.

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

If you are leading or working in a toxic team culture, there are only 3 cures that you will ultimately be able to choose from to make things better. For the first four days of her employment, she out-performed everyone on her team. You can work from within to change the system. You can change yourself to fit into that system.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2023 curated just for you. As they have excelled, so have their businesses and teams. Fast Forward will help you and your teams create the life you want this year and every year. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 13, 2024

No one intentionally sets out to create unhealthy team environments, but I’ve seen it done so many times. There are things which injure the health of a team. Just as with a healthy team environment, creating an unhealthy team environment often happens – though perhaps unintentional – by things we do as leaders.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 2, 2024

Here are 24 innovative leadership goals for the new year – including metrics to measure your progress…. Enhance Feedback Systems: Create a more robust feedback system for stakeholders to let you and peers know what’s working and what needs improvement. Succession plans prepare your team for the inevitable people changes.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Now, let’s get into the leadership lessons in The Pez Outlaw. Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Pez Outlaw. Everything has a system that can be gamed.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

E LEVATING your leadership game is a mindset. In Peak Leadership Fitness , author Timothy Tobin writes, “A leadership mindset is essentially the belief in yourself and your abilities as a leader. A negative leadership mindset is rooted in self-doubt, uncertainty, and lack of inquiry. You are in control of your mindset.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Welcome to the August 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. Shelley Row of Insightful Leadership shared Staying Engaged with Virtual Teams.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals. Source: Becoming a Coaching Leader: The Proven System for Building Your Own Team of Champions II. And where do you get discernment? It comes with time in the coach’s seat.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 1, 2019

Guest post by Bill Treasurer : Leadership is typically associated with action—with trying, doing, and achieving. However, there’s another side to leadership that focuses on the followers: trust. As leaders, we need to actively trust our followers, teams, and employees. How can you trust your team more this week?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 18, 2014

The team leader role is a tough gig. Team leaders are uniquely squashed between supporting the folks doing the heavy lifting (e.g. Many team leaders feel they have limited power to change the system or culture (an issue we address in BYOO: Build Your Own Oasis). 7 Vital Roles of an Exceptional Team Leader.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2021

James Kouzes and Barry Posner emphasize this point in Everyday People, Extraordinary Leadership. To help you develop confidence and grow as a leader, the authors present an operating system of leadership practices based on their time-tested Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. But good leadership goes beyond that.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior. If only change were that simple.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Leadership for Tomorrow. His advice to adopt a mindset of growth, focus on what fulfills you, and embrace new modes of leadership is exactly what many people are looking for during this time of transition and change. The new style of leadership is premised on trust , and the practice of management is now more art than science.

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