Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Days are filled with tons of activity, but you end the day, week, or month and have nothing to show for all that effort. But doing those habits without the right focus on outcomes can become a box-checking exercise. Some team members will do what they know how to do or are comfortable with doing.

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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. But if you don’t pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you’ll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. Promote leaders aligned with your culture and you build momentum. Get this wrong and you’ll undo all the good you’ve done. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership. Do they use power judiciously?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Is it micromanagement or the support you need? One of the biggest requests for help we receive is, “How do I deal with my micromanager boss?” ” In fact, that phrase consistently ranks in the top “ Asking for a Friend” questions in our Leadership Development Programs.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Leaders engage in a number of related activities including managing and leading, discovery and delivery, as well as giving and receiving feedback. . How much time should you spend doing each activity? . You must determine what’s required to achieve your goals. . Managing and Leading. Managing and Leading.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2024

Why are you getting angry? Can’t you see how right I am? What’s wrong with you?” Never use the microwave in anger–especially if you work at home.) But, if you can learn how to de-escalate these emotional conversations, you’ll give yourself and your coworkers the gift of a path forward. You don’t understand!”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

Successful Working Managers Relentlessly Prioritize, Invest in People, and Delegate “I’m a working manager – not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work, besides having to lead my team. What should I do?” What is a working manager?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2023

“As a young manager, having not done well at leading, my team approached me and addressed what they saw needed to change. After all, it takes energy to initiate it, and you can’t predict exactly how it will go. And, much is lost when you can’t talk about what needs to be said. You might want to say all the things.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

Thoughts on AI and Workplace Culture If your business includes work that is repetitive, routine, or structured in a predictable setting, you face competitive pressure to automate that work —if you haven’t already. Leading in the automation revolution isn’t about what you can control; it’s about what you can create and contribute.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. Now, imagine if you had leaders at every level doing that with their teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. Leading through a layoff is one of the most unnerving challenges you can face as a manager. What’s equally difficult is helping your team recover, establishing a new normal, and figuring out how in the world you’ll get it all done with fewer people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Let’s listen to team members explain why they have a hard time hearing or acting on the feedback you might share. “I’m trying to do better, I really am. No matter what I do, I can’t seem to get it right, so I’ve learned to just block him out and do the best I can.” How do I do that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent. Or, perhaps you’re not quite sure if your idea is a good idea.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How do we solve the right problem quickly and get ourselves and our team back to work? When someone walks up to you and says, can I talk to you for a minute? How do you respond? When people are confronted with problems, a lot of times you get one or two reactions from managers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2021

My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager. The phone buzzed with her final thought: Have you experienced her frustration? But like you, most leaders don’t intend to give poor feedback or hurt people, so what goes wrong? People need to hear what they’re doing well. But then…”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2024

To do more, clarify who owns the decision and know when it’s time to move Is your team full of good intentions and meaningful conversations that don’t translate into action and results? Do discussions regularly bog down in analysis paralysis? 7 Ways to Help Your Team Do More 1. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Do More 1.

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CoachStation

MAY 8, 2023

Do you fear that you will eventually be discovered as a fraud and you might get found out at any minute? Then you are experiencing something often referred to as imposter syndrome which stems from a sense of inadequacy, despite objectively being competen t. Which you choose to see is up to you.” (2)

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2021

“Hey Karin, I want to develop critical thinking I really do. But…you would be surprised some of the decisions they make or things they do. How do I get my team to think more strategically? Ensure your team has a clear understanding of where you’re headed strategically. AskingFriend. Our I.D.E.A.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

Do You Tolerate Poor Performance or Let the Slackers Slide? Have you ever found yourself reluctant to hold an employee accountable because you worry they will leave or quiet quit? Or you let a performance issue fester for fear of not being liked? Do any of these common mistakes sound familiar?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What do you do to help your team shift from busy to productive? Is your team doing what you asked, but they’re focused on counting the metrics, and how busy they are as opposed to the quality metrics of how well they’re accomplishing those tasks? It’s the actual work we do.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2023

In leading any change, you will encounter barriers. If you don’t understand where they come from and address them, you make things more difficult. When progress stalls, there could be a values clash that you are not aware of. You Need More than Authority (Leadership from the many, not the few.) Manage Risk.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 25, 2023

You want to jump; you know you can, but a nagging voice at the back of your head tells you it’s not good enough unless it’s perfect. So, what do we do? Do we just give in and never jump? Do we stay in our comfort zone forever? Instead, we face it head-on, and we manage it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. And, use that insight to help us plan for what would serve you most in the new year. As we continue to support you and your teams in your human-centered leadership journey, we would love to hear from you.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

No matter how big or small the change you want to make, if you’re a team leader, it all comes down to you. But that’s not enough. And then there’s the view that if you properly scope out what needs to change, you’ll get there. And then there’s the view that if you properly scope out what needs to change, you’ll get there.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Meaningful Business Metrics Aren’t About the Number When it comes to business metrics, there’s a secret that top-performing leaders understand, but might not tell you aloud: “Your customer doesn’t care about your internal scorecard.” But sometimes, that stack rank was an hourly reminder of all the work I, and my team, had to do.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Of course, this is sort of like asking a baker if bread is worth baking. Here’s why: none of us can see ourselves as others do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 30, 2022

Today, I share part two of my Asking for a Friend interview with Amer Kaissi on the important intersection of humility and ambition. Take the time to practice some leadership humility and ask yourself what contributed to that success. Get enough feedback to find the patterns. Staying Humble, Yet Also Ambitious. Who mentored me?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ghosting at work is when you THINK you’re in an important conversation. You’ve had a few great dates. You made some fun plans for NEXT weekend. A prospective customer asks for multiple discovery calls and a detailed leadership development proposal with multiple iterations. I really do.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

I am sure we have all heard the leadership adage, never walk past a piece of trash on the grounds of your workplace because it sets a precedent for those working for you to follow. As your frustration builds, because cleaning the company’s floors is not in your job description, you decide to grab a broom and make it happen.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

If you really want to reward employees, be sure to do it in a way that positively impacts employee morale by avoiding these (sadly quite common) mistakes. The nicely printed signage thanked them for their commitment to customers, but the thank-you signs were not enough to hide the trash or disguise the smell.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

You want to make a good impression and set yourself up for success in your new role. Your success and satisfaction depends on numerous factors, many of which you can influence and control. Let’s delve into a few key points proving that it does and find out what you can do to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 10, 2024

“Are you using all your strength?” ” one of the scouts asked. You are not using all your strength,” the scout replied. “You haven’t asked us to help you.” ” Weak managers don’t leverage the strengths of their teams. .” How do you know?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

If you’re responsible for training or building leaders in your organization, how can you ensure that they learn and practice these skills? Time management. You can’t lead when you’re exhausted or reactively flipping back and forth from one crisis to the next. So how do you master time management?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

Learning How to Be Less Negative Will Make You More Effective. When your team or supervisor thinks of you as a negative person, you’re less likely to be invited to conversations where you would have valuable contributions to make. And these shifts will help you bring your best qualities to every team and conversation.

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CoachStation

MARCH 14, 2023

You want to make a good impression and set yourself up for success in your new role. Your success and satisfaction depends on numerous factors, many of which you can influence and control. Let’s delve into a few key points proving that it does and find out what you can do to minimise the risks and maximise the opportunities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

We normally wait until the end of the year to share the top 10 leadership blog posts of the year (you can see the 2020 collection here). However, so many of the articles from the first half of the year are so timely now, we wanted to give you a chance to read any you may have missed. We would love to hear from you.

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