Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. This heartfelt post came from years of listening to high-performing employees vent their frustrations about the stupid things their managers said.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. This article gives you some practical tips for better influence and less stress. You glance at your phone, and your heart does a mini samba. ” (which you have).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Use This Approach to Gain Respect and the Influence You Need. 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. How do I gain their respect?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Of course, you know that leadership is not who likes you. 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 like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. Why don’t they like you?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. If you have too many of these freak-out moments, your people will conclude that kindness is only for the easy times. Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). 4:32 How do you fail forward? ” Let your participants know you are trying something new.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2023

The people you’re leading who are closer to the work will inherently know more about it than the leader, so the question is, can you learn? Can you change your mind? If listening is the willingness to have your mind changed, can you learn to listen and learn to be comfortable with being wrong?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

The challenge is knowing which ones to listen to—to which should I pay attention or seek out? Everyone who wants to be successful listens to their target audience. What do they want? What do they need to be effective? How can you meet this need? Should you provide it? Listen, but stay focused.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.) Knowledge and Wisdom as a Young Leader We rarely know as much as we think we do. Get to Know Your Business How does your business make money?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! You can (and should) work to build a culture for your focus on influence. You don’t need to wait for the bigger culture to emerge.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Episode 237: Do you ever get frustrated that your manager wastes time with bad delegation? Or they change their mind after you’ve already finished what you thought they asked for? How to Help Your Boss Stop Wasting Time with Bad Delegation ( 02:07 ): A question of bad delegation?

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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

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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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 8, 2024

Speaking about his new book, The Generous Leader , author Joe Davis says, “This book is about the ways in which you can become a generous leader to be part of something bigger than yourself.” To help you become a generous leader, Davis introduces you to seven essential elements that he believes will develop you into a leader for the future.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 21, 2021

Listen in as Next Element Co-Founder and CEO, Nate Regier discusses how drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. During this interactive interview, learn: How to detect and decode drama in yourself and others.

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Rich Gee Group

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Listen here: A robust style can make people appear more competent, and a poor style can drag down a superior skill set. PRESENCE How you are viewed (and consistently graded) by your audience - superiors, peers, subordinates, vendors, and clients. Mimic the uniform and look of the people you admire, and you will fit in nicely.

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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.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

.” Another person I spoke with said, “My manager was all about us working remotely until he realized that he’s an extrovert and now had no one to talk to. A group of 12 people got to sit into the broadcast booth to watch the three show hosts do their thing, ask questions, and take part in on-air contests.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 5, 2024

Work on enhancing your listening skills, delivering clear messages, and fostering open, honest conversations with your team. Develop Emotional Intelligence: Emotional intelligence is crucial for understanding and managing your own emotions and those of your team. Setting clear objectives helps you stay focused and motivated.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! We would love to hear from you in the comments. Which leadership article resonated most with you and why? What leadership topics are of most interest to you in the coming year?

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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

JULY 31, 2023

by @DebbieLaskeyMBA The Five W's of Leadership via @LeadershipMain You’re great at this job, let’s make you a manager! Insider Ted Van Dyk Can America overcome the recent political polarization and dysfunction? Or are our circumstances so dire and unprecedented that decline is inevitable and history holds few lessons?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2021

Your human resources professionals can be wonderful strategic partners and collaborate with you to achieve amazing results—but it takes trust and a solid relationship to get there. You might not be aware of what your HR professionals offer. Or maybe you don’t know how to leverage those relationships.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everyone is watching how you respond when a high-performer quits. When a high-performer quits, it can feel like your world is imploding as you scramble to keep the work going AND find the right unicorn to fill that spot. But, what you do next matters. Start Here When Your High-Performer Quits.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

When presenting to executives, don’t forget what makes you an expert. You’ve been working hard, and the project is totally on track. But, if you stumble through the presentation, you’ll likely end up with a pile of action items just to prove the project is in good hands. How do I get better at this?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 28, 2021

As You Return to the Office, Make a Deliberate Plan. You’ve learned a lot about how you work and what makes you most productive over the last year. You had more choices on how to structure your day, when (and with whom) to engage. You figured out what worked best for you.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

How does one lead on a daily basis in an environment which is volatile, uncertain, and constantly changing? How does one lead in an environment where the trade-offs could be stark: human life or human financial survival versus organizational financial losses? Visualize, for example, how you would behave to be kind.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

As I conduct observation coaching with leaders, I watch for how their words resonate with their audience. Do attendees in the meeting cringe at certain words, or do their metaphors generate inspiration? It also requires listening and speaking with intention. Channel : how you deliver your message (i.e.,

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

A quick search on LinkedIn will bring you to the pages of coaches and consultants who claim to solve “quiet quitting,” using the keyword to garner clients. Quiet firing” came about in response to it, describing the passive-aggressive behavior of managers who withhold opportunities from quiet-quitters instead of firing them altogether.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about. People listen to what you have to say, and follow you, because they want to, not because they have to. When you have that kind of influence with others, the results begin to speak for themselves. The solution is far from magical.

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Mike Cardus

APRIL 21, 2024

2024), this guide will help change teams understand how to effectively implement these principles, recognize when they are working, and identify potential issues. How to do it: Ask and listen to all employees to share and add ideas for change. Encourage managers at all levels to facilitate change, not just dictate it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

M UCH has been written about how the Millennial and Z generations are different, their likes and dislikes, and idiosyncrasies. In Generation Why: How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z , McGill University professor Karl Moore asks why. Our education has a huge impact on how we believe the world does and should work.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Being a leader is a little bit about you, but mostly it’s all about others. Managing just to the numbers only gets you so far. Treat people well, they deliver—and everyone succeeds. Treat people like crap and, well, results falter. They watch both the bottom line as well as employee satisfaction and engagement.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

Of course, WHAT you say will instantly influence your credibility and impact. But, what’s REALLY tragic is to see well-intentioned leaders with great ideas getting talked over or ignored, because of HOW they contribute. But you know what else was happening nearly every time she spoke up? If you screw up, admit it.

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

There are, without a doubt, a lot of things going on around us that can easily take you off-track. Performance strategist John Alston and Emmy Award-winning director-producer Lloyd Thaxton present nine uplifting and inspirational Reality Rules for dealing with trying times in Stuff Happens (and then you fix it!) You say, “Next!”

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