Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Not giving them genuine feedback People need to have a realistic assessment of how they’re doing so they can grow and develop professionally. I can tell you, it’s unfortunately common for people to receive unclear feedback. People often call me and say, What in the world does that mean? Review our I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 19, 2024

Practical Remote Team Building Strategies Well, Kermie, we’ve got you covered with some creative remote team-building strategies to enhance that connection: Connect Beyond Meetings (Build Your Remote Team One Person at a Time) Remote team building starts with those small, everyday interactions. You’re not alone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Could you come to our next meeting and reinforce how important they are to us? ” My team and I are having a strategic planning meeting, and I would love for you to join us for the last hour for us to share where we landed and see what insights you may have.” Ask for exactly what you need. Be easy to help.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Make a Great First Impression with a Stellar Team Meeting Hi Karin, I have a new team at work, and I want to make our first meeting fantastic. People love to show what they know and how they do what they do. What recommendations do you have to form a great first impression with my new team? What do you want me to know ABOUT YOU?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 2, 2021

When decision-making or problem-solving meetings bog down and become a waste of time, there are usually two problems causing the stagnation. 0:00 – Do your meetings go in circles and you’re never able to make a decision? 0:22 – Make your meetings productive, efficient, and something people want to attend.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

When people are scared and uncertain, they want to know they’re not alone. They long to know that people care about them for who they are, not just what they can contribute. And they want to hope for a brighter future—that’s where courage and curiosity can help your team to thrive. Compassion. Do I have that right?”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 3, 2023

Everyone wants to work on a team where they are respected for what they bring to the table. Everyone wants to work on a team where they are respected for what they bring to the table. When this is the case, people feel seen and valued for their unique contribution. What do you suggest? Are we connected? Are we reliable?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

Glad We Met : The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven G. Rogelberg There are an estimated 200-500 million 1:1 meetings held each day around the world, but are they run as transformatively as they could be? Or are they just talk? In Glad We Met Rogelberg helps us maximize the potential of these crucial conversations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Those moments where the thread of understanding seems to unravel, leaving you feeling exasperated and silently screaming “Don’t they understand?” Frustrated that they “just don’t get it?” ” You have a chance to lead and overcome a failure to communicate. ” (or sometimes not so silently).

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Now you’ve wasted time, trust drips away, and people lose hope. Create Ownership: Verify that every task has a specific person responsible for its completion Habit: I ensure we conclude our meetings or conversations by clarifying responsibility. Your conversation needs to produce action, or nothing changes.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s from Robert Greenleaf in his book, Servant Leadership , where he wrote, “The most difficult question to ask oneself is, ‘Does what I have to say improve upon the silence?’” The fact of the matter is that a lot of people in leadership roles talk too much. Don’t leave space to learn from the people they lead. What about you?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

People need time to do the work that’s at the core of their function. Take up too much of that time with meetings or endless discussions and they end up working after hours to make up the gap (or not). Take up too much of that time with meetings or endless discussions and they end up working after hours to make up the gap (or not).

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

A few months into my work there, a man named Jack took me aside and said, “David, I noticed that when you come into our all-hands meeting, you walk straight up to the front row, sit down, open your notebook and are ready to take notes.” That Wasn’t a Compliment Early in my (David’s) career, I worked in a very culturally diverse organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 19, 2023

It must be nice to live in a world where you’re never wrong.” All of us have moments where we’re frustrated, don’t know how to express our concerns, or are clumsy. Here are three examples: “I noticed during the meeting you said that ‘It must be nice to be the favorite.’” It doesn’t work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

How to Make the Most of a Busy Day: Moving From Counting to Quality Moving from counting to quality means re-evaluating how people are spending their time. Today we go a level deeper with a practical way to ensure your team’s busy day is worth it– giving them the breakthrough results they’re working so hard to achieve.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 15, 2022

How do I ensure I don’t give preferential treatment to the people I see most often? “We want to create an inclusive work environment where we respect, value, and support every team member no matter where they choose to work. Lead your meetings from both sides of the hybrid table to avoid proximity bias.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

People grow. I don’t believe I can learn anything by asking my team esoteric questions about where I can improve.”. Sad for her because she lived in a self-limited world where she couldn’t grow her influence. There are countless more times where feedback has made me a better leader, a better father, and a better husband.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. Two highly frustrated, well-intentioned people wishing they could “fix” the situation, but with radically different views on the same situation. What is Micromanagement?

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 24, 2024

Find opportunities for prospective pairs to meet and self-select. 07 Reflections: Revisit Past Conversations Before each meeting, take a few minutes to read through the suggestions you received or offered last time. 08 Get Out: Change the Scene Meeting at the workplace is convenient. Yes, you are both amazing people.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 1, 2021

3:00 – Why leaders must meet people where they are. 15:55 – Why the most effective leaders spend 80% of their time focused on their people and 20% on the work. 3:00 – Why leaders must meet people where they are. 3:00 – Why leaders must meet people where they are.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

You give someone clear outcomes to meet, and when they meet those outcomes, you’re satisfied. You may go for another level, you may iterate, you may do some other things, but that’s how you operate and you would expect other people to do the same. And when they don’t, it feels like bad delegation. (

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2024

“This is an important topic; let’s schedule a dedicated meeting to discuss it.” ” “Let’s identify the most immediate priorities for today’s meeting, and make sure we allocate time for this in the near future.” You didn’t mean to tick them off, but here you are. So what went wrong?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

For example, consider a highly competitive culture where people or regions are stack-ranked against one another. Or if people think they’ll get in trouble for their creativity, they won’t risk it. Chances are you’ve got people on your team who have some fantastic skills you didn’t hire them for.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

One, they take care of their people. Communities by nature are places where people feel they belong.” We seek to create community where individuals feel empowered to lead with conviction rooted in wisdom, compassion gained from suffering, and good examples learned from experience. Two, they take care of themselves.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

A decision on such-and-such was made at the last team meeting, right? It’s also an emotional undertaking that involves the values, fears, and aspirations of the people making the decisions. It’s also a great way to prepare people for leadership. And who in the team would act on it, right? And in what time frame, right?

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Where there is responsibility there is growth. People who are never thrust into responsible positions never develop their real strength. I N AN ESSAY published in 1908, Orison Swett Marden encourages leaders to give responsibility to their employees—to develop leaders at all levels. Give power so that others may grow.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Encourage executive visits and skip level meetings. Sure sometimes there’s a correlation, but chances are it was more a matter of finding that sweet spot where your skills and talents matched a strategic business need. Some people have 10 years of experience and other folks have 1 year of experience 10 times.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Carey Nieuwhof on character: “If you don’t nurture your character daily, you can be most admired by the people you know least, while the people who know you best struggle with you the most. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Questions like: “As a leader today, where would it be helpful to show up more like this or with these values?” Supplement Your Conversation with Multi-Media Discussions In any team or leadership book club, you’re going to have people who absorb information in different ways. Own the U.G.L.Y. and/or Share an I.D.E.A.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Stuck in a world where productivity meets panic and trying to be a ‘team player’ feels like a conspiracy against your sanity. Those phrases don’t empower people or lead to productive solutions. You’re overloaded at work. Clear communication and unbridled curiosity are the name of the game when you’re overloaded at work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Back in her Verizon days, one of Karin’s favorite questions to ask a team member whom she was encouraging to think like an entrepreneur was: “If this was your company, would you _ (make this decision, hold this meeting, spend money in this matter, invest in this project)?” Create clarity around where you need great ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 23, 2023

What to Say Next After a Team Setback: Beyond the ‘F’ Word We’ve been there too—project outcomes that don’t meet expectations, missed deadlines, or even complete strategy breakdowns. After all, if something is a “failure,” where do you go from there? “What Data or Insights Led Us Astray?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

citizens have access to vaccines, we’ve been talking with people whose teams have worked remotely about their thoughts on returning to in-person work. citizens have access to vaccines, we’ve been talking with people whose teams have worked remotely about their thoughts on returning to in-person work. Others are not.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The PRISM Model offers five angles to leading people and forms the bedrock of leadership excellence. P = Purpose People have an intrinsic need to know that what they do day in and day out has personal meaning for themselves and is meaningful to others; that what they do, in essence, has a positive impact on others and purpose.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

It pushes us to treat busyness as a proxy for useful effort, leading to impossibly lengthy task lists and ceaseless meetings. Together the authors show you how to lead a fulfilling life by drawing on insights from working closely with some of the world's most remarkable people. But are these really our only choices? Murphy Ph.D.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

People in them have ideas, expectations, assumptions and personalities. On paper, it all works perfectly…but it gets messy when people show up. The “stuck-ness” is felt in a meeting, observed in relationships, and even sensed in the leader. Where are we going? He was stuck, just spinning his wheels. Teams Get Stuck, Too.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

International crisis management specialist Ben Ramalingam writes in Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity , that between the two extremes is the “sweet spot” where we experience a healthy level of stress. P ROBLEMS come our way. They always do. And too little of the associated stress is not good.

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