Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In my post Once You Understand Emotion, Motivation Is Easy , I laid the link between Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory and current emotions. In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 18, 2019

And, as Warren Buffet once said, it takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. No matter what great things you do, your leadership will be impaired if you’re not the person you should be and you are not doing what you should be doing. Emotional intelligence. Communication.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 3, 2017

There are some simple steps you can take to make sure the feedback message has been received and will be put to good use as a learning tool. Be direct: Say what you need to say in a direct, brief way. rather than “You did not….” or “You were wrong when….”, This doesn’t mean you agree, it simply means you understand them.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 9, 2020

In order to do this and to be the catalyst for vibrant workplace cultures, they need to do one thing that most managers don’t -- they need to relentlessly develop their emotional intelligence. When people don’t deliver, they lead with empathy, asking how they can help and ensuring that their employees understand what’s required.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2017

In my post Once You Understand Emotion, Motivation Is Easy , I laid the link between Deci and Ryan’s Self-Determination Theory and current emotions. In this post, I will briefly expand these ideas and then focus on a specific emotion from a communication and leadership point of view: Anxiety.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

Do you feel this executive’s pain – the frustration of disruptions in focusing on your core work? The good news: There are simple solutions (not easy solutions, but simple ones). Here are five proven strategies to getting through your inbox faster so you can focus on your core work and the important emails. If not, fly solo.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Life isn’t going to give you any more than what you ask for. Then you will have only one day’s problems to conquer. Just decide that you will not take a drink today. Your personal guidance system (intuition) cannot correct the direction in which you are moving – if you are not moving.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To really show leadership and represent everything it stands for, you need to develop a leadership mindset. How you think, your values, and what motivates you contribute to this kind of thinking. And once you get a hold of it, there’s no telling how far it can potentially take you.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 28, 2023

Can you elaborate on the process of “aiming to be your ideal self”? Chuck – In order to aim to be one’s ideal self, you must first fully define what your ideal self looks like. Knowing your ideal self, enables you to “begin with the end in mind”. That improves the odds that you will be your ideal self more often.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 29, 2015

In response to her query he asked her, “Are you using the magic words?” Then she asked, “If you don’t mind sharing, what are the magic words?”. The magic words are, “You are not meeting my expectations.” You can’t expect people to give you what you want if they don’t know what is expected. Be prepared.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

It is a sad truth that you never have to look far to find someone working for a leader they don’t believe in. (It It may even be you.) If you’re working for a leader you don’t believe in, you’re probably feeling that your path to success will be especially difficult. Become a sponge.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It’s a worldview that new research from the University of Cambridge suggests doesn’t really stack up, despite the clear emotional appeal of the concept. After all, most of us have probably worked in jobs that we hated and that weren’t fulfilling, so it’s easy to believe such jobs are commonplace.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Once an institution identifies a change initiative, one can use the scale to determine where stakeholders stand according to receptivity. For all types of political, intellectual, and emotional reasons there are normally far fewer sponsors and promoters than one would hope for, regardless of the scope and promise of the change.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2020

It’s not easy running a business in the best of times, yet almost no one on this Earth would be liable to label 2020 as ‘the best of times’ so far. This is understandable. We cannot use half-truths, or emotional appeals, or untoward suggestions to our clients or consumers in order to have them support us.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Below you will see we broke up the submissions based on their similar themes. But there comes a time when a shift in the coaching relationship needs to occur – where you let go of actively advising them, and they take the lead. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds provided Leading in a Post-Heroic World: Do You Have What it Takes?

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 30, 2020

Here are some things I bet you don’t want at work: Tension. It’s not always easy to just quit and find a new job. Emotional safety is job one in communication and relationships. Psychologist Paul Ekman (University of California) has found dozens of facial muscles that don’t move unless we actually experience the emotion.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Do you consider your personal brand ? Do you manage your company’s reputation? If you consider that how somebody feels about you directly drives their desire to want to endorse you, refer you, and offer you opportunities, then managing that reputation and perception is critical. Do you like pizza?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 29, 2014

In spite of decades of clichés and motivational speeches about confidence, true confidence has a radically different set of rules than what tradition tells us. Confidence is a constant stream of psychological strength that either sustains you, or is short-circuited by degrees of invincibility or doubt. And that limits them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When you equip your managers with the essential skills to avoid these mistakes, you’ll achieve results more quickly, have more nimble teams, reduce turnover, build a strong culture, and be able to focus everyone’s energy on serving your customers with better products and services, rather than constantly dealing with internal friction.

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HR Digest

MAY 8, 2023

While it’s easy to fall into the trap of using generic phrases and templates, truly effective performance reviews require a personalized touch. Using obscure words and unique expressions can help keep your employees engaged and motivated to improve their performance. But what makes an effective performance review?

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

MARCH 23, 2017

Here are the 5 leadership styles you should develop to inspire your team to deliver their peak performance. You accept complete responsibility for your staff. You choose them, you assign them, and you manage them with the expectation of excellence. You treat them with the same respect, patience, and understanding.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Whether you personally align with the perspectives of these generations doesn’t matter. As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone.

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CO2

APRIL 1, 2022

Whether you personally align with the perspectives of these generations doesn’t matter. As a leader in your organization, it’s up to you to determine whether your company’s legacy and corporate culture will be positively driven by a corporate purpose or negatively driven by a short-sighted focus on profit alone. . Ernst & Young.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 19, 2011

Rule #1 If you have to speak, be comfortable with your topic and materials. Your presentation has to be YOU. They need to see you built it, crafted it, and are delivering it from your personality, your experiences, and your knowledge. Emotions are tricky things to manipulate and master. I got an ‘A’ from the professor.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2011

So, my first thought was simply to fill this gap with some type of artwork or maybe even a frame with one of those motivational quotes you find in so many offices these days. It was making me feel as though I wasn’t maximizing my new office layout to ensure that there were little or no dead spaces found within the room.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2011

So, my first thought was simply to fill this gap with some type of artwork or maybe even a frame with one of those motivational quotes you find in so many offices these days. One of the obvious advantages of creating these white spaces in your day is that it will ensure you have time to reflect on past and present decisions.

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The Empowered Buisness

JANUARY 2, 2014

Is over-emphasizing positive thinking in your company’s culture, actually creating negativity without you even knowing it? However, when the recession hit, financial fear took over, its once strong culture went toxic and revenues and profits plummeted. Has the obsession to create a happy, engaged workforce gone toxic in your company?

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 26, 2019

Over the last decade, I have studied organizations of all sizes in all industries to understand and boil down the mindset, patterns, and processes that lead to remarkable performance. What are a few of the common mistakes you see in formulating strategy? How can you fulfill your buyers’ essential requirements?

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 16, 2011

If you’re an executive, you never say no to your boss and you’re afraid to say no to your peers. Your team, it’s easy — except if you’re a pushover. If you run a business, you never say no to your clients and you’re afraid to say no to your vendors/distributors.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 29, 2013

’ Whether you sell a product or service, whether it’s simple or sophisticated, how much (what percentage) of your presentation is the way you usually present it? And all about you. What kind of presentation do you think your prospect wants? They want to know how easy it will be put to use in THEIR environment.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 7, 2014

’ Which one are you? A marketing approach that tells me how I win, not who you are. ’ If you’re looking to identify and attract willing buyers, value attraction and social attraction are the new laws. Ask questions about them (the prospect or customer), that make them respond in terms of you.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 18, 2016

I once Tweeted, “The hardest conversation is often the most needed.”. I understand. If it were easy we wouldn’t struggle to do it. Do you need to have a difficult conversation? Here are 7 necessary steps you’ll need to take: Conviction. You should pray as a part of the conviction process also.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Sure, leaders may perform the occasional miracle, but for most of you, most of the time, leadership is accomplished by doing a lot of little “ings&# thoughtfully and consistently over time. They are the “ings&# that show your character and make others want to follow you. Note which ones you need to focus on.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

Have you felt this way? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly. Any other career advice you recommend for finding the right career, goals, growth, or changing careers? Do you do this?

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Building Personal Strength

OCTOBER 9, 2012

How did you come up with the idea? You can know what to do but that doesn’t mean you’ll make it your habit to do it. David : Why do you think it’s so rare for people to follow through with changes? David : Why do you think it’s so rare for people to follow through with changes? One is emotion. The third is habit.

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Development Follow-up Learning-by-Doing Skills 81

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 23, 2015

At this point, everybody knows emotional intelligence matters in the workplace. Yet there are two aspects of emotions that make it hard for people to exercise their emotional intelligence. First, most people are still not completely clear about what emotions actually are. Often, that interpretation is easy.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2017

It’s easy to fall back on the annual performance review to make sure at least one conversation happens. In fact, there are a few relatively simple formats or templates to help guide the conversation and ensure the discussion is meaningful (and hopefully more frequent than once a year).

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