Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. We seek these quick fixes to leadership dilemmas like we’re shopping on Amazon.com and expecting next-day delivery, especially if we’re new leaders. So, we rely on the leadership recipe. This “formula for leadership” approach occurs at all levels.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 5, 2023

In their book, Learning to Lead , Warren Bennis and Joan Goldsmith, write, “To be authentic is literally to be your own author (the words derive from the same Greek root), to discover your native energies and desires, and then find your own way of acting on them. Getting real can be tough. Ringing true to me is hard.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2021

Welcome to the April 2021 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. Communication. Your silence may be doing more harm than good.

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Experience to Lead

APRIL 24, 2024

Recently, I facilitated a public learning experience in London called “Learning from the Unexpected,” which leveraged activities from our music-based Encore Leadership Experience. The stage is theirs, but I’m their stagehand or their assistant director that give cues while the participants act in their play.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 22, 2018

From day one, however, she displayed a natural curiosity for how the business worked and, most importantly, how it could be improved and what role she could play in that improvement. Very quickly, Macy’s role within the company began to change. As we began to have authentic conversations at Counsilman ? Hunsaker for Macy.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2018

Effectiveness in leadership is not about having all of the answers but not knowing and accessing the power of those you lead. The more that leaders open their hearts, reveal their fears and show their authentic selves, the deeper the connections among team members will be, and the more the team will achieve. H ANG UP THE CAPE.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 23, 2023

In their new book, Real-Time Leadership , leadership coaches David Noble and Carol Kauffman teach leaders how to use their unique MOVE framework to help leaders adjust their reflexive reactions and optimize their responses to any situation – including unexpected and complex leadership challenges. O : Generate Options.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2016

But, I hated hearing my parents say, “You’re the oldest; you need to set the example and be a role model.”. In fact most leadership schools teach leaders the same admonition I got from my parents—be a role model. Roleness should not be the goal of leaders but rather realness. Leaders get that same burden.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 11, 2012

There’s been a lot written about the concept of “authentic leadership”, that is, being a leader that is comes across as sincere, genuine, and real. Authentic leaders lead from the heart and are true to their values and principles. Becoming an authentic leader involves transformation. Your Present.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 1, 2017

Welcome to the May 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Anne Perschel of Germane Coaching and Consulting provided 8 Steps to Avoid Flipping Your Lid in Challenging Leadership Situations. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Culture Leadership Change: Drive Your Desired Culture.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

D ESPITE what the title Teaching By Heart might imply, it is really a book about servant leadership. It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. I completely agree, and it is easy to see the parallels. You will learn what it takes to teach and lead better. Self-Awareness and Growth.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s explore why leadership development is important, as well as the benefits and challenges of effective leadership development. Defining Leadership Development In simple terms, leadership development is a set of activities that equip current and future leaders with the tools they need to perform effectively in their roles.

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Modern Servant Leader

JUNE 13, 2013

In a recent interview with social media author and consultant, Paul Gillin, he described Servant Leadership and social media as “dovetailing” This analogy summarized why I am so passionate about both topics. Social media enables, empowers and really, demands greater servant leadership. They demand Servant Leadership.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 21, 2012

That’s all well and good, but the real litmus test is whether or not others find you interesting. The real question is, do people hunger to be led by you ? While many find themselves in a position of leadership, few understand their role as a leader, and regrettably, fewer yet actually lead. Be externally focused.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The titles listed below—published in 2022—reflect a need to get realigned with solid leadership practices and thinking. Covey (Simon & Schuster, 2022) We have a leadership crisis today, where even though our world has changed drastically, our leadership style has not. But how do we grow? Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 9, 2023

How Work Works is a unique and revelatory guide to understanding and navigating the unwritten rules of the workplace—the key to achieving success, finding meaning, and staying true to your authentic self in today’s business world. Therefore, where and how we work has a huge role to play in our happiness and overall life satisfaction.

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HR Digest

JULY 14, 2022

In a conversation with The HR Digest , she explains why DE&I is a new frontier and plays a dominant role in motivating employees at the largest insurer in America. In a conversation with The HR Digest , she explains why DE&I is a new frontier and plays a dominant role in motivating employees at the largest insurer in America.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 17, 2015

It was the CEO’s courage to be unabashedly authentic—to be publicly real. Whether the emotion displayed is anger, compassion, pain, or joy, the authenticity of leaders changes the nature of the connection and invites a valued link with others. Real Leaders Don’t Wear Rank. Real Leaders Care about Spirit.

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The Practical Leader

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Warning : This series is also intended to exorcise excuses, infiltrate and stretch comfort zones, and push toward personal transformation so we can climb up the leadership stairs. On Becoming Being a Leader My lifetime of work in personal, team, and organizational leadership led me to define leadership as an action, not a position.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 21, 2017

We want to live with integrity, be discerning, treat others the way we want to be treated, be authentic, work hard, always be learning, speak truth. Take a moment and list a few of your values and then write a few words that describe the role those values play in what is most important to you. You can play again later.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 15, 2013

The intense focus on corporate change during the last decade has given us a greater appreciation of the role that culture plays in organizations. Many of this year’s business books recognize culture’s role as the essential driver of effective change. It’s the bedrock reality of an organization, its true ground.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 28, 2012

Specifically, how real innovation occurs not through capturing lightning in a bottle, but through copying existing works in order to understand how disparate elements can be reassembled to create a new work or product. A good example of this can be seen in looking at the story of how Picasso became a world-renowned painter.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 28, 2012

Specifically, how real innovation occurs not through capturing lightning in a bottle, but through copying existing works in order to understand how disparate elements can be reassembled to create a new work or product. A good example of this can be seen in looking at the story of how Picasso became a world-renowned painter.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

And one of the very real consequences associated with this pervasive change is employee attrition. In Situational Leadership ® terms, ability is determined by answering the following question: “Is this person currently performing at a sustained and acceptable level?” Few would argue that we live in a dynamic world. Of course, it is!

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 3, 2021

“Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. “Leadership in this digitally distracted world demands a new kind of leader. We see the slick presentations, the perfect press conferences, the polished speakers reading teleprompters, the perfectly-perfect everything. But that’s not enough.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 2, 2010

David asked Becky, “How come no one ever talks about love as a leadership competency?&# While l ove and leadership are certainly two words you don’t often hear in the same sentence, I can assure you that rarely does great leadership exist without love being present and practiced. I think it’s a great question.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2016

When organizations were hidden behind opaque operational fronts and top-down, one-way marketing, a leader was expected to play the role of an omnipotent god. Trust in an organization’s leader was created by their philosophy of leadership, their personality, or their style of management.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Few American presidents were more fun loving than Theodore Roosevelt. He hunted wild animals in Africa and, as a naturalist, started the U.S. Forestry Service. The Nobel Peace Prize winning president was a championship boxer at Harvard and the author of thirty-eight books. On his honeymoon he climbed the Matterhorn. Why Fun is Important Today.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Background: This post is part of a series defining the principles of Servant Leadership via the acronym SERVANT ( Selfless , Empathetic , Resolute , Virtuous , Authentic , Needful and Thorough). For more, visit the overview at this link or sign up for the free online course, Servant Leadership 101. The only constant is change.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Welcome to the February 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For those of you who watched the Super Bowl this weekend, did you gain any leadership takeaways? It seems that sports frequently provides an opportunity for leadership analogies! Let’s Get Started. Anne Perschel, Ph.D. , Jennifer V.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2021

She wasn’t keen to admit me to the ward either, and it was perhaps at this point of having to explain numerous times that a few meters away my wife was being told that we had lost our baby that things became so very real. The pregnancy was something I could only really relate to via the physical and emotional changes visible in my wife.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 22, 2020

In fact, there is a huge risk in undervaluing the advantage the right culture plays. It’s HR’s Job: While HR certainly plays a significant role in the development and management of policies that can help or hurt culture, it’s the responsibility of everyone inside the organization to create and maintain a thriving culture.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Transformational leadership. One of the popular frameworks of leadership is that of transforming leadership. Initially coined by James Downton in 1973 following his research into charismatic leadership, it was influenced largely by Bernard Bass, and his instrumental book Leadership and Performance Beyond Expectations (1985).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 5, 2010

Perhaps some may think so, but being authentic to my politically incorrect self, I think not. OXYMORON …Great leaders are not politically correct, but they are politically savvy – there is a difference. Rather they should benchmark their decisions against the question of “is it the right thing to do?” Are these extreme statements?

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Marshall Goldsmith

JULY 6, 2015

After listening to Bono share his personal story, I realized that he is a wonderful example of a person who has not only changed his behavior but also his identity, or definition of who he is – while remaining authentic and not becoming a phony. He talked about the joy of playing with friends when no status or money was involved.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle. I really appreciate Pete’s insights into the necessity of self-leadership and his honesty in admitting that this is his own area of struggle.

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Experience to Lead

JANUARY 5, 2022

A year later, we ran several virtual Learning Expeditions, hackathons and online leadership programs. So we thought we would share the learnings that we developed along the way as they refer to how you can keep the experiential element alive in online learning and leadership development programs. I mane Terrab Chief Advisory Officer.

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