Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2024

Choosing the Right Communication Channel The rule of thumb here is straightforward: the more sensitive or emotional the conversation, the higher bandwidth you need. You need to see their reactions, engage in a real dialogue, and field questions on the spot. He famously said, “The medium is the message.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

Culture Rules makes the case for why leaders should invest their time and energy on building culture and gives them three simple, actionable rules they must play by if they want to stay in the game and win! H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in March 2023 curated just for you.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 12, 2020

While in Johannesburg, South Africa , I had the opportunity to sit down with a leading global authority on employee engagement and workplace culture, Mr. Stef du Plessis. Stef and I began to dive into the differences between employee engagement and corporate culture. We know that you can measure those unwritten ground rules.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Create The Right Rules of Engagement For The Team. A challenge for leaders when building teams is how to manage the rules of engagement. A challenge for leaders when building teams is how to manage the rules of engagement. However, many leaders struggle with the dilemma of how to define these rules.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Rather, it is what happens the moment after failure occurs and a choice is presented: to allow fear to rule or to shift from setback to lesson learned. A vision has to reframe the known scene, to reconceptualize the obvious, connect the previously unconnected dream.”.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Before somebody breaks the rules, before somebody breaks the law, before some executive gets into deep difficulty and becomes highly visible, there is a systemic fracture, sometimes even collapse, of integrity. Source: Speech, Avoiding Integrity , March 2, 2007. * * *.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Source: Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed. Source: Power and Influence: The Rules Have Changed. Robert Dilenschneider on knowing your strengths: “By knowing your strengths and building on them in a hypercompetitive world, we can be more effective.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

5:08 Learning: the rules for working at home and how to work remotely, measuring by self-assessments, quizzing, or observation. Teamwork, collaboration, and engagement can go down. But, you know it’s more complicated than that. So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI? Beyond the Past Pivot.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Source: Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Meaning is something you build into your life. The ingredients are there. Source: Living, Leading, and the American Dream II.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They use an effective leadership style to direct, engage, and empower team members. A team is a small number of people who are committed to working together to achieve the desired goal. Teams, like personal relationships, go through stages. Teams don’t become great performers overnight. What’s the ideal number of team members?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here. Hyper-Learning : How to Adapt to the Speed of Change by Edward D. The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. Rainier and Mt.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 13, 2021

There are consulting projects, there are advisory engagements, and there are chocolate covered almonds. Your consulting firm’s clients may consume all three, however, the rules for pricing are different in each case. Advisory engagements are 90-100% “on-camera,” where your clients can see you. … Continued.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan is one of those books. Charan has taken years of observation and distilled it into six practical rules to guide you into this digital age. These elements lead to six rules that a leader must work with if they are going to thrive in the digital age.

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David A Fields

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

You’re not alone if your heartbeat elevates or your stomach clenches when it comes to talking about your consulting firm’s fees with a prospective client, or when you’re developing the “investment level” for a specific consulting engagement. A few rules and a handful of cookies will soothe your … Continued.

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CO2

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Unveiling the Unspoken Truth: The Power of Exceptions to the Rule It’s a common mantra in the realm of book publishing: replicate your success until the profits dry up. Do we go the main route or look at the exception to the rule? The Essence of Rules and Their Exceptions But what do these exceptions signify?

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Eric Jacobson

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

“Given the research-validated outcomes and demonstrated financial impact belonging offers, organizations should make cultivating belonging a personal leadership imperative across the world,” says Brad Deutser , author of the new book, Belonging Rules: Five Crucial Actions That Build Unity and Foster Performance. So, what exactly is belonging?

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CO2

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Do we go the main route or look at the exception to the rule? The Exceptional Path: When Rules are Meant to be Broken This brings us to a fascinating concept: exceptions to the rule. Here, the specialist’s personal conviction clashes with her maternal instinct, creating an exception to her own rule.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

While the customer’s voice matters, don’t let it rule over you. Staff needs a place to process, have dialogue, and to engage. You have to be wise and shrewd when engaging in these conversations. Have you heard wise people, engaged key peers, and honored values and beliefs at the core of your life? Voices matter!

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 24, 2024

The researchers explained the inequality between the groups in three different ways: One way said it was because of rules the ‘Toogits’ made a long time ago. Another way also said it was because of rules made a long time ago, but didn’t say who made them. The last way didn’t give any explanation at all.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

For some organizations, the extent of employee engagement programs is limited to the annual engagement survey. That model, featuring a survey filled with scores of questions and sent out for the entire organization to complete, needs to be updated.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2021

Lay Out The Ground Rules – having clarity over the ground rules such as time and money commitments is paramount. Perhaps, one of the positive outcomes of this pandemic has been the fact that many more organisations have begun to realise that effective collaboration is imperative for long-term success.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 22, 2021

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Source: The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. We tend to believe that if it’s in our head, it must be accurate. If I think it, it must be real.

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Leading Blog

JULY 30, 2021

Most of them stem from one fundamental flaw: we never took the time to establish the ground rules for meaningful participation. Most of them stem from one fundamental flaw: we never took the time to establish the ground rules for meaningful participation. Different digital activities have different values.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2021

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. They rely on ‘common wisdom’ and shared ‘rules of thumb’ without doing the hard work of checking things out for themselves. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Because with their minds, they are expending huge amounts of energy.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

In endurance training, you can apply simple rules of restraint to ramp up and ramp down your training program ahead of a race. These rules of thumb help you make important trade-offs between exertion and recovery. For example, one rule of restraint I’ve always found helpful for running is the “10% Rule.”

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 27, 2024

Adhering to franchisor rules and reaping the benefits of the franchise system come hand-in-hand. Navigating Your Franchise Journey Embarking on a franchise venture is an exciting escapade into entrepreneurship. It is crucial to foster a solid foundational understanding before diving in.

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HR Digest

JUNE 13, 2023

The new NLRB ruling is a major victory for unions and a setback for employers. The ruling makes it much more difficult for employers to discipline employees for engaging in union-related activity. The new ruling is likely to have a significant impact on the workplace. These include: Training supervisors on the new ruling.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Too many rules can very quickly turn into no rules at all. T HE Federal Bureau of Investigation is a respected American institution that had its beginnings in 1908. He calls it the FBI Way. In The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence , Figliuzzi organizes and explains that code and how it is maintained as The Seven C’s.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

Kevin Kruse has identified ten such assumptions and provided effective counter-thinking in Great Leaders Have No Rules. It’s better to have office hours, set ground rules, have weekly one-on-one meetings, and a scheduled system of communication. Have No Rules. Principles do more and go further than any rule ever could.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Executive coaching, a synergistic alliance between a professional coach and an executive or a team, is designed to tap into the inherent potential of the coachee to enhance performance, learning, and development. The realm of executive coaching extends beyond mere skill enhancement.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 27, 2024

Decades of psychology experiments show strong links between our sense of control, well-being, and satisfaction. In a classic study by David Glass and Jerome Singer, people were subjected to loud bursts of random noise while they were given difficult puzzles to solve. The residents on this floor were also asked as a group to choose their movie night.

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Leading Blog

MAY 5, 2023

Which Practices to Improve You may currently be conducting business and engaging in actions that are working well now but won’t be for the future. And the Professional Golf Association (PGA) also makes new rules to adjust to advances, including how many clubs players may carry and what kinds, the construction of the ball, and so forth.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. It may be true, as Lincoln supposed, that ‘you can’t fool all of the people all the time,’ but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Source: The Lessons of History.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2021

Rethinking Competitive Advantage : New Rules for the Digital Age by Ram Charan. In this lively, accessible guide, Ram Charan, bestselling author and adviser to some of the world’s top CEOs and boards, redefines competitive advantage for the digital-first era, offering a set of new rules to get ahead. It's the sneakiest form of fear.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

” Rules for Balanced Leadership. ” Rules for Balanced Leadership. David Ulrich, co-author of The Leadership Code – Five Rules to Lead By , shares his model of five key “rules” for balanced leadership: Strategist – Shape the Future. Talent Manager – Engage Today’s Talent. I don’t do that very well.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

Here are a selection of tweets from June 2020 that you don't want to miss: 10 Critical Rules for Living a Happy Life by @FSonnenberg. Leading with Emotional Intelligence Drives Engagement via @DDIworld. 3 Assumptions That Keep Leaders from Building Trust by @RandyConley. Creating, Fast and Slow by @MBikard via @INSEADKnowledge.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

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. In the workplace, this manifests as low engagement, high attrition, bullying, toxic culture, harassment, lack of psychological safety and stifled communication.

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