Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Organizations need people who know what they’re doing, where they’re going, and have the skills to get there. We call that “talent.” ” It’s frustrating to try leading an organization without the right talent. You spend a lot of time spinning your wheels.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 28, 2016

Even when changing jobs to increase your skills, the expectation is the new position will be a step higher up the […]. Traditionally, career paths have been based on the idea of “moving up the ladder.” Success is measured by how high you get. A lateral move is usually not seen as a smart career move.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

If you are doing their work, you are denying them the opportunity to grow and develop new skills and experiences. You will get overloaded, stressed, and will eventually drown in the details. It hurts your team. It hurts your organization.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Provide Education – Leaders know skills turn aspiration into accomplishment. Leaders need to help the team assess what skill gaps exist and ensure the team gets the training and education needed to close those gaps. This should not be a mystery! If you are seeking the same for your own team or business, read The Secret of Teams.”.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 7, 2013

Training – In order to implement your goals, what skills are needed? Do you need to develop team skills such as conflict management or giving feedback? Rewards, recognition and compensation – How will you reward and celebrate team accomplishments as well as individual contribution?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 22, 2013

You’ll make an impression and give yourself a better opportunity to use your strong listening skills. 5) Write : Introverts use this skill to influence others through deep, authentic, well-developed arguments that motivate others to action. Tip: Think of writing as your craft.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 18, 2012

Connect with your community using the skills you have. You don’t need to develop new skills. Three things to consider if you want to expand your vision: Be aware of what the needs are in your own community. They may not be as drastic as they are in Johannesburg, but you can be certain your community needs you.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 12, 2015

Resiliency has become an important life skill. If there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that at some point this year, you will need to be resilient – whether pushed by pain or pulled by possibilities. So why wait until you’re in a stressful situation to develop resiliency?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2011

After all, if you were skillful at it, you’d probably have been doing it all along. Not because you don’t have good intentions, but because new behaviors need to be supported and nurtured as your skills grow. We are creatures of habit and fall into patterns of perception as well as patterns of behavior. Resist resisting. Have patience.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 7, 2012

Leading without relying on authority is a higher evolutionary skill. Worse yet, authority-based systems are a breeding ground for abuse of power and are prone to creating oppressive work environments. It supports the development of adult-adult relationships based on mutual objectives. 8 Ways to Influence Without Relying on Authority.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Let your boss and people in other departments know about your interests and skills. If there are no opportunities for advancement, look for opportunities to increase skills that will help you with your next job. Do you see opportunities for growth and career advancement? There might be opportunities you’re not aware of.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 25, 2013

Throughout my time, when recruiting, I had focussed mainly on stealing from a competitor someone already in a role similar to the one we needed to fill, based on the fact that this would give me proven skills and hurt my competitor at the same time. I learned two important lessons about recruitment during my time in HR.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JUNE 18, 2012

Do you have the skills you need? Waiting for a yearly review of goals does not make sense. Progress toward goals should be part of regular ongoing discussions. Ask questions like: Are there things you need to do to support your goal? Are the right people involved? Do you have the resources you need? Is the timeframe realistic?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 11, 2013

When facing a new challenge, be honest with yourself about what new skills you need. Do you recommit to previous goals, albeit with renewed vigor, a new attitude and newly acquired skills? My friend and former Microsoft CFO Frank Gaudette (now deceased) used to say: “I reserve the right to wake up smarter every day.”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

They provide opportunities to develop cultural awareness and communication skills so people can engage in productive dialogue and creative problem solving. They make full use of all tools to open communication channels, from in-person meetings to creative uses of technology to engage in conversation at a distance. Demand dialogue.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Leaders who want to make their team more effective often ask me for help with teambuilding, training in team skills or advice on restructuring. My first question is always, “What do you want to accomplish? What will be different as a result?”.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

I consider these four questions: Do they have the skills and knowledge they need? And as a leader, if you don’t support their making that shift, your people will remain dependent on you. How do you recognize that moment – that it is time to let go? Have they demonstrated their ability to do this in other settings or similar ways?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 13, 2013

Did she provide you with an opportunity where you could grow your skills? When you cut through the clutter, leadership is about advancing the growth and development of those you lead. Think of a leader you admire – someone who actually led you. What do you admire about him or her? Did she value your perspective, input, and ideas?

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 13, 2012

For example, when the organization had a vision that involved teamwork, it had also developed systems that rewarded people for team accomplishments and trained people in effective team skills. Perpetual learning. Organizational learning is different from, yet interdependent with, individual learning.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 11, 2013

Some leaders clearly have poor vision – their most polished skill seems to be running into brick walls. Okay, enough of the inspirational platitudes – let’s get practical…. Life is just plain easier when you can see what’s ahead of you. Then there are those leaders who possess legendary vision – the rare few who can see around corners.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 8, 2013

Not only will you improve your leadership skills and grow in all facets of your life, you have the opportunity to develop a group of true friends who: Listen without judging you. Don’t just refer to it as a Mastermind Group or a True North Group. When you give your group a name, it creates its own unique identity.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 20, 2013

Peter Block is a global bestselling author and consultant, and a partner in Designed Learning, a training company that offers workshops that build the skills outlined in his books. .” Ask them what they think , and then look them in the eye and listen to what they have to say.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

With all this modern technology changing how we do business, it’s easy to lose the skills of developing “real-world” relationships — interpersonal connections can’t evolve into PIRs unless you give them the nourishment they need to grow and flourish.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

AUGUST 20, 2012

A matrix succeeds when there is a collaborative culture, where information flows freely, where development of strong relationships and informal networks are supported, and where people are encouraged to develop interpersonal skills (e.g. communication, conflict resolution, teamwork and influencing without authority.).

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JANUARY 17, 2012

Be aware of the team member skills you can use. Ask those who are silent to weigh in. Describe what you personally are experiencing and how it affects you. Suggest that the team review its purpose and operating values. Stage 3: Becoming Cohesive. There is a real sense of team identify and a “we” mentality.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Find out what resources your people will need, what new skills they might need to learn, and provide support so they can move forward as smoothly and easily as possible. Find out what obstacles are likely to get in the way of your people being able to successfully implement. And then work with your peer team and senior leaders to remove them.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Many people view it as an admirable skill. Imagine putting your work in a bag and hanging it in the tree. This idea came from one of the men in the YPO Forum retreat who said he did that every night. Stop multi-tasking. They think they get more accomplished. But studies have shown that you actually accomplish less and do it less well.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MARCH 4, 2013

” in Complexity in Leadership , Linda discusses the thinking skills to needed to navigate complex situations more easily. Linda Fisher Thornton of Leading in Context Blog addresses the challenges of complexity. She says, “As our work becomes more complex, so do our ethical dilemmas.”

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Paradoxically, using our future-oriented goal-setting skills that work so well in the other genres to return to the state of Presence can have a reverse effect. Ironically, you can’t approach goals in the Presence Genre in the same way you have learned to do so successfully in the other genres. Nature plays a trick on us.

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