Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Coaching is a skill with its own set of competencies. Simpson provides you with the essential questions and approach behind each of these skills. This is done primarily by asking powerful coaching questions. Simpson gives seven: Build Trust: Character and competence are foundational to building trust.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

The likelihood of making beneficial decisions when facing the unexpected increases if we routinely practice certain values, skills, and approaches. Assemble diverse teams with complementary skills and a shared vision. As with any other skill set, awareness can be generated. This doesn’t mean we’re doomed to failure.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

Mastering just a few of these skills is not enough. If strategic leaders are to thrive and play the long game they need six elements critical for effective strategic leadership : Anticipate, Challenge, Interpret, Decide, Align and Learn.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

No matter how hard we work, if we only do things as best as we know how, trying to minimize mistakes, we get stuck at our current levels of understanding, skills, and capabilities. The performance paradox is the counterintuitive phenomenon that if we want to improve our performance, we have to do something other than just perform.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Co-Intelligence shows what it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we master that skill. The Generous Leader : 7 Ways to Give of Yourself for Everyone’s Gain by Joe Davis Leading successfully in a world full of disruption means building more than technical skills.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 20, 2023

Abilities: Your competencies that help you integrate your knowledge, skills, and experiences so you can respond to situations in the most effective way possible. Know-How: Your knowledge and skills. Understanding that you possess certain knowledge and skills generally comes more easily than seeing your broader abilities.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

Three Common Areas of Respect Typically, what we respect in our work colleagues falls into three areas or attributes: Knowledge and experience (and position attained as a result) Talents and skills The way a person treats us and others. Be warned: This can be a challenging process. Tell me more about it. If so, why?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Character skills enable you to transcend that tendency to be true to your principles. The true test of character is whether you manage to stand by those values when the deck is stacked against you. If personality is how you respond on a typical day, character is how you show up on a hard day.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 31, 2023

by Robyn McLeod @ThoughtfulLdrs People Skills Truths: Use These Fifteen Less Obvious Ones by @KateNasser Winning Vs. Being a Winner via @TheDaily_Coach The Path to the Top by James Albright via @LeadershipMain A Sling and a Miss: 6 Keys to Building a Growth Mindset by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr Take 5: Not So Fast!

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2023

by @suzimcalpine An Important Ingredient to High Performance by @AlanSteinJr Highly Effective Leadership Questions: Open-Ended vs.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Source: Earning Serendipity: 4 Skills for Creating and Sustaining Good Fortune in Your Work II. Richard (Craze) Templer on flexible thinking: “If you want to know how flexible your thinking is, here are a couple of tests.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Leaders won’t perform at their best if they do not focus on their development to development activities that advance their skills.”. Begin by developing your leadership core, which encompasses four general areas: Technical Skills: Knowledge about your domain, your business (including financial), and your industry. Where to Begin?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Many others fall short because of a lack of opportunity, capital, knowledge, or skills. Gary Vaynerchuk on the value of soft skills to build a successful company: “Modern society’s definition of a ‘smart business decision’ is disproportionately predicated on analytics. In avoiding failure, they deprive themselves of a great teacher.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Softer skills will improve, just give them time. It does not address all the skills that leaders are expected to have. It is more than just teaching technical skills. This is where we begin to improve our influence and impact. High performance equals high potential for leadership.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Six Upshift Archetypes As Ramalingam points out, “Upshifting builds on our individual and distinctive problem-solving skills and styles.” They are: Challengers —preferred by those of us who are skilled in constructively disrupting the status quo around us. Social activist Rosa Parks.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The only way to stay relevant and therefore effective is to invest in building your skills as a leader. If we are to generalize, we can say that you advance as a leader, the technical and tactical skill you need—distribution expertise, for example—pale in comparison to the strategic and interpersonal.” You can measure them.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

But it’s a process that does something crucial for skill development: it breaks the spell of automaticity. “By Preparation means you know the plan, but you also have the functionality and skill to pivot when things don’t go according to that plan. “[The The best leaders] are not coming up with better ways to plan.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2023

Here are a selection of tweets from April 2023 that you will want to check out: The Magic of Assuming Positive Intent by @Julie_WG How Magic and Happiness Impact Leadership by @DebbieLaskeyMBA A Conversation You Should Have about Grit with Your Teens by @TimElmore How To Be A Great Team Player by @davidburkus Successful People Skills: How to Deal With (..)

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Max Levchin says, “One of Elon’s greatest skills is the ability to pass off his vision as a mandate from heaven.” Skills can taught. Reid Hoffman, another PayPal veteran observed, “What I didn’t appreciate is that Elon starts with a mission and later finds a way to backfill in order to make it work financially. It's OK to be wrong.

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2023

Your effectiveness as a leader, however, depends precisely on the quality of your thoughts. Critical thinking is that mode of thinking, about any given subject, in which you, the thinker, improve the quality of your thinking by skillfully taking charge of its very structures and imposing intellectual standards upon them.

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2023

I’ve been a paid, professional public speaker for the last 20 years and have coached many executives/founders on their speaking skills. I have seen firsthand the fear that grips newbies or professional aspirants as they work to master the skills of the stage.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A S A LIFELONG communication skills coach, I was asked recently by one of my colleagues how important individual coaching attention is for a person to learn and grow at any stage of their career. Don’t be too quick to believe praise OR criticism unless you’ve thought through the coach’s skill and motivations. So, buyer beware.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

New Leaders: Essential People Skills to Use on Day One by @KateNasser. These 7 Moderating People Skills Reduce Fear & Keep Us Balanced People Skills by @KateNasser. Competing in the Age of AI Networks and AI are reshaping the operational foundations of firms. Why The Best Leaders Crave Feedback by @LollyDaskal.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2023

Interactive teaching/learning is a critical skill, and it springs from a curious mind. You teach me something, and I’ll teach you something. Rather, it is a process of mutual exploration and exchange during which the “teacher” and the “learner” become smarter. It comes across as freshness and openness on the part of the leader.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

“The intention may be good, and there’s clearly wisdom in focus, but if we’re not careful, we’ll fall into a trap, one where we hyperfocus only on a niche, missing where the world’s going, or our own unique skill set.” In a changing world, it is important to continually ask yourself, “Where am I burying my head in the sand?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn. Disagreeing productively is a hard skill for which neither evolution or society has equipped us.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2020

All You Have to Do Is Ask : How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success by Wayne Baker. A set of tools for mastering the one skill standing between us and success: the ability to ask for the things we need to succeed. When traditional approaches are inadequate or resisted, advanced leadership skills are essential.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

Watkins presents an actionable new framework to help aspiring leaders learn to think strategically—a set of skills more necessary than ever in a world of constant change. Sutton and Rao kick off the book by unpacking how skilled friction fixers think and act like trustees of others’ time. Watkins Michael D. Pattern recognition.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Taking advantage of it as part of team development is an example of the skill set of team leader as team coach. The difference is the environment and what that means in terms of skills needed to be effective. Skills for an Effective Team Coach. The number one skill is curiosity. Team leader as coach is not new.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He wrote: I returned and saw under the sun that—The race is not to the swift, Nor the battle to the strong, Nor bread to the wise, Nor riches to men of understanding, Nor favor to men of skill; But time and chance happen to them all. It’s a good description of the world we live in. It’s not very logical. It’s not very hopeful.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 22, 2023

Mindfulness helps us truly see what’s around us—a skill of paramount importance in life and art—but it must be balanced with giving the mind space to dream, fantasize, and simply roam free.” Finding this ‘middle way’ between mindfulness and mind wandering can help us enjoy the optimal benefits of both ways of thinking.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Instead, a standard set of questions, technical skills, qualifications, and psychometric testing are used in the hope that the right candidate lands in their lap. Look beyond a candidate’s skills. While skills may get them an interview, the candidates’ emotional intelligence should be a determining factor in who gets the job.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Developing your Lookout skills over time will create the lasting change you want, in your leadership and in your life.”. Before you do or say anything, the Lookout lets you know. With that information, you might or might not choose to change course. If you do, you’ll get a different outcome than what you’ve gotten before.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

An aspiring ethical leader needs to identify guiding principles and determine where to develop or reinforce existing skills — including compassion and love, trusting oneself and others, interest in others/inquisitive mindset, perseverance, and non-conforming, among other important traits.

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2020

Giving feedback effectively takes skill. The more willing we are to do it, the more we can develop our skill of giving feedback successfully. All four of these things—intention, permission, skill, and relationship—are important to remember when giving feedback. It’s often the hardest type of sweaty-palmed conversation.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

These Virtual People Skills Dissolve Distance by @KateNasser Virtual people skills are absolutely essential to your success. How to Play the Blame Game.Immensely popular, timeless in its appeal, the Blame Game has been passed down as a classic from generation to generation. Jim McGee’s Thoughts from the Past from @wallybock.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Assess : Skill-set requirements. Forecast demand for skills and understand skill “supply” dynamics, and then identify how any gaps will be closed. Define the portfolio of initiatives to deliver on your strategic objectives and meet your skill requirements; then sequence your actions and reallocate resources accordingly.

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