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FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We hear all the time that learning from past failure is the key to success. But what about TALKING about failure, particularly with people who already see you as a success? The post How Your Failure Inspires Connection and Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. After […].

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

Help your team know the habits that lead to success, practice consistent communication, check for understanding, and schedule the finish. Prioritize Peers One challenge you can face as a young leader who is hungry for success and promotion is resentment from your peers. Build your muscle memory now and everything gets easier.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2020

The post How to Prepare Your Successor For Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. The same mentor who jokingly told Karin that if you want people to think you’re a rock star “always follow an idiot” also smiled and said, “and always leave an idiot as your successor.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 31, 2018

How will you prepare for a successful 2019? The post The Best Way to Prepare for a Successful 2019 appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. It’s tricky, right? Because you just don’t know what’s going to happen. Or do you? I’ve got some predictions… ?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much is written about learning from failure, but much less of failing from success. It was inspiring to get to know Nido Quebein, President of High Point University, along with his concept of Productive Failures and Unproductive Success. Success can slow us down in other areas as well. 5 Ways Success is Holding You Back.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2019

You’re nailing your role and have a track record of career success. The post How to Avoid Pigeon Holing Yourself For Greater Career Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Do you ever feel like you’re pigeon-holed at work? In fact, you’re known as the best there is.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 16, 2013

Individualized performance management systems Hidden agendas History and scar tissue Politics Expectations of reciprocity Burnout… And yet, helping is the biggest predictor of team success. The post Helping Leads to Successful Careers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Create a Helping Culture Wharton Professor, Adam [.]

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2014

Unfortunately, such scenarios leave scar tissue that scares […] The post Unlikely Collaboration: The Secret to Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. And like love, you can get burned by sexy potential collaborators who don’t play straight.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 23, 2016

He was scared of my success and my new-found confidence. The unspoken challenge some of the women I work with face is that they’re dealing with a naysayer: at home, or in the next cube, or in the form of a childhood friend threatened by their success, or even lingering words of someone who’s no longer around.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Are there really “shortcuts” to success? The post Shortcuts on the Long Road to Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. That’s what I asked Mark Hopkins, author of Shortcut to Prosperity: 10 Entrepeneruial Habits and a Roadmap for an Exceptional Career.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2015

Decision-making is the most critical aspect of achieving success: A decision precedes every act. Confidence comes from past successes and learning. Our experience teaches us we can be successful. You need to find the perfect blend to find values-driven success. Why Confidence Can Be Good. The Problem with Confidence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

3 Consequences of Promoting the Smart, Successful Jerk. Promoting a jerk who gets (short-term) results without looking at the impact on the relationships they need to sustain them, is a credibility busting move with the true A players you need for lasting success. But then again, you certainly don’t want to be on his bad side.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The post How to be a Successful Intrapreneur (Even If You’re Old) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. I’ve never bought into the notion that an entire generation of human beings falls into a prototype we can master. I’ve been brewing this sentiment for decades.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 12, 2017

Successful performance improvement conversations should include discussion around the following components: Clarity: “I know what to do.” What is often missing is isolating the very specific behaviors that must change for the employee to be successful. Isolate and breakdown the behaviors you most need for success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2018

Their faces turned a little green when they realized I was in earshot. “I’ll talk up your candidate if you talk up mine,” and “Let’s be sure to downplay their developmental opportunities so they end up in the right box (referring to the […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2014

5 Secrets to a Successful Panel Interview. They’re not doing this to intimidate you. Most likely, themany-to-oneapproach offers the employer efficiency and an ability to immediately calibrate their impressions. Get the Lay of the Land. It’s perfectly kosher to ask what format to expect from the interview.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2012

How To Ensure Your Successor’s Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. For the last week, we’ve been talking about Building Results that Last Beyond Your Tenure, including, Building a [.] The post Nobody Does it Better?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The post Post-Mortem of Success: Questions that Drive Sustained Results appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. In my experience, a post-mortem is much more likely to occur when something went terribly wrong. I have heard (and said) in the heat of frustration, “we just need to get through this now, but afterwards we need [.]

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 8, 2015

How will you know you’re successful? Determine how you will measure success. I’ve found a half-day kick off workshop including multiple mentoring relationships can go a long way in launching them toward success. I hope you’ll chime in. What Matters Most. Establish Parameters: Guidelines are vital.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

The post The Great Leadership Development and Succession Planning Kit: A Book Review appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. I also know that many of you are also bloggers, who, like me, have aspirations of “some day” turning your posts into a brilliant and useful book.

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APRIL 4, 2017

If you’re an executive (or aspiring to be one) this time I’m writing for you. Not my usual M.O., I usually write for your teams (and how to help them deal with you ;-) But today, I write to you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2012

Want more success and fun for your team? Try picking one BIG goal. When looking to make a difference for the business, I always look for the “one big goal” that we can accomplish that will really make an impact. As Covey would say, what is your most “Wildly Important Goal”? What will be dramatically different [.].

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

The post Beginning Well to End Strong: Stories and Tips for Successful Starts appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Preparing your team for the day is vital– reinforcing the vision, energizing the plans, refreshing the excitement. A Sweet Story [.]

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

The post How Personal Challenges Motivate Success: A Guest Post from Sara Parrish appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. She is extremely active in her community volunteering for HIV/AIDS, Hospice, American Lung Association, and Domestic Violence. She is a [.]

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 23, 2015

Have you ever been handed an “impossible” project, only to realize that the next step is to convince your team it’s completely doable? I hope I can help you. Thanks so much for your support of Let’s Grow Leaders in 2015. I love the feedback I’m receiving on the 2016 panning survey.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. Every creation deemed successful is composed of the aggregated results of things not going exactly as planned.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 12, 2024

” He encourages you to seek understanding with questions such as, “What would a successful outcome do for you?” Phrases like “What would a successful outcome do for you?” You’ll learn to express care and investment through phrases like, “I care about you, this team, this project.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2023

Then spend a day making it really fun to try out those behaviors and experience success. Break down large-scale change into micro-moments of success When leading large-scale change , some of the most important work involves giving people the confidence and competence to be successful. The risk is low-it’s just one day.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Unclear definition of success. If any of those sound familiar, we invite you to reframe what success looks like in your role. Your success is how successfully your team performs, how they grow, and the quality of problems they solve. Unclear Definition of Success. Be a chokepoint. Misguided support. Fear new ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2022

What is the secret to ongoing success in every role whether you’re in leadership, accounting, consulting, investment banking, law, or any other type of professional service? Success is achieved by adopting the mindset, mastering the strategies, and employing the tactics at the heart of rainmaking – selling your expertise.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

And they enjoy and celebrate their success. How will we celebrate success and learn from mistakes? If you are really looking to build a high-performing team, the most important place to start is with a clear definition of success. How will we celebrate success and learn from our mistakes? Our I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

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JULY 24, 2023

” 3 Characteristics You Want in a Team, That Might Also Slow Future Success If you want your good team to continue to take their performance to the next level, you might consider if any of these seemingly good indicators could be potentially sabotaging future success. Great Results Wait what?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Clear communication gets you past “magical thinking” to create a shared understanding of success. One of the common mistakes we see people make in workplace conflict is that they don’t clearly understand what success looks like. Start by getting clear about what a successful outcome looks like for you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2024

If you want someone to take initiative, a good place to start is to be clear about what success looks like. This way, if your commitments to one another are working, you don’t need to remember to celebrate that success. That request is just too vague for most people. Schedule a time to talk about how things are going.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

But it will be the deciding factor in your long-term success. Just like the body adapts to physical training, your team will adapt to practicing good communication when you practice it daily, bring one another back to focus when you forget, and celebrate success. It’s not flashy or charismatic. Consistency. Consistency isn’t flashy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Monitor Results: Keep an eye on what’s working to replicate success. Thank the Helpers: Acknowledge the contribution of others and celebrate the success together. It was all these other people.” ” What should I do?” Imagine you’re at the helm of a team that’s hit a rough patch.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

But they are both vital to your success and don’t have to be complicated. Operational tactics (looking at the ground beneath your feet) include clear communication, a shared understanding of success, healthy professional relationships, and consistent accountability. Do you acknowledge and celebrate success?

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