Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I N COACHING VISIONARY LEADERS, I hear a common pain point: Their team isn’t moving fast enough or focusing on the right things. As we dig deeper, however, we inevitably discover that their team isn’t the problem. Your team is busy discussing current or upcoming projects and priorities. Stunned silence. Are you kidding me?” “Oh,

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The often repeated phrase, “There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM” is only half true. It ignores the fact that great teams have great individual members. And high performing teams are not always easy places to be. Great team members are often perfectionists, paranoid, stubborn and/or self confident. But they do perform.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 29, 2013

Applying the tools of design thinking to help your team conquer its goals doesn''t mean hunkering down on your own with an org chart in a dimly lit office to devise the perfect execution strategy. Design thinking is about engaging with your team at its most fundamental levels. Those creative shower moments rely on lots of data.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 11, 2014

Soldiers morph into Rangers—individuals into teams—when they get a sense of who they are and what they’re a part of. Every plan should be run by a red-team. Red teams play the role of adversary.” Together, the army’s core values and the Ranger Creed create a unique organizational identity that breeds unit and trust.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Former Navy SEAL commander Mark Divine trains athletes, SWAT teams, first responders, and aspiring SEALS to combine mental toughness with intuition and heart.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2015

Neil Armstrong’s historic step onto the lunar surface was not his achievement alone, but the result of decades of effort by a team of thousands. In this, as in most complex human endeavors, teams outperform individuals. Along the way, I learned a great deal about team development and leadership. Outside ROPE Teams.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2012

In trying to understand the dynamics of team interactions, Les McKeown writes in The Synergist , that people tend to act primarily in one of three naturally occurring styles: the Visionary, the Operator or the Processor. (A As a result, it’s just a matter of time until any group or team will implode, gridlock, or simply underperform.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 30, 2015

They are created by human beings, most often high performance teams, and the time you devote to building and bolstering those teams is a direct reflection of your values. When your team identifies a product concept that is worth pursuing, leadership becomes the championing of execution over the touting of an idea.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2023

M OST WORK TEAMS have the same silent member who’s constantly dropping the ball. That’s because you almost certainly have a “somebody” on your team. That’s because you almost certainly have a “somebody” on your team. That is, your team doesn’t have a “somebody” problem; it has a decision-making problem. Sound familiar?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 28, 2024

Discernment enables a coach to ask effective questions, unearthing roadblocks, fears, and doubts that keep a team member from reaching his or her goals. Source: Becoming a Coaching Leader: The Proven System for Building Your Own Team of Champions II. And where do you get discernment? It comes with time in the coach’s seat.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2012

Fistitude is a fable about a basketball team at a small private high school that is struggling through a rough season. The coach must take a leave and it is up to the interim coach to try to turn things around. Through Fistitude —each finger representing a success attitude—author Sean Glaze presents five lessons to build leaders and teamwork.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 18, 2024

Source: Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations II. How can we shape the environment to encourage more of a growth mindset more of the time?’”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Cultures of Growth : How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary C. A growth mindset culture can transform any group, team, or classroom to reach breakthroughs while also helping each person achieve their potential. Slow productivity is exactly what we need. Murphy Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

To what extent is your leadership team attuned to their ethical responsibilities? In what way do you contribute to the peaceful coexistence of individuals, teams, departments, and groups of people beyond your organization? In what way does this play into your behavior as a leader? Is there room for improvement?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. They’ve tried everything from food perks and ping pong tables to endless team-building exercises and training—but nothing sticks. Glad We Met : The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven G.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 19, 2024

According to McKinsey , the common reasons for failure of transformation programs include a lack of aspiration, lack of a shared vision, lack of engagement, low investment in capability building, and an insufficient structure for the transformation team.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Sam Walker on finding leaders: “I started to suspect that the real reason we can’t agree on the formula for elite team leadership is that we’ve overcomplicated things. Source: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

The Erosion of Traditional Corporate Culture A strong corporate culture will influence how team members interact and conduct business. Teams operating within a strong culture share a set of values, beliefs, and behaviors. This could include virtual coffee breaks, online team-building exercises, and interest-based groups.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2023

By contrast, if someone is liked, her colleagues will seek out every bit of competence she has to offer, meaning that a little likeability has far more mileage than competence in making someone a desirable team player.”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2024

Your WMI might change, and it might be different for you today than three years from now, and it might be different for home with your spouse or with good friends or coaching a team. But you’ve got to figure out what the main thing is and transfer the time, energy, resources, and mindshare there.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

from @JohnBaldoni Use the History of Leadership to Lead Better Today by @Mark_Sanborn The Russia-Ukraine War After Year One by @jamesstrock 2 Lessons From the Philadelphia Eagles in Defeat by @mlombardiNFL via @TheDaily_Coach As leaders, we also learned two things on Sunday: Accept responsibility and win or learn The One Thing You Can Do Which Will (..)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

It's Time for Action by @artpetty Relevance is earned, not given.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Their employees don't have to waste time and energy playing guessing games about their supervisor because they know from the outset what is important to them, and just as important, they know what contribution they make as the team or company strives toward this purpose. What is your purpose in life? Does it align with your core values?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Leaders are called to help people become what they were put on this earth to be as individuals and as part of a team or community.” Our responsibility as leaders is to help them realize those possibilities by looking for the talents and goodness that exist in them and inspiring them to become what they are meant to be.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They maintain that “useful information” is a crucial driver of effective leadership—that their job is primarily to educate and inform their teams with facts and figures. Focus on what they want to say, not on what their team needs to hear. Convey data points but not the point of the data.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

No matter how big or small the change you want to make, if you’re a team leader, it all comes down to you. We need frontline leaders to help workers bring their best selves to work each day, to find out what’s holding team members back and how to address it. And it starts with really understanding the role of the frontline team leader.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Motions run high, teams grow anxious, and unpredictable turns can come at any time. The authors spend a good deal of time addressing key components of crisis management: building a team, communication, gathering intelligence, creativity in working with what you have to work with, mental health, and relationships.

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Leading Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Caught in the middle of all this were managers, the face of the organization to their teams. Over the past 15 months, managers spent a considerable amount of effort mediating and negotiating on behalf of their teams to their business and from their business to their teams. Creating a team environment with the tools available.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Of course, co-led teams are not always ineffective and dangerous. Adam Galinsky and Maurice Schweitzer on the need for a clear hierarchy: “Co-leadership can kill both ideas and people, because it creates uncertainty over who is really in charge.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

Insider Ted Van Dyk Can America overcome the recent political polarization and dysfunction? Or are our circumstances so dire and unprecedented that decline is inevitable and history holds few lessons?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As his team grew, Musk infused it with his tolerance for risk and reality-bending willfulness. “If The value of serendipity and of showing up in person: “Me and James and the people on our Autopilot team are always sitting together, and ideas flow real fast, and what we do as a team is better than what any one of us could do,” he said.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Retired Navy SEAL commander Rich Diviney on dynamic subordination: “In a high-performance team, leadership shifts to wherever, and whomever, the leader needs to be at any given moment. Those teams understand that information, challenges, and obstacles can come from any angle at any time.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 2, 2021

Formalize the roles and responsibilities of the senior leadership team as champions of both the strategy and the breakthrough innovation teams set up to carry it out. Set up an organizational model that protects breakthrough innovation teams from the countervailing influences of the core.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Usually, they’re being made within your executive team. Ask each person on your executive team what the vision is for your company. Multiple visions make for stagnant companies, with each member of your team rowing toward a different destination. This, too, starts with the executive team.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Test #3 Can You Build Teams That Are True Teams? This test brings us to four questions: What is the purpose of the team? Who should be on the team? How will the team work together? What is the leader’s role on the team? Teams need to evolve or grow with the times they are in.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The importance of maintaining your values during a crisis is a key factor for taking your team on the difficult journey with you. For teams to be resilient, they have to feel it is worthwhile to make the effort to be so. Thank your exhausted team and encourage them to take a break. Prepare Now The first step is to prepare.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Most senior leadership teams consist of accomplished leaders with a wealth of experience, and the last thing the majority of them will want to do is shift their leadership style or change how they have done things for the past ten to twenty years.” Lukewarm leadership buy-in. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.”

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