Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2021

Y OU WANT TO CHANGE, but the problem is you haven’t found the right strategy. You need to outsmart your issues. Instead, you must match your approach to your opponent. You’ll get further faster if you customize your strategy: isolate the weakness preventing progress, and then pounce. A fresh start is just that.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Are you making the most of it? Dual Awareness has three layers: awareness of the situation and what it calls for, awareness of what is going on for you in the moment, and then responding effectively as a result. C HAOS and uncertainty are a part of life. Here’s the problem. Deliberate calm is about adaptability and self-mastery.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 7, 2022

You’ll enjoy the film if you love fast action, witty banter, and a twist. You’ll also love Bullet Train if you’re a student of leadership. Bullet Train is full of leadership lessons ready for you to pick out as you watch. It’s all in how you view it. It is not for kids.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

As a leader, you may be growing restless to wrap up this year and move forward to a better year in 2021 (whatever that means). Don’t overlook the opportunity to discover meaning from a year that no one anticipated, and not many want to repeat. Here are three steps to find meaning as you approach the end of 2020. Get some rest.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Guest post from Beth Miller: We’ve all been challenged with at least one difficult person at work. Difficult employees aren’t the person who has a bad day and acts out in appropriately, they are the ones who have gained a reputation for being difficult. This is the first question that you need to ask yourself. Get curious first.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 17, 2020

Good relationships are more about what you don’t do. You don’t get much credit for going the extra mile, but you pay a big penalty for doing something bad. Not surprisingly, the more insecure you are, the more likely you are to act and think negatively. They can become runaway trains that cripple us.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 28, 2022

You can jump into the new Dragon Ball Super movie with minimal issues. Check out Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero for a movie you can enjoy. You’ll also find plenty of leadership lessons in Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero. Make sure to watch the film with a leadership mindset and you’ll come out wiser!

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2015

Our environment triggers behaviors or responses in us. Marshall Goldsmith explains in Triggers the kinds of things in our environment that derail us from becoming the kind of leader, co-worker, parent, or spouse that we want to be. They trigger some of our basest impulses. When we are triggered we need to adjust.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 2, 2019

Think about a time when someone was unkind to you, and recall how you felt – your thoughts, and even the way your body responded. Think about a time when someone was unkind to you, and recall how you felt – your thoughts, and even the way your body responded. You might feel uncomfortable even with this memory.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The world goes nuts when someone finds a simple name for that universal feeling that makes you think more deeply about your leadership: Who Moved My Cheese , Flow , fill in your favorite blank __. You don’t need to wait for someone else to name it. When you get stuck give your “stuckness” a name. Mind Reader.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 5, 2023

If you care about someone and see them struggling, it’s only natural that you want to help them. Even though you want to help, your assistance isn’t always welcomed. As Andrew Carnegie, the industrialist and philanthropist, said, “You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb.”

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 5, 2021

Their daily in-person interactions are limited to the few people they live with and their other interactions are intermediated through digital technology. What was new and disorienting in our work lives and personal lives over the past year is the ongoing reality of an astronaut’s day. The Dangers of Disconnection.

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CO2

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Understanding your own emotions and triggers allows you to better navigate complex interpersonal dynamics within your team. Executive coaching programs often focus on developing emotional intelligence skills, helping leaders to become more self-aware, empathetic, and effective in their roles.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

As you take on more responsibility, the demands on you as a leader change. If disrupting yourself isn’t part of who you are, you will get left behind. If disrupting yourself isn’t part of who you are, you will get left behind. When conditions change, you have to change too. You can measure them.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2020

However, there is a kind of conflict the seems to reoccur no matter how hard you try to resolve it. And some of that becomes self-perpetuating as we react in ways that cause even more conflict. Another key point is this: In reoccurring conflicts, we tend not to be very good at imagining what we want.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 21, 2019

If you’ve dealt with addiction and find being around alcohol too triggering, see the tips at the end.). But because you don’t drink, you’re missing out. Don’t let the venue stop you from using this opportunity to form working relationship bonds with your coworkers and supervisors. ~Armstrong Williams~.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2019

As we all have different thresholds of conformity based on our on personal characteristics, there are varying thresholds of resistance in any group. For a trigger to spread it would depend on the distribution of resistance thresholds in a group. For a cascade to form, you need connections to higher threshold groups.

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Lead from Within

MAY 5, 2020

Whatever your approach, you must stay aware of your people. What’s happening today is effecting every person on your team at a deep level. What’s happening today is effecting every person on your team at a deep level. And if you want to stay successful as a leader, you need to address those changes.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 25, 2019

I know you are a good leader. But you might have one flaw. You talk too much. If you’re not sure that you do this, observe yourself as you go about your day and take notes on how little you listen. You might have learned that you need to begin to listen and you work hard at it.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

T HE BETTER YOU UNDERSTAND yourself and those around you, the easier it is to work with other and as a leader, to give them what they need to excel. And it is quite straightforward for both accessing yourself and others you work with. The trick of course, is to use this knowledge to modify you own behavior.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

But sometimes Tania and Carlos clash big time, especially when Tania wants faster results and shorter timelines on client projects. So as Carlos gets more cautious, Tania gets more impatient and massively triggered. So as Carlos gets more cautious, Tania gets more impatient and massively triggered. So why are we selling less?

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CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. It is like asking a question to someone you have absolutely no trust in. There is no point in asking because whatever they share with you, you likely will not let any of it in. Think about it.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2017

These platforms give space to commoners to become influential, too. If you have what it takes, you can transform from a common user to a social media leader. If you have what it takes, you can transform from a common user to a social media leader. I bet he would. It’s about leading.

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2013

From these examples and his own research, he has assembled six principles or STEPPS for making products, ideas, and behaviors more likely to become popular : Social Currency: We share things that make us look good. Triggers: How do we remind people to talk about our products and ideas? People talk about what comes to mind.

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CO2

DECEMBER 11, 2020

That’s how we improve” – Bill Gates By: Gary Cohen Secret Formula to Receiving Feedback It has often been thought that the feedback loop hinges on the giver of feedback, you know, the leader, manager, supervisor. It is like asking a question to someone you have absolutely no trust in. Think about it.

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Leading Blog

MAY 1, 2015

Triggers : Creating Behavior Change That Lasts--Becoming the Person You Want to Be by Marshall Goldsmith with Mark Reiter. Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in May. The Hard Hat : 21 Ways to Be a Great Teammate by Jon Gordon. For bulk orders call 1-800-423-8273.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 19, 2012

It’s a nasty habit that continues to spoil my ability to be the best communicator and person that I can be. It’s a nasty habit that continues to spoil my ability to be the best communicator and person that I can be. It’s a particularly bad habit for leaders who want to invite collaboration and dialog.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2015

From Everybody Matters which helps us to look at those we lead as family to Becoming Steve Jobs that looks at the development of a leader as a life-long process, the following books help us to do just that. Hungry (Where do I want to go?), A S LEADERS it’s easy to get caught up in the moment. Lead the larger story. * * *. Blog Post ).

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Lead from Within

MARCH 14, 2019

Many experts believe that a person’s emotional intelligence quotient, or EQ, may be more important than IQ. But there are strategies that can help when you encounter a leader with low EQ. In South Africa, when you greet someone you say “Ubuntu,” which translates as “I see you.” See your leader and their struggles.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Brian Tracy and Christina Stein have written a book— Kiss That Frog —to help you root out the causes of the negative thoughts that are influencing your attitudes and behaviors more than you realize. A person in the grip of a negative emotion is incapable of thinking clearly or rationally.” It’s a critical issue for leaders.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 22, 2018

I F YOU WANT TO GROW your career, Wharton Lecturer and EMBA Career Director Dawn Graham recommends in her book Switchers , that you “ continually put yourself in situations where you’re the least qualified person in the room.” Not only do you grow from the experience but you’ll have a roomful of experts to learn from.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Guest post from Tarra Mitchell : If we want our teams to follow us willingly, they first need to trust us. People want to be seen and heard. They want to know that we will be there for them if they need us. When we listen well, we look the person speaking in the eye and do our very best not to turn our gaze away.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2019

While work has become more humanistic, residues of managerial detachment and indifferent logic still abound. Parents who want their children to proceed with confidence and trust typically communicate optimism. Parents who want their children to proceed with confidence and trust typically communicate optimism.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 12, 2018

I suspect, if you have been keeping up with the way the world seems to be going, what you are really looking for is a leader you can look up to, one who you trust and because of that, one you will follow. But you see, that’s the challenge – how do you get from that ego based leader to be transpersonal?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 24, 2013

Mark Goulston and Dr. John Ullmen: Do you like being pushed? If you are like most people, your answer is probably not. Do you like being pushy? Unless you love the challenge of dominating others and winning at all costs, you probably don’t like those either. When we have asked such people, “Do you like that?”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In Kaleidoscope , Chip Bell explores what makes an experience so good that people want to tell their friends about it. What makes people become zealous advocates of your business? Every time you turn a kaleidoscope you get a unique image, but the stones inside that form those images never change.

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Decker Communication

APRIL 27, 2021

” But in the age of endless Zoom meetings, how do you keep it slow and steady when science indicates we’re exhausted from spending all day on virtual calls? ” But in the age of endless Zoom meetings, how do you keep it slow and steady when science indicates we’re exhausted from spending all day on virtual calls?

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