Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 8, 2023

Your mind will be challenged as you try to figure out the mystery (make sure to watch the movie first before reading this article, or you’ll have the film spoiled for you). Multiple people: You can tell him no… The movie opens with Lionel in a Zoom meeting with multiple people. They said you can always tell him no.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 8, 2019

These are three places in the workplace where people feel “safe” to tell the truth. Many leaders believe that their people feel safe in telling them what they think and feel. But this is a misconception—or a blind spot, as we call it in our book, What Are Your Blind Spots? Establishing a culture of truth telling is hard.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The truth is that even these world-class leaders have room to grow and can find ways to identify their weaknesses, optimize their performance, and become even better leaders. When you’re at the top leading organizations, is there still room to grow? Executive coaching doesn’t only serve executives and their organizations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 26, 2023

You did a fantastic job thinking about your culture and engaged the entire organization to define the values. Let’s say two of your values are “Quality” and “Speed.” We’ve worked with many organizations with some version of this conflict. It’s like people tried and then stopped.” What’s going on?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 6, 2023

In Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World , former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty redefines power as a way to “drive meaningful change in positive ways for ourselves, our organizations, and for the many, not just the few.” Speaking about tough truths in affirmative tones let critiques land constructively.

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Leading Blog

MAY 15, 2019

I think of courage as falling into three distinct buckets: TRY, TRUST, and TELL Courage. You experience your TRY Courage whenever you must attempt something for the very first time, as when you cross over a threshold that other people may have already crossed over. C OURAGE IS THE FIRST VIRTUE of organizational performance.

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Lead from Within

MAY 3, 2023

Here are some specific character traits that I encourage my clients to embody as leaders: Integrity: As a leader, this means being honest and truthful, even when it’s difficult. It’s essential for building trust and credibility with your team. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

It’s the critical foundation for creating an environment where your team members can flourish, be engaged, and exercise their creativity and innovation to achieve their goals and those of the organization. That means keeping your promises, not gossiping, and telling the truth. For leaders, trust is a must.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Guest post by Jim Haudan and Rich Berens Lack of truth-telling in organizations can take many forms. The post The Importance of Truth-Telling for Your Organization’s Success appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership. Leaders need to […].

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Since change is such a common dynamic in organizations, change leaders and/or change agents are important roles. When I was younger, my grandfather always told me, “Tell the truth; that way you don’t have to remember what you said.” It is so much easier to remember the truth. I work hard to be authentic. until 10:00 p.m.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

The best leaders solve hard problems with fierce urgency while making their organizations—employees, customers, and shareholders—even stronger. Telling yourself the truth, knowing what really matters, and getting it done is the path to creating and sustaining a meaningful life, a market-leading business, and even a healthier society.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Why Leaving a Conversation Hanging is So Destructive to People and Your Work Culture. It’s possible, your “no big deal” IS a bigger deal to them. It also degrades trust– not just for your own brand, but for the brand of your organization. Thank you for your time and effort.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It requires leadership resolve to take inventory, tell the truth, and turn toward what’s right and good. These exercises can also help your team or organization mine out meaning from the past year and trust one another more moving forward. Where did you avoid telling the whole story or sharing your full opinion?

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 26, 2019

Did you ever play Show and Tell when you were in elementary school? The premise of Show and Tell is a student brings something from home to show the class and tells why it’s important to them, or what it represents about them as a person. I remember looking forward to Show and Tell days with great excitement! Integrity –.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 2, 2020

More often than you would expect, I find competent, hard-working people trying to survive in dysfunctional organizations. Organizations that: Hold them back professionally by doing the ‘same old stuff’ every day. Most relationships, especially ones with organizations, exist on a spectrum or range.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

” The truth is that boardroom diversity brings immense benefits to the CEO, the entire organization, shareholders, and the board itself. For organizations that want to outperform their competitors and have a board operating at its maximum effectiveness, diversity is key. How can they improve upon them?

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Here are some of the things I tell my executive coaching clients about building an open, honest exchange with their team: Start with an outsider. Mind your body language. When you’re listening to feedback, make sure your face, body, and voice all signal openness and understanding. What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 10, 2023

To establish a positive workplace culture that is proven to lead to more productivity, here’s what you can do: Show care for your employees: You can demonstrate care for your employees by offering various opportunities for growth and development.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2023

The success of an organization is often dependent on the strength and cohesion of its teams. Lead From Within: At the end of the day, this truth remains constant, successful leaders create successful teams. #1 Lead From Within: At the end of the day, this truth remains constant, successful leaders create successful teams. #1

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

By function, he means that people will see your title and not tell you what you need to hear.). Take a total inventory across the organization as you listen for what people are thinking, feeling, fearing, and experiencing. Together, navigation and anticipation help to keep the organization on an even keel.

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CEO Insider

APRIL 1, 2022

Most business decisions are made using an organization’s structured data, such as sales numbers, revenue, and growth in specific areas. However, this data doesn’t tell you what makes customers tick and how to retain, attract and please customers.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Great Leaders Tell A Great Strategy Story. Most businesses have incredibly compelling stories to tell, full of drama and interesting plot lines. But the blind spot that leaders at most businesses have is a lack of engaging strategy to tell that story. How you tell your story matters. States what makes you unique.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

John Stoker of DialogueWORKS contributed Are Your Assumptions Getting the Best of You ? Here are some helpful questions that will help you challenge your thinking. Coaching feedback doesn’t tell someone how to do something, but creates a safe space within which they can try, fail and succeed to figure it out themselves.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 20, 2014

Chances are, unless you ask, most people won’t tell. “Did you tell her how you feel about her contribution?” Don’t ask, don’t tell is alive and well when it comes to peer feedback. But the truth is, what makes these tools valuable is always the conversation that follows.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

When people know your values as an organization, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change. 02:14 When people know and embrace your values, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of these two invisible conflicts.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

When was the last time you pushed yourself beyond your comfort zone and dared to fail? If you are ready to face your fears and embrace your failures, you can also enjoy the freedom of limitless growth. If you are ready to face your fears and embrace your failures, you can also enjoy the freedom of limitless growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2014

Unsticking your team is one of the biggest challenges of a leader. If your team has lost that magic feeling, look for signs of lostbelieving. Or, they’ve stopped believing you have the guts to speak the truth up, down or sideways. Or perhaps, they’ve stopped believing your guidance is sound.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MARCH 26, 2019

You feel like you’ve done your best to develop the relationships that will make your employees feel safe in speaking their truth. Like many leaders, until today you believed your team members have told you everything you need to know. This takes some work in your part. You are a good leader.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 23, 2017

Your personality in great part determines how you influence the people around you. These traits make up what I call your leadership gaps. Unless you can learn to integrate and leverage every part of who you are—especially your gaps—these hidden impediments will get the best of you, and your business and leadership will be impaired.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2020

Successful individuals and firms can never forget the importance of people, their emotions, the culture of the organization, and what cannot be measured. Through interpretation you can enrich the data with meaning; you can identify the story it’s telling.”. Talk About the Inconvenient (Tough) Truths. What is your intent? –

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Describing the new book, In Her Own Voice , by Jennifer McCollum , Anne Chow (former CEO of AT&T Business) says that “for women, the book does a beautiful job of explaining not just what to do to advance in your career, but also what to expect. Consider self-promotion part of your job. What advice or help do people come to me for?

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When your ears hear one thing, but your eyes see another…use your brain. One or many believers don’t determine truth or untruth. Unfortunately, there are a lot of folks who don’t even attempt to speak the truth. Some people are biased and tell you part of the story — their side; others substitute opinion for fact.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 19, 2023

No matter what industry you’re in or what position you hold, these quotes will remind you of the power of good leadership and its impact on both individuals and organizations. Mark Zuckerberg If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. Martin Luther King Jr.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 9, 2013

Thoreau wrote: “It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.” Truth be told, most of us are poor listeners. They understand the need to work hard to increase their chance of hearing the truth. They listen where the rubber meets the road and the truth most often resides.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Blind spot” is also a phrase used when the side mirrors of a car create a space to the left and right side of your vehicle where you can’t see cars passing or driving next to you. The first step, and typically the hardest, is realizing and accepting the fact that this disengagement is not your people’s fault. “I Engagement.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Further, when asked, many senior leaders struggle to remember their organization’s vision. The truth is, it was a good way to fill up the space on the wall when we moved into our facility.”. After going through the standard overview, I asked the students what their thoughts were on organization vision statements.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2014

If you bring all of who you are to the leadership table, some people will hate your style. Rejection of your idea stings. If you won’t bring every ounce of who you are and what you have to give to your leadership, your team will know. And, they’ll follow your lead. Your team needs you to be you.

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