Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

It is still and has been a passionate focus of mine for many years. That personal focus and practice were defined beautifully in the seminal book by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner , entitled Full Steam Ahead: Unleashing the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life. Five Reasons Vision is Vital! Vision determines direction.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

A leader’s personal constitution is a formal statement that specifies their personal purpose, their values and aligned behaviors, and their leadership or influencing philosophy. A life purpose statement must clearly and succinctly describe what talents you offer, to serve whom, and to what desirable end you are working.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Innovation faces the inertia of the status quo defined by team members, organization culture, and whatever product or service solutions already exist. Here are four imperatives based upon the physics of innovation: Know and convey your purpose. Purpose is not about a slogan on the conference room wall.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. Filled with strategies you will use again and again, The Good Fight is an essential field guide for leaders at all levels. It is a theme that runs through most of these titles.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

But first, we have to define success. Many were not interested in having a meaningful conversation about their passions and goals at work, let alone their passions and goals outside of work. Pursue your people and do it on purpose. Their success is your success. And that can be a moving target.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 23, 2022

He illustrated the defining role of vision, values, and purpose with a great personal example. He told us he called a friend and got this message; “Hi. Why do we exist (our reason for being, mission, or purpose)? How does our work align with our life’s mission or purpose? Sorry I missed your call.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2014

Leaders with any size team in any size of an organization have to ensure they are using the right tools in order to achieve elite performance. Using the right tools are essential and necessary for laying the foundation, building a team that excels beyond their perceived limits and maximizes performance. Inspiration.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Employee experience can be defined as the journey an employee takes with your organization over the course of their employment. If leaders use behaviors aligned with the four elements of trust, they will build trust with their people. If they don’t use those behaviors, or do the opposite, they will erode trust.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 12, 2017

His rational was like that of Socrates , who was “well known for using questioning to probe the validity of an assumption, analyze the logic of an argument, and explore the unknown.” Questions lead to answers, help us discover meaning and eliminate confusion, or point to hidden agendas. His mom asked him questions. Peter Abelard.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 17, 2012

When you head off to work, do you feel passionate about the challenges and opportunities you’re about to face? Rather, I’m talking about that sense of passion that exists in all of us which fuels our drive to be a part of something bigger than our personal aspirations.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 17, 2014

But how many of us can say that our employees see and understand the value behind our collective efforts as well ? And yet, what we often fail to act on is the fact that if we want our employees to be fully engaged in the shared purpose that defines our organization, we need to first start with ourselves.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

He defined it as having an original and unique self, one that we discover by “finding” and expressing ourselves, sometimes despite social conventions. Acceptance of using calculated authenticity as a commercial strategy and branding device. I’m convinced “celebrity CEOs” have done the same thing to people’s perceptions of leadership.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

How leaders deal with non-accountable behavior goes a long way to defining the culture of an organization. Good organizations have accountable cultures. But what does it really mean to be accountable? And what happens when someone isn’t accountable? Yet everyone will inevitably fail on this accord. Does that mean they are not accountable?

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 9, 2018

With the New Year now well under way, many of us are understandably creating goals and developing plans for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months. Leadership Insight #9 – The power to inspire others exists in all of us. We just have to choose to be present to use it [ Share on Twitter ]. “To

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 1, 2020

And you are likely reading this because you KNOW that high-performing, purposeful, and committed teams do not happen by accident. The Road” is an essay activity I used when I was still teaching and coaching high school. I used it to learn about my students and athletes, and you can use it to learn more about your team.

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Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 3, 2022

I’m a passionate believer in purpose. Whether personal or corporate, purpose fuels us in a way that is difficult to describe. His book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High-Performance Companies , is written after extensive research on the fatal mistakes leaders make in this area. . ” -Ranjay Gulati.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 20, 2018

When I read through the New Testament, I see countless examples of leaders who, at their core, were passionate about making disciples. Our legacy is defined not by how big of an organization we build; it’s defined by those that continue to lead after we’re gone. For if their purpose is of human origin, it will fail.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 21, 2020

To use a COVID example, a Thought might be, “We’re going to have to completely reinvent the way we do business to get results this year.” To use a COVID example, a Thought might be, “We’re going to have to completely reinvent the way we do business to get results this year.” If Burnison is right, we still have a 26.2

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Renegades Write the Rules is about how to connect with other people using the medium of social media. Especially when it comes to exposing yourself using social media, that can be an uncomfortable place. “We You begin by using social media to listen; to find out what matters to your audience. About being human. Let that sink in.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Making the Future Picture (how leaders intend the future to look prior arriving to it in the distant future) a well defined place of improvement? The combination of these six words, derived from Latin, translates into an executable language leaders can use to overcome the challenges in overall organizational performance and development.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Without a clear sense of purpose, organizations become listless. John Baldoni says in Lead With Purpose that it falls to the leader to make certain that organizational purpose is understood and acted upon. Instill purpose in others. Purpose can provide clarity ion unsettled times. It causes leaders to forget too.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

The basics of behaviour tell us far more than the latest fad. Guest post from Fiona Murden : In 1998 I graduated from business school feeling I knew all there was to know about leadership. I began work as a management consultant and much of what I’d learnt was very quickly thrown out of the window. Curiosity for Agility.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 15, 2022

How do you define “ leadership presence ?” . But—and I used the examples of Jobs and Rometty on purpose—isn’t the leader of a company like Apple going to need different skills than the leader of IBM? And how can you tell from meeting someone, working with them, listening to them speak—this person is a great leader? .

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The Practical Leader

MAY 20, 2020

“Are you using all your strength?” You are not using all your strength,” the scout replied. “You haven’t asked us to help you.” Wolf, Firms of Endearment: How World-Class Companies Profit from Passion and Purpose . His pack gathered around to watch him struggle. “Yes!

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

He underlined a key passage, “I define love thus: The will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one’s own or another’s spiritual growth.” Frank had always experienced love as a warm friendship, special closeness, burning passion, or sexual desire. Links below to previous installments).

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HR Digest

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Creating a strong company culture takes time and effort, but it’s worth the effort when your employees feel heard and valued. Conducting an employee satisfaction survey can be a great way to get employee feedback. So, if you’re stuck with the “What should I ask in an employee satisfaction survey?” you’ve come to the right place.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 5, 2014

There’s something very comforting in using a limited set of behaviors to deliver a steady level of performance, usually without a sense of risk. Leaders are so used to motivating and empowering others that they often forget they need to challenge themselves as much as they challenge others. Ready to go beyond? They take responsibility.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 19, 2023

Laura Addams: JLL’s commitment to DEI is core to our culture and our purpose of shaping the future of real estate for a better world. Cultural events such as Pride Month and National Coming Out Day, which are supported by our Building Pride BRG, give us an opportunity to support and celebrate our people.

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Leading with Trust

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Now let me ask you a second question: Do you have a defined strategy and plan for building and maintaining trust? YPO’s survey showed just 34% of the respondents said they had defined and specific plans for building trust in their organizations. Raise your hand if you answered yes. OK, you can put your hand down now. Until I wrote one.

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HR Digest

APRIL 18, 2024

Define the Channels : Specify the communication channels for different purposes – emails for formal updates, Slack for quick hits, video calls for brainstorming sessions, and so on. But remember, less is often more – streamline your tools and use only one per specific purpose to avoid tool fatigue and enhance cross-functional work.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

1) Create a culture that supports the purpose and vision of your business. Though Facebook doesn’t have a visual culture map, the “hacker” culture within the company is very well defined and understood by all. He then goes on to explain “the hacker way.”. “As Facebook is one example of such a business.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 23, 2013

In many ways, this is a natural product of both our schooling and work experiences, where we’re not guided and supported to use our genius, creativity, and talents in order to do the work we should do. Choices that those around us tell us are the ‘smart’ ones to make, but are often not the best ones for us to choose.

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Experience to Lead

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Every role is important and has its place, but its function has to have a purpose. It’s a word that’s often used to describe an attitude, but in the working world, it’s most commonly used to describe the role of the person in charge of a company or organization, or a particular group – where the boss controls rather than guides.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 20, 2018

In most cases, this exercise is used to motivate us to make better decisions and choices today so as to avoid that outcome when we arrive at death’s door. In most cases, this exercise is used to motivate us to make better decisions and choices today so as to avoid that outcome when we arrive at death’s door.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 27, 2020

How we respond will define our business and personal lives for years to come. It is a proposition which suggests that you create a phased retirement from your current job if possible, using that time to build and develop a small business of your own that you can utilize going forward. This is not a recommendation to quit your day job.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 25, 2014

Of how intermingling people of different cultures, beliefs and nationalities can allow us to tap into the diversity of thoughts, ideas, and perspectives that go with these unique demographic elements. In most cases, meraki is used to refer to how one prepares a meal, arranges a room, or sets an elegant table.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

In turn, we adapted our culture to meet their needs — casual dress codes, flextime, healthy lifestyle options, community involvement, challenging work, more defined advancement. And in a competitive marketplace, it cost us dearly. Soft skills are increasingly important in creating successful leaders Guest post from Gary S.

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