Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In this episode, Kavita Ganesan, author of The Business Case For AI, takes the mystery out of implementing AI, sharing how to launch AI initiatives that get results. With real-world AI examples to spark your own ideas, you’ll learn how to identify high-impact AI opportunities, prepare for AI transitions, and measure your AI performance.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 25, 2022

If you can’t remember those times, I’m sure you can remember a similar situation with teaching your own children to walk. Or maybe it was teaching your niece or nephew. Whatever the case, in those early days of growing up, we experienced failure regularly in our lives. How To Make Failure A Regular Part Of Your Life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 19, 2024

He’s #AskingforaFriend , but we know it’s a common query: How do you foster remote team building and bonding? Kermit aptly states, “Ever since we moved to a work-from-anywhere environment, I’m finding it tricky to maintain a rainbow connection. ” -Kermie.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 24, 2024

Mentoring relationships, like financial advisor relationships, are more effective when we have the full picture. Understanding how you both think and act in different situations will help you construct and receive feedback for maximum impact. If not, why not and how does that impact the discussion this time? They are not gods.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

Creative teams stay open to what’s possible and explore alternative perspectives. Some of the best teams we know are great because they stay curious and creative. They show up genuinely interested in other perspectives and what’s possible. And, curiosity is one of those skills that can feel hard to teach.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

What is a Check for Understanding? A check for understanding is a simple confirmation that the message you intended to send is what the receiver heard. In other words, is your team picking up what you’re putting down? You ask your team to repeat back what they heard you say in a friendly, non-confrontational way.

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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. Glad We Met : The Art and Science of 1:1 Meetings by Steven G. In Glad We Met Rogelberg helps us maximize the potential of these crucial conversations. Or are they just talk? Watkins Michael D. Mental agility.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

How do I lead well now?” What do I do now?” ” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” How to Keep Leading Well as Your Team is Growing. What does “regular” mean? What happens in those one-on-ones? How do you balance responsiveness with productivity?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. By the time of my baby shower, we had a lot to celebrate with a highly engaged team getting it done. That’s where I learned about scaling leadership the hard way.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. They long to know that people care about them for who they are, not just what they can contribute. ” What a great way to think about building a compassionate team. .”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 11, 2023

I can’t teach Tom Brady how to throw a ball,” says Greg Harden. “I I can’t teach Desmond Howard how to catch the ball. I can’t teach Michael Phelps how to do a perfect flip turn. All I can do is teach you how to become the world’s greatest expert on one subject: yourself. ” You improvise.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. “Errr, well, no, but …” The conversation after that “but” is at the heart of teaching your team how to think and act like an entrepreneur. What did you do with it and what happened as a result? What was the issue?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Walter Isaacson’s biography of Elon Musk is full of revealing, behind-the-scenes anecdotes that provide insight into why Musk does what he does and why he does it that way. Below, you will find some excerpts that give you a taste of what you will find in Isaacson’s Elon Musk. He learned to shut down fear,” she says. “If

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

What should I do #askingforafriend In today’s quick Asking for a Friend from the road (less than 3 minutes) from Gettysburg, PA, I share three PRACTICAL tips for communicating with executives and grabbing their attention for your important message. What would add as #4? There are just so many things going on.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

And if they’re like so many teams we work with, they yearn for better recognition. So how do you help your team’s performance stand out? How do you ensure that they not only get the recognition they crave, but their performance shines so strong it’s difficult to ignore? Focus their efforts on what matters most.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

What could possibly go wrong? via @DeckerComm Start Your New Leadership Role with the End in Mind by @MichaelDWatkins Why Teaching and Learning Must Be Two-Way Leadership is learning at all levels, or it is not leading. When teaching and learning are two-way, we all learn.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

It has called on us to learn to think better. We can’t repeat our experiences, but we can extract the lessons and principles and apply them to the changing circumstances of our non-linear world. The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. Certainty is out.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Expect to Do Some Heavy Lifting by @artpetty How to Facilitate – as Opposed to Dominate – Your Meetings by @suzimcalpine 5 Important Lessons I Learned Growing Up from @wallybock Leaders, Objectivity vs. Detached Coldness by @KateNasser How Writing Your Obituary Can Help You NOW! ChatGPT is everywhere.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 2, 2023

During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. Consider this post a starter kit for how to lead with Socratic questions. What’s the evidence for our assumptions?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If you want to be an effective human-centered leader, you’ve got to keep learning and growing. In this heartfelt episode, Tim Lupinacci, CEO and Chair of Baker Donaldson Law Firm shares his leadership journey and how you can invest in continuous learning and personal growth. 08:49 – Turn Your Car into a Classroom.

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Leading Blog

JULY 30, 2021

While we spend a good deal of time preparing our kids for success in the physical world, Richard Culatta says, “we have put surprisingly little effort into making sure our kids are prepared to be safe and healthy” in the digital world. For all the good the virtual world has to offer, it is also filled with wicked problems.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2019

I was not long out of college and I thought what I had learned in the classroom and my first few years in the working world would be enough. In school, my professors tried to teach me as much as they could about business and leadership, and in turn, I tried to absorb as much as I could. Well, turns out, I was (very) wrong.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Brave Together : Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation by Chris Deaver and Ian Clawson How did Apple overcome a culture of secrecy? How did Pixar out-innovate Disney? Does Shark Tank teach us something about the way we pursue success that isn't true?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Uptime : A Practical Guide to Personal Productivity and Wellbeing by Laura Mae Martin Google’s Executive Productivity Advisor offers insights on how to make the “new way of work” work for you, providing actionable steps to optimize your productivity, accomplish more, prevent burnout, and cultivate a harmonious work-life balance.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In fact, Santa has a lot to teach us about leadership. The North Pole’s leadership and culture at the time was a great example of what we call “ trickle-down intimidation.” ” The leaders take their cues from what happens at the top. How can you help them learn all they can while contributing now?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2023

The Four Workarounds : Strategies from the World's Scrappiest Organizations for Tackling Complex Problems by Paulo Savaget We constantly encounter complex problems at home, in our places of work, and in society at large. Even if we had all the time and money in the world, sometimes no good solution can be found.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We would love to hear from you. How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (February 2021).

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

How to Overcome FOSU (Fear of Speaking Up) and Share Your Ideas. You want to share your ideas to improve the business, but if you’re like many employees we work with sometimes it’s hard to know just how or when to share them. In Courageous Cultures terms, we call this “Navigating the narrative.”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

What we once glossed over now requires our attention and action. Mostly it requires that we be more intentional about relationships. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances. We must begin with our mindset.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

One of the biggest requests for help we receive is, “How do I deal with my micromanager boss?” Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. Interestingly, we hear an equally common frustration from these over-involved managers.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 15, 2023

I didn’t know what to expect going into A Man Called Otto. In this Reel Leadership article, we take a look at the leadership lessons in A Man Called Otto. We don’t know why people want the things they do: Otto had gone to the local hardware store called the Busy Beaver. We think kindness has no place in business.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. And, use that insight to help us plan for what would serve you most in the new year. As we continue to support you and your teams in your human-centered leadership journey, we would love to hear from you.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

Leading with Significance : How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture by Joey Havens Can a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? Positive Chaos will help you to learn to understand and embrace chaos, rise above the noise, and be truly proactive, helpful, and fulfilled. How can we not? Absolutely!

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

D ESPITE what the title Teaching By Heart might imply, it is really a book about servant leadership. Using himself as a case study, DeLong generously shares what goes on in his head and heart as a teacher. You will learn what it takes to teach and lead better. I’ll deconstruct why this is so.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

Our focus is on the importance of human connection and cultivating a culture of connection in the workplace, but what we’ve learned about connection applies beyond the realm of our work lives. As humans, we are hardwired to connect. It’s helpful to think of culture creation as being cultivated as we would cultivate a garden.

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Leading Blog

JULY 21, 2023

And we all make mistakes. Here, in overview, are the nine rules with the author’s comments: Rule #1: It’s Not What Happens to You That’s Important, It’s How You Respond Realize that you can’t change others, but you can and do influence them by how you respond. How do you respond when stuff happens? How about you?

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