Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2024

What to Say Next to Destress an Emotional Conversation at Work When people are fired up, angry, and defensive, it’s tough to have a productive conversation. One reason it’s so tricky to de-escalate an emotional conversation is that when these emotions kick in, they’re contagious. When someone says “You’re not listening to me!”

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And I’ve had more than a few phone calls from really talented human-centered leaders hurting for the team members they’ve had to lose and deeply concerned about those who remain after the layoff. I learned so much about being a leader during that time.” Losing your job is stressful under any circumstance.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

A CRISIS most often comes when you expect it least. Where do you want to be when that happens?” If you don’t identify and act in accordance with the end game, you’re going to be caught unaware when the world moves on without you. As a leader, you need to realize when a fix is actually just a bandage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2024

What are you afraid of losing?” ” How to Use a Force Field Analysis Technique to Lead Through Change When helping a team adapt to change, another tried and true technique is a Force Field Analysis (Kurt Lewin). The post Lead Through Change: How to Guide Your Team to Success appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

How do leaders use failure to thrive? Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive. Why is success a lousy teacher?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Episode 238: In this episode, David Dye discusses practical ways for team leaders eager for promotion to prepare themselves for more responsibility. David also addresses what to do when positions are not available, suggesting looking for different assignments or exploring opportunities outside of the current organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, you might say something like: “There will be times when you or someone else in the company has a personal or performance issue that is confidential. For example: “I understand it can feel frustrating when someone isn’t here and it’s natural to want more information. Maybe it’s a personnel matter.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Empower” is one of those business lingo words that risks losing its meaning because it’s used so often – and often incorrectly. There are some times you do “give” power over…for example, when you ask someone to make a decision or offer an opportunity to try something new. Give your team the support they need when they need it.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Leadership is all about making decisions, but sometimes the best leaders can fall victim to indecision. Indecisiveness is a weakness that can sneak up on the most respected leaders, and it can have a detrimental effect on the organization. When leaders are unable to make decisions, they may make hasty or ill-informed decisions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2022

Compassionate leaders are tough leaders who understand that they can be good to their people and deliver stronger results. Most leaders have an innate desire to be compassionate, but many don’t know how to put it into practice. It’s not whether a leader should be compassionate. Connect with Donato.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Commit to greatness when you have no audience. Be ready to step up when the call comes.” Two key leadership ideas: Leaders create clarity, raise standards, and call people to more. Two key leadership ideas: Leaders create clarity, raise standards, and call people to more. It’s a choice. Get on with it. “If

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you have a negative team member, strive to understand what’s happening. When you ask what’s going on, they smirk and say, “Right, like you really want our ideas.”. When you see a consistent pattern of negativity from someone on your team, it can be tempting to jump in and try to coach them out of it.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

It is the story of the arrogant and underperforming regional director Johnny Valentine who is on the verge of losing his job. Your dream has to become an obsession, or when difficulties arise, you will quit. RG tells him, “When there’s hope in the future, there’s power in the present.” Remember, action produces confidence.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 30, 2023

However, I have found that some leaders may be too gritty, and it is costing them in their leadership success. As a leadership executive coach, I have seen too much grit causing derailment in leadership in the following ways: Burnout: When leaders are too gritty, they may be at risk of burning out.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Have you ever worried that if you accept help you could jeopardize your credibility or not get the credit when things turn around? ” #askingforafriend Embracing Assistance: How to Accept Help and Lead Successfully Let’s talk about a situation many leaders face, but few openly discuss. We are struggling.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 14, 2021

In this episode, Hansen shares the tools and techniques she’s honed in the courtroom and makes the case that anyone can become an Elegant Warrior: someone who fights adversity with grace and compassion; and battles without losing respect for themselves and their adversaries. 7:04 – Why argument is the last resort (and when to use it).

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Committed, caring, hard-working leaders often have one of three problems interfere with their influence. Leaders with tunnel vision can focus on a task and forget about what’s happening to people. Or they obsess on one aspect of their culture but lose awareness of other elements. Where do I need to stretch and grow as a leader?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2023

Well, if Joe’s basically a nice guy, who got you out of a bind last year when your little boy was sick… and, oh yeah, just last week he told your boss you’re a rock star at pivot tables (that sure was nice of him), that’s a solid way for Joe to start the conversation. You’ve come together to talk about it. You might think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 10, 2023

Navigating Workplace Gossip, Better Meetings, Know-it-Alls, Passive Aggressive Co-workers, and More… It’s that time of year when we pause to review what you’re reading here on Let’s Grow Leaders. Get phrases to use when working with a passive-aggressive co-worker. We would love to hear from you.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

On paper, it all works perfectly…but it gets messy when people show up. The “stuck-ness” is felt in a meeting, observed in relationships, and even sensed in the leader. Vision Drift: Losing the Focus. This occurs when we have meetings without movement, activity without purpose. Personal Drift: Losing Passion.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

35 – Leadership without Losing Your Soul is the #13 leadership podcast in the world. Thanks for your support and sharing the show with leaders in your life. Thanks for your support and sharing the show with leaders in your life. If you want more influence and impact her approach will serve you both online and in person.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

06:05 There’s not necessarily a great reason why work has to suck and ample research shows that when it doesn’t suck it goes better and we’re more productive. Society just kind of works better when work works better. 32:04 We’re losing the traditional workforce.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2022

There will be times when you face outcomes you intensely dislike. Relying on a “brilliant jerk” who gets results, has protective relationships with senior leaders, but makes life hell for their team. L – Where are we Losing? Are we losing ground somewhere? Own the UGLY. Collaborate. Win with Values. What’s wasting time?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2019

What do you do when you feel like you’re losing your leadership soul? The post What To Do When You’re Losing Your Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. The post What To Do When You’re Losing Your Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. When you lack these elements, your team will get “lost” in business.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 22, 2023

Great leaders anticipate delays – Leadership lessons from Plane Click To Tweet When planning projects or forecasting, we have to account for delays. Leaders have to play big issues cool: Torrance saw Gaspare boarding the plane. Don’t lose your cool. Instead, present a cool front when you need to.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Now you’ve wasted time, trust drips away, and people lose hope. You’ll know this happens when you spend more time on the organization system than you do on your actual work.) When everyone’s responsible, no one is. When you can’t share information, be honest about it.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

If Renee didn’t walk into her classroom with a solid lesson plan every day, she’d lose the kids’ attention and chaos would reign. Talking with Renee about her craft got me thinking about the leaders I coach. Talking with Renee about her craft got me thinking about the leaders I coach. Short answer – they wouldn’t.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Because it is the 200th episode of Leadership Without Losing Your Soul! Leading for Courage and Hope 200th Episode 03:47 When we think back over 200 episodes, I’d like to highlight a couple of favorite moments, conversations, or maybe something that inspired courage and hope with a special impact. Here we are!

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2021

When it comes to building trust with your team, what matters most? In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I talk with David Horshager, founder of The Trust Edge Institute about how to build trust, keep trust, and how to recover when trust is broken. Practical Research-Based Ways to Build Trust With Your Team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

You’re doing a lot of things right when it comes to fostering psychological safety and encouraging team innovation. Ideas are cataloged, making it easy to revisit and nurture them when the time is ripe. Inspire team innovation with an idea garden, saving great ideas for future growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing priorities, create structures to help the team shift, and advocate for their team to ensure their work is meaningful. These eight strategies will help you maintain your team’s energy and morale when goals change frequently. Set Expectations. No acknowledgment of my work.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 12, 2023

In ice hockey, for example, players have a decision to make when the puck is passed to them. Faced with this decision over numerous games, team members detect the repercussions when individual members regularly attempt to go it alone. The loners come to be regarded dubiously by their teammates and lose a measure of respect.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 19, 2022

But… Trouble arises when we begin to lose the desire to ask questions. And leaders are always looking to grow. Yet, we lose that curiosity we had as children. More so for leaders. There are great questions to ask to help you grow as a leader. He believes leaders should lead with questions.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Unfortunately, as CrisMarie Campbell suggests, when we lose the ability to connect appropriately, we suffer as a result. Challenge each other to stretch and pivot when needed – commit to something that scares you a little or feels like a stretch, and then do it. All three of my charity CEO clients are transformational leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When the term “It’s not about the money” is used, the real issue is often about “face”. . What does it mean to bring “face” into the workplace, and why is losing face such a bad thing? “Saving face” is a universal concept that enables you to connect with people, break down barriers, and build trust and long-term relationships.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

Focus When you come blazing into a new-to-you organization with tons of great ideas, focus is key. It can be overwhelming for your team and manager when you share too many innovative ideas at work all at once. You will lose credibility if you start recommending changes to everything, everywhere, all at once. I’m curious.

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