Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

If you want to improve your people management skills, you need to move away from micromanaging in the direction of guidance and coaching. In the past, businesses lost out on productivity and revenue because they failed to recognize the best attributes of their staff. Step One: Emotional Quotient. Step Two: Inclusion .

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Skills Management Micromanagement Learning-by-Doing 289

Lead from Within

APRIL 14, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve observed that some leaders struggle to connect with their employees and seem out of touch with their needs and concerns. As a result, when leaders are not transparent and open in their communication, it can create mistrust and a sense of disconnection among the team.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 11, 2023

In short, weak leaders can be fatal to people because they fail to inspire and support them, and fail to drive the organization towards success. In short, weak leaders can be fatal to people because they fail to inspire and support them, and fail to drive the organization towards success.

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Environment Uncertainty Morale Goal 218

Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Guest post from Phil Renshaw and Jenny Robinson: For many years now there has been increasing recognition of the value professional coaches bring to managers and leaders in business. Given the power of coaching, it can benefit everyone. Both the supply and the demand for such coaches continues to increase. It also makes it FUN!

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Skills Power Leadership Development Training 187

Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 30, 2020

Gleb Tsipursky: You probably heard the advice for entrepreneurs that “failing to plan is planning to fail.” A much better phrase is “failing to plan for problems is planning to fail.” When was the last time you saw a major planned project suffer from a cost overrun ? What explains cost overruns?

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Barney and Carlos Julio Data indicates that most strategic efforts to change a company’s culture fail. Harden teaches his students how to practice, train, and rehearse to give 100 percent, 100 percent of the time, and challenges them by asking: If you don't believe in yourself, why should I believe in you? Champions aren't born.

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Books Leadership Venture Funding Learning-by-Doing 215

Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 22, 2014

It’s nearly impossible for a team to win when their leader loses faith. When the leader loses faith in their teams ability to perform–with these players, in these conditions, on this field–the team will sense it. The team is tired, so the leader backs off on the training and preparation. A Doubting Leader.

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Team Discount Restructuring Uncertainty 498

Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Have you ever wondered why certain leaders generate great performance and others seem to flounder or fail in their leadership influence? This type of style looks at patchwork training to cover the holes found along the way. And when a mistake is made, it is addressed with a focus on preventing it in the future.

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Leadership Styles Training Learning-by-Doing Goal 254

Great Results Team Building

APRIL 10, 2024

Mergers and acquisitions, while promising exciting ventures, can often become battlegrounds of clashing cultures, leaving you with a demoralized workforce and a struggling combined entity. Of course, building a healthy and high-performing workplace culture integration is an ongoing process, not a one-time event. Go beyond surface-level responses.

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Team Workshop Team Building Mission Statement 162

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2017

In endurance training, you can apply simple rules of restraint to ramp up and ramp down your training program ahead of a race. Rules like the 10% Rule enable you to increase your training levels, but not so fast that you get hurt. Strengths are useful, but they can become a liability when overused.

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Sports Sharpe Strategic Planning Energy 267

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 4, 2019

And what happens when someone isn’t accountable? Yet everyone will inevitably fail on this accord. I think it is when someone does not “do what they said they would do” that accountability is determined. But what does it really mean to be accountable? Does that mean they are not accountable?

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Team Innovation Teamwork Metrics 238

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 15, 2017

In our positions as leaders—whether that’s as a manager, owner, coach or something less traditional—our daily task is to influence the decisions of those under our charge. These “students” I get to mentor are the best of the best when it comes to leadership, and yet, they’re not perfect.

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Influence Long-term Objective Training 275

HR Digest

AUGUST 6, 2023

It involves making grandiose statements and gestures that fail to translate into tangible benefits for employees. One-Size-Fits-All Approach: Wellbeing washing can be observed when companies adopt a one-size-fits-all approach to employee wellbeing. Here are some key consequences of wellbeing washing: 1.

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How To Long-term Reputation Commitment 97

The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

But the fact of the matter is that he and his coaching staff (Eddie Lee and Tim Abrams) can’t! In large part, it’s why so very many of us step away from the opportunity when it presents itself. So, I ask you to think about how much these kids had to practice and fail and practice some more, to get where they wound up.

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Leadership Learning-by-Doing Metrics Sports 98

Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

While working, you perceive change on a continuum from cooperation and learning — to resistance and a pain in the ass. . Change happens, and the cooperation/resistance is what you learn from and look for to co-construct what makes change work to improve the organization’s and your viability in the market. .

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Cooper Resistance Schein Learning-by-Doing 179

N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

As a coach, my goal is always to see my client succeed. I want to high-five them when they hit a home run or score a touchdown. Be methodical, slow and purposeful when hiring your leadership team. Find leaders: Leaders are not trained, they are cultivated. 2 by their side. Make sure you invest in the right people.

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Execution Strategy Due Diligence Short-term 356

Lead Change Blog

APRIL 27, 2017

It was time to roll in some of the sails so that we would still be in control when the squall hit. When sailing on long passages, the Captain has no choice but to grow other leaders. You need to hire, train, and grow people who are capable of being much better than you. Let People Fail Safely. Hire A-Players.

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Project Learning-by-Doing Reputation Mentor 233

Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 7, 2018

David Grossman of The Grossman Group shared Taking a Message Forward When You Disagree. When something goes wrong, corporate leaders should follow these 4 actions to mitigate crisis, create shared meaning and move people to action.” Discover David on Twitter at @thoughtpartner. Communication. Find Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Simon 190

Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Productive teams are not scared of failing or messing up. They make sure that they’ve fit the best qualified person in each key role on the basis of background and personality, and they make sure everyone has the training they need to meet high expectations. Teams fail when no one holds the members accountable for success.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

According to the Small Business Administration, about half of all businesses fail within five years ( PDF ). I’ve coached literally thousands of entrepreneurs in my twenty years in higher education and the business world, and have owned multiple businesses during that time. Some statistics show even higher failure rates.

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Management Due Diligence Open-book Competitive Advantage 285

The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When our kids were young, I was often reminded of the adage, “children act like their parents — despite all attempts to teach them good manners.” ” When one of our kids did something I wasn’t especially pleased with, I found myself asking, “where did you learn that?” Well,…maybe not.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Here at Lead Change Group, we know that problems are most effectively solved when individuals come together to meld ideas, energies, and approaches. Your gift would say something like: “My gift to you is the feeling of joy you will receive when you share this gift with another.” ” Permission to Fail.

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Corporate Accountability Resources Career Mentor 297

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Guest post from Philipe Bruce: More than 50% of businesses claim that they do not have the resources or time to train their employees to be leaders. What is horrifying to note is that organizations that fail to develop employee skills are setting themselves up for disaster. The reason is simple: leaders cannot be trained.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership Human Capital 216

Skip Prichard

JULY 6, 2020

How do I coach and mentor my former teammates? Great managers attract and retain great employees, while the best employees quickly look for new opportunities when they are forced to work with a bad one. How do I build an effective team? How do I deal with poor performance? Peter Economy’s book, Wait, I’m the Boss?!? , 2) Energize.

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Management Diversity Performance Review Review 104

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 30, 2014

So when it comes time for the World Cup, these foreign players go back to play for their home countries, leaving a weak England national team. Chair, Cultural Transformation – President, N2Growth Europe, N2Growth. For the past 20 years I have been living in London and to say that the English are football crazy would be an understatement.

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Execution Development Welch Globalization 298

Lead Change Blog

MARCH 23, 2018

Managers still do not receive sufficient training for their role. When faced with tough choices, invariably the organization comes first, occasionally to the detriment of their team members. The “knowing and doing” gap occurs because organizations fail to respond to or act upon feedback about poor managers.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Resources Examples 226

Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

However, a lot of these same organizations struggle with creating effective development plans, and get frustrated when even the best plans don't get implemented and produce the results they hoped to achieve. They fail to appreciate how much commitment and rigor is needed to create and implement them. I know I sure have.

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HR Digest

APRIL 29, 2023

Provide Feedback and Coaching Regular feedback and coaching can help improve employee performance and ensure that they are meeting expectations. Coaching can also help in motivating employees for better output by developing new skills and strategies for improving their performance.

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How To Motivation Training Morale 52

Leading with Trust

JANUARY 24, 2021

The legendary college football coach Woody Hayes once said there were four ways he could cheat his players: do for them what they can do for themselves, allow them to get by on less than their best effort, allow them to believe their athletic talent is the only education they will need, and allow them to believe that football makes them privileged.

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Micromanagement Management Learning-by-Doing Sports 120

Rich Gee Group

JULY 15, 2014

I managed large teams for over 20 years in corporate and have been coaching C-Level clients for 14 more. When things go well, don’t tout yourself to upper management, tout your team. Elevate the individual and team as a whole when someone does great work. Motivate people, don’t command them. Never b t your staff.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2016

When we struggle as managers, it is often because we have failed to do one of the following: Set clear expectations. I’ve coached managers and team leaders in more than 2000 sessions and in 90% or more of those conversations, the problems we’re discussing happened because expectations were not clear.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2017

In The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever , I name seven questions that will help busy managers stay curious and lift their leadership game. Despite the title of the book, it isn’t about turning these managers into coaches. In our organizations, there’s a constant drumbeat of busyness.

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Leadership Advice Open-book Resistance 190

Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Yet many supervisors and managers on the road to becoming valuable and valued leaders fail to do so. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Communication. I believe our search for power is the wrong search. Development.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. As Alexander Den Heijer said, “ When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” “In

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Team toughness is something every coach wants to improve. Surprisingly, one of the most significant coaching and leadership lessons I have ever learned about building team toughness was inspired by something I saw on Star Trek. Toughness is doing what’s right when things are going wrong.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 11, 2013

So they’re sent off to expensive “charm school” training programs in hopes that they will be miraculously transformed, shuffled off to a different division, or given a “special” assignment. Loss of investment in high potentials who derail and fail. -. . Loss of investment in high potentials who derail and fail. -. Bond, Ed.D.,

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CO2

JANUARY 15, 2020

Ever wonder why great CEOs like Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Eric Schmidt, and Bill Gates hire an executive coach? In fact, 79 percent of the time, it is CEOs themselves who seek out coaching. But why do leaders, especially iconic ones, want coaching? Why Hire Executive Coach as a CEO? This is why hire an executive coach!

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