Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

If you change your leadership assumptions, can you create a powerhouse with the organization or team you already have? The COVID-19 pandemic and an ever-changing array of new ways of working seem to have all of us asking, “Does work really have to suck this bad?” Society just kind of works better when work works better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

Here’s the good news. How to Practice Start Team Accountability if You Never Have Before How to Reset Performance Expectations For Better Results 2. You need to do what’s right for the greater good of the organization, the team, and that person. Don’t magnify one poor decision with another.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

Maybe you’ve had a bad experience before and it feels safer to stay silent. Or, perhaps you’re not quite sure if your idea is a good idea. And 67% said they worry nothing will happen to their ideas anyway– so why bother. I really care about this company and the success of our team.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

And as plant life slows down and the leaves change color, we should make the time to reflect and take stock of where we are and where we need to go. A good book helps us to do just that. Decisions about Decisions : Practical Reason in Ordinary Life by Cass R. We make such decisions all the time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

How do we solve the right problem quickly and get ourselves and our team back to work? Help Your Team Solve the Right Problem 00:54 How do we solve the right problem quickly and get ourselves and our team back to work? A decision by one person affects the results and the welfare of employees in other areas in unforeseen ways.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2022

The Law of Slow Leaks - Why Important Things Fail and What We Can Do About It by Ken Downer @RapidStartLdr. After the Layoff: How to Support Your Team When it Just Got Smaller by @LetsGrowLeaders. Why Leaders Must Learn to Forgive and Forget via @Entrepreneur. How To Build Resilient Teams by @davidburkus. by @toddordal.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

While he taught students how to build winning startups, he felt he wasn't giving them the full picture if he couldn’t identify why so many were failing. The result is Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. Profit Formula: This is your plan for making money. Good Idea, Bad Bedfellows.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Good communication is a core principle of leadership. 2: Making Decisions in Isolation. Meanwhile, the leader is so wrapped up in their own agenda that they’re entirely out of touch with their team. If you’re in leadership and either of these situations sound familiar, you need to start making changes right now.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 23, 2024

Why does this matter? They build stronger teams and inspire loyalty. We got things started with a list of 10 ways that listening can improve your team’s performance. Examples of listening purposefully that require us to bring a specific outcome with us might include: Decision making. Conflict resolution.

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Modern Servant Leader

AUGUST 24, 2022

Explain Why Accountability Matters. Often, poor accountability stems from a lack of clarity on why it is important. Make sure your leadership and sales team understand why accountability is important for your company. Vulnerability enables the team to see nobody is beyond accountability.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. The Power of Pressure : Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution by Dane Jensen (Collins, 2021) What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Similarly, only half the team members surveyed for the same study said that their leaders effectively create vision for the future of their team. What will improve it is focused and thoughtful action to ensure leaders are equipped to lead, and just as importantly, have the confidence of the teams they’re leading. Commitment.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

The answer is to make “the most of each moment and ridding ourselves of the toxic habit of constantly looking forward to the next thing.” The stories and the grounding principle he draws from them really make each of these seven principles come to life. I don’t believe the good life is about finding balance between work and home.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2023

We chose a “good Barbie day” to approach her with our plan. The team invited her to use the dolls as a warning sign: to put the doll that best portrayed her mood on a visible shelf. Why don’t they get their F-@%# act together? The first was immaculately dressed in typical Barbie fashion, matching shirt, skirt, shoes, and pearls.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 21, 2019

Guest post from Greg Bustin : Leaders are in the decision-making business. Some of your decisions are bigger than others, and so to be considered successful on your terms as well as the terms of others means you must make more good decisions than bad decisions when the stakes are highest.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 27, 2020

If you’re among the many people who find themselves working for a bad leader, take heart. And there are lessons you can learn and strengths you can build through the experience of working for a bad leader. Bad leaders are self-centered. Bad leaders don’t hold themselves accountable. Bad leaders are lacking in character.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 13, 2020

A question I hear often—from colleagues, board members, HR directors, recruiters, and people at workshops and conferences—is how you can tell whether someone will be a good or a poor leader. But a person who listens well, who sets out to understand and communicates with compassion, has the makings of a great leader. Decisiveness.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 11, 2021

It’s not a bad business, it’s just not your business. If you are buying a business, make sure it’s not based on the last personality. “If Lifestyle businesses are not inherently bad. A good lifestyle business coupled w2ith smart investing will result in financial security, but not real wealth. Mistake #5: The Wrong Team.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 31, 2022

You shouldn’t be out after dark, nothing good happens, and the allure of gang life will kill you. Great leaders can make miracles happen: The premise of The Warriors is that multiple gangs were coming together for a peace brokering. Work towards making miracles happen. Make sure you’re communicating with your teams.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We underestimate the range of skills that we can learn and how good we can become. We almost make the decision that changes everything. Move Fast and Fix Things : The Trusted Leader's Guide to Solving Hard Problems by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 8, 2020

Your team has to know what your “ forever promise ” is—the organization’s commit-ment to customers that justifies customer loyalty. Companies are making bad decisions for good reason. But when the dust settles, they will have lost the trust that makes customer loyalty possible.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 11, 2020

Why tell the truth and rock the boat? This small work team had given their boss Joe good marks on his 360-evaluation for the last two years, even though those positives weren’t warranted. Questioning another person’s ideas or decisions, or. Feeling the pressure to conform and be a team player.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

What if you could confront any adversity, from the biggest challenges-the loss of your job, divorce, health issues, bankruptcy-to normal daily challenges-a late flight, a disappointing phone call, a missed promotion, a bad day-and not just survive it, but thrive afterwards? Because our brains are wired to focus on the bad. Baumeister.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 21, 2021

He is making excuses about why he didn’t do his job. If he goes to lunch with an employee, he has to go to lunch with all of the employees on his team. Bad news doesn’t go away. However, your decisions must be good for the group as a whole. You have to make the hard decisions…which are sometimes unpopular.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

How many arguments have broken out in your team just because someone was handing out suggestions on the fly without giving it much thought? If you’ve seen these two issues come up repeatedly, it’s highly likely that you and your team are plagued by two common cognitive biases, the optimism bias , and the pessimism bias.

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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. They all provide insights into leading and how others have tried to make sense of the world. People don’t experience our intentions; they experience our behavior. Blog Post ).

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Lead from Within

APRIL 23, 2020

While the results of such hires may not be disastrous, they fall short of being the best choice for you and your team. You already have someone like you on your team; what you need is someone who can complement your strengths, not mirror them. Making a bad hiring decision can be costly to your business and your leadership reputation.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Bad hires are expensive. With enough bad hires floating around, great organizations quickly become mediocre. With enough bad hires floating around, great organizations quickly become mediocre. The most important way to prevent a bad hire is to take your time. The best hiring decisions are not short-sighted.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. David Moser of Decisive Blog writes How To Run A Meeting You Aren’t Ready For: 5 Steps. How to engage the majority to make change work? With Words.

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Rich Gee Group

JUNE 13, 2014

Good To Great. An incredible book by Jim Collins — relates how certain companies overcame their obstacles and pushed themselves from being just good companies to the stars of their industry. How can you make the leadership leap with your team and go from just being a good leader (and that isn’t bad) to a great leader?

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The headline is arguably the most memorable line in the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men. The costs of not having a culture where it is safe to tell the truth are significant: Information does not reach the boss because no one wants to pass on the bad news. At the end, ask the group for the story that describes what the team is great at.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition, “Even though the book is written directly to the leader, going through the Survive, Reset, Thrive loop is a team activity, not an individual one,” adds Homkes. Why is it important for leaders to conceptualize the strategy as a continuous practice, rather than a checklist? Homkes: The entire loop!

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you as leader should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety , ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 26, 2023

Leadership perspective creates different kinds of creative solutions that make far more sense and have more support than the limited but obvious approach you might have started with. Effective teams and good leaders should be having good, productive conflict around ideas that help us to make better decisions.

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Modern Servant Leader

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

When it comes to managing up, there are two scenarios: when you’re on good terms with your boss and when you’re struggling with them. Managing Your Boss in Good Times & Bad. If yes, ask to have your own assessment done, then ask for the assessments of your boss and team. Document discussions and decisions.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 8, 2022

After hundreds of interviews with fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) professionals, N2Growth identified the following trends: Consumers seek moments of happiness to escape reality and relieve the stress of the pandemic and the Ukrainian invasion. Why or why not? Why or why not?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 24, 2020

I’ve figured out how to survive betrayal, miscalculation, and just plain bad luck. The Manager excels at managing teams and delivering results without a limited focus on organizational strategy or trajectory. Each day brings new problems and new decisions that present ambiguity and shades of gray.” Secure a Team 4.

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