Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

But we’re gonna start with a conversation about strategy and tactics, because leaders and managers can often struggle with the difference between strategy and tactics or vision and operations. Then I was catching up with two women who were on the trail ahead of me so I called out to them, “Hey, I’m passing on your left.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Or, your pivot to virtual sales calls, worked well when your customers were all working from home. If you could design our staff meeting from scratch, what would you do differently? What must we do differently? But, is it giving your team what they need most, now? What are we spending a lot of time on (e.g.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2023

.” Try being more specific like this: “When you were working on the _ project, I noticed it was challenging for you to set up the project efficiently. Why do you think this happened? What do you think you could do differently next time? Review our I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Each has a different purpose and requires a distinct focus and set of tools.” Once you distinguish between the two zones, it’s easy to see why so many of us get caught up in the performance paradox. Most organizations were simply not built with learning in mind. Both mindsets can be used simultaneously.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When it comes to peer relationships, your challenger plays quite a different role from your encourager. Having an advocate or two in your peer relationships network can really make a difference. Or perhaps they’ve got tons more experience, or they’re fresh out of school with a different perspective. A Challenger.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

We were reorganizing every department. Many senior leaders were in the midst of relocating their families to Manhattan which added to the distraction. We were merging systems, policies, programs—you name it. It was all about learning to lead courageously when others were not, and to do the right thing for the business.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2024

5 Phrases to Avoid if You Want Better Collaboration on Your Team Let’s talk about some of the most common phrases that sabotage collaboration, why they’re so annoying, and what to do instead. That’s a Terrible Idea You’re not Simon Cowell judging amateur karaoke, and even if you were, every idea has some merit.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 4, 2023

Why do we have to have a conversation about maintaining our infrastructure? Is Maintaining a Dirty Word for Leaders 02:10 Today we are talking about why we have to have conversations about maintaining things. And if you were paying attention to this, there’s much more nuance in the arguments from both perspectives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Such disappearing stunts are not that different from their close cousin in the dating scene. Why is Ghosting at Work on the Rise? I’m not sure exactly why disappearing mid-conversation is on the rise, but I’ve got some theories. Why Leaving a Conversation Hanging is So Destructive to People and Your Work Culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2022

But at a time when people are longing for compassion and connection, taking the conversation a level deeper can make all the difference for your employees’ mental health, as well as for building deeper trust. Why practicing going a bit deeper matters. Of course, it’s not just the one conversation that makes a difference.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Patients were cold and Frank, the manager responsible for inventory and equipment wasn’t getting the blankets washed and distributed every morning. So now Poncha and her employees were being held accountable for the consequences of a problem they could not solve directly. So Poncha does a little digging. Does this sound familiar?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Urgency means different things to different folks. People naturally have different perspectives on what matters and why. Some value thoroughness above timeliness, others may have a sense of timeliness that differs from your own. (If First, look at the different types of tasks your team members do regularly.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2023

You’ve set and reinforced clear expectations and clearly communicated “what” you need them to do and “why.” “If we can make this much magic on this day, why not every day?” Technicians were unfamiliar with the software and reluctant to use it at first because it cut into their customer-facing hours.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 24, 2024

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? Don’t say, “If I were you….”. You can help most with professional advice, when you know each other as whole persons.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

Why Courageous Questions Matter. Why Courageous Questions Matter. But after five minutes they were both still staring at an hourglass and waiting for the page to load. Under no circumstances were we to be negative. A courageous question differs from a generic “How can we be better?” What is a Courageous Question?

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2020

The leaders were generally the same men, many far-famed and even venerated, but they were projected now into a different situation. Now they were divided over mundane policies. Now they were expected to practice piecemeal, transactional leadership.”. They had been united behind transcending goals.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2020

Why doesn’t the training stick? One day, Amy, our L&D director, had another of her glorious eureka moments—the company’s existing systems and processes were inhibiting new behaviors promoted in training from taking root. Like gardeners, we were placing our seedlings in an environment not conducive to their growth.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When I began coordinating content for the Lead Change Group in 2014, the idea of soliciting, editing and publishing a different piece of leadership material every weekday was a little daunting. We were all finding our way. I was new to the community. Every contributor was new to me. Editorial Guidelines. Writing Matters.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Whether it’s disagreement about strategy, personality clashes, or differing values, conflict in leadership can be damaging to both the individuals involved and the organization as a whole. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” Attitudes toward weight The researchers asked more than 2,000 British adults of different ages about their attitudes toward weight and obesity. It also found that people with higher incomes and those with moderate levels of education and occupational status were more likely to have negative attitudes about weight.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 3, 2021

They were in trouble, missed school, and had difficulty in academics. When their pictures landed on the newspaper’s front page along with their quotes, they were walking with pride. When did you discover you were a leader? How are you different from others? This “why” is the core of your leadership.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Our lack of knowledge around cultural differences, as well as human factors such as stress, fatigue, and communication skills, all play a role in the potential breakdown of communication. Today, there is an emphasis on rapid decision making, and fast-paced problem solving that often involve many parties and differing perspectives.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 10, 2023

The study shows that children who are exposed to racial inequalities in their lives and who believe those inequalities are largely due to intrinsic differences between people are more likely to hold racial biases. What is less understood is quite why this is and the factors that influence the formation of such beliefs.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 21, 2022

Leaders aren’t glory hogs: Jimmy and Billy were fighting in a tag-team contest. Beware of distractions: The Lees and Satori were driving after curfew. Fuel yourself properly: The car the Lees were driving used flammable material for power. The Lees were using paper, fabric, and more to fuel the vehicle.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

It turns out that women thrive at work not because of vacations or special perks, but because they can make a real difference. Some of them felt like they were thriving most of the time (42%), and others felt like they were thriving some of the time (49%). Thriving matters Why does thriving at work matter?

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Anese Cavanaugh

APRIL 10, 2023

View the timestamped transcript of this video here) Here are some common things we heard: “Why should I care about how I show up? I'm so busy!)" “How do I handle the person who always shows up so negatively?" How can I help leaders understand how this work ties into the bottom line?"

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 28, 2024

A recent study from the University of Helsinki checked this and found that across different groups of people born at different times, the ideal number of kids they want to have has also gone down. The reason for wanting fewer children was because more people who were born after 1985 preferred not to have any children at all.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

People believed women were negotiating less often than men, but they also believed women faced discrimination too,” the researchers explain. “People thought women were less likely to get what they asked for, recognizing asking as an imperfect solution.” business school. And some said it’s just not fair.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 24, 2024

A study from New York University has shown that when we focus on the main reasons behind inequality, it helps children see economic differences more fairly. ” Explaining inequality The study found that children notice when some people have more money than others, and they might treat them differently because of it.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 4, 2022

As is his gift, Grant described something many were feeling but couldn’t quite articulate. What if 2022 was the year you put languishing in your rearview mirror by setting a series of small goals throughout the year to make different things in your life incrementally better? Being better, though, is within the grasp of all of us.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Why should you BE COACHABLE ? And it was ALWAYS clear who the most talented athletes were at the beginning of our season. But, surprisingly, those people were NOT ALWAYS the ones who were contributing the most to our success as a team when it mattered as we entered the playoffs at the end of our season. Thought Leaders.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2024

Research from Gallup suggests that workers were the most pessimistic about their living standards since the company started measuring this in 2009, with around a third experiencing anger, stress, and sadness at work. “But there are still various things associated with these tools that humanity hasn’t adapted to.”

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 2, 2024

We’re beginning to gain a greater understanding of why screen time tires us out so much. Why video calls make us tired The first reason for feeling drained during video calls is that they’re different from face-to-face meetings. “We combined physiological methods with ethnographic research.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Kandi Wiens Today, Wiens shares these insights with us: Question: Why did you decide to write the book? The longer version of my why is that in 2011, I had a hypertensive emergency with a blood pressure reading of 200/110 that was brought on by severe chronic stress and burnout. Management your mindset. Was it an acquired skill?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 2, 2023

Research from the University of Arkansas suggests that such sentiments can be overcome with the use of games and role-playing, with participants generally more trusting of immigrants and tolerant of different cultures after partaking. They were also asked to write about why they wanted to become a U.S.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 21, 2024

However, different people within these organizations might not always agree on what is truly good. Research from Syracuse University aimed to figure out why various nonprofit mission statements hold different moral values and how these values relate to the political beliefs of the people who started these organizations.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 24, 2024

The ability of technology to augment humanity is not a new one, but with the release of generative AI in 2022, there were renewed calls for tech to help humanity rather than replace it. Work and Getting Stuff Done Different jobs need different skills, so there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.

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