QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

How could a man with no formal authority take on an empire and influence the hearts and minds of so many people across the country? Gandhi’s impact is a testimony to the fact that you don’t need positional power to influence others. Every time I think of influence, I think of Gandhi. How does one generate influence?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Welcome to the December Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, motivation, productivity, and more. Jeff McCollum of Designed Learning contributed Ruminations on Influence. Communication.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 9, 2012

Everyone longs for an approving audience, the standing ovation. Leaders are the audience when: The organization is top down. Three of our grandchildren – 2, 6, and 7 yrs. old – spent the week with us. I kept hearing, “Watch this Poppi.” They are highly respected. Pay and promotions are in their control. They assign [.].

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

It’s hard to escape this view of leaders and leadership. It can, however, be edified through examining tangible illustrations of leaders and leadership from history. Let’s examine the qualities of some prominent leaders from the past to reveal the sort of leaders and leadership that are needed to tackle the problems facing us today.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2018

Taken from the Introduction of The Art of Servant Leadership II by Art Barter. In The Art of Servant Leadership II, we offer a case study in transforming a company into a servant-led organization. They allow the servant leadership behaviors to renovate their hearts, and ultimately this transfers into their hands of service.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 29, 2018

With employee disengagement remaining at very high levels in America and globally, and growth in significant new scientific findings that shed light on conditions necessary for human flourishing, it’s time to reconsider management theory and our approach to maximizing the performance of individuals and organizations.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 13, 2023

Soft skills are an essential part of any leadership position. For example, general communication is a soft skill, as you must understand your audience and what they need to know. Persuasion Persuasion is a soft skill that involves influencing employees rather than flexing direct power. The post Is Leadership a Soft Skill?

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Each year, after reading and reviewing dozens of new leadership books, I select my pick for the year's best new leadership book. For 2023, after reading nearly 40 leadership books, my pick for this year’s best new leadership book is When Everyone Leads. Leadership is interactive, risky, and experimental.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 15, 2014

Watch this video for tips on influencing your audience and having more effective persuasive communications. The art of persuasion starts with understanding your audience. Until you do you can’t persuade anyone. KevinEikenberry (Tweet It) You can learn more about the Communicating for Results workshop here.

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Career Advancement

JULY 1, 2019

“Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to high sights, the raising of a person’s performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations.” Braxton Asks: To prepare my high-performers to take on more challenging roles, my company wants to hold a leadership training event.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 29, 2012

One of the great leadership teachers of our time passed away on July 16, 2012. In 2011, Time magazine named it one of the 25 Most Influential Business Management books of all time. In 2011, Time magazine named it one of the 25 Most Influential Business Management books of all time.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Managers just like you are putting their plans on pause, and training programs are often among the first line items cut. Some organizations view training—especially leadership development—as expendable. But a crisis is precisely the time when an organization’s leadership skills—or lack thereof—are on full display.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 15, 2014

Watch this video for tips on influencing your audience and having more effective persuasive communications. The art of persuasion starts with understanding your audience. appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Persuasion cannot happen until we understand one thing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Let’s Grow Leaders Q&A In a recent post we invited you to send us your biggest leadership challenge. It’s a question we hear all the time from audience members […]. We received a great question from a healthcare leader in the United Kingdom.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 3, 2015

I’m not sure why so many people in positions of power think sarcasm is a leadership competency. In fact, an audience member asked me again last week (anonymously through my polling app) , “Can you talk about the danger of sarcasm? Why would a manager demean someone they’re trying to “motivate?”

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

EI brings empirical science and greater clarity to the fuzzy topic of leadership. But, too often, STEMM leadership is an oxymoron. Zenger Folkman’s study comparing 360 assessments of STEMM versus non-STEMM leaders shows STEMM leaders are rated lower in leadership effectiveness. Something is missing.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

This will only work if management gets on board. I really wish my manager was here to hear this, he is the one that needs to make the change. I’m looking forward to sharing this with upper-management and getting their buy-in. How can I get useful ideas through to management? Management is going to want to see data.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 20, 2013

When it comes to leadership, there’s a common understanding that true leadership doesn’t require formal titles or roles. After listing some of his past jobs, Kutcher tells his audience “I never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job”.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2020

Being able to communicate effectively is perhaps the most important of all leadership skills. It was Dale Carnegie who stated, in How to Win Friends and Influence People , that 90 percent of all management problems are caused by miscommunication. They manage their tone. The Leadership Gap.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

If you are seen as someone who has the organization’s and other people’s interests at heart, your words will be seen as less threatening, and you are more likely to get an audience. “If If you take issue with everything (most things), you will be labeled as a troublemaker, and your influence will be compromised. Managing the Message.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 7, 2016

Welcome to the March 2016 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! They range from how to lead in a crisis to how to develop leadership qualities when things are calm. Bill recaps, “An effective manager is an organized manager — because being organized reduces distractions and removes the unnecessary from your life.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MARCH 31, 2020

Raleigh, NC – March 26, 2020 – Training Industry announced today that The Center for Leadership Studies has been named among its selections for the 2020 Top Training Companies lists for the Leadership Training sector of the learning and development market. View the 2020 Top 20 Leadership Training Companies and Watch List.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2013

Guest post by Great Leadership monthly contributor Beth Armknecht Miller: I recently had the opportunity to hear David Marquet, author of Turn the Ship Around speak about the frameworks to creating leadership throughout an organization. And one of the questions he posed to the audience was "How do employees talk to each other?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

They want to be known as key influencers in their particular field, but getting to a point of confidence in their expertise is more difficult. Create a website, define a target audience, and begin speaking from your experience. Speaking engagements are a great way to reach your audience and build your credibility.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A leader’s message has a direct impact on their personal and corporate brand equity, how they manage a crisis, marketing initiatives, investor relations, press and public relations, team building and employee engagement, and virtually any other mission critical area of chief executive responsibility.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The story is no different when it comes to developing a leadership strategy in times of change. Whether it be a global pandemic, a company restructuring or a merger, a leadership strategy is crucial if you want to manage shifts and times of uncertainty. By embracing the potential for change, you can harness its power.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Objectives could range from enhancing service delivery and improving staff loyalty to gaining a bigger marketplace influence or upgrading relations with the media and regulatory entities. Determine your key audiences – List all the audiences that the firm might want to contact, attempt to influence, or serve.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 26, 2010

As a veteran and lifelong student of leadership I have always found Memorial Day weekend to be one of the most meaningful and significant of all holidays. While this coming weekend simply signifies a long awaited prelude to summer for some, it is much more than that for me.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 29, 2016

Step by step, Egnal demonstrates how effective leaders reject fuzzy terminology in favor of the language of leadership. And, by language of leadership, he means using language that clearly and powerfully brings ideas to life for the audience. Be audience-centric. The book has two parts. Be courageous.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

I tell them that the pre-requisite of leadership is not having a team to “lead.” Leadership comes in different facets. Being a subject matter expert is one way to demonstrate leadership. One leadership trait is that you need to be able to articulate the impact of what you accomplish in the context of business goals or revenue.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2020

91% of B2B marketers are doing content marketing, and close to 80% of B2B buyers have admitted that content quality significantly influences their buying decisions. There are no one-size-fits-all answers for these questions, and ultimately how you should approach your content would depend on your target audience’s behaviors and preferences.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Human Resource Management (HRM) is a broad term that encompasses human resources management, employee relations , compensation, benefits, training, performance evaluation, recruitment, selection, and other related activities. Human resource management (HRM) has always been a challenging field. Let’s begin.

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Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

But they can only be heard accurately and acted upon when our audience has bought in to, and learned how to manage, any proposed change, and all relevant ‘systems’ are GO. And THEN you can pitch, offer, suggest, or influence. Adopting new behaviors challenges our ingrained, personal, habitual systems. About the Author.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 1, 2020

Decipher the Leadership Code. Many people are overwhelmed when they are studying leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Alain Hunkins has released Cracking the Leadership Code that helps you demystify leadership. Daniel Kahneman. Connection.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

To reinforce one of the most important of all leadership qualities – that of being other focused. No one in the audience could understand and the room became tense. To celebrate the life of the late President Reagan on what would have been his 100th birthday. I’ve chosen not to do that. Your team deserves it.

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QAspire

JUNE 4, 2012

Here’s what I tell them: The intent of connecting with others meaningfully is at the heart of social media (and leadership) success. They seek help in starting a blog, in creating a Facebook fan page and a Twitter account. With intent comes emotion which leads to difference. Thanks Becky!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Understand your audience well. This was my biggest mistake until I learned that most often my audience was more often interested in the facts of a proposal (How long will it take? Other audiences will want something else, and it will be important to understand what that is and to feature it prominently in your pitches.

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