Lead Change Blog

MAY 20, 2021

It was raw leadership unadorned by dressed-up diplomacy or gift-wrapped candor. ” Decker embodied a completely different style of leadership than presidents in the past. The audience was so stunned there was a long silence as she waited for the first question. Sharon surprised the delighted audience with her response.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2020. Leading with Feeling : Nine Strategies of Emotionally Intelligent Leadership by Cary Cherniss and Cornelia W. The Art of Being Indispensable at Work : Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done by Bruce Tulgan.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Importance of Executive Coaching in Leadership Development Executive coaching is pivotal in developing leaders, allowing them to unlock their full potential and drive organizational success. This highly specialized form of coaching is specifically designed to address the unique challenges and complexities that executives routinely face.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2017

If your life was a silent film, could the people in the audience discern your influence? I just Googled “leadership,” and got 861 million hits. We’ve written books on leadership, blogs on leadership, articles on leadership, and white papers on leadership. You increase your influence through listening.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2019

This fall, I embarked on a worldwide quest to gain insights and perspectives on global leadership in the 21st century. To do this effectively, I sought to understand two things: Elucidate the emerging leadership traits and competencies that are most relevant today.

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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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Lead Change Blog

MAY 15, 2017

It’s not just about connecting with the audience and informing them about the activities these leaders are involved in. Social media allows them to expand their leadership to a wider audience. He improves the way people perceive his leadership by allowing everyone to post comments and ask questions. It’s about leading.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 26, 2024

For instance, the skills and competencies sought in top-level executives are evolving, focusing more on essential leadership traits (once called “soft skills” like empathy, adaptability, resilience, and emotional intelligence). Historically, financial leadership trumped people leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Today, we are pleased to share a post from the Servant Leadership Institute about their upcoming conference. The theme for this year’s servant leadership conference hosted by the Servant Leadership Institute is “The Music of Servant Leadership.” We are asking our audience to hear the music we hear.

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RapidStart Leadership

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Performance isn’t just about the players, it’s also about the audience. Today we’ll unlock the power of social facilitation and show you how you can use the audience to get the best out of your team. In one experiment, the “audience” was blind-folded and wearing head phones, yet their presence had the same effect.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

I learned about the power of vulnerability years earlier. When I took over as president of a $12 billion unit at AT&T—overseeing 10,000 employees and a huge budget—I thought I had all the power I needed to succeed. It was at one such meeting in New York City where I learned about the power of vulnerability. I was wrong.

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Decker Communication

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

When we’re giving direction or delivering a message of influence, this is not the time to use “I” language. Notice how eliminating the “I” part makes it a much stronger message that has its audience in mind: “Spin faster!” The next time you’re leading a meeting or a spin class, remember: make it about your audience.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 22, 2013

Mahatma Gandhi, as we know, was a simple man who had no position, no wealth, no power and no authority. Yet, he altered the course of history by leading India to Independence through power of people. 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?

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Yet the fact remains: whether you have a formal leadership role such as CEO or you are a young professional looking to move into leadership, public speaking skills are critical. I discuss these in more depth in my new book, Speak With Impact: How to Command the Room and Influence Others : Public speaking is a skill, not a talent.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 7, 2021

Secrets to Leadership, Business and Life. Do women face a unique relationship with power? How do women unlock their personal power? I recently had the opportunity to talk with her about her research and findings about women’s leadership, influence, and power. “I 3 Ways to Lead a Life of Influence.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in November 2019. Contagious You : Unlock Your Power to Influence, Lead, and Create the Impact You Want by Anese Cavanaugh. The quality of our leadership is based upon our intentions, energy, and presence. and with it, the requirements of leadership.

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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They’re portrayed as uniquely powerful individuals — able to overcome, through sheer force of will or ruthless intelligence, the obstacles they faced. 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.

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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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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Otherwise the play may never open; or it may open but, for lack of an audience, close after a week. Advocacy by John Daly, is a comprehensive handbook on influence. He covers the complex factors involved in selling an idea, supported by examples and current research in the fields of persuasion, power relations, and behavior change.

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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. What Are Soft Skills?

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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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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 17, 2012

In watching the debate, if it can be called that, last night, 3 things hit me – Respect (or lack thereof), Power (or illusion of) and Knowledge (or lack thereof). Power : Obama and Romney talk about what they are going to do, without many specifics, as if it were all in their control. Did I show up on time (e.g.,

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The Practical Leader

DECEMBER 6, 2023

There’s not a lot we can do about the processing power between our ears. This rigorous and ever-deepening research provides hard evidence for the catalytic power of “ soft skills ” in personal, team, and organizational performance. EI brings empirical science and greater clarity to the fuzzy topic of leadership.

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Decker Communication

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Like Hillary, our default is to lead with competence—when, in reality, our audience needs connection. As Dr. Amy Cuddy says, “Warmth is the conduit of influence: It facilitates trust and communication and absorption of ideas.”. Show more affect and emotion —it boosts your likability and allows you to influence.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 9, 2019

Guest post from Dick Richardson: A simple definition of leadership is “Leadership is influencing others to do what they would not do if left to their own accord.” Ethos Kennedy also demonstrated source credibility or authority — ethos — as he spoke, so that those in the audience did not question his statements.

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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 Sarcasm is So Dangerous. You get the opposite of what you want.

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

I was greeting audience members before a presentation when one asked, “What makes you qualified to give this presentation?” Thanks for asking,” is my typical response when I need a second to think.… … Continue reading →

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 14, 2015

In 1987, I flew to LA to a women’s leadership conference for one reason only. Yet her commanding presence was so powerful, 30 years later, that memory is still vivid in my mind. Leadership p resence includes character, charisma and self-confidence YET is much more. Even Before You Speak. You feel it. You know it.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Ben Lichtenwalner presents Digital Media and the Future of Leadership at Hope College’s Critical Issues Symposium. Leadership is not easy, but digital media makes it easier than ever before. Whether or not you realize leverage this opportunity, there are major influencers who will. Having difficulties viewing the video?

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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. Much of the power of communication lies not with what we say but with how we say it.

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Mark Sanborn

MARCH 14, 2022

She made a point to tell the audience she didn’t like to wear shoes when she spoke (and she didn’t). The audience listened, laughed, and bought lots of her books afterwards. Success—for the audience and ultimately your speaking career–are the results of how those three ingredients work together.

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 30, 2023

Opportunity #4 – Skipping Opportunities to Tell Stories The Challenge: Decision makers and their audiences are continuously inundated with facts and figures. The very nature of communicating data makes it implicitly challenging to gain and hold attention at precisely the moment you need to engage and influence your team.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

In less than two minutes, she had the audience in the palm of her hand, laughing so hard we were wiping tears from our eyes. At work, especially in a leadership position, we live in a heightened reality. She is the author of Brave Leadership: Unleash Your Most Confident, Authentic, and Powerful Self to Get the Results You Need.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 22, 2016

Today brings two new Reel Leadership posts to the website. The first was Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Ben-Hur. Now, you get leadership lessons from Kubo and the Two Strings. It’s also, as usual, packed with lots of leadership lessons. Leadership Lessons And Quotes From Kubo And The Two Strings.

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Coaching Tip

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Introverts can be highly effective influencers when, instead of trying to act like extroverts, they use their natural strengths. Quiet Influence by author Jennifer B. Social Media is a perfect fit for Quiet Influencers. Social media gives today''s Quiet Influencers a particularly effective and efficient option.

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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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