Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 6, 2021

You’ve been working hard, and the project is totally on track. But, if you stumble through the presentation, you’ll likely end up with a pile of action items just to prove the project is in good hands. “Why do these executives have to be so intimidating?” I spent many years in a scene like that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 10, 2021

As a human-centered leader, you might just be tempted to hold onto an obviously bad hire too long. We see so many managers hold on to false hope, increasing the agony for everyone. ” “Yeah, I mean it’s been a performance issue for a really long time. Avoid This Huge Mistake with a Bad Hire.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2017

You’ve been working long hours, fighting the political and logistical battles to do what’s right for the business– and just as you think everything’s on track, the landscape changes… a merger, a reorganization, reduced funding… and you feel like you’re starting all over again.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 12, 2023

You might feel tempted to avoid your moody boss, keep your head down, and just survive. You might feel tempted to avoid your moody boss, keep your head down, and just survive. The other doll had ripped clothes, magic marker on her face, and hair that looked like it had been gnawed by a cat. Not ideal for sure.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 2, 2021

Burnout can be like the weather. I’ve been thinking and talking about burnout for a long-time. The belief was that the only person who’s going to take care of me is me. That’s coming up, but first some quick background on why you feel so burned out to begin with (and if you’re reading this, I assume you do).

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

Courageous questions help eliminate FOSU (fear of speaking up) and create the psychological safety your employees need to speak up and ask for what they need. Courageous questions help eliminate FOSU (fear of speaking up) and create the psychological safety your employees need to speak up and ask for what they need.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 21, 2023

Do you feel like the inner flame that motivates you in your personal and professional life has dimmed? Before we pose the questions, though, let us share a story that illuminates why contemplating them is so valuable. Answering a few questions will provide insight into how you can rekindle your inner light. Who had influenced him?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 25, 2021

Now, we’re coming off a year where the work didn’t let up and many normal activities were impossible. Your stress level is higher than it’s been for years. Let’s look at some. You’re probably at a point where you’ve been buried so long you think it’s a normal situation. The Work Will Pile Up While I’m Gone.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Over the past two decades, colleagues, friends and clients have often asked my wife, life and business partner Diane and me how we’ve grown the business over two decades and what we’ve learned along the way. I remember a couple of months into the business talking with a new client who had just been promoted into his first executive role.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

What if you had a powerful resource right down the hall or a Zoom click away that could help you be an even more effective leader day in and day out? My guess is you’d be asking, “Where do I sign up?”. My guess is you’d be asking, “Where do I sign up?”. And what if that powerful resource was free and yours for the asking?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 10, 2021

All those feelings rattled around in my heart and head as I drove home—just like they did after my first job interview. A conversation with someone way, way smarter than me. I’ve been privileged to be able to spend the last year working from home. Knuckle down. Stand your ground and do so with grit and grace.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

Offices shut down and many of us started working from home. But before we all go completely bananas and rush back to our former lives, this feels like a good moment to do a little self-assessment and forward planning as we approach reentry. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson announced they were sick with COVID and quarantined in Australia.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

” I watched Sarah’s entire body tense up each time the hourly stack rankings buzzed in on her phone. .” ” I watched Sarah’s entire body tense up each time the hourly stack rankings buzzed in on her phone. I knew that look from the inside out. Sarah looked at me as if I was crazy.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

What would you do if your customer base tripled almost overnight and their lives depended on you scaling up your leadership and your organization to meet the sudden surge in demand? Another way of looking at is they went from providing one million meals a week to four million meals a week. So, how did they do it?

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Leading Blog

JULY 17, 2023

It never really made sense to me that public speaking caused this much fear in a world filled with so many things to be fearful of. So I was naturally relieved to see in my research that most Americans were plump with the same anxieties that actually keep me up at night. This seems reasonable. Very afraid.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 14, 2017

” “Yeah, I mean it’s been a problem for a really long time. ” I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen this seen this scene play out–both in my HR exec days, and now in the frustrations of my clients looking to add more rigor to their performance management processes. Why or why not?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Later on, when the prior owner gave me a set of blueprints, I finally understood why the home felt so right. Not only do we have to design what we want them to look like, we’re also in charge of getting there. What do you want your life to look like? But that can be overwhelming; you have to break it down.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

MAY 3, 2024

Being in the presence of somebody that seems like they were born to help you solve a problem you are in the middle of, and unmistakably savors that opportunity. Examples of Autonomy I remember (years ago) tweaking my knee in a pick-up basketball game. The tension I had been feeling went away before the door closed.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Some years, among the many books about leadership that I read, there is another book that is so good, it becomes my runner up for the best new leadership book of the year. That runner-up book for 2023 is, The Communication Code , by Jeremie Kubicek and Steven Cockram.

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Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Interview: Fiona Dawson: “My imperative is around breaking down barriers for people” Written by David Waller. She ended up staying for 33. She was 21. It was a great opportunity to learn, and she expected to be working at the confectionary giant for a couple of years. I want to help celebrate the skills of management.”

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 24, 2020

Over the past month, I’ve been running two or three online sessions a week with groups of leaders to provide them with some reference points and space to think about how to lead in our current environment. It’s more so during a pandemic when work routines and business plans are completely disrupted. Don’t like to shop or cook?

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Since the pandemic started, Susan’s been working around 15 hours a day. Then she wakes up the next morning and starts the cycle again. Then she wakes up the next morning and starts the cycle again. After talking me through her routine, Susan said to me what she realized in the moment, “I can’t keep doing this.”

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 23, 2017

I’ve been fat for a big chunk (no pun intended) of my life. I have proved to myself over and again that I can lose weight, and get down to that place where my height and weight agree with each other. This is not a club of friends you want to hang out with, trust me! Don’t get me wrong. That isn’t what health is for me.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

I think that appeals to me so much because it defines what I’ve been doing as a leadership coach for over two decades. Fortunately, I made it through but it was often like finding my way through the dark. Fortunately, I made it through but it was often like finding my way through the dark. Those were my people.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

In that office, there was a long, long hallway that stretched from the lobby down the entire length of the high-rise floor. In that office, there was a long, long hallway that stretched from the lobby down the entire length of the high-rise floor. Here are the thoughts I’ve assembled so far.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 28, 2020

For many of us in the United States, week seven or so of the work from home (WFH) period is underway. And even as attention turns to how to get people back to the office, it’s pretty clear that we’re at the beginning of a pretty long haul of a lot more working from home than we ever thought we would.

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Strategy Driven

JUNE 16, 2023

As business leaders this is a fast based Olympic like game we play. When is it time for that dream or that possibility, which has been a thought and a yearning, but has never happened? As a celebration of my 45 years of working, I am working less and focusing on other activities. This is the year for me, largely unscripted.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 11, 2022

It’s one of the most moving films I’ve seen in a long time. In doing so, we can also learn from our past. Take a dive into Devotion with me. Take a dive into Devotion with me. The Korean War has been forgotten. There will be many great leaders who are remembered for a long time.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2020

The notebook was tiny, maybe only three inches wide by four inches long, with multicolored paper and hearts on the cover. My journals, over the years, haven’t been just a place to share frustrations and worry, but also a place where I could share dreams, especially the ones I didn’t think others would understand. I don't know how." "I'm

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2014

It wasn’t hard to like Sarah Young as soon as we walked into her downtown store back in 2010, when we first moved to Portland. Sarah and her sister Becky made us feel like we had been customers for several years, not several minutes.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Instead, they employ women in Uganda to make footwear and accessories allowing them to earn money towards college degrees so that they can stop the cycle of poverty for themselves and their families and eventually move into other fields. Her journey is not what you would expect but you will find it encouraging because it is down-to-earth.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

How inescapable and long lasting the legacy of their badness is depends in large part on what good people do. James spread fear like rose petals tossed at a wedding. Unchecked badness becomes like the scum that spreads across stagnant waters—pervasive and controlling. David, James predecessor, had hired me. Or don’t do.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

a leader asked me in a Facebook Live session. Persistence From my research and experience I have observed high-performance leaders look to instill these traits in their people as well. When you have too many leaders like this you have a fixed mindset, scarcity culture and that is not good for anyone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2014

Should the other, older and theoretically more mature guy have been the one to succumb? And so I offer our collective wisdom from the scar tissue from this battle. This may sound counterintuitive, but trust me, no one shows up at their very best when they’re spitting teeth mad. “ It’s time to let it go.

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

Since different results require different actions, leaders need to make adjustments of picking up new behaviors and mindsets while letting go of others to create the results that are expected or hoped for. So, what does it mean to do that well? That’s not happening now so, like a lot of you, I’m using online yoga and fitness classes.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 24, 2013

It looks and sounds like things produced by someone trying to tiptoe through a minefield without blowing up. You’ve entered the “ Mediocre Zone” All because your boss was looking over your shoulder. And it taught me a valuable lesson about leadership. You can feel it. One, is empathy.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 31, 2022

What Work Looks like. The COVID-19 pandemic affected how we work in so many ways. What changes are leaders prepared to accept and embrace long-term? Working from home can make us feel like we have more control over our days and lives.” Yet that reality drove so many other behaviors. Less team bonding.

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