Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Posted in Leadership Development [link] Last week, I had the opportunity to be with John Maxwell at an event to raise money to train leaders around the world. He teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager to write The Secret : What Great Leaders Know and Do. Leadership Development personal development'

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 21, 2014

Author information Randy Conley I am the Trust Practice Leader for The Ken Blanchard Companies. I work with clients around the globe helping them design & deliver training and consulting solutions that build trust in the workplace. Leadership Development ethics Trust'

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Welcome to the February 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Jill shares, “Good leaders understand that self-confidence helps employees be more productive, but they can ignore their own confidence and its importance to personal development. Here are some easy tips to ensure you don’t get discouraged.”

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CO2

JANUARY 12, 2024

A Harvard Business Review survey revealed that tailored executive coaching led to an 88% increase in productivity when combined with training. Integrating Values for Holistic Development In the Twin Cities, the integration of core values into leadership practices is paramount.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 29, 2017

Ken Blanchard calls feedback the breakfast of champions, and he is right. For us to coach and develop our team members successfully, we must be able to give feedback to them. I have spoken and trained on giving feedback for years. For any of us to be successful, we need feedback. I’ve written here extensively […].

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 17, 2024

It’s not always logical and we have to train ourselves to react in more thoughtful ways, but it’s a reality of the human condition. Ken Blanchard and I address this topic in our book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust. Simple truth number 33 simply says, “Fear is the enemy of trust.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 1, 2012

Happy New Year, and welcome to the January, 2012 Leadership Development Carnival! This month's edition is a special "Best of 2011" collection of leadership development blog posts from many of our regular Carnival contributors. Reason: "This leadership development post was one of the most fun to write. We've got to change that.".

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Leading with Trust

JANUARY 12, 2020

The Ken Blanchard Companies recently unveiled the results of their 2020 HR Learning and Talent Development Trends Survey. Over 800 Learning and Development professionals participated in the survey, comprising a wide cross-section of roles, age, and level of responsibility in organizations. Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 9, 2017

Shortly after Ken Blanchard and I published The Secret , I began to receive calls to speak. Formal training – A simple scope and sequence can be created to ensure EVERY leader in your organization speaks the same leadership language. So, why not skip formal training and do everything in mentoring relationships?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2012

The Secret , a book I co-authored with Ken Blanchard, outlines what we believe great leaders do -- the skills part of the picture. Mark Miller, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life , is vice president, training and development, for Chick-fil-A. For more information please visit [link] and [link].

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

Mark Miller began writing over decade ago when he teamed up with Ken Blanchard on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Since then, he’s provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Field Operations, Quality and Customer Satisfaction, Training and Development, and Organizational Effectiveness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 25, 2019

Management guru Ken Blanchard is spot on when he writes……“It takes a whole team of people to create a great company but just one lousy leader to take the whole business down the pan.” Poor leaders start ra ra’ing to their employees, which may work with some of your workforce, but your elite producers can see right through it.

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Leading with Trust

JULY 18, 2021

the newsletter of The Ken Blanchard Companies. I was interviewed about the opportunity to build trust as organizations develop plans to return workers to the office. I think that train has left the station,” says Conley. Enjoy this article that was recently published in Ignite! , So what do organizations do now?

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QAspire

APRIL 1, 2012

Welcome to the April 1st 2012 Carnival of Leadership Development. This month, we again have a great line up of posts on leadership, management and talent development. Wally Bock has been training and coaching first-time bosses for more than a quarter century and has learned some things along the way.

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Engaging Leader

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Ten years ago, he and his team set out to develop a clear process for identifying potential leaders. Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Field Operations, Quality and Customer Satisfaction, Training and Development. In 1978, he joined the corporate staff working in the warehouse and mailroom.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

Top leadership expert Ken Blanchard calls the book “a wake-up call for leaders at every level.” Giant Leap Consulting designs, develops, and delivers comprehensive leadership development and succession programming to deepen organizational bench strength. . Interact with Bill and Marshall Goldsmith!

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Leading with Trust

JULY 12, 2020

It’s a skill that must be developed and practiced over time for leaders to become comfortable navigating the complexities of organizational change. Address people’s concerns – Research from The Ken Blanchard Companies shows that people have predictable stages of concern when faced with a change. What do I do first?

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Modern Servant Leader

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

If you go to one leadership development event this year, the World Leaders Conference is the one. This year’s speakers include incredible names like, Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels, Erwin McManus, Ben Carson, Mark Sanborn, Drew Brees and many, many more. Question: Are you going to be at the World Leaders Conference?

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Nathan Magnuson

APRIL 4, 2016

Blanchard & Miller’s SERVE Model alone lists five of them (see & shape the future, engage & develop others, reinvent continuously, value results & relationships and embody the values) – and there are many models out there. ” Develop Your Own. Be proactive.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2017

At the beginning of spring training, Rick would ask his pitchers, “What’s your goal?” He serves as a Vice President at The Ken Blanchard Companies, a premier leadership training and coaching company. He is currently director of pitching development with the Baltimore Orioles.

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Leading with Trust

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Despite this critical dependence on teams, many organizations don’t invest in the upfront training and tools to equip their teams for success. In 2017, The Ken Blanchard Companies, in partnership with Training Magazine , surveyed 1,300 people about teams and team leadership. But it doesn’t happen by accident.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Step 3: Stages of Team Development. Identify the stage of development the team is in. We use the Situational Leadership ll model in conjunction with the Team Stages of Development. These challenges or stretching goals could be new projects, continued training, skill building and/or self or team development endeavors.

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Leading with Trust

APRIL 18, 2023

As I share in my recent book with Ken Blanchard, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , the very nature of trust requires one party to take a risk and extend trust to another. Training opportunities? Extending our trust to someone makes us vulnerable to their actions. Higher compensation?

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CoachStation

MARCH 22, 2019

However, there are several things you can do to develop this skill. Effective leaders who climb the corporate ladder are skilled at delegating and developing people. (1). You retain your top talent by keeping your employees engaged, empowered and letting them develop their skills to become leaders. Reg flag No. Red flag No.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 13, 2020

I recently spoke with Olivier Blanchard, one of the co-authors. ” -Olivier Blanchard. Secondly, developing lifelong loyal employees is preferable and probably more cost-effective than the constant churn and friction of hiring and layoff cycles. The third mistake is likely to be a lack of investment in employee training.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 20, 2020

In the case of the machine operator, manual labor and routine tasks are most likely to be automated, while management, team-building, employee training and production supervision may now find themselves moved into priority roles. When used properly, automation doesn’t kill jobs; it rearranges their structure. About the Authors.

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Nathan Magnuson

MAY 16, 2016

Several years later I finally landed my first job in leadership development. One of the things I’ve learned over the years is everyone has leadership development opportunities. The Secret by Ken Blanchard & Mark Miller. You don’t need to be the boss or work in HR. Leading with the Heart by Mike Krzyzewski.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

AUGUST 9, 2015

In his own words… I began writing over decade ago when I was fortunate to team up with Ken Blanchard on my first book, The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. Since then I’ve co-authored a second book with Ken, Great Leaders Grow.

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CoachStation

OCTOBER 23, 2015

To genuinely succeed in business, leaders must know their role, continuously develop their skills and be constantly supported to achieve the best they can as a leader and employee. Finding your own development pathway takes ownership, effort and clarity. However, it is not something you need to do on your own. Fools won’t take it.”

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The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

So, you submit and actively engage with a regimen of training and coaching designed to help you develop. This begs the question: How do you develop from R2 to R3 for specific tasks? Complete the training and secure frequent check-ins with leaders and colleagues to demonstrate your burgeoning knowledge, experience and skill.

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LDRLB

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Effective leadership is a matter of assessing the development level of a follower and acting in the correlating leadership style to elicit the best response from followers (D1s respond to S1, D2s respond to S1, and so on). Leadership blanchard hersey situational theory' Useful Lies. Path-Goal Theory. Leader-Member Exchange Theory.

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Tim Milburn

MARCH 7, 2012

Train it – The skills of creativity can be learned. Schedule time to conduct training for your team. It can be as brief as a micro session on effective brainstorming (before your next brainstorming session) to multi-day training sessions and everything in between. To learn them, they must be taught. Author Bio.

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Tim Milburn

JANUARY 19, 2012

Mark Miller, co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life, is vice president, training and development, for Chick-fil-A. He is the author of The Secret of Teams and the coauthor of The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do with Ken Blanchard. Author Bio. No related posts.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2018

They have to go to the trainings, and then report up line to their managers annually to account for why that needle hasn’t budged. Including the brain trust on your organizational development team. The problem here is that the responsibility is conventionally assigned to the direct supervisors of employees.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2016

As Ken Blanchard is fond of saying, it takes catching employees doing things right. Training your employees, not once but constantly, provides more than competence, it helps ensure service wisdom. Keep in mind that shifting an employee from a history of tight rein to greater freedom requires patience.

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Skip Prichard

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She’s an expert in motivation, a bestselling author, and a senior consulting partner for The Ken Blanchard Companies. Find ways to align goals and expectations with your developed values. But the truth is, we need to see progress—we need to develop skills to be effective in everyday situations. 3 Needs of Motivation.

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Mark Sanborn

OCTOBER 5, 2021

My friend Charlie “Tremendous” Jones had a huge influence on my life (and I wrote about him in Servant Leadership by Ken Blanchard et al). The greatest power of a servant leader is the example given to others. He was smart and energetic but his heart was huge and he was all about others. His faith compelled him to live and give large.

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