Lead from Within

JUNE 21, 2023

Have you ever attended a team meeting and felt like you weren’t included or valued as a member of the team? Lack of inclusion during team meetings is often due to cliques, not being part of the leader’s inner circle, or the leader being focused on him or herself. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 19, 2024

Why do some teams succeed while others stumble? In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It innovates.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Most senior leadership teams consist of accomplished leaders with a wealth of experience, and the last thing the majority of them will want to do is shift their leadership style or change how they have done things for the past ten to twenty years.” Take a bottom-up approach. Nothing makes up for poor leadership.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Why do some teams succeed while others stumble? In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It innovates.

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Rich Gee Group

APRIL 8, 2022

Take the bottom 80% and also total the income. Most of the time, you’ll instantly see that the top 20% is close to the bottom 80% of client income. Here’s the kicker — look at the bottom 20% of clients and start making decisions about working with them. Take the top 20% of your clients and total the income.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 16, 2020

Caring for the people who report to you doesn’t just make you a better boss—it has a positive effect on your entire organization, including the bottom line. Without being intrusive, make a point of talking with people on your team about things in their life that aren’t related to work. Try to listen without judging. Be interested.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 1, 2023

Why do some teams succeed while others stumble? In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It innovates.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 22, 2021

When Connecting With Your Team. As a human-centered leader, you want to pay attention to what’s really going on with your team. Eyebrows up can be sadness. One eyebrow up can be skepticism. Conversely, sitting back and having your face in the bottom quadrant appears less powerful. Emotions are not bad.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

OCTOBER 20, 2023

More work than ever before is done completely through teams. These can be globally dispersed and remote teams or matrixed across departments and functions. How many of these dynamics have you experienced in team meetings, just in the past week? This could include several necessary SMEs or managers of team members.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 5, 2018

After decades of observing teams as an executive leadership coach, I’ve come to realize two things. First, every team has issues to overcome before they can function effectively. Second, every team has the ability to navigate those issues and do great work together. Here are some of the most common obstacles I see in teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Olakunle Soriyan, known by most as PK, author of A Love Affair With Failure: When Hitting Bottom Becomes A Launchpad To Success , paints “failure” and “failing” as two different realities and mindset. Shift your perspective and use failure to thrive. How Leaders Use Failure To Thrive. Why is success a lousy teacher?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2024

Mentorship Unlocked : The Science and Art of Setting Yourself Up for Success by Janice Omadeke What is a mentor? What if you could wake up every morning excited about your purpose, knowing you're fulfilling your greatest potential? More importantly, this generation of leaders isn’t awakening the untapped potential within their teams.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance. That’s a myth.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 11, 2019

Here are some of the most important everyday things you can do to lead your team well: Maintain good communication. When you are open with your team they’ll be open with you, creating opportunity for dialogues, feedback, and any questions or issues they want to address (and shutting down gossip and rumor mills in the process).

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leaderCommunicator

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best leadership and communication blog posts I've seen recently. The Culture 500 measures and compares more than 500 U.S. companies across nine cultural dimensions, by narrowing in on employee data to examine what makes company culture distinctive and effective.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 28, 2021

Many leadership teams fill their days with sand. ” This typical approach means speeding up to pile on more tasks and projects. ” The Acceleration Trap research adds to many studies showing that the most effective leaders slow down to speed up. Working in Versus on Your Team. The Acceleration Trap.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Boost your brand’s bottom line, boost your productivity and bring your business to another level. Championship teams cite playing together as the key to success. Successful brands have high-performing teams working cohesively together to achieve their company’s goal. The big question is, ‘how can I bring a winning team together?’

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Working with event professionals to deliver an entertaining event experience that provides useful content attendees can take back to their team to improve results and retention is something I am passionate about and enjoy tremendously! It’s an honor when clients or friends refer me for a speaking engagement.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2018

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. People on your team will develop relationships with you and with each other. When people trust each other, the team can move quickly and surely.

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Skip Prichard

JANUARY 6, 2021

Conscious leaders ask, “How can I help my teams to do their best work?” Other ‘strategies’ that were once cosmetic, including diversity and inclusion, have been revealed to be both good for the bottom line and for human betterment. 5 Leadership Modes for Team Success. with the emphasis being on function, not status.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. As a leader, you should pick a team that has all the skills you need to do the job. As a leader, your team culture is the important environment. Children may pull up plants for fun.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 22, 2023

In fact, research has shown that nonverbal cues make up a significant portion of how we communicate and can even convey more information than the words we speak. This means that your body language can have a powerful impact on your leadership effectiveness and the success of your team.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One question I often ask my clients is “What are the obstacles you encounter in working to create a great team?” Building a strong team in a bureaucracy is an uphill battle. A system of inefficiencies that forces teams to put in longer hours to meet project goals, leading to burnout and frustration. The result?

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 2, 2022

Why do some teams succeed while others stumble? In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of “ talent optimization ,” a new discipline that’s a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts. It innovates.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Companies consistently get culture wrong because they go about assessing it, and attempting to manage it from the top-down, not the bottom-up. Also, start-up companies in the Fujitsu technology accelerator program work in the satellite locations as well, creating a company-startup mashup. But what does this mean?

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RapidStart Leadership

MARCH 28, 2017

Just as winter transitions to spring and the world outside renews itself, maybe it’s time to look at your leadership and your team and take a moment to renew, too. Today we’ll look at four ways to do a team spring cleaning to renew, energize, and help you recapture that sense of “new.” New people join teams all the time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

And yet, so many companies screw this up. Recognizing the leader without acknowledging the team. Showing up sloppy or clueless. One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. Keep up the great work.”. Recognizing every little thing.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2014

My team and I will soon pass an important milestone as a company. As a leader, it is my job to set the pace for the team. Through what I talk about and celebrate, my team will understand and internalize what’s important to us as a company. As CEO, it is my job to look at the bottom line. We have reason to celebrate.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 26, 2020

From top to bottom, your employees need to forget about last year’s fights and look forward to the future together. It’s vital that your workforce remains a solid team so you can grow even larger and more successful than the previous decade. The other team will need to find these items. Scavenger hunt.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you as leader should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety , ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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Skip Prichard

AUGUST 10, 2020

Leveraging Individual Strengths for the Team. Doing so also provides us with insight into how we can adjust our own communication styles to be more effective, and it helps us get to the bottom of why we seem to butt heads with certain people, while having better synergy with others. What tasks make them light up?”.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be as difficult as you might imagine to make sure you can protect every aspect of your company from top to bottom, as this guide contains some of the best ideas that you can utilize for total coverage today! . Build A Great HR Team . So, what are you waiting for?

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Yet when a leader shows they respect their team, the benefits become obvious: people are motivated, dedicated, loyal and the leader becomes a talent magnet – the best workers want to work for and stay with that leader. Ask don’t tell: Your team wants to come up with their own solutions. Why wouldn’t you show respect?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 13, 2023

Leading a team can be a challenging task, especially when that team is made up of individuals with a mix of personality types. One of the key differences among team members is whether they are introverts or extraverts. You can also provide them with challenges that allow them to stretch their skills and abilities.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

Whilst intuitively leaders knew that the level of trust in the organisation impacted team performance and company value, there was no concrete evidence to support this. And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met.

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