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How to Build a Team Agreement and Get Your Team on Track

Let's Grow Leaders

Brainstorm Key Habits List the most important professional habits and behaviors that will help your team thrive. To expedite this process, you can have everyone brainstorm expectations and fill them out on sticky notes (one couthful behavior per sticky) and then group like ideas together. Keep it practical and concise.

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When You’re the Scapegoat: Powerful Phrases to Address Unfair Blame

Let's Grow Leaders

This phrase subtly says, “Let’s stop the finger-pointing and start brainstorming, because no one’s getting a trophy for winning the blame game.” Instead, focus on solutions and steer the conversation toward what really matters: fixing the problem and learning from it. Here’s what I contributed and the steps I took.”

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Leading Thoughts for April 17, 2025

Leading Blog

AI can transform brainstorming sessions into question-storming sessions, which can be inherently more enjoyable and engaging and can ultimately produce a greater number of creative outcomes. Al can also answer questions and punch holes in an argument or a thesis.

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Emotional Intelligence: Your Secret Weapon for Success.

Rich Gee Group

Still, nothing replaces real-life reflection: journaling after tense meetings, brainstorming with peers, or simply listening to that inner alarm when you sense the tension. Self-awareness demands introspectionunderstand if youre a visionary who stinks at follow-through or a conflict-resolution ninja who avoids data.

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No Ego: How Leaders Can Cut the Cost of Drama, End Entitlement and Drive Big Results

Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership

In this high-energy session, participants will: Discover strategies for eradicating entitlement with great tools such as the Engaged Action Planning Tool, and the Negative Brainstorming Tool which changes the energy of entire group meetings from “Why we can’t” to “How we could.”

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6 Ways Emotional Intelligence Helps Leaders Resolve Conflict

Lead from Within

For example, they might channel team frustration into brainstorming sessions to uncover better ways of working. Instead of letting frustrations simmer, they refocus that energy into actionable steps that improve the situation.

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Your Team Hates Meetings—Because You’re Running Them Like It’s Still 1995

Lead from Within

Use your time to address challenges, brainstorm solutions, and finalize actions. Focus on Decisions, Not Updates Stop wasting time on information that could have been an email. Meetings should be about making decisions. Your team will appreciate meetings that focus on outcomes rather than sitting through updates that add no value.

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