Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

And we find that the leadership approaches and the language used aligned itself with that goal. It is this need that David Marquet thoroughly discusses in Leadership Is Language. This is the subject of Leadership Is Language. They suppress dissent and push for consensus. No variations. Collaborate, Not Coerce.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. They include: 1.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 16, 2024

As an executive leadership coach, I emphasize the significance of implementing seven unconventional methods to cultivate diverse thinking in organizations. Here are my top recommendations: Encourage Dissent and Debate: Instead of seeking consensus, encourage healthy dissent and open debate within your team.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020. The Grit Factor : Courage, Resilience, and Leadership in the Most Male-Dominated Organization in the World by Shannon Huffman Polson. On the most fundamental level, leaders must bring divergent groups together and forge a consensus on a path forward.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Ineffective teams don’t know how to make consensus decisions. Margaret Thatcher complained of consensus: “To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs,… Continue reading → Decisions Teams Communication Leadership Development organizational success'

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Something I’ve been hearing lately from my executive leadership coaching clients is that their teams aren’t functioning as well remotely as they were when they worked face to face. Remote teams have a different dynamic then in-person teams. Ask your team. Ask your team. Ask your team. Ask your team.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

T HE INEVITABLE CONSEQUENCE of leading in an increasingly complex world is that we will have developmental gaps in our leadership. In the words of Robert Anderson and William Adams, authors of Scaling Leadership , “We are running an Internal Operating System that is not complex enough for the complexity we face.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 16, 2014

Posted in Leadership Development Chaos It was a mess. The World Wide Widgets leadership team had gathered to decide how to use surplus funds. Dye President at Trailblaze, Inc David works with leaders, managers, and supervisors who want to get more done, build teams that care, and achieve results.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 10, 2014

One of the first things they must do is assemble the complete Buying Decision Team to garner the consensus necessary for change. Let’s look at this from 3 angles: Buyers don’t initially know who belongs on the Buying Decision Team. We are not facilitating the assembly of the team. An external fix causes disruption.

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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. The solution is to establish sound leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 24, 2017

But as a leadership expert, it also highlights a critical function leaders need to play both to drive organizational growth, as well as to boost employee productivity. As such, here are six steps that will help you strengthen team cohesion, regardless of what storms might be looming outside your organization’s walls.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Unfortunately, it’s too easy to make false assumptions about the desires of others due to a dangerous judgment error termed the false consensus effect. This problematic mental blindspot causes us to perceive others who we feel to be in our team as sharing our beliefs. That’s often not the case. Survey Says…. Conclusion.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I highly recommend reading Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s recent books, Leadership B.S. In them he makes a compelling case that most leadership training has failed to produce effective leaders and that the poor state of the vast majority of workplace cultures today is harming the health of people. and Dying for a Paycheck.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

In the seven years I’ve been writing and talking about my concepts and lessons of personal leadership, I’ve often been asked, “What does it take to be a great leader?” 2) Be Consistent in Your Leadership - Nothing unsettles a team more than a scattered leader. And what have we learned?

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 17, 2013

For me, though, the most fascinating event in the book was a meeting a week after the attack – because it captured George Washington in the process of inventing a brilliant new style of leadership in the face of overwhelming challenges. Leadership, in the balance. Reaching a consensus. The stakes could not have been higher.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 11, 2023

There are common things people do which make for a hard time fitting on a team. It’s a bad thing to be “odd person out ” by no choice of your own, but some people actually place themselves in the position by decisions they make and how they respond to others on the team. It’s always someone else’s.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

The often repeated phrase, “There’s no ‘I’ in TEAM” is only half true. It ignores the fact that great teams have great individual members. And high performing teams are not always easy places to be. Great team members are often perfectionists, paranoid, stubborn and/or self confident. But they do perform.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

There are probably few if any people in leadership who don’t aspire to have a happy team. Especially these days, when most people are working long hours and have so much to do, there are steps you can take to help ensure your team is happy (and, since the two go hand in hand, motivated). A happy team has a supportive leader.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 13, 2023

How do we get projects completed successfully in a team environment? From a poem by Charles Osgood) Do you have a great team that can brainstorm great ideas, but no progress is made completing them? So, how can we be sure that projects get completed working in a team environment? Everybody was sure Somebody would do it.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 6, 2014

Guest post from Dr. Greg Alston : “Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.” - Peter Drucker This quote by one of the most respected management theorists of the last 100 years crystallizes the essence of how to determine whether someone is a good leader or not.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 4, 2024

Surfacing the undiscussables on your team may be uncomfortable, but it must be an ongoing campaign, or they will sneakily build up in the background and impact your employees’ morale.

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Lead on Purpose

APRIL 20, 2013

Leadership is a personal trait that often proves elusive to many people, however is intimately related to personal success. Leaders also foster social change, and most of our cultural, social and economic progress is the result of leadership. So, too, does the way to impart leadership to an eager young mind.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Strong strategic leadership skills, including the ability to inspire and motivate teams, are also crucial in navigating the complexities of the insurance sector. They should be able to articulate their vision, build consensus, and inspire their teams.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 3, 2018

Welcome to the July Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Team Building.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Once it’s all clearly defined, document everything in a follow-up email to the team. For all that people complain about meetings, they’re still one of the best ways to share information, gain consensus, assign accountability, and get things done. But if you lead them well, your team will be on track to get the results they want.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 5, 2024

New Year's Resolutions for leaders : Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved (..)

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 16, 2011

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 23, 2014

Lady GaGa) , with the implication that leadership is an intuitive skill. Great leadership is certainly associated with strong instincts and intuition, but intuition and instincts are shaped by training and more importantly, greatly augmented through experience. I wholeheartedly disagree. Trust isn’t a switch that you can just turn on.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 23, 2017

That phenomenon, first described by Jerry B Harvey in his article ‘The Abilene Paradox’, highlighted his views on consensus inertia. Ensure your team consensus is real, rather than imagined, by regularly reflecting on the values that underpin your declared purpose. So what is that profound issue, that killer component?

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2016

On top of that, there are so many different models of leadership out there. We need the right balance between authority vs. autonomy, consensus vs. direct decision-making, and friendly vs. firm. Empower your team to better themselves. Coaching is used to empower and service team members. We work globally. Assess styles.

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Mike Cardus

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Working on teams and reaching agreement on anything can be a challenge. Team Leaders and Managers set the tone for team based decision making. Below is a case study / success story of coaching and consulting with a manager and a team to improve their decision making process and output as a team. Team Results.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2012

For a leader, feedback from the team is a wonderful thing – that is, if it’s the RIGHT kind of feedback. We all have our ways of soliciting it, gathering it, or cajoling it out of our teammates. Because after all, without it, we’re most likely taking our #leadership shots completely in the dark. Not a good thing.

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Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

If we tend to be an outlier on either side of the bell curve, decision making can be holding us back from being successful and getting to the next level of leadership. Slow decision makers who are driven by how others will feel about the decision, look for and desire a consensus decision making process. Slow Decision Outliers.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Don't micromanage Don't be a bottleneck Focus on outcomes, not minutiae Build trust with your colleagues before a crisis comes Assess your company's strengths and weaknesses at all times Conduct annual risk reviews Be courageous, quick and fair Talk more about values more than rules Reward how a performance is achieved and not only the performance (..)

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 17, 2014

The post Learning From the Movies: Dead Poets Society appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Leadership & Supervisory Skills Personal & Professional Development 12 Angry Men consensus team development' This week, in light of the recent death of Robin Williams, I have decided […].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 6, 2014

Leadership Learning Personal Development 12 Angry Men consensus team development' Typically in this space and time I recommend a traditional learning resource to you – a book, teleseminar, workshop or perhaps a website. Today I am going to recommend a movie and give you a few thoughts about how to watch it for more […].

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Leadership is all about the human experience. Individuals who don’t demonstrate that they care about people will never be true leaders and, frankly, have no place in a position of leadership. If they prove to be unable to connect with the people they manage, they shouldn’t be in leadership roles.

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