Niagara Institute

APRIL 17, 2024

There are many types of power that can be used in the workplace by managers, supervisors, or anyone in a position of responsibility. Some power comes from charisma, known as charismatic leadership , whereas another type comes from likability, known as referent power. This is called coercive power.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2021

Almost all successful organizations are grounded by a skillful and talented leadership team. Take your time and be patient when you’re filling a leadership position. Embrace all types of leadership styles and diversity of background, thought and opinions. Challenge your leadership with people who challenge your thinking.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2021

Ask any group of leaders about the most important leadership skills, and much of the discussion will focus on capabilities like strategic planning and budgeting. Great leadership requires that you be confident in your vulnerability. People often associate strong leadership with fast, decisive action. The Leadership Gap.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 11, 2023

The right leadership skills can make all the difference when it comes to achieving a team’s goals, fostering a positive work environment, and driving long-term success. This includes setting clear goals, providing recognition and rewards, and fostering a positive work environment.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 19, 2021

In times of crisis, one of the most important roles of leadership is setting an example that shows others how to respond. In uncertain times people look up for guidance—they watch those in charge to see how to manage their anxiety and stay focused and motivated. The Leadership Gap. 1 N A T I O N A L B E S T S E L L E R.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 20, 2024

Collaborative leadership is emerging as the dominant approach in today’s dynamic and interconnected business landscape. This style of leadership emphasizes teamwork, shared decision-making, and collective problem-solving. Enhancing Employee Engagement: Collaborative leadership prioritizes employee engagement.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Here are some leadership strategies for creating a respectful workplace: Define your culture: Clearly communicate company values, mission, and expectations to employees. Create an inclusive environment: Encourage diverse perspectives and actively seek out diverse candidates for open positions.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One way to do this is to leverage the latest research in psychology to better understand your leadership. Here are 5 psychology tricks that you can steal to improve your leadership: Use the power of positive reinforcement: Positive reinforcement is a powerful tool for influencing your own behavior.

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Lead from Within

MAY 8, 2023

Here are few common things that can hinder your leadership development: Assuming that you are the smartest in the room: As a leader, assuming that you are the smartest person in the room can be a dangerous mindset. This can ultimately hinder your leadership development and prevent you from reaching your full potential as a leader.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Many competencies play a role in great leadership, but the most critical is probably emotional intelligence—the ability to identify and manage your own emotions and to understand the emotions of others. The Leadership Gap. Additional Reading you might enjoy: H ow Great Leadership is Generated in Significant Crisis.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A leader with high emotional intelligence can build strong relationships, build positive working environments, and achieve results. This blog post explores seven signs of low leadership emotional intelligence. However, leaders with low emotional intelligence may struggle in these areas. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

However, leadership is not always easy and leaders are often faced with difficult conversations they must have. Here are ten ways to have a difficult leadership conversation and succeed: Be strategic about time and place: As a leader, it’s important to be strategic about the timing and location of difficult conversations.

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Lead from Within

MAY 23, 2023

Great leaders know that effective communication is key to building trust, aligning efforts towards common goals, and inspiring positive change. By implementing key strategies you can transform your leadership and inspire positive change in your team. How you use it can be transformative. How you use it can be transformative.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 2, 2023

Emotional intelligence, also known as EQ, is the ability to understand and manage emotions of self and others. It is an important trait for leaders, as it enables them to effectively interact with and manage others. As a result, this it can enable leaders to maintain a positive and productive work environment.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of business leadership, the question that arises is how to navigate the importance of Artificial Intelligence adoption. As a leadership executive coach, I understand the significance of finding the right leadership style to guide leaders and their organizations toward embracing AI intelligently.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 22, 2024

In leadership, what worked yesterday may not necessarily work today, let alone tomorrow. As business landscapes change and challenges evolve, your previous leadership strategies may become ineffective or even counterproductive. Agile leadership, which allows for quick pivoting and adaptability, is becoming the new norm.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Here are nine leadership challenges that most leaders will face and how to overcome them. Solution: As a leader, make sure to hire the right people, provide opportunities for team members to bond, and encourage a positive and collaborative culture. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Leadership is a complex and challenging role, and even the most experienced leaders have areas where they could improve. However, recognizing and addressing your leadership weaknesses can help you turn them into strengths. Seek out feedback: The best leaders recognize the value of seeking out feedback.By

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The responsibility for navigating this uncharted terrain rests on the shoulders of those in leadership positions. The Rise of Holacracy: The trend towards decentralized leadership—sometimes known as holacracy—challenges the traditional hierarchy of organizations. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Falling in love with your leadership title can have negative consequences for both you and your team. Here are four ways in which falling in love with your title can be bad for your leadership: Leading with arrogance: A leader who becomes too attached to their title may begin to believe that they are better than others.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2013

By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Essentially you are calling people to come together for a negative rather than a positive. Both causes are rooted in a positive, not a negative. Does a leader need an enemy to succeed? While fear of an enemy is always a great unifier, it does pose risks.

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Lead from Within

MAY 4, 2021

Leadership is contagious, whether leaders know it or not. If leadership’s values are compromised, the values of the business won’t be far behind. It’s imperative to keep close tabs on your own leadership, because others are certain to follow your lead, one by one, until your entire team is affected. Embody positivity.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 12, 2023

The world of leadership is constantly evolving, and new trends and developments are shaping the future of leadership. Here are some of the massive shifts in leadership that are creating the new future: Leveraging AI: Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to impact leadership and work in the coming years.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 23, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have long recognized the importance of understanding how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we lead and manage organizations. Lead From Within: Artificial intelligence is not a threat to leadership, but a catalyst for evolution in leadership. #1

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Lead from Within

JULY 17, 2023

Effective leadership requires a combination of skills, knowledge, and qualities that help to inspire, motivate, and guide a others towards a shared goal. Here are the top ten leadership habits to avoid at all costs: Blaming people: One of the worst leadership habits is to constantly blame others for mistakes or failures.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2020

Times of crisis are the moments when leadership is most needed. How can we lead in ways that make a positive difference? Here are some of the thoughts I’ve been sharing with my clients: Maintain a leadership presence. Many leaders are fearful of overreacting, and some wishfully hope that a crisis will resolve itself.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 16, 2021

Leadership isn’t easy. In my work as a leadership coach, I see the way my clients are constantly bombarded with problems, issues, complications and crises. But leadership comes with its own set of rewards, as well—benefits that reflect both your own leadership values and the commitment and character of the people you’re leading.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 13, 2020

If you’re in a position to do so, make sure that everyone on your team—including your leader—has access to information on mental health resources. They’re focused on the strategic side of leadership. The Leadership Gap. Additional Reading you might enjoy: H ow Great Leadership is Generated in Significant Crisis.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 22, 2023

By learning how to use adversity in leadership to improve your thinking, you can become a more resilient and effective leader. Here are some ways to use adversity in your leadership to improve your thinking: Discover your inner philosopher: Adversity often forces us to confront our beliefs and values.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Many organizations operate out of the belief that people in leadership need a tough mindset to be effective. I understand your position; here’s mine. Lead by example: Be a model for a better way of leadership. Demonstrate to your leader, and to others on your team, what open and authentic leadership looks like.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 6, 2020

Dutch says what crisis management needs is not answers but an effective process. Dutch says organizations need to approach the crisis with a more “ entrepreneurial, innovative, and forward-looking leadership stance and convene a process to solve these problems in real-time. A crisis calls for agile leadership.

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Chartered Management Institute

AUGUST 4, 2023

Can better management and leadership nurse the NHS back to health? Author Nigel Cassidy / Photography Fabio De Paola Some people say the problem with the NHS is too many managers. Intriguingly, it also has an operational team largely made up of Chartered Managers. CMI really helps with change management.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Lead From Within: Time is a precious resource, and if we know how to manage it wisely, you will be more productive and successful. #1 But in time, every executive reaches a point when their performance suffers and failure persists. Very few understand why or how to prevent it. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 20, 2021

And every leadership role comes with its own set of specific challenges. In my work as a leadership coach I have been able to see a wide range of situations that are especially challenging to leaders. Whether you’re launching a new initiative, creating a new product or hiring new people for leadership, new beginnings are challenging.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 5, 2021

Spread lots of positive reinforcement. Positive reinforcement at work can happen in lots of ways: treating others with dignity and respect, extending empathy and compassion, practicing gratitude. The Leadership Gap. Additional Reading you might enjoy: H ow Great Leadership is Generated in Significant Crisis.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 12, 2021

One of the many changes brought by the pandemic is that old-style control-and-command leadership is quickly becoming a thing of the past. With their habitual styles of leadership no longer viable, more and more leaders are finding that change is the order of the day. In crisis leaders can pay close attention.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

A positive attitude toward change. Leaders of the future will need to be optimistic by nature and positive about change, because everything around us is likely to remain uncertain and complex for some time to come. The Leadership Gap. Additional Reading you might enjoy: 12 Successful Leadership Principles That Never Grow Old.

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