Lead Change Blog

APRIL 24, 2019

When people misuse conflict energy, it becomes drama: they struggle against themselves or each other to feel justified about their negative behavior. Drama costs the US workforce over $350 billion per year in lost productivity, absenteeism, passive-aggressive behavior, and wasted energy. The cost is staggering.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Developing editorial guidelines accomplished something every good leader should do: Set expectations. If you’re a regular here at the Lead Change Group, you are probably aware that Weaving Influence, its owner, is going to pause operations on the site starting October 1. They just direct their energies to their roots.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Let’s explore why leadership development is important, as well as the benefits and challenges of effective leadership development. Defining Leadership Development In simple terms, leadership development is a set of activities that equip current and future leaders with the tools they need to perform effectively in their roles.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As most of you know, the team at Weaving Influence took over stewardship of the Lead Change Group blog in 2014, and has been consistently providing near-daily leadership content that all of you have contributed to on a monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly basis. We will continue the Leadership Development Carnival through 2021.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I I don’t “care” or want to be friends with my team. What are you here to do?

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the quest for the perfect office space is a pivotal decision that can significantly influence a company’s success. This should cover not only construction costs but also ongoing operational expenses. This is crucial for seamless operations and connectivity in the digital age.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Roosevelt’s energy and his manner of speaking had a certain charisma that Hoover’s lacked. Learning how to be good leaders doesn’t involve formulas or abstractions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When it comes to building a network of strategic advisors, it’s natural to look to people with more position power, access, and influence as your primary go-to’s. And of course, as a human-centered leader, you focus on connecting with and developing your team. And I was his HR and team development sounding board.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2020

Guest post from Debra Corey: My 18 year-old daughter has entered the workforce, full of energy, full of passion and full of some very strong opinions. Values act as guidelines, guiding principles, or guideposts to your employees, helping them make everyday operational and strategic decisions, even when leaders are not around.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This natural curiosity applies to leaders in a more penetrating way because leaders have power and influence. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. Ethical strategies can be developed by carefully understanding business opportunities and aligning others to pursue those approaches.

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Lead from Within

MAY 19, 2021

If you’re in the habit of speaking over others, interrupting, and making statements without allowing others to respond or express their own thoughts, you kill the energy and ideas of your team. Instead, try dedicating your energy to helping others be successful. Few things can do more to undermine your influence, respect and trust.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Environmental changes While previous research has focused on the influence of recent events on business ventures in response to environmental change, the interplay between a venture’s historical context, including the environmental conditions present during its inception, and performance outcomes remains unexplored.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. Finite me” recognizes your limits—limited time, energy, and money. Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Architect : Influence levers. Act : Generation of energy. Successful change efforts are increased when we place equal emphasis on both performance and health-related efforts.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Great new ideas, lots of energy, and a broader vision have been instilled and you’re ready to effect change. So much money is spent on conferences, travel, bookings, leadership and strategic development sessions, and outside consultants only to see it get wasted because nothing lasting ever came out of those promising sessions.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2021

There’s no shortage of things that influence how successful a business will be. However, it’s also important to remember that they’re not the only things that influence business success. It’s a complicated aspect of life that everything from politics to world events can influence. One of the biggest influences is personal.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 4, 2023

Copilot is a project hosted on GitHub that aims to outsource a huge amount of software development coders would ordinarily do themselves. It’s believed that the project speeds up the process of software development by around 50%. We’re not being freed up to think more as technology is doing that for us.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

American business puts a lot of pressure on managers to deliver results, but to influence others and get positive results, they need leadership training. As I’ve developed deep familiarity with my own feelings, I have also become able to leverage them in making decisions rather than being blindly ruled by them. It’s not so unusual.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The absence of clarity also creates an opportunity for biases and assumptions to influence how people interpret information. Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement. An in-demand global speaker, Karen wows her audiences with high-energy presentations containing practical takeaways.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Executive coaching and talent development, in general, have been around for a few decades. That’s because while business coaching experience might help leaders develop the skills they need for their job, executive coaching goes far beyond this and doesn’t actually touch the technical skills a leader might need for their role.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. You “catch” and influence culture on a daily basis: where and when it happens. If you influence one person, one interaction at a time, you contribute to a more positive organization.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

Building on Moderna’s renowned innovation focus, how does the HR department actively cultivate a culture of innovation within its own function, and how does this translate into attracting, developing, and retaining talent? Moderna is a company that is constantly building and rebuilding… its core to who we are as a company.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe. Sustainability is the new business benchmark.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 22, 2014

Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The combination of these six words, derived from Latin, translates into an executable language leaders can use to overcome the challenges in overall organizational performance and development. Novo: Change the Lens of Thought-leadership and the Approach to Professional Development.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

I had no intention of testing my ability to start an international leadership development company. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. AND then, I became a large team operations leader. You are starting to feel energy and engagement. Sweet Spot.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Modelling the transition Utilizing a newly developed high-resolution model known as AgentX, researchers conducted a simulation using actual Uber and Lyft trip data collected from the vibrant ride-hailing market of Chicago between 2019 and 2022. These costs encompass battery manufacturing, gasoline refining, and vehicle production.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

You will see three core underlying principles running through the chapters of The Character-Based Leader : Leadership Is Influence. John Maxwell has quite famously stated, “leadership is influence, plain and simple.” Influence Is Given. We choose the degree to which we bring our creative energies to an effort.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 13, 2018

In the case of workshops design, dynamics such as engaging factors and social energy, as well as a significant focus, have the potential to kindle a group’s progress on their specific project. Management of a successful workshop depends to a great extent on the organization of ideas and the environment within which you operate.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 21, 2021

One of their proposals would be the development of a Sovereign EU Tech Fund to address the shortfall in funding that undermines the growth of startups across Europe. Some of the most successful startups to have emerged from the region put their heads together recently to outline a number of ways future unicorns could be better supported.

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CO2

MARCH 21, 2013

In two recent posts we covered anabolic and catabolic energy and the seven levels of energy as defined by Bruce Schneider. Today’s post will show how our desire to be right and our fear of being wrong influences our energy levels. Naturally, being wrong and the fear of being wrong doesn’t lead to great energy.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 22, 2014

The time is now, and developing relationships with your followers must be a priority. This is not about time, it’s about what’s most important for success, and developing good relationships is a necessity. Developing solid, healthy relationships is essential, but that doesn’t mean you have to be friends with everyone.

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Nathan Magnuson

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Ironically, I had to travel to the opposite side of the globe before I invested the time to read what I have since considered the greatest leadership book of all-time: Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. Dale Carnegie was an American writer, lecturer and training developer born into humble circumstances in 1888.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MAY 16, 2013

Transforming an organization while keeping day-to-day operations running is like fixing a car as it is being driven; it’s complicated, risky, and it’s not clear whether the team can pull it off. Taking stock of their qualifications will focus their energy and build confidence.

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Leading Blog

MAY 6, 2024

T HE vast majority of today’s business leaders are either embarking on AI deployment to improve their operations or are considering it. Some 54 percent of organizations say AI has been cost-effective for their business operations. I learned this principle when helping clients brainstorm how best to leverage AI within their operations.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When we quit spending our energy on hiding something or faking it, and begin to show our weaknesses or our idiosyncrasies to our team, they are empowered to do the same. To trust means we believe the other person will behave and/or operate in good faith. Time and energy become the currency. Investment.

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Chartered Management Institute

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. Congratulations to Professor Ajantha and we look forward to working with you over the coming year.

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