Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

I’d like to have some semblance of unity on my team, but I’m not sure where to start. How do I CARVE OUT A TEAM CULTURE?” ” #askingforafriend How to Carve Out A Team Culture Even When Your Company Culture is Lacking Great question! Create your team culture by encouraging innovation and alignment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. And I’ve had more than a few phone calls from really talented human-centered leaders hurting for the team members they’ve had to lose and deeply concerned about those who remain after the layoff. Your team will need extra time and space to process their feelings.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Of course, you know that leadership is not who likes you. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. He gained the respect of his team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. I don’t believe I can learn anything by asking my team esoteric questions about where I can improve.”. I left the conversation saddened for her–and for her team. The world changes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2021

If you want to improve your leadership skills and don’t know where to start, begin with these 6 fundamental concepts you can’t lead without. These very practical leadership skills will serve you across contexts and work at every level of the business. Start Here to Improve Your Leadership Skills. Schedule the finish.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, leadership is not about being liked. But it sucks to go to work every day when you know your team would rather be working for someone else. Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. Your behavior is sabotaging your leadership influence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 10, 2023

We inventory the most-read leadership articles of 2023 and here’s what you’re most interested in so far. Which of our leadership articles, Leadership Without Losing Your Sou l podcast episodes, and Asking-for-a-Friend videos resonate most with you and why? 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal with Ambiguity at Work 3.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We would love to hear from you. Read more here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2020

In this episode, you’ll get specific leadership techniques you can use to build more strategic thinking and relevant […]. The post What to Do when You Can’t Use a Team Member’s Idea appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

To Lead Highly Productive Teams: Keep Them Focused on What Matters Most If you want to increase productivity at work, maintain a relentless focus on what matters most in four areas. First, ensure your team understands their big strategic priorities – the outcomes that matter most for the organization. So, stop trying.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! Other Very Popular Leadership Articles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 22, 2020

In this month’s Frontline Festival, top leadership experts share a variety of perspectives and insights on culture. We’ve also included some quotations from our newest book, Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers and Customer Advocates. You can download a […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2017

Click on the image to visit Karin’s store and download the book she co-authored with Alli free. Ever since I met Alli online, I’ve considered her a kindred spirit in the leadership space. Also a former executive, a mom , and a leadership writer and consultant, we’ve shared so many common challenges and values.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 4, 2021

The art of leadership used to be easier, right? But those easier days of leadership weren’t necessarily BETTER. . If you are sincerely committed to being a great leader today for your team, that is not about telling… and it doesn’t even really require being there in person. . Remember the old days? ELIMIN-EIGHT. .

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leaderCommunicator

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Last year we created an easy-for-download poster with 52 inspirational quotes on communication and we were so happy to see how well it was received. Since there are 52 altogether – we encourage you to pick one a week and use it as inspiration as you continue to advance your leadership skills in the year ahead.

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Michael Lee Stallard

OCTOBER 21, 2010

It’s a popular introduction to the Connection Culture framework and has been downloaded now more than 10,000 times. Pass it on to anyone who might benefit and please be sure to also check out the articles, podcasts, videos on the “hire to speak&# and “press kit&# tabs. I also recommend you take a look at the free e-book.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 11, 2017

When I look back on my career at Verizon at the times my teams truly knocked it out the park–the times we increased results exponentially and led the Nation in results or had a major turnaround pulling a team out of the abyss, there is one common characteristic. How will we keep the MIT in front of us all the time?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2021

You want to empower your team to make the right decisions. So, how do you delegate the right decisions and ensure your team understands the decision-making parameters? You can download the Strategic Empowerment Delegation Tool by clicking here. How to Do I Empower My Team By Delegating Well? But delegating can be scary.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

Particularly during times of uncertainty and change, one of the easiest ways to know what’s really going on is to (1) get clarity about what you don’t know and (2) ask your team some courageous questions. Her team had been holding user experience calls each week and the feedback had been great! “Is I know I can improve.”

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 25, 2024

Companies and their leadership can help managers get better at this by providing proper training on recognizing burnout, encouraging open communication between managers and employees, promoting a culture of work-life balance, and offering resources for mental health support. Provide approachable and accessible access to senior leadership.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The longer I work with teams and help organizations with events and experiences to improve their culture and productivity, the more clear it has become to me that TEAMWORK, TEAM BUILDING, MORALE, and WORKPLACE CULTURE are all symptoms of leadership. That is why I have created the new website, EFFECTIVE LEADERS.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Welcome to the February Leadership Development Carnival! Marcella Bremer of Leadership and Change Magazine provided Are you Downloading, Debating or in Dialogue? Marcella recaps, “Are you Downloading, Debating or in Dialogue? Susan Mazza of Random Acts of Leadership provided Why Positive Thinking is Not Enough.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 26, 2021

You don’t just want ideas from your team. How to Train Your Team to Bring You Better Ideas. In almost every Courageous Cultures leadership development program we do we get this question. “Karin and David, I think these tools are great, but my problem isn’t that I don’t get ideas from my team.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 26, 2022

Or perhaps your team doesn’t trust you , and they can’t wait for you to go on vacation, so they don’t have to look over their shoulder every minute of the day. High-control leaders are afraid to take time off of work and delegate to their team members. The post Do You Trust Your Team Enough to Go on Vacation?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 22, 2014

Humor and Leadership. “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” Martin Webster of Leadership Thoughts shares his personal leadership mnemonic. Martin Webster of Leadership Thoughts shares his personal leadership mnemonic.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 13, 2014

Hi all – on March 11, I gave a presentation at the Leadership Summit, a great online event organized by Macro Recruitment in Australia . My presentation included my thoughts on what I believe to be the 8 Guiding Principles of More Human Leadership. Builds a happy team. That results in a fulfilled YOU.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 1, 2014

Since then, I’ve been deeply absorbed in Resonate and its lessons for great presentations and leadership, so it was a great honor and pleasure to record this podcast with her. The key role of empathy in rallying a team around a cause. Nancy’s most important leadership lesson. Leadership More Human Podcast'

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Mike Cardus

MARCH 29, 2020

Do you facilitate a team debrief or after-action review? When a team continually shares, identifies what did and did not work, plus discovers what to do better in the future – the team gets better. Well-conducted debriefs can improve team effectiveness by 25% across a variety of organizations and settings.”

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Brian Tracy's Leadership Success

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Many leadership qualities have been observed throughout history. Identify Areas of Growth and Improve Your Leadership Skills. Download My Personal Development Plan Template Today. What is Leadership? Leadership is the act of guiding a group of people or organization to a desired goal, result, or higher level.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2014

With all the juggling and balancing of being a parent and doing your leadership day job, it’s easy to feel like you can never do enough. Or perhaps your team would be stronger if you didn’t have your competing parenting priorities. So is leadership. 8 Ways Parenting Improves Leadership Competency.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 8, 2016

No matter how wonderful you are, I guarantee you, your team is talking about you (in some way that would surprise you) too. A little bit of quality leadership development is worth the investment. And chances are you haven’t told them. Here’s the real deal. How do I know this? I promise you.

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Lead by Adventure

JUNE 6, 2014

Welcome to our very first Free Resource Friday where I share and review a free resource for you and your team! Today’s free resource consists of three team building videos that you can view and use as training for your team or for your own personal leadership development. Team Building Training Video #1.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 21, 2015

Positive Leadership , based on positive psychology, makes a tremendous difference in any workplace no matter how hierarchical its structure may be, or how plain the tasks at hand. That’s where positive leadership comes in. You can always apply positive leadership. What is Positive Leadership? You give genuine attention.

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QAspire

MAY 24, 2022

To validate my thinking, challenge it at times and stay on the leading edge of contemporary/changing ideas about how organizations and teams can improve work and workplace To build relationships and connections with people whose ideas resonate strongly with me. More about what leadership influence really means here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

And yet, during this challenging time of fast pivots, hybrid teams, and return to the office , your voice matters more than ever! I really care about this company and the success of our team. ” One easy technique we teach leaders in our strategic leadership and fishbowl programs is called Own the U.G.L.Y. Own the U.G.L.Y.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

See also like Powerful Presentations: Teaching Your Team to Talk Strategy. If you’re looking for more ways to help your team grow, download my free e-book Talking Teams. Leadership Development help your team become more strategic how to be more strategic Strategy teams'

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 17, 2014

Welcome to my weekly round-up of top leadership and communication blog posts. 5 Transitions Great Leaders Make that Average Leaders Don’t By Mike Myatt, Forbes The secret to leadership is there aren’t any real secrets. Team building can help employees to understand each other better, communicate more effectively and start to be more….

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