Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Although peer groups can be extremely useful, they aren’t very good at helping leaders improve their competencies. Groups can help spur strategic thinking, offer some perspective, and provide the opportunity to help others. But they can’t develop leadership effectiveness. Here’s why… Leadership Competencies are Developed, Not Trained. The first issue relates to the fact that leadership competencies are developed, not trained.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The following is a guest piece by Michelle Gielan. Numerous times during my high-pressure career as a broadcast journalist, I worked with people who were extremely toxic and had no bones about spreading their negative mood around. I’ll never forget the “welcome tour” a cameraman gave me my first day as a reporter for NBC. He pointed out all the worst restaurants in town, followed by a detailed rundown of my colleagues’ “problem areas.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Too many leaders interfere in the work that their employees are being paid to do. These meddlesome leaders then wonder why there is such high turnover in their departments, or why team members are continually asking for detailed guidance. This becomes an endless loop, where the leader has caused their own frustration. In case you haven’t yet recognized yourself in this scenario, ask yourself: Are you working 60+ hour weeks?

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The human brain accounts for two percent of our body weight yet consumes 20 percent of our energy. Given the intellectual nature of most work today, we use up a considerable amount of energy. This makes getting sufficient rest essential to keeping you and your team energized. Great Leaders Understand the Value of Rest. A leader from the past who knew the value of rest was the U.S.

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Women on Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Rudolph was a treasure waiting to be discovered. Irritants become advantages in the right situation. My impatience irritates a person on my team. (It probably irritates lots of people.) I’ll call him Mr.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Rudolph was a treasure waiting to be discovered. Irritants become advantages in the right situation. My impatience irritates a person on my team. (It probably irritates lots of people.) I’ll call him Mr. Compassion. In a morning meeting, we decided to ask a TV News Caster to interview someone. Red noses: Mr.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Whether you are a manager, supervisor, entrepreneur or leader, it is your leadership abilities that will ultimately dictate your professional success or failure. That means you need to identify which habits are working for you and which aren’t, and eliminate anything that may be keeping you from your goals. Here are seven of the most destructive habits leaders can maintain: 1.

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Lead by Adventure

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Gamify. It’s the new buzzword in online circles. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s basically adapting game design elements and principles into something that isn’t necessarily game related. Do we need to be that entertained? Even normal tasks must be gamified? If you’re anything like me, some goals can seem overly daunting.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Productivity is way more than just production. And if you are serious about improving your productivity and effectiveness in any area of your life, you need to focus on one very important thing. Check it out in the video below. From This Episode: Read the Five Unusual Productivity Tips blog post here. Sign up to […]. The post The Truth About Productivity appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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LDRLB

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Justin Brady is the founder of the Creativity Cultivator podcast, a in-demand designer, and a consultant/speaker to companies large and small who want to help their people enhance their creative potential. In this interview, we discuss failure, in particular what the current “failure culture” misses and when are the right and wrong times to celebrate failure. [ Listen in iTunes ] [ Listen on Stitcher ].

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Dear Lord, Please help him to learn and manage healthy balance – between work, family, and play. Allow him to know his full potential and how much his family believes in him. Give him confidence in his God-given abilities. Soften his heart to appreciate and enjoy the things which please you most. Remove guilt from his life and let him rest in the sufficiency of your grace extended to him.

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Reality-Based Leadership

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The holidays are almost here and you may be scrambling to find a last minute gift for those on your list, or simply anticipating a bit of a break where you can rest, enjoy family, and rejuvenate yourself for the new year. Why not share the gift of a great book – or take the time to read one for yourself. Go ahead, you deserve it! Our Reality-Based Leadership team has gathered a list of our favorite reads that will have a bit of something for everyone, from books on business leadership and

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Every organization needs strategic thinkers. In a 2013 Management Research Group survey , when executives were asked to select the leadership behaviors that were most critical to their organization’s future success, 97% of the time they chose being strategic. This is because people who are able to think strategically add value in four ways. First, by being forward-looking, they help ensure that an organization is fully prepared for a difficult-to-predict future.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Juan Díaz-Faes for HBR. We all know that people respond to incentives. Economics 101 teaches that workers put forth greater effort when these efforts are rewarded financially, and top talent tends to gravitate toward jobs and firms where rewards are geared to performance. For the most part, however, the research that’s led us to these conclusions has focused on performance incentives for individual workers, such as piece rates, merit pay, individual commissions, and bonuses.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Sales leaders who manage nationwide sales organizations know there is a big difference between selling between New York and North Carolina, between Kansas and California. In new research, we’ve examined the impact that geographic location has on the personal attributes, attitudes, and actions that influence the productivity of field salespeople.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Every organization needs what I call a “hierarchy of purpose.” Without one, it is almost impossible to prioritize effectively. When I first joined BNP Paribas Fortis, for example, two younger and more dynamic banks had just overtaken us. Although we had been a market leader for many years, our new products had been launched several months later than the competition — in fact, our time to market had doubled over the previous three years.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Republican control of the White House and Congress won’t change the U.S. health care’s movement away from the traditional fee-for-service system to one that is based on value, paying providers on the basis of the quality of outcomes achieved for the money spent. Consequently, care providers will continue to be under tremendous pressure to change.

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Strategy

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In 2008, as the CEO of a software company that had just missed its target for the second quarter in a row, I was so intent on hitting our fourth-quarter revenue number of $8 million — and so scared for my job — that I promised the company I would get a tattoo of the number somewhere on my body if we hit it. No single metric has more drama surrounding it than quarterly revenue.

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