Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 2, 2017

In 2016 you received the results of your company’s employee engagement survey. They were disappointing. In 2017 you need to understand why and make changes that will boost employee engagement. Suppose you could hear the honest truth about what the people you are responsible for leading think you should do to engage them? Here’s what it would most likely sound like if communicated through a wise and capable spokesperson.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

We are elated to have the Bill Treasurer as our Lead Change Group sponsor for January 2017! Bill is the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) of Giant Leap Consulting, Inc. He has designed leadership and succession programs for emerging and experienced leaders for NASA, Saks Fifth Avenue, UBS Bank, Walsh Construction, Spanx, the Pittsburgh Pirates, the U.S.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 2, 2017

When I think about the people I’ve met, I can’t think of one person who wants to be ordinary. Yet most people are. They live lives that they despise. They lack adventure or joy. Their lives are ordinary. And still they do nothing to change it. You’re not like that though. I know that. You want to become an extraordinary leader. You want to become an extraordinary husband.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 2, 2017

I recently read this question somewhere, and it stuck with me. The more I thought about it, the more convinced I was that it is a valid question for us to ask as individuals and as leaders. Are you playing offense or defense? Like in sports, where you can have a strength in offense or […]. The post Are You Playing Offense or Defense? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2017

Those who seek happiness by avoiding discomfort, meet dissatisfaction along the way. Meaningful discomfort is part of happiness. 4 reasons people end up halfhearted and fully unhappy: Too many options.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

OK, it’s January 2, 2017. Have you transformed yourself yet? No? C’mon man! What are we even doing out here, man? Time’s a wasting! Get busy! Sorry about that. I got caught up in all of the annual and predictable “New Year, New You!” hype we’re reading everywhere this week. Yes, this is the time of year when we are bombarded with messages saying now is the time to change whatever you need to change to turn your life around.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

With New Years comes examination of my systems. I read a book - Checklist Manifesto written by a doctor with many examples of how checklists save lives. He implemented checklist in operating rooms by being inspired by airline pilot checklists. It has inspired me to do my own checklist. The one I am experimenting with is a weekly 1 page sheet with some things to do daily (like pushups and meditation) and others to do weekly (like checking in with key people).

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Lead on Purpose

JANUARY 2, 2017

It’s been on my mind for the last few months. Everything I’ve read lately seems to speak it to me. Over the last few weeks as I’ve been planning 2017 this word keeps coming back with force.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 2, 2017

With New Years comes examination of my systems. I read a book - Checklist Manifesto written by a doctor with many examples of how checklists save lives. He implemented checklist in operating rooms by being inspired by airline pilot checklists. It has inspired me to do my own checklist. The one I am experimenting with is a weekly 1 page sheet with some things to do daily (like pushups and meditation) and others to do weekly (like checking in with key people).

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Airlines Politics Operations System 100

Management Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2017

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Tools Leadership 98

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Deming Institute

JANUARY 2, 2017

Tim Higgins provided the Deming 101 presentation at our 2016 annual conference – Curiosity, Learning, Knowledge, and Improvement: Tim starts off by saying that some people think Deming’s life was about variation but Deming’s purpose for understanding variation was to learn. This insight is wise. Quotes are useful to provide focus but that can also serve to over-simplify.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

In 2002, professors Edwin A. Locke and Gary P. Latham, two of the best known academic researchers on goal-setting, wrote an article in American Psychologist summarizing their 35 years of research. Among their findings: Setting specific, difficult goals consistently leads to higher performance than just urging people to do their best. High goals generate greater effort than low goals, and the highest or most difficult goals produce the greatest levels of effort and performance.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

HEB, Costco, Trader Joe’s, and QuikTrip all made Glassdoor’s 2017 “Best Places to Work: Employees’ Choice” list , released in early December. These retailers pay better than many others and that counts for a lot in a low-wage industry like retail. But they also score higher on culture. What is it about their cultures that makes them such good places to work?

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Given the pace at which digital innovation is disrupting industries globally, it’s not surprising that most CEOs feel pressure to find and deploy the right technology as fast as their budgets will allow. Many are discovering, however, that becoming a digital leader isn’t simply a matter of technological savvy. It’s about creating an agile organization that can detect what type of change is essential and respond quickly with the most competitive solution.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 2, 2017

Three years ago, 37% of CEOs were concerned about a lack of trust in businesses, according to the PwC Annual Global CEO survey. Across industries, that number has climbed to 55%. A high level of trust between managers and employees defines the best workplaces and drives overall company performance and revenue. As Stephen M. R. Covey writes in The Speed of Trust , “When trust goes down (in a relationship, on a team, in an organization, or with a partner or customer), speed goes down and cos

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