Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 14, 2023
Why All-Hands Meetings are so Important (Particularly Now) Now that “You’re muted'” is the catchphrase of the decade, having a great all-hands meeting or remarkable company offsite is a great way to foster human-centered collaboration. Getting your team together for a strategic team event, especially in person, isn’t just about getting everyone on the same page.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 30, 2023
Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. According to the Better Business Bureau, recruitment scams result in $2 billion in direct losses annually, with the first quarter of 2023 alone seeing a 250% increase compared to the previous year. Given the high stakes, jobseekers must diligently differentiate legitimate and fraudulent offers.
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Leading Blog
AUGUST 30, 2023
T HERE IS danger when success goes to a leader’s head. King Solomon wrote, “Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall.” When this happens, they are at risk for what Donald Sull calls in Revival of the Fittest , active inertia. He explains what happens: Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia , or management’s tendency to respond to the most disruptive changes by accelerating activities that succeeded in the past.
Rich Gee Group
AUGUST 8, 2023
Picture this: Jennifer, a project manager in a mid-sized tech company, was once struggling to meet her quarterly targets. She often felt overwhelmed with the magnitude of changes she believed she needed to implement to impress her superiors. Then, Jennifer came across the idea of the 1% improvement strategy. Instead of making giant leaps, she made tiny adjustments to her routine, workflow, and team dynamics.
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Tanveer Naseer
AUGUST 31, 2023
It was like living in the movie 28 Days Later. The normally bustling streets of London were eerily empty as I ventured out for supplies. A lady approached clutching her scarf to her face, then stepped off the pavement to avoid me, her eyes full of mistrust, fearful of even.
Leading in Context
AUGUST 9, 2023
By Linda Fisher Thornton In Part 1 of this series I looked at the importance of Deep Thinking. In Part 2, we’ll consider the Context. No matter how much effort it takes to understand the context, we can’t expect to make an ethical decision without taking that step.
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RapidStart Leadership
AUGUST 3, 2023
With the right attitude, we can benefit from failure as much as from success if we approach challenges with a growth mindset; here's how. The post A Sling and a Miss: 6 Keys to Building a Growth Mindset appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 25, 2023
F IGHTER PILOTS must make thousands of decisions, often with incomplete information during each flight. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Chief of Training Systems Hasard Lee helped develop a program to boost pilots’ critical thinking skills and mental toughness to skew the odds in their favor when making these critical decisions. He passes the lessons learned on to us in The Art of Clear Thinking.
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 31, 2023
My brain never leaps to the best thing that could happen. People usually jump to negative conclusions. Imagined catastrophes make stability unlikely.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 2, 2023
During the ten years that I taught leadership coaching at Georgetown University, one of the biggest points all of us on the faculty wanted our students to learn was that coaching isn’t about offering answers or advice. It’s about asking the kinds of questions that help leaders come up with their own answers and insights. As an executive leadership coach, I often see the same dynamic playing out with my clients.
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Leading in Context
AUGUST 16, 2023
By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical Thinking and Decision Making require staying grounded in ethical values, but there is much more to do than knowing our values and living them every day through our choices. In Part 1 of this series, I explored the Depth of our thinking, and in Part 2, I broke down issues related to understanding Context. In Part 3, let’s take a look at Complexity.
Great Results Team Building
AUGUST 21, 2023
The ability to foster collaboration among and across departments can significantly enhance productivity, innovation, and overall organizational performance. As leaders and team managers, understanding the value of collaboration and employing the right strategies can be the key to unlocking your team’s full potential. For your team to be truly productive, collaboration is crucial.
QAspire
AUGUST 30, 2023
Relationships are built (or ruined) one conversation at a time. I have always seen effective conversation as a way to transfer energy between people in a way that fosters understanding, builds trust and inspires growth/change. I can distinctly remember every single radical conversation I had with my peers/mentors/bosses that moved the needle for me and led me to growth opportunities.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 11, 2023
B ECOME your own best friend. “I can’t teach Tom Brady how to throw a ball,” says Greg Harden. “I can’t teach Desmond Howard how to catch the ball. I can’t teach Michael Phelps how to do a perfect flip turn. All I can do is teach you how to become the world’s greatest expert on one subject: yourself. ” The former University of Michigan Athletic Counselor Greg Harden has worked with world-class athletes like Tom Brady, Michael Phelps, Desmond Howard, and hundreds of business leaders and professio
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Leadership Freak
AUGUST 30, 2023
The life you want won’t appear like a rabbit out of a hat. Magic won’t help. Just take the next step. Fear stands between you and the life you want.
Next Level Blog
AUGUST 22, 2023
Very few of us wake up in the morning with the goal of making someone else’s day more difficult. On the other hand, I doubt many of us wake up with the goal of making someone else’s day great. My guess is most of us wake up with the goal of taking care of whatever is on the to-do list for the day and then get on with our business. That’s kind of a shame because that extra intention of making someone else’s day great is a force multiplier.
Leading in Context
AUGUST 30, 2023
By Linda Fisher Thornton While change is a constant reality, it doesn’t always factor into leadership thinking. In Part 1 and Part 2 of this series, I explored the Depth of our thinking, and the importance of understanding Context. In Part 3 and Part 4, I looked at embracing Complexity and the importance of full Inclusion. In Part 5, I’ll describe how embracing Change helps us make ethical decisions.
Lead from Within
AUGUST 29, 2023
When it comes to leadership communication it is important to be aware of your communication style and how it impacts your employees. There are four basic toxic communication styles and if you want to be a great leaders you need to avoid them at all cost: Passive Communication: Passive communication is characterized by a lack of assertion and a tendency to avoid confrontation.
Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
Anese Cavanaugh
AUGUST 9, 2023
Is your organization looking to create a positive and thriving work environment that fuels innovation and inspires your employees to perform at their best? By tapping into ACI’s Positive Energy Workplace Initiative™ (PEW-i) Credential Program , your organization and workforce are empowered to learn and embrace the IEP Method® and build a culture that sustainably nurtures innovation, performance, and well-being.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 8, 2023
I F YOU WANT to change your culture, you need to change the stories that the people in your organization share with each other. Jay B. Barney, Manoel Amorim, and Carlos Júlio write in The Secret of Culture Change that these culture-changing stories are the secret of culture change. If you want to change your organization’s culture, start by building stories.
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 7, 2023
Saying yes when you should say no lets others steer your life. "You have to be good at saying no and picking the things that really matter." - Warren Buffet Where does the power to say no come from?
Kate Nasser
AUGUST 20, 2023
Leadership: Do you know how to reduce jealousy & increase performance? Here's a roadmap from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author of Leading Morale The post Leadership Steps to Reduce Jealousy & Increase Performance | #LeadMorale appeared first on KateNasser.com.
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Leading in Context
AUGUST 2, 2023
By Linda Fisher Thornton Welcome to Part 1 in the series “Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders.” Welcome to Part 1 in the series “Ethical Thinking and Decision Making for Leaders.” Ethical decision-making is not simply a task. It is the process of analyzing and understanding multiple connected variables in a changing context AND applying ethical values to make responsible choices.
Lead from Within
AUGUST 31, 2023
As a leader, it’s important to earn the respect of your team. But how can you do that? One way is by using the right words and phrases that inspire respect and confidence in your leadership. Here are 6 magic phrases that leaders can use to inspire leadership respect: “What do you think?” – This phrase shows that you value the opinions and ideas of your team and that you are open to hearing their thoughts.
The Horizons Tracker
AUGUST 31, 2023
Hiring managers frequently evaluate potential employees to ensure their attitude and values are in line with the organization’s culture – a concept known as “culture fit.” However, recent studies indicate that this emphasis on aligning personal values may lead to racial, gender, and class stereotypes. Moreover, the research reveals that there are other crucial factors that determine an employee’s suitability for a job beyond just their values.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 3, 2023
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Ray Dalio on embracing reality as indispensable to making good choices: “People who confuse what they wish were true with what is really true create distorted pictures of reality that make it impossible for them to make the best choices.
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 28, 2023
“The greatest intellectual discovery of this generation is that the real cause of problems is solutions.” Eric Sevareid. Overcome the danger of solutions: #1.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 15, 2023
“Great leaders are great students, and the world is their classroom,” says Damon Lembi , author of the new book The Learn-It-all Leader. “Learn-It-All leaders are constantly creating and re-creating themselves, their companies, and their leadership. They are information extractors. They pull what they learn about everything—be it product innovation or how to inspire a team—from their lived experience,” adds Lembi.
Strategy Driven
AUGUST 25, 2023
There has been a long-standing debate about whether effective leaders are born or made. Put simply, is a great leader created by having suitable access to professional learning and development that boosts their leadership skillset, or are they simply destined to be great leaders because of innate personality and intellectual traits? A genuinely great leader subscribes to a philosophy of lifelong learning and is willing to develop key skills such as critical thinking and communication as they pro
Lead from Within
AUGUST 28, 2023
When it comes to leadership it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday tasks and responsibilities. However, as a leader, taking the time to practice gratitude can have a huge impact on your leadership skills and overall well-being. Here are five reasons why gratitude will make you a better leader. Gratitude improves your relationships: Expressing gratitude towards your team and colleagues can help improve relationships and create a more positive work environment.
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