October, 2015

The Critical First Step For Great Leadership: The Journey From “I” to “We”

Terry Starbucker

There comes a time in a more human leadership journey where something radically changes. The focus of our effort makes a major progression forward that, once accomplished, propels us to greatness.

How to Succeed With Limited Resources

Let's Grow Leaders

You don’t have enough time, enough resources, or budget- or maybe you lack all three. You may be surprised to know that’s exactly what stacks the odds of success in your favor.

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If Your Business isn’t Agile, You Won’t Have a Future. It’s That Simple

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Linda Holbeche : The rulebooks of business are being rewritten. So rapid is the pace of new developments, and so diverse the forms of competition, that many large corporations struggle to be agile enough to compete.

10 Great Prayers for Every Marriage

Ron Edmondson

Dear Lord, grow our love for You daily. Dear Lord, help us to love each other unconditionally. Dear Lord, allow us to respect one another in an empowering way. Dear Lord, teach us how to complete each other, building us into one unit You design.

Collaboration Begins with You

Leading Blog

In Collaboration Begins with You , Ken Blanchard, Jane Ripley and Eunice Carew weave the tale of Dave Oakton, the head of a cross-departmental project that fails due to self-serving silos.

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Five Degrees of Workplace Culture

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from S. Chris Edmonds: How healthy is your workplace culture? Is yours a safe, inspiring, productive culture or far from it? I recently spoke to leaders in two different organizations about the difficult dynamics in their work environment.

7 Ways to Maintain Respect as a Leader

Ron Edmondson

People follow people they trust. They trust people they respect. As a leader, one of your most valuable and needed assets is the respect of the people you are trying to lead. If a leader is respected, people will follow him or her almost anywhere.

20 Habits to Build Your Leadership On

Leading Blog

H3 Leadership by Brad Lomenick is the result of experience and a lot of reflection. And we would be foolish not to benefit from it. When he reflected on the habits that propelled him forward he came up with twenty and organized them around 3 important questions every influencer must ask: HUMBLE: Who am I? HUNGRY: Where do I want to go? HUSTLE: How will I get there? The answers to these questions help you to become a change agent.

How Improving Your Coaching Skills Will Improve Your Life

Kevin Eikenberry

Wait a minute Kevin…isn’t coaching supposed to be about the person we are coaching, not about us? Yes, the best coaches do put 100% of their focus on helping the other person become more successful and confident. So if this true, then why are you writing about how the coach will benefit?

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How Identity Theft REALLY Impacts Your Business

Women on Business

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7 Ways to Create a Listening Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

If you could wave a magic wand and suddenly make every employee in your organization proficient in one behavior what would that be? Critical thinking? Customer-orientation? Sales?

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Leadership vs. Management: The Key Difference

Six Disciplines

In any organization, there is a distinction between “The Leaders” and “The Managers.” Apart from nicer offices and bigger paychecks, the perceived difference is that leadership usually stays hands-off on the execution side of things and focuses mostly on strategy.

10 Inexpensive Ways to Develop People on Your Team

Ron Edmondson

When budgets are stretched, development often is pushed to the back burner or cut altogether from the budget. This is dangerous for a team, which wishes to remain healthy and continue growing. If a team is not learning and improving, it will soon struggle to maintain any level of success.

3 Factors That Prevent Leaders From Creating Workplace Optimism

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Shawn Murphy. For too long people have been taken for granted in the workplace. Leaders attempt to control, manage, dictate, coerce people to do what is needed.

Four Questions That Will Improve Your Results

Kevin Eikenberry

I’ve got four questions for you… four questions that can, as I promised above, change your results. I’m going to say more about each of them, how they can make a difference, and when you would want to apply them, but first, here they are: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now? You […].

Laughing and Business: Don’t Be a Buzz Kill

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from William Goodspeed : To understand the challenges of humor in business organizations, it may help to look at the Ivy League. Dartmouth College, the League’s historically most fun school, is suffering from a serious lack of humor.

5 Ways Listening Like an Anthropologist Will Make You a Better Leader

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership, Learning and Personal Knowledge Mastery

QAspire

One of the crucial leadership skills for today and future is ability to learn constantly from various high quality sources, synthesizing information and collaborating with a community to get a better grasp of the constantly changing reality.

7 Random Suggestions for Younger Leader

Ron Edmondson

I love working with younger leaders. It keeps me young and it helps to know I’m investing in something and someone who will likely last beyond my lifetime. I also love sharing some things I’ve learned from experience. Some of it hard experiences.

3 Leadership Skills You Must Master for Optimal Productivity, Impact and Joy

Anese Cavanaugh

Recently I did some on-site work with one of my favorite executive clients. Brilliant woman, tons of stuff going on, major impact happening through her organization. From the outside, things were humming.

3 Steps for Starting Your Own Business

Women on Business

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Stop Criticizing and Start Leading Your Youngest Workers

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Claudia St. John: “ The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” -- Socrates circa 400 B.C. Some things never change. It sounds like Socrates is talking about our current millennial generation – those currently between the ages of 18 and 34. We’ve all heard the rap against them. They’re entitled, self-absorbed, disloyal, tech-crazy and don’t know how to communicate.

How to Become the Best __

Let's Grow Leaders

One of my millennial friends, Vince, recently posted this on Facebook. “I may not be the best organist, and yes I play it like a piano. But I am determined to learn the Tocatta part of Tocatta and Fugue in D minor down for Saturday for a tour group I am playing for.”

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Understanding The Power Of Our Words

Tanveer Naseer

If I were to ask you what you thought was the greatest invention in human history, what would be your reply? I imagine for some of you, your answer would be the personal computer and all the technological marvels that now make up our digital world.

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5 Reasons Your Pastor may not be Leading Well

Ron Edmondson

I was talking with a concerned man recently about his church. He’s concerned the church is wasting a lot of resources and accomplishing little towards its vision to make disciples.

4 Components of Leadership Effectiveness

General Leadership

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Become the kind of leader that people would follow voluntarily; even if you had no title or position.”. Brian Tracy.

5 Ways to Get Organized

Women on Business

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Personal Productivity Secrets

Kevin Eikenberry

By Maura Nevel Thomas There are a few things in life that I collect. I collect big things like antique tractors, I collect fond memories, and among other things, I collect ideas and tips to become more productive.

Do You Hear Them Now? 11 Signs You Have a Listening Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

I once sat in an executive meeting where the SVP explained that Bob, a junior level executive who reported to her had “gotten away” with challenging her boss, the COO’s, ideas.

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Are You Inspiring Those You Lead To Be Extraordinary?

Tanveer Naseer

As a writer, one of the things that I enjoy discussing and sharing are stories. After all, a great story can entertain, inform, and inspire us, and sometimes even shape our understanding of how we can make a real difference in the world around us.

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7 Ways to Respond to a Lazy Co-Worker

Ron Edmondson

I’ve always valued hard work and usually resented lazy workers. There. I said it. I have a bias against laziness. I started working when I was 12 years old in a grocery store. I worked hard, gained the recognition of my managers, and was rewarded with all the hours I wanted to work.

Professional Development Best Practice 3 – Acquiring Experience Beyond that of Your Position

Strategy Driven

The StrategyDriven Professional recognizes that a critical combination of knowledge, skill, and experience is needed to ascend into positions of increasing authority and responsibility. Acquiring the prerequisite experiences, however, can be extremely difficult. Hi there!

Happiest Jobs for Working Moms

Women on Business

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The Speed of Leadership: We Need Speed Bumps

Linked 2 Leadership

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