General Leadership

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Selflessness. As a leader, we must understand true leadership is not found in an individual, but the individuals developed. The measure of our success is found in the success of those we lead. At the heart of this statement is a true selflessness in which you know the ultimate purpose of leadership is to build your organization a more capable leader

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Jane confided, “I feel like an enthusiastic puppy with all kinds of ideas and possibilities, but when I go to share them, there’s always someone who stomps on my tail.” John chimed in, “I know exactly what she means, everyone around here’s just so negative. I’m beginning to wonder why I bother.” Perhaps you’ve felt that way too.

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Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Today is my birthday. Every year, I try to think of something to give away to all of my clients, colleagues, and friends. This year, I would like to offer up my Top 3 motivational videos I watch regularly to help add a little bit of energy and enthusiasm to my life. We Stopped Dreaming – Neil deGrasse Tyson. What will your last 10 years look like?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I love leadership lessons that are backed by facts and history. Because they become what I call “ immutables ” – lessons that must be heeded to get to greatness. And there’s one immutable that has influenced me, and how I practice leadership, more than any other lesson I have ever received- and after 40 years of studying leadership, that’s saying something.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.”. Andrew Carnagie. Delegation is a key skill every leader must master in order to be fully effective. From my observations it’s a skill that takes years to develop beyond being a simple means of shifting tasks from oneself to another.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

I’m a big believer in leadership development. Early in my career, I had a manager who noticed my potential and nominated me for training programs that kick-started mine. Then, as a newly-minted entrepreneur, I joined peer-to-peer counseling groups such as Young Entrepreneur’s Organization (YEO) and my local tech council’s Executive Roundtable to help me continue to develop my skills.

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Michael Lee Stallard

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

In recent years, organizational culture has been cited as a reason for managerial failures at organizations including General Motors, NASA, Nokia, and Volkswagen. Recently, I was asked if Connection Cultures reduce risks faced by organizations. The answer is “yes.” Below are four reasons why. Connection Reduces Accident Risk. When you think about the five performance advantages Connection Cultures have, it’s not difficult to see how they would improve an organization’s safety record.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

T HERE ARE SO FEW originals in life. “We find surface ways of appearing original—donning a bow tie, wearing bright red shoes—without taking the risk of actually being original. When it comes to the powerful ideas in our heads and the core values in our hearts, we censor ourselves.” Originals by Adam Grant—a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business school—is about the people who choose to champion originality and move us forward.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Conscious Choices. Is being a leader a choice? Or does it just happen? I believe that leadership requires making conscious choices. Ongoing. Everyday. I learned this idea of conscious choices from a mentor in the context of coaching others. He explained that when working with leaders who are in development it is important to help them peel pack the layers of their decisions to uncover why they do the things they do.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It’s pathetic when people listen because they’re afraid not to. People often listen to leaders because they must, not because of respect. What if people couldn’t wait for you to open your mouth?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

W HAT IF GIVING VALUE beat extracting value every time? What is seeing others succeed was the greatest reward? It is a Remarkable! culture that does that every time. A Remarkable! culture is one where people believe the best in one another, want the best for one another, and expect the best from one another. In this business fable— Remarkable! —authors Randy Ross and David Salyers present how to build a workplace culture that inspires your team members to bring the best of who they are to the ta

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

If you’ve tossed and turned at night wondering how on earth you’re going to get to the bottom of tomorrow’s to-do list, you’ll doubtless have asked yourself if it’s possible to strike a better work-life balance and reclaim some of your time. Well, good news – you can. The often heard claim that “we all seem to be so busy these days” is something of a misnomer; the human race has always been busy.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

In today’s faster paced, interconnected world, there’s little doubt that change is the new reality; the new standard by which we now have to operate. But if leaders recognize change as being a new constant in our organization’s field of view, why then are so many leaders struggling to effectively drive change in their organization?

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

W hen you were a kid, did you ever get a mulligan? Mulligans are do-overs. You struck out but call a mulligan on that final swing. Something wasn’t right. Or during a disc golf game. You released too early and the disc flopped 2 feet in front of you. Image via Creative Commons. At those moments, we all want a do-over. We want to go back in time to change what happened.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

You have a clear vision. Maybe it’s a vision of the kind of leader you want to be, or the kind of partner you want to be, or the kind of parent you want to be, or how you want to inhabit your body, or how you want to show up in the world. It’s the […]. The post Why You Fall Off Track and 4 Tips to Get Back on Track appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Ears expand influence. Leaders spend too much time thinking about talking and too little working on listening. What would happen to the people around you if you were more excited to listen than speak? Five things that go up when leaders listen: Engagement. Verbosity encourages disengagement. The next time you complain about disengagement, examine your listening.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Guest post by Joan Bragar, EdD “Whatever you can do, or believe you can, begin it. Boldness has genius power and magic in it!

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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.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

By Richard Moy Reprinted with permission If you are searching for an executive-education course that will foster networking opportunities in addition to the actionable knowledge you are seeking to build, ask yourself these three questions as you sort through all your options. Does your course foster a group-based learning environment? Typical executive education courses operate on some combination of lectures, exercises, and an interactive group-based learning environment.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

T oday’s guest on The Answers From Leadership Podcast is Richard McLemore. He was the Canada BDC Regional Manager for Oracle. His specialties include coaching hiring/interviewing, revenue attainment, and career development. Show Notes: What do we need to know about you? Played football at the University of Oklahoma. Served in the Special Forces where he was deployed to Vietnam and Los.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Never has the desire to and need to communicate with people distant from us been more pressing or important than it is today. And while communication is complex enough to start with, when we are doing it at a distance, even more barriers arise. Increasingly teams are working in different locations and in different time […]. The post Five Keys to Communicating Remotely appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

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Engaging Leader

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

For several years, recruiting has been one of the business processes that has best leveraged the potential of gamification. According to a recent article in HR Magazine, gamification can be an effective strategy for talent acquisition because of the power to: Trigger interest in job openings, Enable (and reward) current employees to easily share job […] For several years, recruiting has been one of the business processes that has best leveraged the potential of gamification.

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Joseph Lalonde

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

N o leader will ever be perfect. There’s always room for improvement. And any wise leader will tell you they’re always looking for ways to improve. Image via JD Hancock. Those same wise leaders will also tell you there are actions they take on a daily basis that makes them lead better. They nice thing about these actions, they’re simple things you can do.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

You’re tempted to ignore the problems high performing jerks cause. Things are clear when jerks are incompetent. Cowardice is the issue, when leaders tolerate incompetent jerks. Leaders who tolerate destructive jerks hobble teams and prolong incompetence. Four types of jerks: Head-in-the-sand jerk: doesn’t see how their behavior impacts others.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I had planned a different post for this week, but today all I can think of is the mass shooting that happened last Saturday evening in my community of Kalamazoo Michigan, and it seems a more worthy topic. A man opened fire in several different locations – two very close to where we live – and killed six people, injuring two others including a child who is in a very grave medical state.

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Jason Womack

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Well, we’re about to call it a night here in #Ojai, California. I’ve built my workout schedule for the month, and my writing schedule for the week. How about you? Can you believe this is the 6th Monday of the.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Last month, I wrote a post about how reducing the amount of sugar in your diet can dramatically improve the quality of your life. Today, I want to share a follow-up post about what you should eat instead of sugar. You may be surprised to learn that the answer is fat. As Dr. Mark Hyman, director of the Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine, explains in his new book, Eat Fat, Get Thin , eating the right kinds of fats can have a big positive impact on your health and well-being.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Hi David, I’d ask how your week is going but it’s probably like most weeks you have, crazy-busy. I’ve been thinking about the metaphor of the train coming down the track.

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Kevin Eikenberry

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

I recently got an email from a Client with this question: What makes a great trainer? And the answer to this question also pertains to us as coaches. Check out today’s episode to find out more! Tweet it out: The best trainers are completely focused on the learning and the learning; they know it isn’t […]. The post Remarkable TV: What Makes a Great Trainer?

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