Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work.

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Leading in Context

JULY 14, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton of values as a critical element in enabling and focusing individual and collective success. Values shape your life, leadership, career and relationships.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 13, 2021

I’ve shared how I think meetings need to die. Most meetings offer nothing to the attendees and very little to the one who called the meeting. It eats into valuable time. There is a meeting that is very powerful. That meeting? The one-on-one meeting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders. You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities.

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Leading Blog

JULY 15, 2021

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. Journalist George Leonard on mastery: “How long will it take me to master Aikido?” a prospective student asks. How long do you expect to live?”

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 15, 2021

You know the saying…”He who hesitates is lost!” Right? Well, it depends! When I was a young banker with a few bucks in my account, I was looking for the next hot investment. It was the 80s and people were buying businesses left and right, and I wanted in on the action. My first deal was awesome. A friend mentioned that company XYZ was ripe for a takeover, targeted to be snatched up any day. So I wrote a check and, sure enough, I doubled my investment in a week.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2021

The current labor shortage and employee retention are concerning issues for organizations. Many leaders are scrambling to attract and retain the workers they need.

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Leading Blog

JULY 16, 2021

F AKE IT ‘TIL YOU MAKE IT is a common refrain in our culture. But it has been wrongfully used to justify all kinds of poor behavior and outright lies, as Sabrina Horn correctly points out in Make It, Don’t Fake It.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 16, 2021

No one disputes that the past 18 months have been some of the toughest that the world have ever experienced and for business leaders, their teams have been through a massive trauma. The world has changed and life will never be the same again. So, as we start returning to work, as the COVID restrictions ease across the world, leaders need to consider the impact the pandemic has had on their team and act accordingly.

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Next Level Blog

JULY 13, 2021

If there’s one topic that’s a common denominator in many of the conversations I’ve had with senior executives over the past few months, it’s how to handle the issue of employees returning to the office.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2021

The sandwich method of giving feedback has long been taught as a coaching and feedback technique. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? You start by telling them something great about their performance. Then you give them the constructive feedback you really want them to hear.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 15, 2021

When people think of risk, they think of things being unsafe. The lack of safety leads to injury or trouble. Yeah, there are those kinds of risk. But there’s an even bigger risk. The risk of playing things too safe… Isn’t safety the opposite of risk? Yes and no.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 14, 2021

What does it take to find the sweet spot in leadership? Some leaders operate at the extremes—doing too much, then too little. They centralize, then they decentralize, only to centralize again. Some leaders delegate, but then swoop back in and grab control.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 13, 2021

Do you have friends at work? According to a survey at Olivet Nazarene University, 82% said they do and in fact, on average they had 5 friends at work. 29% would even describe one as a best friend. So, it’s likely that your answer to the question I posed above was yes. And when I […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. Promote leaders aligned with your culture and you build momentum. Get this wrong and you’ll undo all the good you’ve done.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 15, 2021

Inexperience is a state of opposites. In some, inexperience is caution, doubt, and paralysis. In others, inexperience is naïve boldness. The disadvantage of inexperience is also its advantage - ignorance. Inexperience: #1. Inexperience… Continue reading → Leading humility inexperience

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Did you know? Countless organizational changes are currently underway all over the world. Despite good intentions, many of these efforts will fail. Various studies have found that 60-to-70 percent of change initiatives don’t achieve the desired results. To increase your success, start by getting specific answers to these questions: Why is the change needed? What’s the goal? Who needs to change? What specific changes are required? Is the target group able and willing to change?

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 11, 2021

Business and organizational life is a human activity. To think that we can succeed alone without connections to and working relationships with others is folly. Personal productivity and technical expertise are not enough.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2021

As the effective ability of social media to provide marketing to our pockets has taken on its strongest form, consumers have become increasingly adept at phasing this out and instead only searching for the content they want to see.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 13, 2021

Living without purpose is easy; just run around doing stuff as fast as you can. Turbulence, opportunity, and too much to do are the perfect environment for doing machines. But human beings require… Continue reading → Leading

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Management Excellence

JULY 11, 2021

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CEO Insider

JULY 15, 2021

With the normal pressures of work compounded by the pandemic, stress and burnout are proliferating in the business world. Even before Covid-19, stress and burnout were ravaging the health of Americans.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2021

It’s never too early or too late to start thinking about ways to improve your professional skill set and give your career a boost.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 12, 2021

I haven’t had a warm shower in more than seven months. If you’re counting, it’s 226 days, but whose counting. The water I use is 54 degrees Fahrenheit, 12.2 degrees Celsius. Yes, I… Continue reading → Personal Growth Strengths Taking others higher toughness

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leaderCommunicator

JULY 12, 2021

If you are like me, summer often serves as a good time to slow down a little and catch up on some reading. If you find yourself with a few extra minutes, take a look here at some of the most-read content on my blog the last few months. There’s a great variety of posts with quick tips and strategies to help you lead and communicate in engaging ways.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JULY 12, 2021

Friends at work. Is that a good idea? What about as a leader? In working with groups of leaders for thirty years, I know this question will always create a variety of opinions, some pretty strongly held on both sides of the fence. Let’s unpack the question and give you some clearer direction.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 16, 2021

Are you looking for ways to give your business an epic boost, but you aren’t sure what the best way is? You’ve got a few ideas in mind and want to know which one will work best. If that sounds like you, then this blog post might be just what you need!

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Leadership Freak

JULY 14, 2021

Where would we be without curiosity? Curiosity is: Enthusiastic “not knowing”. Willingness to be wrong. Drive to make sense of things. Delight in surprises. Dissatisfaction with the status quo. Curiosity and success: When… Continue reading → Leading

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Mike Cardus

JULY 11, 2021

I had a great time talking about team building , organization development , experiential education , and facilitation with Phil Brown of High 5 Adventure. Questions Presented In This Episode. How did you get your start in Experiential Education?

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Skip Prichard

JULY 12, 2021

The Power of Fiction. If you are even a casual reader of this site, you know that I am passionate about reading and books. Though we usually feature non-fiction on this site, I am often found lost in a book of fiction and most often thrillers.

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