N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Today marks the 11 th anniversary of 9/11. There is no doubt the United States is indebted to our active duty military, veterans and their families for the tremendous sacrifices they’ve made (and continue to make) on our behalf. What I’m struggling with is whether or not we as a country are deserving of their sacrifice….
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
“Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind.” -Rudyard Kipling Twice this year someone has told me “I am proud of you.” Both times, I was surprised to find myself really choked up. My reaction was so strong that I got to thinking about why. I wanted to understand what it was about THIS [.] The post Recognition Power Words: The Phrases that Mean the Most appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 9, 2012
It’s September, and for sports fans that means the NFL season is starting, and the Major League Baseball pennant races are heating up as they head to the postseason. Since I’m one of those fans, I find myself reading the sports pages first this time of year, and recently I discovered one of the best (and most concise) leadership lessons I’ve ever come across in a piece written in the New York Times by Bill Pennington.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 8, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership We are all leaders. Everyone can lead. In today’s economy, everyone must lead. The status quo days are over. It’s all about being connected, building relationships, and leading. It doesn’t matter whether you work in a cubicle, in a field, in a retail store, or out of your home. Leadership is a choice.
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Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Finding good employees is not enough. Organizations must have a plan in place to keep the employees they have. A priority for many employees today is career development opportunities. The problem is very few managers and leaders feel they have the time to work on career development. Yet career development, say Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni in Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go , is nothing more than helping people grow.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Most companies use behavior-based interviews for leadership jobs. Many leaders are really bad at them. I have seen many highly qualified candidates not get hired because of their inability to tell the right story in the right way. In a Behavioral Based Interview, candidates are asked to describe a situation, share what happened, and communicate the [.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership In my article Leadership Play Dough I discussed the 10 ingredients involved in great leadership for now and the future. The ingredients included vision, beliefs, thinking skills and emotional intelligence. Using those ingredients effectively requires a mindset different than that which has gone before.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
People need feedback to grow. In Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go authors Beverly Kaye and Julie Winkle Giulioni share a good method for gathering feedback that drives growth: Encourage employees to gather feedback from others before sharing your own. It’s not about politeness but about power. You’ve got it and, as a result, your perspective may carry undue weight.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
There is much good research on the characteristics of high-performing teams. It is possible to structure teams in ways that maximize performance (e.g. small number, shared vision, complimentary skill sets…). A great resource for this is Katzenbach and Smith’s The Wisdom of Teams. I have been on teams that are identical in these criteria, [.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Guest Post by Georgia Garner, Freelance Writer at Essay Writing Services (learn more about Goergia at the end of this article). At some point in our life, we will repeatedly experience stress that arises from work with no set of plans and have low-priority goals. The first thing to fix it, is define your task and work on it. Lastly, learn to set your main priorities in your life.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development What Your Brain Wishes You Knew About Workplace Stress & 5 Simple Stress Solutions for You (and Your Team) If you are in a management or leadership role and you are paid to think (or you pay others to think), yet at the end of the day you feel overwhelmed by stress because: There’s more [.].
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
“Strategy is about shaping the future,” writes Max McKeown. There are five basic questions that strategy tries to answer: Where are we? Where do we want to go? What changes have to be made? How should changes be made? How shall we measure progress? There are a number of ways to get the answers to these questions. Max McKeown has created a strategy reference work – The Strategy Book – to guide you to the answers.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
I have been delighted with the dialogue and debate spurred by last Saturday’s post on Recognition Power Words, also recognized on Wally Bock’s 3 Star Leadership Blog this week. All week, people have continued to vigorously contribute and comment on the question and post on various LinkedIn groups. The debate is fantastic. People care about this [.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
The answer may surprise you, according to new research from PDI Ninth House. While being nasty (intimidating others but lacking consideration) will get you to the business unit leaders level, these traits will leave you out of the running for C-level roles. Here's the complete 8/28 press release: New PDI Ninth House Pulse on Leaders research pinpoints personality traits that can both help and hinder one’s advancement through leadership levels, and uncovers stark differences between key traits fo
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Great leaders are like excellent chefs. A little bit of this, a pinch of that; a touch of this, a whole lot of that, then… great things happen! When leadership is at its most effective and impressive, it is because of the element of wisdom. Evangelist Doug Klinedinst said, “The thing that makes wisdom wise, [.].
Tanveer Naseer
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
The following is a guest post by Julie Winkle Giulioni. During our recent family vacation, I greeted the dawn most days from my stand-up paddle board. Around 7AM, the sea was relatively quiet, the boaters were still asleep, and I could spend an uninterrupted hour or more – just me and my thoughts. If you’re not familiar with it, stand-up paddle (SUP) boarding is one of the fasting growing sports around.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
This is a guest post from Jonathan Green. Jonathan is a culture evangelist who focuses on leadership development behaviors and communications strategies. His expertise is service models that provide world-class experience. He has worked in a variety of verticals including Finance, Utilities, Tech, and Telecom. Green has spent the last seven years working for [.
Leading in Context
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
10 Ways to Avoid the "Rightness" Trap There were quite a few responses to last week's post about "rightness, Is Needing to Be "Right" Unethical?, which seemed to strike a chord with readers. These are just 10 of the themes raised by readers in their comment. Collectively, these themes represent 10 ways to avoid falling into the "rightness" trap.
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.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
Posted in Team Dynamics My Interest in Leadership Over the past weekend I got to experience first-hand some of the characteristics of leadership and teamwork in practice. This was an interesting experience for me as I have a particular interest in Leadership-As–Practice. As a field of study, Leadership-As-Practice addresses how leadership practices are experienced and put into practice in [.].
Persuasive Powerhouse
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Many organizations naturally hire people who are technically brilliant, skilled at their jobs, or extremely effective at getting results – but may not be quite so effective with people. At some point, these very smart employees may be expected to lead others. The good news is that the skills needed to be effective with people can be learned. These very smart people need you to help them to learn how to interact with others in a way that produces the best outcomes.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
“It is critical that you build a pool of recognized, well developed and prepared talent for the organization, and that you identify and build future leadership.”. ~ Les Hayman, former Global HR Head of SAP and former CEO/Chairman SAP Asia Pacific, EMEA. One of the key business needs of any organization is a ready-now pool of talent and future leaders.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 14, 2012
Being an entrepreneur is hard and the sacrifices you will make will grow as the company does. I’ve encountered a lot of losses on my road and I was having an interesting conversation this morning where this question was asked. ‘Was it worth the costs?’ I didn’t have an answer then, I just knew that when I thought about doing anything else, I got this really heavy feeling in my chest.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership The news, TV and blogosphere are awash with stories of hubris-filled executives, politicians, financiers, celebrities, etc. who have misused their power and influence. Yet, at the other end of the spectrum are the overly humble who believe they have zero power and influence and opt out of even trying.
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
A little over a year ago, I wrote a post called Three Signs Your Slide Deck Stinks. I think it got the most comments in the history of this blog as I invited readers to share their pet peeves from presentation land. The Slide Deck Stinks post comes to mind because I‘ve attended a lot of presentations lately. While I’ve heard some great good ones, I’m sorry to say that there have been some bad ones too.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Leaders without commitments frantically bounce like balls in pinball machines with no clear direction. Commitments are stabilizing stakes in the ground that guide behaviors and inform decisions. Commitments are decisions you don’t reconsider. Top leadership commitments include: Care. Serve. Clarify. Clarity drives success. Know where you’re going and tell others, often.
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Why are so many business women afraid of being called a b h? The team at Content Factory explains, “The term “b h” is really just a rhetorical tool for turning confidence, dignity and power into things that are unseemly. It’s a personal attack that’s used to make any woman who seeks or displays these characteristics into something ugly, fearful, even bestial.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Every day people and businesses come up with excuses as to why their projects failed. While reasons such as not having enough time or resources are definitely valid, the real cause for many failed tasks is that there was not proper planning. It is usually a complete lack of planning rather than simply poor planning [.].
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
One of my favorite lines is that it’s important to understand the difference between what should be and what is. Stop for a few moments and think about how often that line applies in real life. You’ll hear someone say something like, “They should be doing that because…” and what comes after because is something like “it’s the right thing to do,” or “the answer’s obvious,” or “I’m in charge.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 11, 2012
Mistakes matter more when you’re the new kid on the block. Long-term relationships contextualize and soften occasional screw ups. 13 mistakes new leaders make: Forgetting your arrival stresses others, including those who hired you. The stress you feel, others feel too. Proving technical skill. You don’t need to prove what you know. You did that [.].
Women on Business
SEPTEMBER 12, 2012
NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: The Workplace Gender Equality act is before the Australian Senate this week. If enacted, the law will require all businesses with more than 100 employees to report how many men and women they employ and whether male and female employees are paid the same amount. Clay Lucas of The Sydney Morning Herald shares some insights into the law from Helen Conway of the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Agency: ”Women are paid less, they aren’t as prominent
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