Lead from Within
JANUARY 23, 2020
A recent study finds that the best predictor of a high performance evaluation is self-awareness—the ability to seeing yourself as others see you. And the best predictor of a low evaluation is overrating your own leadership skills. If you want to position yourself for success, you need to understand your strengths and weaknesses—to know where you excel and where you’re average or even a bit below.
Great Leadership By Dan
JANUARY 23, 2020
Guest post from Maria Ross: Let me ask you a question: What does a successful leader look like? Effective leaders are masters of business strategy. They are visionaries who know how to clearly communicate their vision to others. To climb the corporate ladder, you’ve got to make fast, difficult decisions at critical times. Successful leaders have persistence, tenacity, confidence, enthusiasm.
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Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 21, 2020
“We need to get rid of rules – real and imagined – and encourage independent thinking.”. –Howard Behar, Starbucks. Great leaders recognize that business success is a team sport and they cannot do it all for themselves. That is why the old paradigm of command and control structures will no longer be a successful leadership model. There is an unprecedented need to effectively delegate to get everything done; however, there is a spectrum to delegation.
Lead from Within
JANUARY 21, 2020
As a leader, you’re charged with looking after all the employees on your team—the ones who are doing well and the ones who are struggling. Most leaders are drawn to those who already excel at their job—it’s always gratifying to help a gifted colleague move ahead—but some of your most important work will be with those who are struggling. Here are some steps to take when an employee is underperforming or experiencing problems at work: identify the issue.
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Leading Blog
JANUARY 24, 2020
D ESPITE what the title Teaching By Heart might imply, it is really a book about servant leadership. It is a journey into self-awareness so that you can serve those you lead or seek to influence in spite of your self-doubt, anxieties, and insecurities. It is a remarkable book and a perfect means to refocus your leadership development this year. Professor of management and organizational behavior at Harvard University, Thomas DeLong, writes, “I’ve found that the best teachers are also leaders, an
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 23, 2020
Ahhh, it is the New Year, a great time to start fresh. Even Louie, my rescue pup, needs a fresh start. I have noticed over the last couple of weeks that he has reverted back to some of his earlier unacceptable behaviors. It all started with my noticing his unusually boundless amount of energy. We did our normal long walks and he had play dates with his friends.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 20, 2020
One question leads to a powerful team “David, I just don’t have time. There’s so much to do that some days I just want to give up!” Lynn was a midlevel manager in a mid-sized healthcare company. She’d sought out coaching because […]. The post 4 Words to Help You Build a Powerful Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 24, 2020
Everyone brings their inner children to work with them. Some unhealed parts of us left unattended, however, bleed into our emotions and can affect our behavior. We see the consequences of unhealed parts of us acting out all the time. A colleague stops talking to you for no known reason. A boss, who has no […] The post Managing Triggers In The Workplace appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 22, 2020
When Ken Blanchard and Mark Miller collaborated on The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do , they created a story line based on simple insights that had the potential to make a major impact on those who read—and applied—the principles. In the years since The Secret originally appeared on bookstore shelves, over 500 thousand copies have been sold to leaders and learners around the world, and several additional books have been published in this leadership series, including The Secret of Teams
Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 21, 2020
How to keep your virtual teams engaged is likely on your mind considering that 50% of the workforce will be remote by 2020 according to MarketWatch. One of the best ways to do so is to ensure virtual team members are building a respectful and collaborative culture, which necessitates excellent. Click to continue reading.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 23, 2020
Welcome to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival! This month, our contributors share their thoughts about how to achieve better results in 2020. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors. Are you […]. The post How to Get Better Results in 2020: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 20, 2020
A Reel Leadership Article. Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return to their roles as Detective Mike Lowrey and Detective Marcus Burnett (respectively). Their dangerous, brash style of police work is back again after an almost 17-year absence. Lowrey and Burnett are Miami police officers who have to deal with new problems than they’re used to. Burnett wants to retire […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Bad Boys For Life appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 20, 2020
As helpful as the maps app on your phone can be, have you ever been frustrated how the routes sometimes make no sense? Have you ever seen something from two different angles and seen something entirely different? Have you ever looked back a situation a day, or a week (or longer) later, and noticed something […]. The post The Power of Consciously Changing Your Perspective appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 24, 2020
As I compliantly and happily took instruction and received feedback from my Pilates trainer, it was not only my body that was lighting up with the positive, intentional attention but my mind as well. As I quieted my own tendency to want to support, serve, and coach in order to be on the receiving end of good support, I found myself smiling and gratefully accepting help.
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Leading in Context
JANUARY 22, 2020
Employee engagement is a metric that companies are closely watching. Using surveys, levels of participation in programs, and satisfaction reports, companies measure how well they engage those they lead. Butcould this heightened level of watching be part of the problem? Gallup’s article “The Worldwide Employee Engagement Crisis” explains that “when companies focus exclusively on measuring engagement rather […].
N2Growth Blog
JANUARY 19, 2020
Job interviews: these two words conjure a range of emotions and reactions. Whether those sentiments are anxiety, dread, excitement, or something else entirely, the fact is that job interviews are an indispensable part of professional life, especially for executives. . Even so, there is still an incredible amount of ambiguity and conflicting advice when it comes to interviewing. .
Leadership Freak
JANUARY 24, 2020
Leadership is already challenging. Don’t make it harder than it needs to be. Ego confuses fatigue with importance. Leadership derailers: fatigue as a badge of honor.
Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 22, 2020
I was recently perusing Facebook. I do this from time to time to kill time and see what’s going on in my area. I’ve joined multiple local groups on Facebook. On this day, what I saw saddened me. A local businessman was being criticized for what he had posted on his personal Facebook page. When […] The post Do You Know What You’re Communicating To Your Customers?
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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.
Next Level Blog
JANUARY 22, 2020
One of the things I’ve said for a long-time as an executive coach is that if you get colleague feedback that you need to be a better listener, take the feedback and start working on it. The positive leadership ripple effects from doing a better job of listening are enormous and wide-spread. Problem-solving, team-engagement, relationships and results all improve when leaders listen better.
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 21, 2020
There’s an old song that I like by The Everly Brothers, When Will I Be Loved? Or perhaps you’ve heard the Linda Ronstadt version? As a leader, this might be a question you’ve asked before – WHEN will I be loved? How do others feel about me as a leader? Am I making a difference? […]. The post When Will I Be Loved? appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Leadership Freak
JANUARY 22, 2020
Leaders are too concerned about doing everything right? Focus on showing up as your best self if you aspire to do things right. Justifications for worst-self leadership: #1. Burning hair.
Change Starts Here
JANUARY 21, 2020
Ever wonder why your organization doesn’t change as much as you expect, despite your best efforts? Your organization is perfectly designed to achieve the results it’s currently getting. If you want to change the results, then you have to change the way the organization achieves those results.
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Tanveer Naseer
JANUARY 22, 2020
No matter what business you’re in, the goal is always to keep moving forward. You want to eliminate inefficiencies and maximize your profitability in order to ensure the future of the company, and you need to take steps to do that. There are so many ways to do this, but. Click to continue reading.
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 19, 2020
You’ve been in a leadership role for a while. You may even be leading other leaders. You have developed a routine and a rhythm as a manager. But your intuition and perhaps your results and feedback tell you that you have plateaued. One way or another, you know it is time to up your game […]. The post Next Level Leadership appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Leadership Freak
JANUARY 20, 2020
Poorly run teams are where talent goes to die. Talent thrives on effective teams. Talent dies where jerk-holes thrive. Where talent thrives: There’s more to success than meeting the numbers.
Anese Cavanaugh
JANUARY 23, 2020
Oh gosh. friends. The fodder for today is so rich. I've had so many things happen this last quarter that have informed much of my thinking, inspired me, and given me so many answers to questions I've been grokking literally for over a year. I'm going to be addressing some of these things here on this blog over the next year -- I hope you'll join me.
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Engaging Leader
JANUARY 24, 2020
Have you ever put off a conversation with an employee for too long because just thinking about it made you cringe? Most leaders know how agonizing it can feel to address inappropriate behavior or communicate other uncomfortable messages. The good news is that you can acquire the tools and skills that help you not only […] Have you ever put off a conversation with an employee for too long because just thinking about it made you cringe?
David A Fields
JANUARY 21, 2020
Imagine this: You meet with the analyst and subcontractors working on a consulting project, and after a couple of precious hours pass, there are only powdered sugar donut holes left in the box and you’ve somehow achieved a disappointing fraction of what you intended. That’s too easy to imagine, because similar scenarios with different snacks … Continued.
Leadership Freak
JANUARY 21, 2020
The path forward is uncertain and confusing: Multiple options present themselves. Future contingencies hide from sight. Decisions narrow or eliminate options. Conflicting advice calls from reliable sources. Results matter. You feel pulled between multiple options. One choice eliminates another. 4 decision-making principles: #1. Set a decision deadline.
leaderCommunicator
JANUARY 24, 2020
Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts. This Week's Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs: 6 Ways to Enhance Innovation Through Internal Communication By Alejandro Formanchuk ( @formanchuk via @InstituteForPR ), Institute for Public Relations Here are six concrete actions that internal communicators can propose to enhance innovation. “ Most organizations want to enhance innovation; to achieve this goal they invest resources i
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