Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
When I started my first HR job at 26, my boss handed me a stack of books and two pieces of advice. (1) Always read what the client is reading and (2) learn to “talk trucks” (meaning, “learn the business, kid.”) Straight […].
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
I admit it. Sometimes when I’m under the gun at work and feeling the pressure of all my responsibilities, I can get tunnel vision about accomplishing my own goals and forget how my behavior is influencing others. It’s not that I’m trying to be insensitive to people, I’m just not being mindful or intentional in my actions. I don’t think I’m alone in this regard.
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Women on Business
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
In this 25-minute podcast interview, I had the pleasure of talking with futurist Bob Johansen, Distinguished Fellow of the Institute for the Future about leadership of the future. We discussed the forces most likely to disrupt organizations and what will be required of leadership – topics he addresses in his fascinating new book The New […].
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Tanveer Naseer
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
It’s a common fact of leadership today that if you want to improve productivity and fuel organizational growth, you need to make sure your employees are engaged at work. And yet, despite both the evidence supporting the critical role employee engagement plays to driving your organization’s success and most leaders wanting to improve employee engagement levels in their workplace, organizations everywhere are still struggling with this issue.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Great leaders that build up their people and empower them to achieve greatness differentiate themselves from those managers who are not effective in those areas. Have you ever wondered why certain leaders generate great performance and others seem to flounder or fail in their leadership influence? It all comes down to opposite leadership styles: Windshield Leadership vs.
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Let's Grow Leaders
NOVEMBER 11, 2017
Each week I read leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. Click on the title of the article to read the full text. I have […].
Great Leadership By Dan
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Guest post from Lloyd “Skip“ Amstrup : Imagine you are sitting in your office when your assistant rushes in to tell you that your security system has been breached. Sensitive customer information has been compromised. You get a chill down your spine, as you struggle to maintain your composer. Your assistant dreaded having to make this announcement, fully expecting a highly charged emotional outburst.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
In any organization, employees are known to be the backbone and great determiners of the success or failure of the organization. These employees have to be led in a systematic fashion to ensure that all efforts are channeled towards a common goal. Koontz Et Al. defined leadership as “the process of influencing people to direct their efforts towards the achievement of group goals.” It is vital that all leaders take note of the term process; this implies that it is an ongoing process w
Persuasive Powerhouse
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
I was vying for a position in “corporate” that would round out my experience for something bigger later on. The manager who was interviewing me gave the most grueling interview I’d ever had. His intensity in interviews was the stuff of legends, and I wasn’t given a break. I got the job, and came to realize this guy was actually a great leader and a joy to work for.
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Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
Leaders rise or fall at points of execution and completion. 7 levels of leadership: #1. Believe you can make a difference.
Women on Business
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
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Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
In the competitive marketplace, a leader has the challenge to lead an organization to help it achieve their goals. Every company is competing for market shares, customers, and suppliers. Each year, they are challenged by their stakeholders to do better than they did the prior year. To succeed, a leader needs to focus on business as usual and at the same time spend time thinking about the future.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
When was the last time you were bored? I’m willing to bet that you can’t remember. If I’m right, it’s because, in 2017, no one ever has to be bored. That smartphone super computer you carry around in your pocket guarantees it. Don’t know what to do next? There’s always an Instagram feed to look at, a text to answer, an email to delete, a podcast to listen to, a cat video to watch, a news headline to click on or a Minecraft challenge to beat.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
W HAT DO WE MEAN when we say someone is good? Good is often confused with competency. But it is really a character issue. You can be good at your job but doing good is a character issue. Doing good is not just no being bad but intentionally creating more good in the workplace and especially in others. Anthony Tjan, author of Good People says, “ Pursuing goodness in yourself while surrounding yourself with good people is the only leadership decision that really, truly, matters. ” Tjan begins a di
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Last week, Apple released its latest Diversity Report. Apple claims that from July 2016 to July 2017, half of its new hires in the U.S. were from historically underrepresented groups in tech (including black, Hispanic, Native American, Native Hawaiian & women). . In the U.S., Apple is 54 percent white (down two percentage points from last year), 13 percent Hispanic (up one percentage point), 9 percent black (no change), 21 percent Asian (up two percentage points), 3 percent multiracial
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
“The best education we can ever receive is from the University of Adversity. It’s the only institute of learning that rewards us when we fail.”. ― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence. With the hectic pace of today’s world, we easily get caught up in the busyness of life. We are forever stressed, overwhelmed, and running errands, attending to work, rushing to office, stuck in traffic jams.
Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
I’ve never met a leader who says he longs to be forgotten. He wants to be remembered. And what does he want to be remembered for? Every leader wants to be remembered for being effective. Yet there are so many leaders who struggle with being effective. They flounder trying to get their teams to follow them. They lack the ability to move their vision forward.
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.
Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
A RE LEADERS BORN or are they made? The underlying assumption here, of course, is that an individual is either a leader or not, whether by genetics or education. Period. The elite of higher education would have us believe that leadership can be taught, especially if you are one of the privileged attending classes at a top tier university offering courses in leadership.
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
You elevate your leadership when you express your heart. Weak leaders hide from heart. All they care about is the bottom line. Heart is the strongest thing about you.
RapidStart Leadership
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
How do you lead a team that’s not there? It’s hard enough to be a good leader when your teammates are in the same room. But what about when they aren’t even in the same time zone? When you can’t look someone directly in the eye, things get much more challenging. Yet leading virtual teams is the future. Studies show that 25% of jobs involve teaming from distant locations.
Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
Two things that don't seem to go together. But do If you listen to conventional leadership wisdom, there’s two things that don’t go hand in hand. Those two things are leadership and entertainment. So many of the big named personal development and leadership bloggers strongly discourage readers from partaking in watching TV, going to the movie theater, listening to music, and other forms of entertainment.
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Leading Blog
NOVEMBER 17, 2017
O VER THE LAST DECADE, University of Alabama’s Nick Saban—one of college football’s winningest coaches— has produced four national championships. What makes them so successful? The secret is that it is fourth and goal every day. Phil Savage of the Crimson Tide Sports Network, explains in 4th and Goal Every Day: Alabama's Relentless Pursuit of Perfection , “Alabama goes for it.
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
Bill said, “I remember you asked a really powerful question. I felt the energy go up.” He was reflecting on a coaching conversation I had with him and Kevin months ago.
Kevin Eikenberry
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Whenever I ask groups about the effectiveness of the meetings they attend, the responses are dismal; and when those meetings are virtual, rather than in the conference room down the hall, they certainly aren’t better. While there is much known and written about making any sort of meeting better, and much of it applies to […]. The post Five Keys to Planning Better Virtual Meetings appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
A Reel Leadership Article Murder On The Orient Express tells the tale of the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh with an epic mustache). After solving a case, Hercule decided he needed to take time off from crime solving. He thought he would be able to when his old friend M. Bouc (Tom Bateman) is able to book him a room on the Orient Express.
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Engaging Leader
NOVEMBER 15, 2017
All of us have at least one person or group of people that we work with who has an issue that we really need to address — a performance problem, a behavioral issue, a piece of spinach stuck in their teeth — but for some reason, we avoid bringing up the topic with them. We’ve […] All of us have at least one person or group of people that we work with who has an issue that we really need to address — a performance problem, a behavioral issue, a piece of spinach stuck in their teeth — but for
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Performance assessments – done well – inspire conversation. Done poorly, performance assessments invite defensiveness, excuses, posturing, and blame. The ultimate goal of assessing performance is growth.
leaderCommunicator
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
In advertising and communications, effective frequency is the number of times a person must be exposed to a message before a response is made. Theories have ranged from three to twenty times, leading to countless spirited discussions amongst academics and practitioners alike looking to identify the magic number. Whatever the answer, and it varies by person, the fact remains that recipients of a message can only retain a limited amount of information per exposure and it often takes someone hearin
Joseph Lalonde
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
A Reel Leadership Article Murder On The Orient Express tells the tale of the famous Belgian detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh with an epic mustache). After solving a case, Hercule decided he needed to take time off from crime solving. He thought he would be able to when his old friend M. Bouc (Tom Bateman) is able to book him a room on the Orient Express.
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