Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Edmondson - (September 2023) We used to think of failure as the opposite of success. With vivid, real-life stories from business, pop culture, history, and more, Edmondson gives us specifically tailored practices, skills, and mindsets to help us replace shame and blame with curiosity, vulnerability, and personal growth.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 8, 2024

In one of my first vocational leadership roles, I managed a large retail division of a major department store. The division had several departments within it and each department had a separate department manager. Most of the departments were efficient, profitable, and easy to manage.

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 11, 2021

Managing conflict as a leader is a critical part of creating healthy cultures. . Part of the leader’s job is to learn to better manage conflict rather than attempting to kill them. 7 thoughts on managing conflict as a leader: Interfere sparingly . Good leaders learn to manage it for the eventual good of the team.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 19, 2022

My leadership is different now than it was at the beginning of 2020. Covid has forever shaped my leadership. Five ways Covid has shaped my leadership: More short term planning. I’ve almost dropped the five and 10 your plans from my leadership. That will always be a part of leadership, as well anxiety and worry.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I have served in some toxic leadership cultures in the past. I was once a division manager for a large sales team and sales were down due to the economy. Even more, I have hired people out of them and helped dozens of other leaders recover after being in a toxic leadership culture. Management is preferred over leadership. .

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In fact, I had personally walked with him through the process of change management and was impressed with the way he handled things. I was able to share with him a principle I learned years ago in leadership. With every major decision in life or leadership, decision remorse is a possibility. The decision was made.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 17, 2021

I’ve written a fair amount about management versus leadership. We need good leadership and good management. But this is a leadership blog. And if you want to be a leader, you can’t focus more on managing the organization than you do on leading the organization forward.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 5, 2023

What was unusual was a new manager I had not seen before. This new manager continually “barked” back half answers, displayed constant frustration, and grumbled excuses about the lack of manpower. The only difference on this day than any other day I had been to this restaurant – a new manager.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 17, 2024

Others it was a middle manager boss. I call it leadership by nipping at the heels. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss issues of leadership in a practical way. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts. Some of them have a tyrant leader as a board chair or member. Criticism.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, with growth bad leadership becomes apparent. I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest or changing the most. Leadership development becomes more important.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amy Edmondson , in her book, “ The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace ” defines “Psychological Safety” as – “Psychological Safety is broadly defined as a climate in which people are comfortable expressing and being themselves. Updated: Visual Leadership Pack of 60+ HD Sketchnotes.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

In The Fearless Organization , Amy Edmondson explains what psychological safety is and what it isn’t and how we can create in our organizations. We all—most of us—manage our image. No matter what our line of work, status, or gender, all of us learn how to manage interpersonal risk early in life. Some better than others.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 2, 2024

The church looks to him to lead and, wisely, he knows he needs to develop his leadership skills. Here are 3 suggestions I gave him to develop as a leader: Form a peer leadership group There are people in the community who own small businesses. Start a book club Recruit leaders in the community to read a leadership book together.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 3, 2021

In this episode of The Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast with Ron and Nate , Ron shares suggestions of what to do when you are waiting for your next leadership position. Some entry-level managers in large organizations could move to a higher position in a smaller organization. Would you do me a favor?

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 21, 2023

What is your leadership capacity? I use the term leadership capacity to describe a leader’s maximum potential to effectively lead others to accomplish the vision. A leader exceeds their leadership capacity when they no longer have the ability to effectively manage or lead the organization to reach its potential.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In her book “ Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands” , Nancy Ortberg talks about the need to differentiate between “ a tension to be managed and a problem to be solved “ One example for me is the constant tension between the administration/money side of ministry and the discipleship/hands on side of ministry.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 6, 2023

We confuse certain words in leadership. I’ve noticed we confuse a lot of words in leadership. Here are pairs of words we often confuse in leadership: Possibility with Probability – Just because something has a chance of happening, doesn’t necessarily mean the chance is good. Giving an assignment is easy.

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QAspire

JANUARY 10, 2022

Amy Edmondson , in her book, “ The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace ” defines “Psychological Safety” as – “Psychological Safety is broadly defined as a climate in which people are comfortable expressing and being themselves.

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 1, 2014

State of the art management and leadership techniques are continually evolving. Technology has clearly paid a huge part in this, but the biggest driver of change in how organizations are run is the ceaseless quest for improvement; to manage more efficiently and effectively to better achieve business results.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 22, 2021

There are some common ways to lose favor with leadership. Now before that sounds arrogant, please know I can be pretty hard on senior leadership. Having been in such a position for over 30 years, I know the bad side of senior leadership. When I’m coaching other leaders, predominately I’m coaching senior leadership.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 4, 2021

I like to lead leaders, so I prefer to be a macro-manager. I quickly realized they had relied too much on his leadership and were now lost without him. It required more of my time initially until we could raise up new leadership and better empower everyone on the team. There are times, however, where I tend to micromanage.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 16, 2012

The following is a guest post by Jessica Edmondson. Ever wonder what is the best path to effective management? Effective management begins, grows and thrives when the right candidates are hired. The truth, however, is that we could read articles like that all day and still be left wondering.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 18, 2017

One of the chief goals of this blog is to encourage better leadership, so I normally write about leadership issues. In this post, I’m including the term management. Effective leaders and managers learn to manage their “BE” Here are 7: Be aware. What you do matters more than what you say.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You know the kind… I talk weekly to ministers serving on church staffs around the country who are struggling with the leadership of the church where they serve, mainly because of the leadership…or lack thereof…coming from senior leadership in the church. I simply asked: What does successful leadership require?

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

I am not a fan of micro managing. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss issues of leadership in a practical way. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts. The post Balancing Between My Yes and No as a Leader appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The way you begin a leadership position often determines the degree of success you will have in the position and the impact or value you will bring to the organization. Therefore, a part of 5T Leadership focuses on transitions coaching. So, I would love to help you transition well into your new leadership role.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In the early days of a leadership position I have some intentionally bad leadership practices. . Not with everything, but I need to manage some things closer so I get a handle on where things are currently. Yet, a team is looking for leadership. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

In their latest book, Humanocracy , London Business School’s Gary Hamel and his Management Lab colleague Michele Zanini, outline seven steps leaders can take to better respond to crises such as this one. For decades, a sort of hero leadership ethos has prevailed, in which the leader must have all the answers to every problem.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2021

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, the more growth that occurs the more bad leadership becomes apparent. As a leader for the last several decades, I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest. Resources are stretched.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

I’ve learned a lot about leadership from the life of David. . The best book from which to find leadership principles is the Bible. From his time in the wilderness and serving as king, good and bad, I learn a great deal about leadership and what is required to successfully lead by observing David. We could manage that.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

In this episode of The Ron Edmondson Leadership Podcast Ron and Chandler Vannoy talk about how to change an already established culture. The only way a leader can “keep the peace” in the realm of change management is simply to offer no change. Let us know leadership issues you would like us to cover.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 25, 2024

So, building and maintaining trust is critical to good leadership. This means you must not be controlling, micro-managing, or negative towards every new idea they bring to the table. I have some non-negotiable things in leadership – things such as responsiveness and mutual-respect – and I share them with our team.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 31, 2023

In fact, one way to tell the difference in a potential good leader and a good manager (we need both) is the amount of risk they are willing to assume. Which is also why every good leader needs a good manager.) Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss leadership nuggetsin a practical way.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2024

Maintainers Maintaining involves setting up and managing systems in an effort to continue the progress usually begun by others. It could be to improve things, close them gracefully or transition things to a new season of leadership. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss leadership nuggets in a practical way.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The delivery truck principle is a sobering reality in all leadership decisions. . It was through watching that process a leadership principle came to me. Delivery Truck Principle of Leadership. This principle points to a tension which exists in all leadership decisions. Let me know if I can help you.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 23, 2019

Harvard’s Amy Edmondson has highlighted the importance of emotional and psychological safety at work throughout her career, both in terms of the performance of individuals and the wider organization. The volunteers were then given a second chance to offer an opinion. Supporting staff.

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