Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

It’s so depressing and hard to feel energy for anything.” “I Reduced Global Competitiveness Failing to address cross-cultural challenges compromises your ability to operate effectively across different markets. This is an open discussion about the norms and ways in which the team will operate. What are you here to do?

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Lead from Within

MAY 19, 2021

If you’re in the habit of speaking over others, interrupting, and making statements without allowing others to respond or express their own thoughts, you kill the energy and ideas of your team. Instead, try dedicating your energy to helping others be successful. Few things can do more to undermine your influence, respect and trust.

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Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, the quest for the perfect office space is a pivotal decision that can significantly influence a company’s success. This should cover not only construction costs but also ongoing operational expenses. This is crucial for seamless operations and connectivity in the digital age.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

If you’re a regular here at the Lead Change Group, you are probably aware that Weaving Influence, its owner, is going to pause operations on the site starting October 1. They just direct their energies to their roots. They may not look like they’re growing outwardly, but they may be coalescing their energy for the next season.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 1, 2021

As most of you know, the team at Weaving Influence took over stewardship of the Lead Change Group blog in 2014, and has been consistently providing near-daily leadership content that all of you have contributed to on a monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly basis. Don’t worry, though!

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How leaders operated within, or pushed against, the constraints of their time illustrate characteristics of responsibility, vision, sacrifice, and more. Roosevelt’s energy and his manner of speaking had a certain charisma that Hoover’s lacked. Learning how to be good leaders doesn’t involve formulas or abstractions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 9, 2020

Guest post from Debra Corey: My 18 year-old daughter has entered the workforce, full of energy, full of passion and full of some very strong opinions. Values act as guidelines, guiding principles, or guideposts to your employees, helping them make everyday operational and strategic decisions, even when leaders are not around.

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The Horizons Tracker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Environmental changes While previous research has focused on the influence of recent events on business ventures in response to environmental change, the interplay between a venture’s historical context, including the environmental conditions present during its inception, and performance outcomes remains unexplored.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

The authors define performance as “what an enterprise does to deliver improved results for its stakeholders in financial and operational terms. Architect : Influence levers. Act : Generation of energy. Successful change efforts are increased when we place equal emphasis on both performance and health-related efforts.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

Finite me” recognizes your limits—limited time, energy, and money. Some of your schedule is outside of your control (though you can have more influence if you can show the RoI), but as a leader, you have several ways to free up time to do the work only you can do. That never ends. You’ll never finish the list.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2020

This natural curiosity applies to leaders in a more penetrating way because leaders have power and influence. Instead, people want to know that the way their organizations operate is ethical. The most promising path to optimizing organizational performance is to get people to put their very best energies behind a shared plan.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 20, 2021

There’s no shortage of things that influence how successful a business will be. However, it’s also important to remember that they’re not the only things that influence business success. It’s a complicated aspect of life that everything from politics to world events can influence. One of the biggest influences is personal.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 30, 2019

Great new ideas, lots of energy, and a broader vision have been instilled and you’re ready to effect change. The few people who attend aren’t allowed much influence in subsequent changes. If possible, do it within 48 hours while the ideas and energy are still fresh.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

When it comes to building a network of strategic advisors, it’s natural to look to people with more position power, access, and influence as your primary go-to’s. He was my technical expert— he knew everything about the network and call center operations. And I was his HR and team development sounding board.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 15, 2021

These folks are actually team leaders with broad scopes of responsibility so they have the platform to operate as a leader across their enterprise but they haven’t let go of the superstar, go-to person modus operandi that got them noticed in the first place. They want more impact and influence but their behaviors are holding them back.

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The Horizons Tracker

OCTOBER 4, 2020

The researchers believe that grid operators and energy providers can use such adaptive pricing to influence the demand for electric vehicle charging, and therefore reduce any risk of instability. These price signals would hopefully influence the demand for charging. Grid stability.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

You will see three core underlying principles running through the descriptions in the following chapters: Leadership is influence. Influence is given. People give influence based on competence, trust and purpose. Leadership Is Influence. John Maxwell has quite famously stated, “Leadership is influence, plain and simple.”

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 4, 2023

Such applications of AI conform to the narrative that it’s a technology that frees us from the drudgery of the mundane, everyday tasks that consume so much of our time and energy, thus freeing us up to do the creative and fundamentally human things that define us.

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The Horizons Tracker

JANUARY 12, 2022

Institutional investors, such as hedge funds, are increasingly active in terms of their attempt to influence the direction of the firms they invest in. While in a recent article , I highlighted how this interest can successfully influence the strategy of a firm, recent research from INSEAD highlights how this can have consequences.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 5, 2019

It is how successful leaders in business, in all walks of life, in fact, operate: by keeping their eyes on today and on the vision— always moving forward. At the same time, you must become self-aware about the influence your ego casts. It gives us energy and capacity to handle stress and challenge. Your ego must be managed.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. Figures there and elsewhere suggest they are the fastest-growing energy option on the globe. Sustainability is the new business benchmark.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The absence of clarity also creates an opportunity for biases and assumptions to influence how people interpret information. Ambiguity prevents organizations from operating with focus, discipline, and engagement. An in-demand global speaker, Karen wows her audiences with high-energy presentations containing practical takeaways.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2017

You will see three core underlying principles running through the descriptions in the following chapters: Leadership is influence. Influence is given. People give influence based on competence, trust and purpose. Leadership Is Influence. John Maxwell has quite famously stated, “Leadership is influence, plain and simple.”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 23, 2017

American business puts a lot of pressure on managers to deliver results, but to influence others and get positive results, they need leadership training. When I am doing well and operating in my strengths, I lose track of time and feel a sense of inherent joy in my work. It’s not so unusual.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap? I Think Not.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 13, 2018

In the case of workshops design, dynamics such as engaging factors and social energy, as well as a significant focus, have the potential to kindle a group’s progress on their specific project. Management of a successful workshop depends to a great extent on the organization of ideas and the environment within which you operate.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

As CHRO, I always reinforce with my HR team that we are the architects of not only the employee experience but the structure of the organization and the operating model. Because of where we are as an organization, operating as relatively new to a commercial market, we are always thinking long-term about the future of our platform.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 20, 2015

You will see three core underlying principles running through the chapters of The Character-Based Leader : Leadership Is Influence. John Maxwell has quite famously stated, “leadership is influence, plain and simple.” Influence Is Given. We choose the degree to which we bring our creative energies to an effort.

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 2, 2017

And it’s costing you and the team time and energy. Foremost, they have a sphere of influence that climbs steadily throughout the project. What defines that sphere of influence? The term derived from international politics is a power, an authority, a right to have a say or influence over another. What’s Next?

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Nathan Magnuson

MARCH 7, 2016

The positive effects of smiling are so poignant that Dale Carnegie devoted an entire chapter to it in his classic book How to Win Friends and Influence People. ” Since people prefer to do business with their friends, a simple smile can generate positive energy right from the start. Value Results AND Relationships.

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The Horizons Tracker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The assessment takes into account the comprehensive lifetime costs associated with the entire lifecycle of electric vehicles (EVs) and gasoline-powered vehicles, encompassing aspects such as their construction, operation, and disposal. These costs encompass battery manufacturing, gasoline refining, and vehicle production.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Yes, we could, but if you need to change it is useful to make culture also operational and look at the daily (inter)actions. You “catch” and influence culture on a daily basis: where and when it happens. If you influence one person, one interaction at a time, you contribute to a more positive organization.

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CO2

JUNE 26, 2013

The authors of Tribal Leadership tell us that 49% of American professionals operate at Stage Three: “I am Great (and you are not),” which is akin to “I Win and I hope that you win too” (Level Three of Energy Leadership). Energy begins the process of transforming from catabolic (negative) to anabolic (positive).

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 29, 2021

Below we’ll cover various additions and adjustments you can make to your office that will positively influence your employee’s productivity, creativity, and wellbeing. It’s proven that natural light improves employee’s energy and creativity too. Natural Light Goes a Long Way. About the Author.

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CO2

MARCH 21, 2013

In two recent posts we covered anabolic and catabolic energy and the seven levels of energy as defined by Bruce Schneider. Today’s post will show how our desire to be right and our fear of being wrong influences our energy levels. Naturally, being wrong and the fear of being wrong doesn’t lead to great energy.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 4, 2022

The Star Wars website gives this definition, “The Force is a mysterious energy field created by life that binds the galaxy together.” ” This is a powerful analogy for the leadership and culture energy fields that bind teams and organizations together. Ultimately, the problem is a failure of leadership.

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Skip Prichard

APRIL 1, 2019

Healthy cultures are full of energy and productivity, whereas unhealthy cultures produce unmotivated employees. In our opinion, culture is the most significant factor that influences work relationships, employee happiness, and productivity. We describe culture as being on a spectrum between healthy and unhealthy.

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