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Leadership Book Club: How to Read Courageous Cultures With Your Team

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Practical ways to engage your team (or leadership book club) as you read Courageous Cultures together. One of the real joys of being authors is hearing from leadership book clubs and teams who are reading our books together. And, you don’t get better at leadership or building culture just by reading a book.

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3 Leadership Values to Encourage in Every Member of Your Team

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Help your team be more compassionate, courageous, and curious. During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. Why these three leadership values? On this team, we struggle together.

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Unlock Team Success with Proven Strategies to Build a Better Team

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Episode 247: In this episode, Tanya Luna discusses the principles of power with and how to a build better team. She emphasizes the importance of following a purpose rather than a person, relying on context instead of control, being a cultivator rather than a collector, and building a community rather than a crowd.

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Steve Jobs: The Dynamics of An Excellent Team

Leading Blog

I N this interview, Jobs explains the dynamics of a team that pushes to excel—to be above average—excellent. There are some team leaders who would argue that a great team is all smiles and agreement. And we closed the can up, and he turned this motor on, and he said, “Come back tomorrow.” It’s groupthink.

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How to Encourage More Courage on Your Team (Team-Building Activity)

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If you want your team to feel more courageous, remind them of times they’ve been courageous before. This team-building activity gives your team a chance to reflect on their micro-moments of courage. People are more likely to hold onto a negative experience with speaking up or taking a risk, than a positive one.

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Year-in-Review: 7 Questions to Help Your Team Reflect on Success and Key Learnings

Let's Grow Leaders

Taking a moment for a team year-in-review fosters curiosity and connection I don’t know about you, but we love a good “year-in-review” list. How would your highlight reel compare to the year-in-review highlights from your team? There’s something about looking back over the entire year and seeing what stands out.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types.