Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 9, 2023

In this episode, former fighter pilot and retired Air Force Colonel Kim “KC” Campbell gives practical and inspirational ways of leading through fear and decision-making in high-stress situations. It’s not the fear that matters, it’s about being able to step up and take action in the face of fear.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees. With similar conviction, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said, “Empathy makes you a better innovator.It’s a quality my wife helped me begin to learn when our son was born with severe disabilities.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2024

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. Love “has a lot to do with getting your brain in the right place to make good decisions. How do you get there? Love He begins with love.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 8, 2018

The nature of modern work has caused stress to rise to unhealthy levels at a time when people are also struggling with increased isolation. When you add up the hours spent on the job, commuting and doing additional work at home on our laptops and smartphones, many of us are devoting more hours to work than we ever have.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JANUARY 28, 2020

28 Powerful Tips to Relieve Stress. We live in a stressful world, bombarded by increasing demands, added responsibilities, and by choices between our professional and personal commitments. Here are 28 powerful tips to relieve stress. Invest it wisely or you’ll be forced to make up for lost time. Learn from your mistakes.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

We’re overwhelmed by all we have to do and on the edge of burnout, left to decide between giving into soul-sapping hustle culture or rejecting ambition altogether. In our personal lives, social media has us keeping score by likes and followers. The world of work is due for a new revolution. Slow productivity is exactly what we need.

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HR Digest

MARCH 20, 2024

Sometimes colleagues genuinely get caught up with other tasks and forget to handle your request, and a polite follow-up email can set them back on track. Sending out polite follow-up emails is a part of the corporate set-up so before you send out your next update request, here are some things to keep in mind.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Leave Follow-Through to Chance. Here’s a glimpse at some of the biggest challenges for new managers and what to do instead. Well, they certainly understand that they screwed up. I’m sure they won’t do that again.”. What to do: Address poor performance and disruptive behavior as soon as it happens.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In Upshift , Ramalingam distils this expertise into an insightful, powerful, and engaging book that will show you how to reframe your set responses to stress and pressure and instead use them to harness the potential they hold not just for improving your work, your relationships, and your mindset, but for transforming them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

One of the biggest requests for help we receive is, “How do I deal with my micromanager boss?” Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. “Why do I have to get involved in all the details! Start with You. Is it quality?

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 22, 2024

Burnout is a state of emotional, physical, and mental exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged stress. Fortunately, according to Dr. Kandi Wiens , author of the new book, Burnout Immunity , you can learn how to build immunity to burnout. Manage your stress triggers and response and tap into moments of good stress.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 14, 2017

Chronic ongoing stress shortens telomeres. Chronic job stress has also been found to be associated with shorter telomeres. You can make an even deeper connection by learning and using people’s first names and getting to know something about them. or “what do you like to do when you’re not working?”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

THE WISDOM OF THE BULLFROG draws on these and countless other experiences from Admiral McRaven’s incredible life, including crisis situations, management debates, organizational transitions, and ethical dilemmas, to provide readers with the most important leadership lessons he has learned over the course of his forty years of service.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. But, they don’t do much to build a leader’s influence, reputation or impact. Authentic leadership is more than simply speaking up and sharing your truth. They learn to do that well. What is authentic leadership?

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

When you mono-task, you pour all your energy into one activity, dramatically increasing the quality of work and reducing the stress caused by context-switching. Allocate Uninterrupted Time: Choose a task and work on it exclusively for a set period, such as 25 minutes, followed by a five-minute break, a method known as the Pomodoro Technique.

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Michael Lee Stallard

MARCH 19, 2023

Our focus is on the importance of human connection and cultivating a culture of connection in the workplace, but what we’ve learned about connection applies beyond the realm of our work lives. It also makes us more resilient to cope with stress. Here are a few of the findings: Babies and infants who feel connected are healthier.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

So how do you take a more comprehensive approach to measuring the ROI? So where do you start? How do you truly measure the ROI of remote vs. in-person work? 4:20 Reaction: How do people (employees and managers) see this situation? Are we following processes? But, you know it’s more complicated than that.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 20, 2020

“It’s up to you today to start making healthy choices. Put your wellbeing front and center , and everything else will follow. The less stressed you are, the smarter you’ll think, as a recent Forbes article says, citing David Rock of the NeuroLeadership Institute. Use a stress-reduction technique. Steve Maraboli.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 18, 2023

Being dependable and following through on your commitments is essential to building trust and credibility in your personal and professional life. Prioritize your tasks: Make a list of what you need to do and prioritize them based on their importance and urgency. This will help you to stay focused and motivated.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

You have a vision, and you’re energized about your new solution, but they’re skeptical, critical, and keep bringing up problems. They shake their head, sigh, and say things like, “Who comes up with these ideas? Eliminate these toxic behaviors from your leadership before doing anything else. Your Leadership. Lack of appreciation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

In contrast, managers who haven’t learned this secret focus on the numbers and frantically swivel their team’s focus back and forth between twenty-seven different measurements – most of which don’t directly affect results. ” I watched Sarah’s entire body tense up each time the hourly stack rankings buzzed in on her phone.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

ChatGPT is everywhere.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2022

When productivity expert Chris Bailey discovered that he had become stressed and burnt out because he was pushing himself too hard, he realized that before he could continue to give advice on productivity, he needed to learn how to rein things in and take a break. Make It Count came about after a serious and unfortunate incident.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2018

With so much to think about in terms of people management, strategy, and your own to-do list, it’s easy to get lost in the quagmire of each day’s work. Mindfulness works as a filter; you’ll learn to filter out the things that shouldn’t be occupying your mind and listen instead to what matters. You’ll let go of stress.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

P = Purpose People have an intrinsic need to know that what they do day in and day out has personal meaning for themselves and is meaningful to others; that what they do, in essence, has a positive impact on others and purpose. This will be instilled in their team if they are stressed, angry, or distracted.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

N O MATTER WHAT you are doing, you can be motivated by the work you do. Even if you hate your job, you can learn to love any activity. The key is to create excitement around the experience of doing what you do – intrinsically. You are the best measure of how much you have learned, improved, and grown.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2023

We are all wired to fear the downsides of uncertainty, but we forget that change, creation, transformation, and innovation rarely show up without some measure of it.”. We feel them first: anxiety, stress, exhaustion, frustration, and confusion. To do this, the authors present us with tools to help us with the unknown.

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Leading Blog

MAY 30, 2023

Here’s what I have learned. This feeling can stifle your potential as a leader, impair your ability to see a problem objectively, and lead to stress at work – and yet, it’s a common issue: Between 70 and 90 percent of adults experience imposter syndrome when they push themselves out of their comfort zone.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 19, 2022

However, it can also be one of the most stressful. Follow these tips, and you’ll be on your way to networking success! Do you have event badges ? Follow up with an email or phone call after the event. And don’t forget to follow up with the people you meet – send them an email or give them a call.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Stop Workplace Gossip from Stirring Up Conflict and Distracting Your Team I first heard this frustrating bit of workplace gossip from my wonderful, human-centered executive assistant back in my Verizon days. ” “Oh, do tell…” I wasn’t quite prepared for the absurdity of the workplace gossip that followed.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 5, 2021

Bush and Barack Obama, Mike Hayes, says Never Enough is about aiming for excellence, agility, and meaning in everything we do. Never excellent enough begins with knowing yourself and then having the will and the drive to do the work and stretch yourself. That requires that you can be both a leader and a follower.

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Niagara Institute

APRIL 17, 2024

In leadership, coercive power is the ability of a leader to get people to do what they want by threatening them with negative consequences. However, too much coercive power can lead to a negative and stressful work environment. When a coercive leader uses threats or punishment, employees can become unhappy and stressed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! If you are looking for a structured way to have more meaningful conversations with your team in the coming year, we would love to set you up with a demo of our new Team Accelerator Program.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Jensen provides the understanding to do just that. What creates pressure is the need to do something, and that distinguishes it from other states like stress, fear, or grief. Importance has to do with the importance of the outcome. A life well-lived requires pressure.” This is where his Power of Pressure Model is helpful.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

MAY 21, 2024

One powerful way to do that is by sharing meaningful experiences and important principles with them. By doing so, you’re not just imparting knowledge; you’re sculpting their character , equipping them with vital skills, and guiding them along the twists and turns of life. Lessons in life will be repeated until they are learned.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2022

The more we understand the nature of how someone is motivated, the easier it is for us to adjust our communication to match up with their natural motivational tendencies. When you talk to Michael and ask him what is important about money, he reveals that he is stressed about how he will fare financially after retirement.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 7, 2020

Eileen McDargh provided How Not to Screw Up Communicating. Learn four sure-fire ways to get a message across, remembered, and repeated.” Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting contributed Now That the Conflict Is Over, How Do I Recover? ” Follow Bill on Twitter at @btreasurer. Crisis Leadership.

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