Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2024

All In : How Great Leaders Build Unstoppable Teams by Mike Michalowicz It’s never been harder building successful teams. With challenges of work-from-anywhere, flex-schedule and generational divides, business leaders bend over backwards searching for solutions that work. Watkins Michael D.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

This is where I do a lot of my coaching; helping leaders leverage the expertise and wisdom of others as they make the shift. How do we want to attack this as a team?” But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”. These are marks of a great leader, and people will respect you for it.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2020

3 Assumptions That Keep Leaders from Building Trust by @RandyConley. How The Best Leaders Connect by @SteveGutzler. How To Deal With The Gap Between Expectations and Reality at Work by @SusanMazza. How to Alleviate Leadership Anxiety With the Power of Perspective by @WScottCochrane. by @KateNasser.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The third cause of bad boss behaviors is needing what we should be leading. If a leader needs their job, they will be more susceptible to Bad Boss Behavior ™. Therefore, your boss practices bad boss behavior. Network Up: Too few leadership development programs address this attribute of successful leaders.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Here are ten books to help you get back into the world of work and make plans for an improved future: How Trust Works : The Science of How Relationships Are Built, Broken, and Repaired by Peter H. We barely know how trust works. How could we possibly repair it? Sunstein - (August 2023) How do we decide how we decide?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

And I’ve had more than a few phone calls from really talented human-centered leaders hurting for the team members they’ve had to lose and deeply concerned about those who remain after the layoff. Or, it could be you are worried about how to sustain momentum with a reduced staff. After a Heartwrenching Layoff.

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Rich Gee Group

AUGUST 22, 2023

Bad bosses impact the potential of your people. When Sarah, a promising team leader at SmartTechCorp, began spending more time with her superiors, her team started to notice a shift in her priorities. When a leader places all focus on superiors and neglects their own team, they send a clear message about their priorities.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 19, 2020

Habits—the behaviors we repeat so often that they become automatic—can be beneficial or destructive. Here are some of the most common bad leadership habits—look through the list and see which of your own automatic thoughts and actions may be in need of reforming. You avoid difficult conversations. You take people for granted.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Become a next generation leader—rich in emotional and social intelligence and orchestrating outstanding collaborative results—by mastering these eight status quo-shattering paradoxes. The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership unpacks the fresh strategies and new mindset required today from a next generation leader.

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Lead from Within

JULY 14, 2023

Every leader will inevitably encounter failures along the way. These setbacks can be tough to navigate, but by learning from them, you can become a stronger and more resilient leader. No matter how good you think you are at judging a person’s potential, you will likely make a bad hire at some point.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 21, 2022

Leaders aren’t glory hogs: Jimmy and Billy were fighting in a tag-team contest. Leaders are not glory hogs. My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Double Dragon is a popular side-scrolling video game initially released in 1987. Boy, was it ever!

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you want to improve your company’s culture the best leaders do the following: Create a culture of belonging: As a leader, it is important to create a culture where employees feel valued, respected and included. Generate a culture of trust: As a leader, building trust with your employees is essential.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2020

But it’s not necessarily a bad thing. But what happens when the same surgeon is promoted to manage other doctors, or in the case of Dr. Rakesh Suri, asked to become the CEO of the entire hospital? Do surgeons have a God complex? Are doctors stubborn, control freaks? Sometimes, yes. It makes sense and it saves lives.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 7, 2022

Your role as a leader is to protect your team. It’s all in how you view it. Ladybug saw the things that happened around him as bad luck. Maria told Lady this wasn’t bad luck. Many situations we face as a leader can be viewed through multiple lenses. The whole cast was phenomenal and not to be missed.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Prospective employees and even clients and investors will avoid a poorly rated company. But with historic low unemployment rates, retaining employees has become much more important. Accidents, mistakes and work stoppages become part of life. Even though the study’s results were not surprising, they were extremely disappointing.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

I N 2004, Barbara Kellerman wrote that “the idea that some leaders and some followers are bad, and that they might have something in common with good leaders and followers, has not fully penetrated the conversation or the curriculum” on leadership. And this brings us to Leaders Who Lust by Barbara Kellerman and Todd Pittinsky.

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Bad leaders take the credit: After stopping the Luna Ghost, Fred is asked his secret to success. Without missing a beat, Fred shares how teamwork and his plan led to the criminal’s capture. You may be the leader, but you’re not the one who deserves credit. The best leaders don’t take credit.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 26, 2021

No-one doubts that the current pandemic has created all kinds of challenges for leaders and the businesses they lead. As a leader, you’re proud of what you have achieved, and then suddenly it all comes tumbling down. . Just imagine, you’ve spent literally weeks transitioning your team members to work from home.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

Are the signals you are broadcasting as a leader, creating the culture you want—you need? Culture experts Jeff Grimshaw, Tanya Mann, Lynne Viscio, and Jennifer Landis say in Five Frequencies that to make a good culture great, leaders must deliberately transmit strong and steady signals. How They Show Up Informally.

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 19, 2023

Some can spout the latest management book leader-speak. There’s a big problem with bad and bullying bosses. Is Your Boss a Bully or Just a Bad Boss? There can be a very fine line between a bad boss and a bully boss. Bad bosses are often good people doing a bad job. ” Nope. All were in favor.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 11, 2021

How inescapable and long lasting the legacy of their badness is depends in large part on what good people do. Badness is hard to resist , especially contagious when those in charge are the toxic ones. James* was one of the most toxic leaders I worked for. Bad events produce stronger and more memorable emotions.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 30, 2019

Key Leadership Transitions Great Leaders Champion by @KateNasser. How to Lead When There's Not Enough Time via via @letsgrowleaders. How Do I Deal With a Passive Aggressive Co-worker? If Your People Are Leaking Bad News About You, What Does It Say About Your Ability to Inspire Trust? How Inviting Are Your Brand's Surveys?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 19, 2018

When people become tired and fatigued, they switch to a quicker, more efficient, and less energy-consuming form of decision-making. When leaders are fatigued they struggle to communicate effectively, collaborate, and compromise. Often they actually avoid making decisions and revert to established patterns of thinking.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

But the question becomes, what are we learning? What irrelevant details are present in my experience that I need to ignore to avoid being distracted from what is happening? How We Learn from Experience. Our experiences quickly become part of a story we tell ourselves. We’d be silly not to. And What’s irrelevant?

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

He must avoid assassins, other agents, and more as his world comes crashing around him. He would have to become a Gray Man agent. Leaders understand there is a catch to everything. The catch to many good things is a bad thing. Define the terms: Six asked Fitzroy how long he’d have to work for the agency.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Not only will Finch pull at your heartstrings, but Finch will also challenge you to become a better leader. We will look at the leadership lessons in Finch and how you can apply those to your role as a leader. Leaders need to know their environments. Leaders need to know their environments. Finch is ill.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 29, 2019

What would our workplaces look like if we brought this same level of intensity to how we lead? How would our team describe our culture? We all have good intentions of how this is the year we’ll put more effort into developing our staff. The same is necessary for us as leaders. Take it all out. But what about your core?

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 2, 2023

It should be avoided at all costs… Gossip is defined by the Oxford dictionary as “ Casual or unconstrained conversation about other people.” To avoid spreading negative rumors or unfounded gossip, it’s essential to ensure that the information being shared is based on facts and not on speculation.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 1, 2020

You’ve probably heard the old adage that people don’t leave bad jobs—they leave bad bosses. It’s rarely intentional, and many leaders who practice toxic behaviors aren’t even aware of what they’re doing. Demanding leaders are constantly asking for things that are unrealistic or even impossible.

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Joseph Lalonde

JULY 11, 2018

The Disciplined Leader Series To some, the word discipline is a dirty word. But that’s not bad. Discipline is a needed trait as a leader. Discipline is a needed trait as a leader. Getting to become a disciplined leader is a good thing. The Power In Becoming A Disciplined Leader.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Books like Helping People Change and The Power of Bad , have the power to change forever how we work with others and address the things that hold us back. They all provide insights into leading and how others have tried to make sense of the world. People don’t experience our intentions; they experience our behavior. Blog Post ).

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Maybe it’s not your fault, but it is your problem to figure out how to navigate into a more appealing work situation. He is featured in this audio interview where he shares his experience, knowledge, and best tactics on how to be a leader in the customer service industry. Bernd Geropp shared How To Give Feedback.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 28, 2022

It got so bad that he wound up in prison! Many leaders lose their best employees because their personality clashes with those they lead. Leaders must be willing to identify and avoid false narratives – Leadership lessons from Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero Click To Tweet. Yet, it is not an impossible task.

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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. These are called interpersonal risks, and they are what nearly everyone seeks to avoid, bit always consciously. Your team isn’t giving you everything they’ve got. Some better than others.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 13, 2022

No one likes conflict, especially in the workplace, but avoiding it can lead to bigger issues that, if left unresolved, can negatively impact your team and your business. Leaders unintentionally mismanage conflict when they turn towards coping mechanisms and patterns like aggression, avoidance, and appeasing.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2020

Professor of management and organizational behavior at Harvard University, Thomas DeLong, writes, “I’ve found that the best teachers are also leaders, and the best leaders are also teachers.” He shares what he has observed how in a teacher’s “best moments, they can life people up, and in their worst, let them down.”.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

My line has become “thank you for wearing a mask. David shares: “ Communications leaders have risen to the communication challenges brought on by 2020. Use this how-to guide and get 3 free tools & templates to help you along the way. How is your company living out its values amidst the storm? Communication.

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