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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

Next Level Blog

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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8 Tips to Improve Your Leadership Listening Skills

Lead from Within

Poor listening skills are one of the main causes of poor communication in leadership, and it can have negative impacts on teamwork, idea generation and trust. Here are 8 tips to improve your leadership listening: Stop the internal chatter. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

The Good Fight : Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Organization Back on Track by Liane Davey (Page Two, 2019) Liane Davey shows you how to create the productive conflict your organization needs to get along and get stuff done. The Power of Bad : How the Negativity Effect Rules Us and How We Can Rule It by John Tierney and Roy F.

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5 Insights to Managing Chaordic Tension

Leading Blog

Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. Idea people are more comfortable with risk. People who prefer to use the information to come up with ideas (generators and conceptualizers) are on the right side of the vertical axis. I’m a big believer in the power of assessments.

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Great Leaders Attract Great Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Step One: Start with the idea generators 1. They’re naturals at creating the story behind the product, and know how to strike just the right points to touch hearts and move minds. In The Entrepreneur’s Faces , we present ten archetypes. When you build your team, make sure you have a good mix. They master the “beginner’s mind.”

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Do I Have to Come up With All The Great Ideas!? Why this belief means you suck as a manager.

Mike Cardus

Leading to a team of people that come to meetings with no ideas or just don’t share them anymore. Reinforcing belief by management that people “ just don’t get-it, and I have to come up with all the creative ideas around here.”. How to Stop it and let people have their ideas. michael cardus is create-learning.

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Are You a Candid Leader? 4 Ways to Build Clarity, Trust, and Competitive Advantage

Great Leadership By Dan

Eberhardt: Honest, purposeful, and respectful communication is one of the most effective leadership skills, yet CEOs who promote a culture of candor are still uncommon in business today. Do you ask for feedback on how to improve? Guest post by Nancy K. However, looking inward is just as important. What can you do to be more effective?