Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Often, and especially in contemporary times, the real story of innovation doesn’t involve lone geniuses or flashes of inspiration, but teams, organizations, and leaders who cultivate systems and cultures where new ideas can sprout and flourish. Chances are, you’re one of a billion people that use its flagship software. That’s a myth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

” You have a chance to lead and overcome a failure to communicate. Nearly every leader we’ve ever worked with feels it. Doesn’t that senior leader know what impact they’re having here?” In those moments, it’s worth your effort to understand your leaders’ or your team’s decision-making if you can.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 30, 2023

To distinguish yourself as a young leader, build your knowledge, focus on results and relationships, and speak up. You’re a young leader with responsibility for a small team and you want more responsibility. And if you manage a young leader, please don’t use those despair-inducing words.) Give it time. You’re not ready yet.” (And

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Leading Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

It is the result of the actions you take instead of letting the crisis lead you. In the first phase of a crisis, you need to distinguish between information (raw) and intelligence (analyzed) and to take all new information with a grain of salt. As a leader, you need to realize when a fix is actually just a bandage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The holiday season gives you a human-centered leadership map for navigating change Is your holiday season a time of celebration? Of bustling end-of-year stress to meet business goals? A time of nostalgia and reflecting on what you appreciate most? Of remembering the traditions, stories, and people you have come before you? Our Own the U.G.L.Y.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2024

And while effective leaders will work to limit the number and frequency of these events, they are inevitable as organizations work to stay relevant in a rapidly changing world. I wouldn’t take that bet for their team members.” Transitions, reorganizations, layoffs, mergers, acquisitions—they are all part of the business landscape.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2022

The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. It’s interesting how often people will come to us to ask us help t rain their leaders on leading virtual teams, when mostly what they need is help leading teams, who just happen to be working remotely. hybrid and virtual teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2024

Powerful Phrases to De-escalate When You’re Both Fired Up “Take a breath and let it go, talk to her about it later on. it helps them take a breath and choose a different approach. One reason it’s so tricky to de-escalate an emotional conversation is that when these emotions kick in, they’re contagious. I don’t understand.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 16, 2023

We want to know that the leader is invested in us. As leaders, it becomes a matter of how we treat others. Leaders who have a developmental focus make others feel seen. In The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility , Marilyn Gist states, “Developmental focus implies long-term thinking. Do we listen?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2024

Cross cultural leadership to build better teams Cross cultural leadership is a fantastic chance to broaden your impact and develop teams that excel in performance and innovative problem-solving. This leader WAS invested in her team’s success—the words “care” and “friend” meant something different for her than they do for others.) “In

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

When you check for understanding, you are taking ownership for the effectiveness of your communication. Not Just For Leaders. The check for understanding is not just for leaders. Yes—we’re all taking out the trash.” “And And why are we taking it out?” “No, Save Days, Weeks, Even Months of Lost Time.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 27, 2021

The world has changed, and so has everything we know about becoming and remaining an effective leader particularly when it comes to keeping your top talent! The effective leaders of tomorrow will do one thing: keep their top talent. Courage is that leaders must go first. Emotional maturity in our leadership is responsibility.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“What Can We Take Away From This Experience?” What to Say Next After a Team Setback: Beyond the ‘F’ Word We’ve been there too—project outcomes that don’t meet expectations, missed deadlines, or even complete strategy breakdowns. After all, if something is a “failure,” where do you go from there?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 8, 2024

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. As a leader today, where would it be helpful to show up more like this or with these values? Look for themes.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Have You Given Them a Chance? Therefore, before you fire them, consider this: have you given them a chance to fix their Bad Boss Behaviors™? Chances are the grass is greener on the other side. Take this opportunity to ensure you’re ready to be the best leader you can be. Think Darth Vader.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2022

And then, give them a chance to consider the wild cards. After talking through each of these questions, you can then focus the conversation on meaningful next steps to take action and build contingency plans. The post How to Help Your Team Gain Clarity During Serious Uncertainty [VIDEO] appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Tanveer Naseer

OCTOBER 5, 2022

No matter which industry your organization operates it, there’s a pretty high chance that you’re grappling with how to motivate and engage your employees in the daily work they do. Invariably, this leads to the question of how can leaders create purpose-led work for all their employees?

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2023

When the challenge or opportunity is new, relying on our instincts can take us in the wrong direction. The framework is described briefly this way: M: Be Mindfully Alert “Mindful Alertness in high-stakes situations means being exquisitely aware of what is needed from you as a leader at this exact moment, so you can lead in real time.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2018

I know it’s painful, but take a minute to consider the most frustrating setback you’ve ever had at work. Chances are you didn’t “deserve” this thing […]. The post How to Overcome a Frustrating Setback at Work appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Pick the most gnarly, frustrating one.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2024

Take initiative to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. And, take what you read with a grain of salt. Take a look at the frequency and consistency of the concerns. This is your chance to politely and confidently probe with important questions. What advice do you have #askingforafriend?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 19, 2024

Make Room for Bragging Rights (Miss Piggy Style) : Take a leaf from Miss Piggy’s book. Make Room for Bragging Rights (Miss Piggy Style) : Take a leaf from Miss Piggy’s book. Remote team building can take many forms; the possibilities are as endless as your team’s creativity. ” -Kermie.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

There are a few angles you might choose to take. If they’ve put something in writing that’s coming out of the blue, you might request to have that removed, requesting a fair chance to address it before it turns up in the documentation. Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. “Oh, wow.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2023

It takes extra time, but you’ll earn it back many times over when you work through conflict. Taking a minute to pause gives you both a chance to regroup and consider the bigger picture, the desired outcomes, and how to approach the conversation more productively. You’ve come together to talk about it. You might think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 21, 2023

” #AskingforaFriend Three Practical Ways to Help Your Idea Get the Best Chance of Traction Of course, every situation is different. Foster collaboration by taking time to learn from your colleagues and include them in your planning. Implementing new ideas takes work, time, and energy. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Guarantee that any conversation requiring action ends with a specific person taking responsibility to follow through on an assignment. You connect with one another, establish clear success criteria, get curious, and build on one another’s suggestions, but nothing happens. Your conversation needs to produce action, or nothing changes.

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

If you want to stand out as a true leader in your business, then you are not alone. You can step out of the generalist role, and this can help you to stand out as a leader in your chosen industry. Take Control of your Stories. This is a contributed post to JMLalonde.com. Source: Pexels (CC0 License). Focus on a Niche.

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Eric Jacobson

APRIL 8, 2024

Speaking about his new book, The Generous Leader , author Joe Davis says, “This book is about the ways in which you can become a generous leader to be part of something bigger than yourself.” He adds that the old model for a leader – a top-down, unilateral, single-focus boss, isn’t effective in today’s workplace.

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Rich Gee Group

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s incredible how many people think they’re leaders, who are in fact functioning managers and how many managers who are actually leaders in disguise. These four areas are the foundation of any successful leader. Too often, most managers fear taking a chance, bucking the system, or making their superiors angry.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. . Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. How to Develop Entrepreneurial Thinking on Your Team. ” As you can imagine, the answer was often. But that’s not the heart of it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 19, 2023

For example, a passive-aggressive comment about being passive-aggressive might look like this: “Oh, they always seem to find a way to avoid taking responsibility for their actions. For someone who doesn’t have deeply ingrained passive-aggressive behaviors, shining a light on what happened is often all it takes to put a stop to it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Take them on field trips (physical or virtual) for exposure and perspective. Help them become leader teachers. Sure sometimes there’s a correlation, but chances are it was more a matter of finding that sweet spot where your skills and talents matched a strategic business need. Keep them growing. Differentiate Performance.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Sure, a new hire could be a highly-skilled, perfect-match leader eager to start. Executive onboarding gives prospects the professional, cultural, and personal tools they need to succeed in all elements of their new position, maximizing the chance these executives will be successful. What Is Executive Onboarding?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Many people find it easier to be a human-centered leader when everything’s going well. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered Leader When You’re Stressed. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered Leader When You’re Stressed. Five Steps to Be a Human-Centered Leader Through Stress and Anxiety. It Happens. Stay the course. It happens.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The physics of a prism can also be applied to leadership: In an agile work environment, it is valuable to slow down and reconsider which leadership angle to take in particular situations. This means taking responsibility for creating a climate where people enjoy coming to work, whether in a virtual setting or on-site.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 3, 2023

As a leader, there’s nothing worse than hiring a new employee who seems like the perfect fit, only to realize that they’re not living up to expectations. When faced with a bad hire, it’s important to take action sooner rather than later. By the 18-month point, 46% are deemed failures.

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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. The principles are relevant for individuals, community groups, sports teams, nations and even families. As humans, we are hardwired to connect.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2021

Give a chance for employees to react to the direction and express concerns (knowing that resistance is often just a cover for wanting to be heard). This refers to taking the initiative to advance innovation, to act like an entrepreneur, within your company. Video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Accountability Czar.

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