Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Marcia Reynolds of Covisioning Transformational Leadership provided Stop Saying Stupid Things.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The diagram below highlights the steps involved in the leadership process. Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. Change is stressful, messy, and full of surprises. In the middle of The Leadership Process diagram are the words “Involve Others/build Relationships.”

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 28, 2019

The man had clearly hung up the phone, so all the father had to do was mention politely how the radiation can still be impacted even with the doors open. To me, one of the most important character traits of leadership is the amount of compassion we show others. He is passionate about all topics related to management and leadership.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 15, 2019

Managing this tension is the key to success in growing and stable organizations—regardless of industry, size, years in business, or profit motive. Here are my five insights on how to manage chaordic tension: 1. These individuals are comfortable with ideas, ambiguity, and keeping their options open.

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Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I highly recommend reading Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s recent books, Leadership B.S. In them he makes a compelling case that most leadership training has failed to produce effective leaders and that the poor state of the vast majority of workplace cultures today is harming the health of people. Below I explain why.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

G OOD LEADERSHIP is an important element in the success of any organization. There’s been a lot of debate on whether leadership skills can be acquired in life or the person must be born with them. There are some people who seem to be born with great leadership skills, as well as those who developed them later in life.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Welcome to the October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Diana Peterson-More shared Covid Communication: Spread a Little Kindness.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

If this premise and the figures above are accepted it would suggest that only 10% of team leaders are high performing, enabling their teams, whilst 40% of leaders are failing in their leadership tasks, whilst the remaining 50% are barely holding in there! Sounds complicated? Not really. Are you leading your team with the appropriate style?

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Great Leadership By Dan

MARCH 12, 2019

Guest post from Fiona Murden : In 1998 I graduated from business school feeling I knew all there was to know about leadership. I began work as a management consultant and much of what I’d learnt was very quickly thrown out of the window. As a result, those critical aspects of good leadership become even more important.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 3, 2020

Welcome to the March 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

He dropped out of business school and threw away the rule book. Through trial and error and a whole lot of perseverance, he opened the first Texas Roadhouse in 1993. Stress should not manage you, and friends, family, business, and health should not pay the ultimate price. His story is told in Made from Scratch.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

We follow the acronyms, rules, and checklists we’ve learned from the innumerable books we’ve read, classes and symposiums we’ve attended, and mentors whose wisdom we’ve sought. Let’s call this methodology what it is: a recipe for leadership. Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

T HERE ARE well-intentioned behaviors and assumptions about leadership that we have accepted over the years that really don’t serve us well. His goal is to “teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office.”.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Welcome to the December 2015 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. But the books on this list were worth the effort. Let’s Get Started.

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Experience to Lead

MARCH 26, 2024

You can read as many books as you want, but the change has to happen from within. Introduction to Emotional Intelligence in Leadership What Is Emotional Intelligence? What is the Importance of Emotional Intelligence in Leadership? Self-Management Self-management is all about self-regulation and conflict resolution.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 21, 2021

Peter Economy is a bestselling business book author with more than 100 books to his credit. However, before that he worked as a manager—at one time he was in charge of more than 400 people working at more than 35 different sites scattered across the United States. In the book, I call this person the Malicious One.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Jeanie Cockell Just about every leader has had an employee who was, to say it diplomatically, a “handful” to manage. When stressed she let it show though in her interactions with others. Along with her leadership faults, Jane was innovative, creative, personable, dedicated, and very hard working.

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Skip Prichard

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Teams that are emotionally aware and prepared can flex under stress and support each other to achieve the best results possible. You start the book with a story about a team that lacks team emotional intelligence. Let’s turn to emotion management. This applies to individuals, but what about EQ at the team level?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 8, 2017

Instead, messages undiscerningly bombard us, with the senders rationalizing that we can choose when and where to open a message. By practicing these happy hacks in your life, you can learn to manage distraction in the digital era and set yourself up for a future of greater happiness and well-being in the long run. Know your stats.

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 20, 2022

So, the authors of the book, Your First Leadership Job , recommend you hold getting-to-know-you conversations with each of your direct reports. Ask these six open-ended questions. How do you cope with or relieve stress? Let each team member know the purpose of the meeting in advance. The content of your work?

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Eric Jacobson

AUGUST 27, 2021

Leave it to leadership and communications expert, David Grossman , to decide to write a book called, Heart First, Lasting Leadership Lessons From A Year That Changed Everything. It’s a book you’ll want to read and then refer to time after time. And, if you read only one leadership book this year, make it this one.

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Career Advancement

JULY 19, 2021

Take classes, and read books and articles by leading experts. Here are a few ways to do that: Use open body language, make eye contact, and smile. Develop techniques for managing your own emotions, too. Practice a meditation technique or another stress-relieving exercise that helps you feel more grounded and capable.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

I’m pleased to present another chapter from my “More Human” book manuscript. It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. The Leadership File And The Spreadsheet Assassin.

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2020

The following 10 leadership and business book authors recently answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. Research points out that while nearly half the population is introverted, extroverts hold the majority of leadership roles. The following is a guest piece by Kate Rodriguez.

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Skip Prichard

MAY 15, 2024

This is where Karin Hurt and David Dye step in with their insightful book, Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict: What to Say Next to De-Stress the Workday, Build Collaboration and Calm Difficult Customers. Dealing with a micro-managing boss. Conflict is inevitable. It’s human instinct.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2020

In this state, the person is relaxed and open, and new neural pathways form in the brain “paving the way for new learning, and sustained behavioral change to occur.”. For sustained learning to occur, it is important that coaches manage the emotional flow of the coaching process. It means listening more.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A KEY PREDICTOR of entrepreneurial success is a leader’s ability to manage relationships with investors, employees, and customers. In our book Entrepreneurial Negotiation , we explain that the best way to diffuse negative emotions is to prevent them from escalating in the first place. Relationships are negotiations. We all negotiate.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 8, 2024

” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The senior management team declined. Managers needed to take more leadership and empower people. As Yogi Berra would say, “It was Deja vu all over again.”

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Eric Jacobson

DECEMBER 29, 2022

So, the authors of the book, Your First Leadership Job , recommend you hold getting-to-know-you conversations with each of your direct reports. Ask these open-ended questions. How do you cope with or relieve stress? Let each team member know the purpose of the meeting in advance. The content of your work?

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 23, 2020

When we experience acute stress, our brains shut down in self-survival. The two key triggers of psychological stress are the perception that there is no control over present circumstances, and there is no way to predict what comes next. Control – Ask what routines they have created to manage their days. Creativity is paralyzed.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 1, 2016

I n episode 13 of the Answers From Leadership podcast, our guest is Sean Ackerman. He has over 25 years practicing business management in small privately owned companies to larger organizations. How did you get into leadership and become the kind of leader you are today? Part of my work and leadership experience was at Wal-Mart.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Not only did 2014 mark five years that I’ve been writing online for this blog, but this was also the year I finally added “author” to my list of credentials with the release of my first leadership book, “Leadership Vertigo”. Read more on this leadership insight here: Are You Creating Value Through Your Leadership?

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Lead from Within

JUNE 9, 2018

Over the next 90 days, you can build not only your business but also your personal leadership beyond what you may have thought possible. Find out what your personal leadership strengths are so you can make the most of them. Control stress. The best leaders are great risk takers, because they are open for opportunity.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The following 10 leadership and business book authors answered this question for me: Question: While we surely will find ourselves challenged by COVID-19 in the foreseeable future, what is the most important thing a leader can do as they lead their business/organization? and Ignite Your Leadership Expertise.

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Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

3 May Dear all, On a recent episode of the FT ’s Working It podcast, Ann Francke discussed how to turn around a toxic workplace culture and the importance of holding senior leadership to account. Evidence from around the world shows that countries with more highly trained public-sector managers also have better public services.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 28, 2021

Power is a dynamic present in all of our relationships and it’s one we need to properly manage to help our relationships develop to their fullest potential. In his book, The Power Paradox: How we gain and lose influence , author and U.C. Stories enhance the interests of others and reduce the stress of working in a group.

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