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Coaching is a Participative Sport

Lead Change Blog

One of my biggest and hardest life, love, and leadership lessons was learning the power of seeking to understand and doing so before offering advice or solutions. I’d simply projected my thoughts, my perspective, into her situation. The post Coaching is a Participative Sport appeared first on Lead Change. What do you think?

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Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video)

Let's Grow Leaders

” Why is a Check for Understanding a Powerful Leadership Communication Best Practice? Of all the leadership communication techniques we share in our leadership programs , the check for understanding always rises to the top as one of the easiest to do, while having the fastest impact. Communication is a team sport.

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The Unspoken Role of Confidence in Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

Hewitt: Leadership is one of the most regularly used words in the world of business, and arguably one of the most important. Leadership is “the action of leading a group of people or an organisation”, and there are two important things to note: Firstly, leadership does not necessarily require an official title.

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Taking Risks: How to Make it Feel Safer (and Less Lonely) For Your Team to Try New Things

Let's Grow Leaders

Make Taking Risks a Team Sport Taking risks at work can feel remarkably lonely. This week on #AskingforaFriend I share practical approaches to making taking risks a team sport. In this video, I share three leadership best practices to help your team work together to strategize, analyze and execute appropriate risks.

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Leadership Lessons From A 200-Mile Ragnar Relay Race

Joseph Lalonde

I saw so many leadership lessons in the Ragnar Road Michigan relay that I participated in that I couldn’t resist writing an article about my time running. Leadership Lessons From A 200-Mile Ragnar Relay Race. Leadership is a rewarding experience, but it is also a challenging experience. Leadership doesn’t have to be.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

Potential – Interference = Performance I FIRST encountered this equation in the context of peak performance in the sports world. The more ambitious the project, the greater the obstacles. Her new book with co-author Tsun-Yan Hsieh is Positive Influence: The First and Last Mile of Leadership (World Scientific Publishing Company).

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7 Steps to Develop Young Leaders

Lead Change Blog

Leadership is a skill that can help individuals for the rest of their lives. Whether it’s progressing in your career or being the head of a family, leadership skills are very important. It is important to start learning leadership skills in your youth. Sports are a great way to teach confidence.