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Connection is key to help your team manage change When you have a clear picture of where you want to go but your team won’t come along as quickly as you want, it can feel like you’re trying to pull a car […]. MORE
Take responsibility to manage your team, even if it’s via video. … Continue reading → ManagingSince COVID-19 hit, I’ve been opening public zoom meetings for anyone to drop in and tell me what’s going on for them.… MORE
You’re working hard to manage your stress and create a sense of calm for your team. The post How to Manage Your Stress Without Frustrating Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Career & Learning executive development leading in crisis stress management MORE
“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. Talent identification and management begin with The Four P’s. A human capital management solution , for example, can have modules specifically geared toward optimizing your talent management practices. MORE
This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. And, in the weeks to come, stay tuned for some simple and applicable ideas for mental, relational and spiritual routines that can help you manage the load. MORE
How do you manage a strong, arrogant, slightly obnoxious high-performer? The post How to Manage a Strong, Arrogant, Slightly Obnoxious High-Performer appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well leadership managing difficult people performance management working with jerks MORE
Change Management LeadershipThis post is part of our 2017 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from Rebecca Henderson. I’m facing some changes in my life, some of which I perceive as bad, but some are good. It’s been said that the only person who likes change is a wet or soiled baby. I must confess, I’m a fan of the status quo, even when it’s got to go. Wet babies like change, but most of us are somewhat reluctant to accept, let alone embrace it. MORE
The concept of time management is outdated. You can’t manage time. You can manage life. Time managers aim to do as much as possible. Life managers concentrate on what they have done. Time management tools such as Google Calendar, Asana, Jira, Evernote, and Outlook are useless if you don’t know the main trick that makes such applications effective: self-discipline. Another life management tool and significant efficiency booster is a simple break. MORE
The post Managing Irrational Colleagues appeared first on Lead Change. When was the last time a colleague said something so ridiculously irrational that it made your jaw drop? A four-year study by LeadershipIQ.com found that 23 percent of CEOs were fired for denying reality , meaning refusing to recognize negative facts about his or her organization’s performance. We typically respond when people deny reality by confronting them with the facts and arguments. MORE
His company is eying him for promotion, because they want him to “rub off” on other project managers, whose results aren’t as stellar. In theory, a good project manager can become a good [.] Author information Leigh Steere Co-founder, Managing People Better, LLC—a management research firm/think tank. Sam’s team just delivered a complex project on-time, on-budget, and with impeccable quality. MORE
Middle managers lead in a precarious situation. The post One Crucial Skill the Best Middle Managers Master appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well communication executive communication middle managers MORE
Guest post from Beth Miller: We’ve all been challenged with at least one difficult person at work. Why do they have to be so rude, dismissive, abrasive, etc.? MORE
These changes are not just causing disruption to businesses, but are also becoming a big problem for the managers to face. Managers and their teams are feeling insecure, causing major health hazards. While AI and other technologies would bring in changes for the good of the mankind and improve our lives, like any other changes these also would leave its impact on people if not managed. The post How to Manage the Tsunami of Change appeared first on Lead Change. MORE
Are you someone who struggles managing conflict? I am not one who enjoys managing conflict. Bill holds a BS in Management, an MA in Leadership, and is an active member with the International Coaching Federation. Leadership Development Conflict Management Self Development workplace relationships Many leaders are uncomfortable when it comes to confrontation. Conflict resolution is one of the most difficult tasks leaders face. MORE
One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. Targets, management on result, and control remain the magic words. Roughly speaking, a network organization is about communities and community management, raising the question of how you build communities. Then the community managers. The post Community Management appeared first on Lead Change. MORE
They’re outstanding leaders in their own right, but both can be hit-or-miss when it comes to successfully managing teams. Team leaders are warned from day one: “No one likes to be micro-managed.” Rebecca and Jason heard this drumbeat loud and clear in the same management classes. What’s funny is both Rebecca and Jason think they’re doing a solid job avoiding micro-managing, but their teams too often feel otherwise. People don’t want to be micro-managed. MORE
No wonder that specialists and managers that have invested years gradually improving a process do not advocate nor gravitate toward abrupt change. As a consequence of this expectation, we live with accelerating change and drive the ability to manage and adopt it. Most larger organizations are not good at managing change. Management as practiced in larger organization is contrary to this kind of entrepreneurship. The post Is Innovation manageable? MORE
The post How to Manage the Most Difficult Stakeholders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Communication Project Management communication project management stakeholdersDifficult stakeholders are a chance to grow your influence You look at the phone and your heart sinks. It’s the night before you’re supposed to wrap up your assignment and brief the leadership team on what you’ve done. It’s Bruce, a charismatic […]. MORE
Manager as pooper scooper: Every manager has cleaned up the aftermath of a hothead’s outburst. Hotheads are a reality in organizational life. I’m not endorsing or encouraging hotheaded behaviors. MORE
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As part of our baseline assessments of every client, my team and I use Launchbox’s proprietary assessment tool, BRIDGEdex, to identify where the significant disconnects exist between millennials and managers—between employee expectations and what they are experiencing in the workplace. Despite all of these differences, we found managers’ top disconnects and frustrations with their millennials were strikingly similar across all companies regardless of location, size, or industry. MORE
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Combatting the impact of individuals’ cynicism, especially when exacerbated by an apparent lack of buy-in from middle management. A lack of ‘Why’ and ‘Can Do’ modeling, especially by leaders and managers. Uncertainty and confusion on the part of managers tasked with handling “sensitive material.” Developing a shared focus on becoming a “learning organisation” and actively managing its cultural change. MORE
A boss, who has no […] The post Managing Triggers In The Workplace appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. Everyone brings their inner children to work with them. Some unhealed parts of us left unattended, however, bleed into our emotions and can affect our behavior. MORE
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Long-nosed managers sniff around in everyone’s business. Short-nosed managers seem disinterested, aloof, and uncaring. How long should a manager’s nose be? My preference: I preferred managers with short… Continue reading → Communication Managing Management MORE
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The post Company Asset Management appeared first on Lead Change. For small and large businesses to thrive, they must have inventory. Also, they need long-term investment that is used to produce income. Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year. MORE
In a recent leadership development program, we talked about “manager soul loss” – the isolation, bitterness, and despair that seeps into many leaders’ hearts. The post How Managers Can Reclaim Their Lost Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well burnout leadership losing your soul managementWe share the stages of soul loss and symptoms to look out for to help leaders identify and prevent them […]. MORE
I make sure my coaching clients have the tools they need to manage their anxiety because left unchecked, it can do great damage to their decision-making ability and overall effectiveness. Instead, acknowledge your anxiety so you can begin to address it and manage it. MORE
M INTZBERG’S 20th book, Bedtime Stories for Managers , is a thought-provoking page-turner. (In The theme running through most is that managers/leaders need to get out from behind their desks and see the world from the perspective of their employees and customers. To this end, he dedicates the book to “all those managers who eat the scrambled eggs to help their organization work like a cow.” Management is not eating the eggs. Management MORE
“Management isn’t doing—it’s seeing that it gets done.” Belker, The First-Time Manager. Tons of information is accessible on the internet on mistakes that first-time managers make. Enough literature is available on developing new skills by new managers. Here are key skills that the first-time managers need: Listening skills. First-time supervisors are individual contributors promoted as managers. The boss can also coach the new manager. MORE
In those cases, in my opinion, the best we can hope for is to manage the conflict, so we can lessen its potential for destruction. Experts tell us six courses of action exist for managing or settling conflict: avoidance. The post Using Curiosity to Manage Conflict appeared first on Lead Change. There’s that old saying that two things in life are inevitable, and they’re death and taxes. I think several other items can be added to that list, and one of them is conflict. MORE
Leadership Recent Posts behaviour communication crisis management leadership obstaclesThere’s little question that our world has never experienced a global crisis like that of the current COVID-19 pandemic. MORE
Many years of working as a management consultant, coach and mentor tell me the exact opposite is often the case. The answer, simply put, is to structure your conversation using many of the excellent, tried and tested tools that exist in the leadership, management and business development archives. Not applying the SCARF principles and practices can lead to a series of manager missteps, and these can, in many cases, be easily avoided or remedied. MORE
” Next time you are making a people management decision, stop and take a critical look at how biases may be informing your choices. Workplace Issues diversity equality HR Human Resources Leadership managing people people management racism Do you think you are open-minded, unbiased, and free of racism? Let me challenge you. It is human nature to categorize people. This person is like me; that person is different from me. Committed to the job, not committed. MORE
The post Beware Cargo Cult Management appeared first on Lead Change. During World War II, the Allied Forces established supply bases in airfields on many islands in the South Pacific. The residents of those islands had never seen airplanes, or canned food, or many other things that the military uses to support operations. But they were intelligent people and they observed what the military people did to make all those goods show up. This is what they saw. MORE
I begin by reassuring them that time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress. If a deadline you’ve set was arbitrary, you might ask your boss or client if you can change it to something that feels more manageable. MORE
I need to learn to manage my time better. Yet ironically, none of us can learn to manage time. What you can do, however, is manage your energy. So here are my five tips for managing your energy levels so that you can become as productive as possible each and every day, and so get more done in less time. The post 5 Ways To Manage Your Energy Levels appeared first on Lead Change. No one doubts that we live in a world that is moving at lightning pace. MORE
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AUGUST 8, 2019
One of the largest barriers in several organizations is that many managers still tend to think using hierarchical paradigms. Targets, management on result, and control remain the magic words. Roughly speaking, a network organization is about communities and community management, raising the question of how you build communities. Then the community managers. The post Community Management appeared first on Lead Change.
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A boss, who has no […] The post Managing Triggers In The Workplace appeared first on Joseph Lalonde. Everyone brings their inner children to work with them. Some unhealed parts of us left unattended, however, bleed into our emotions and can affect our behavior.
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AUGUST 11, 2014
Are you someone who struggles managing conflict? I am not one who enjoys managing conflict. Bill holds a BS in Management, an MA in Leadership, and is an active member with the International Coaching Federation. Leadership Development Conflict Management Self Development workplace relationships Many leaders are uncomfortable when it comes to confrontation. Conflict resolution is one of the most difficult tasks leaders face.
Leadership Freak
JULY 17, 2020
Manager as pooper scooper: Every manager has cleaned up the aftermath of a hothead’s outburst. Hotheads are a reality in organizational life. I’m not endorsing or encouraging hotheaded behaviors.
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MAY 4, 2020
They’re outstanding leaders in their own right, but both can be hit-or-miss when it comes to successfully managing teams. Team leaders are warned from day one: “No one likes to be micro-managed.” Rebecca and Jason heard this drumbeat loud and clear in the same management classes. What’s funny is both Rebecca and Jason think they’re doing a solid job avoiding micro-managing, but their teams too often feel otherwise. People don’t want to be micro-managed.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 26, 2019
Many years of working as a management consultant, coach and mentor tell me the exact opposite is often the case. The answer, simply put, is to structure your conversation using many of the excellent, tried and tested tools that exist in the leadership, management and business development archives. Not applying the SCARF principles and practices can lead to a series of manager missteps, and these can, in many cases, be easily avoided or remedied.
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FEBRUARY 8, 2021
Middle managers lead in a precarious situation. The post One Crucial Skill the Best Middle Managers Master appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well communication executive communication middle managers
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FEBRUARY 24, 2020
I begin by reassuring them that time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress. If a deadline you’ve set was arbitrary, you might ask your boss or client if you can change it to something that feels more manageable.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 24, 2018
Combatting the impact of individuals’ cynicism, especially when exacerbated by an apparent lack of buy-in from middle management. A lack of ‘Why’ and ‘Can Do’ modeling, especially by leaders and managers. Uncertainty and confusion on the part of managers tasked with handling “sensitive material.” Developing a shared focus on becoming a “learning organisation” and actively managing its cultural change.
Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
The concept of time management is outdated. You can’t manage time. You can manage life. Time managers aim to do as much as possible. Life managers concentrate on what they have done. Time management tools such as Google Calendar, Asana, Jira, Evernote, and Outlook are useless if you don’t know the main trick that makes such applications effective: self-discipline. Another life management tool and significant efficiency booster is a simple break.
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DECEMBER 3, 2020
You’re working hard to manage your stress and create a sense of calm for your team. The post How to Manage Your Stress Without Frustrating Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Career & Learning executive development leading in crisis stress management
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
How do you manage a strong, arrogant, slightly obnoxious high-performer? The post How to Manage a Strong, Arrogant, Slightly Obnoxious High-Performer appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well leadership managing difficult people performance management working with jerks
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 22, 2014
” Next time you are making a people management decision, stop and take a critical look at how biases may be informing your choices. Workplace Issues diversity equality HR Human Resources Leadership managing people people management racism Do you think you are open-minded, unbiased, and free of racism? Let me challenge you. It is human nature to categorize people. This person is like me; that person is different from me. Committed to the job, not committed.
Career Advancement
SEPTEMBER 30, 2019
“Talent management deserves as much focus as financial capital management in corporations.” ~ Jack Welch One of the best ways to strengthen your company as a whole is to devote attention to developing your employee talent. Talent identification and management begin with The Four P’s. A human capital management solution , for example, can have modules specifically geared toward optimizing your talent management practices.
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 20, 2017
The post Beware Cargo Cult Management appeared first on Lead Change. During World War II, the Allied Forces established supply bases in airfields on many islands in the South Pacific. The residents of those islands had never seen airplanes, or canned food, or many other things that the military uses to support operations. But they were intelligent people and they observed what the military people did to make all those goods show up. This is what they saw.
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Lead Change Blog
JULY 24, 2014
His company is eying him for promotion, because they want him to “rub off” on other project managers, whose results aren’t as stellar. In theory, a good project manager can become a good [.] Author information Leigh Steere Co-founder, Managing People Better, LLC—a management research firm/think tank. Sam’s team just delivered a complex project on-time, on-budget, and with impeccable quality.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 8, 2019
M INTZBERG’S 20th book, Bedtime Stories for Managers , is a thought-provoking page-turner. (In The theme running through most is that managers/leaders need to get out from behind their desks and see the world from the perspective of their employees and customers. To this end, he dedicates the book to “all those managers who eat the scrambled eggs to help their organization work like a cow.” Management is not eating the eggs. Management
Next Level Blog
JUNE 24, 2020
This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. And, in the weeks to come, stay tuned for some simple and applicable ideas for mental, relational and spiritual routines that can help you manage the load.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 12, 2019
No wonder that specialists and managers that have invested years gradually improving a process do not advocate nor gravitate toward abrupt change. As a consequence of this expectation, we live with accelerating change and drive the ability to manage and adopt it. Most larger organizations are not good at managing change. Management as practiced in larger organization is contrary to this kind of entrepreneurship. The post Is Innovation manageable?
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Let's Grow Leaders
MAY 4, 2020
Connection is key to help your team manage change When you have a clear picture of where you want to go but your team won’t come along as quickly as you want, it can feel like you’re trying to pull a car […].
Leading in Context
JUNE 17, 2020
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Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
Guest post from Beth Miller: We’ve all been challenged with at least one difficult person at work. Why do they have to be so rude, dismissive, abrasive, etc.?
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016
As part of our baseline assessments of every client, my team and I use Launchbox’s proprietary assessment tool, BRIDGEdex, to identify where the significant disconnects exist between millennials and managers—between employee expectations and what they are experiencing in the workplace. Despite all of these differences, we found managers’ top disconnects and frustrations with their millennials were strikingly similar across all companies regardless of location, size, or industry.
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APRIL 18, 2018
“Management isn’t doing—it’s seeing that it gets done.” Belker, The First-Time Manager. Tons of information is accessible on the internet on mistakes that first-time managers make. Enough literature is available on developing new skills by new managers. Here are key skills that the first-time managers need: Listening skills. First-time supervisors are individual contributors promoted as managers. The boss can also coach the new manager.
Lead Change Blog
JANUARY 5, 2017
Change Management LeadershipThis post is part of our 2017 Lead Change Group Guest Blogger Series. Today we are pleased to share a post from Rebecca Henderson. I’m facing some changes in my life, some of which I perceive as bad, but some are good. It’s been said that the only person who likes change is a wet or soiled baby. I must confess, I’m a fan of the status quo, even when it’s got to go. Wet babies like change, but most of us are somewhat reluctant to accept, let alone embrace it.
Leadership Freak
MARCH 19, 2020
Take responsibility to manage your team, even if it’s via video. … Continue reading → ManagingSince COVID-19 hit, I’ve been opening public zoom meetings for anyone to drop in and tell me what’s going on for them.…
Lead Change Blog
NOVEMBER 12, 2018
In those cases, in my opinion, the best we can hope for is to manage the conflict, so we can lessen its potential for destruction. Experts tell us six courses of action exist for managing or settling conflict: avoidance. The post Using Curiosity to Manage Conflict appeared first on Lead Change. There’s that old saying that two things in life are inevitable, and they’re death and taxes. I think several other items can be added to that list, and one of them is conflict.
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In Paycor’s latest survey, more than 2,000 HR and Finance leaders told us about their plans for 2021. Download the survey for actionable insights and tips.
Leadership Freak
JULY 16, 2020
Long-nosed managers sniff around in everyone’s business. Short-nosed managers seem disinterested, aloof, and uncaring. How long should a manager’s nose be? My preference: I preferred managers with short… Continue reading → Communication Managing Management
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 13, 2019
The post Company Asset Management appeared first on Lead Change. For small and large businesses to thrive, they must have inventory. Also, they need long-term investment that is used to produce income. Computers, tools of the trade, vehicles, and buildings are the best examples of fixed assets. In a nutshell, a fixed asset is anything that a company buys intending to use for more than one year.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 1, 2019
In a recent leadership development program, we talked about “manager soul loss” – the isolation, bitterness, and despair that seeps into many leaders’ hearts. The post How Managers Can Reclaim Their Lost Soul appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Winning Well burnout leadership losing your soul managementWe share the stages of soul loss and symptoms to look out for to help leaders identify and prevent them […].
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 24, 2018
I need to learn to manage my time better. Yet ironically, none of us can learn to manage time. What you can do, however, is manage your energy. So here are my five tips for managing your energy levels so that you can become as productive as possible each and every day, and so get more done in less time. The post 5 Ways To Manage Your Energy Levels appeared first on Lead Change. No one doubts that we live in a world that is moving at lightning pace.
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I make sure my coaching clients have the tools they need to manage their anxiety because left unchecked, it can do great damage to their decision-making ability and overall effectiveness. Instead, acknowledge your anxiety so you can begin to address it and manage it.
Let's Grow Leaders
APRIL 11, 2019
The post How to Manage the Most Difficult Stakeholders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Communication Project Management communication project management stakeholdersDifficult stakeholders are a chance to grow your influence You look at the phone and your heart sinks. It’s the night before you’re supposed to wrap up your assignment and brief the leadership team on what you’ve done. It’s Bruce, a charismatic […].
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MARCH 17, 2020
Leadership Recent Posts behaviour communication crisis management leadership obstaclesThere’s little question that our world has never experienced a global crisis like that of the current COVID-19 pandemic.
Lead Change Blog
MAY 16, 2018
These changes are not just causing disruption to businesses, but are also becoming a big problem for the managers to face. Managers and their teams are feeling insecure, causing major health hazards. While AI and other technologies would bring in changes for the good of the mankind and improve our lives, like any other changes these also would leave its impact on people if not managed. The post How to Manage the Tsunami of Change appeared first on Lead Change.
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