Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2023 curated just for you. This book also provides a roadmap for leaders seeking to create community as they meet the coming challenges with dignity and grace. The Anxious Achiever is a book with a mission: to normalize anxiety and leadership.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When leaders have meaningful conversations with their employees, ask open questions, truly listen to them, and nip any toxicity (such as gossiping) in the bud, they are well on their way to fostering trust and building relationships. This will be instilled in their team if they are stressed, angry, or distracted.

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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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Taylorism Taylor Entrepreneur Open-book 302

Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Sean Glaze of Great Results Team Building shared The 3 Most Important Traits Teams Want in a New Manager. Learn 5 ways to manage your mind to better control your mouth. David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided Open-Ended Questions Enhance Employee Communication. Asking open-ended questions is a simple way to do that.

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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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Management How To Due Diligence Learning-by-Doing 133

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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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. The project team should include a project manager, some members of the target group (those people directly impacted by the changes), some members of the support group (people who can help the target group), and other influential people.

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Process Leadership Tips Open-book 279

Michael Lee Stallard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I highly recommend reading Stanford Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer’s recent books, Leadership B.S. You could read Professor Pfeffer’s books and become depressed, but I’m not. Connection, on the other hand, is a superpower that makes people smarter, happier, more productive, more resilient to cope with stress and healthier.

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Leadership Open-book Competitive Advantage Stress 253

Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

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.”. Close Your Open-Door Policy. Kruse stresses leading by example—taking responsibility for the change you want to see. “If Here they are: 1.

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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. One look at the child and it was clear he was a patient, which was likely causing an enormous amount of stress on the parents. His book, The Office is No Place for a Cattle Rancher!

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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. Perhaps it’s because as managers, we face a horde of challenges. Mid-level directors and managers don’t fare well either.

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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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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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Skills Emotional Intelligence Mentor Stress 156

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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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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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Despite this, many managers and leaders make the same mistake. According to a survey conducted by the employee engagement platform Achievers, 43% of respondents say their managers are OK in giving recognition, while one in five admit their managers are horrible in giving proper recognition.

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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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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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Tony Mayo

APRIL 5, 2010

Top Executive Coaching with Tony Mayo About Tony Mayo Newsletter Sign-up Sections Client Comments For Executive Coaches For Executives For Fun For Salespeople Quotes and Aphorisms Recommended Books Technology Tips Videos & Podcasts Popular Posts Twitter Log IX About Tony Mayo Truth or Consequences? –Philippe R. Popularity: 6% [ ?

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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. One example was a person Joan worked with – let’s call her Jane Doe. Jane saw policies and procedures as mere suggestions. P.S. Jane flourished.

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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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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 9, 2017

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 12, 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

MARCH 12, 2019

I began work as a management consultant and much of what I’d learnt was very quickly thrown out of the window. Remaining open and curious allows you to embrace unpredictable situations rather than being thrown off track by them. Fiona’s book, Defining You was published worldwide in 2018. Curiosity for Agility.

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Agility Leadership Open-book McKinsey 256

Chartered Management Institute

MAY 3, 2023

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. You can learn more in FE News. Enjoy the rest of your week.

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Policies Article Skills Learning-by-Doing 121

Michael Lee Stallard

MAY 11, 2020

What Do You Do With Your Stress? Research conducted by the Gallup Organization in March and April of 2020 found that 60% of Americans reported they were experiencing stress “a lot of the day,” up from 46% reporting significant stress in July-August 2019. What do you do with your stress and fear?

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Stress Report Crisis Competitive Advantage 195

Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 1, 2020

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? Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me a copy of the book. The content of your work?

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 5, 2019

Typically, it is the opening question in a conversation to assess how you are really doing. Practicing medicine these days is stressful. Still, knowing what we do about the impact of stress, we’re concerned for all those who run the risk of lacking sufficient social connections to maintain good health for themselves.

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P&L Stress Self-aware Human Needs 150

HR Digest

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Olver believes that addressing the myriad issues that come with people management is a complex task that requires the commitment of an entire organization’s leadership, not just the HR team. By prioritizing people management, company leaders can anticipate workplace issues and set themselves up for long-term success.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 2, 2019

Guest post from Dianna Booher: A reporter for Newsday called recently for a comment about his story on executive stress and the connection to email. Turn Off Email Alerts or Disable Automatic Retrieval In the UNC survey, 55 percent of the participants said they keep their email open either always (37 percent) or most of the time (18 percent).

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 5, 2021

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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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 17, 2018

Mediocre or poor leaders recruit only when there’s an unexpected, immediate opening that they must quickly fill. They manage a continuous pipeline of high-quality recruitment discussions. His most recent book is “ The Road to Excellence: 6 Leadership Strategies to Build a Bulletproof Business ”.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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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HR Digest

JULY 21, 2023

It refers to the ability to identify, understand, manage and harness one’s own emotions and those of others. It involves managing one’s emotions and learning how to adapt to different situations. Emotional intelligence influences how well employees interact with their colleagues, manage stress and navigate conflict.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2015

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. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Don’t Manage Time, Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits. Let’s Get Started.

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