Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 28, 2015

Most leaders mature (and yes, that’s me on the right). Be sure you’re helping your team outgrow their past. Most leaders mature. Anticipate maturity and watch it florish. And yet, often when someone has been with the company for a long time, it’s their old image that sticks. Little mistakes grow larger.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 17, 2021

A reader posted a comment asking if it’s realistic to expect to change the culture of large organizations, especially “mature ones with profound legacies and cultural liabilities.” It starts with strong and sustained leadership rippling out from the senior leadership team. Leadership team planning strategy session.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 22, 2019

Every organization and team has times where everyone is stretched, stress abounds, and even times where it seems things are going backwards for a while. Mature leaders have learned (often the hard way) that the way they respond in stress will directly impact the organization and everyone attempting to follow them. Steadfastness.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2021

Call a team meeting. Leading down- Learning about all of the staff is an excellent part of understanding how to serve your teams better. This allows the entire team to succeed and provides upper leaders with valuable resources. The qualities and attributes of leaders identified as 360 leaders include: Adaptability. Discernment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2023

It helps you to target your coaching and development efforts to what each person on your team most needs. Now you’ve matured into a high-performing, mature leader, but your well-meaning boss, who has known you from the beginning, can’t see the (Tom) you’ve become. You joined your company as a kid (Tommy).

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 21, 2015

7 Fundamentals For Building Real Trust with Your Team. ” -Golda Meir Your team looks to you for clues about whether to trust you. You can’t control everything, but the more solid your plan, the more apt your team will be to trust that you know what you’re doing. Trust Yourself. “Trust yourself.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2024

To effectively compensate your sales team, follow these five steps. First, companies should determine their go-to-market maturity and set goals accordingly. Next, they should assess their current performance, evaluate their teams, and finally, create a new plan that more closely resembles their compensation goals.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 25, 2022

Experience leading a large regional team. The position is for a mature and professional leader who will move towards your aspirations and find that right fulcrum in the balance to meet achievable goals. It’s likely your organization has access to mature development and talent tools to support your new best friend.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

This can be a big problem for a leader as he or she goes down the road building a team over the course of several years. They can mature. And build a better team. Unfortunately, most of the improvement occurs out of sight of his higher level bosses. People can change.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 8, 2021

Even for relatively-mature business people or organisational leads, it is not something they consider. Does your team thrive in your business ? Do you believe your team has the ability and desire for more responsibility? As a leader, are you focused on your personal growth , as well as the development of your team?

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Nathan Magnuson

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Or maybe another department set up a new process that inadvertently doubled the reporting requirements from your team – which you’re not staffed to accommodate. We’re all confronted with nuanced situations in the workplace from time to time that require maturity, discernment and emotional intelligence.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 19, 2021

One of the great leadership challenges is making the transition from subject matter expert (SME) to leading teams of SMEs. How do we want to attack this as a team?” But now the question becomes, “As I mature in leadership, can I move from ME to WE?”. Shift from “Me” to “We”. News Flash! I worked with a CEO who really gets this.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Older workers offer a wealth of experience, maturity, and a nuanced understanding of business dynamics that can be invaluable to any organization. Stability and Perspective: Older workers can bring stability to a team. This demographic shift means people work later in life, either by choice or necessity.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Kip Tindell, cofounder, chairman, and former CEO for The Container Store, notes that: “Someone who’s very mindful of their wake and has the mature and sobering understanding of how powerful [his or her] wake is. If you create a positive wake then it helps team members feel a sense of belonging. The Wake of Non-Verbal Communication.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

What they have done and are doing is to continue maturing as a leader. Here are 7 attributes of a maturing leader: Able to think strategically in the moment (I wrote a post about that HERE.). Most wouldn’t even consider themselves “experts” in the field of leadership. (I

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Lead from Within

MARCH 2, 2023

Here are some reasons why emotional intelligence matters in leadership: Emotional intelligence enables leaders to build strong relationships with their team. By understanding their emotional maturity. Leaders can increase morale, motivation, and productivity among team members.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

What they have done and are doing is to continue maturing as a leader. In fact, you can often spot a maturing leader. Here are 7 attributes of a maturing leader: Able to think strategically in the moment. In fact, they may get none, because the attention is shifted to the team — often to those who did the real work.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In this model, teams function more autonomously, guided by a shared purpose rather than a top-down directive. Preparing the Workforce for Virtual Reality: As virtual and augmented reality technologies mature, the possibility of working in a ‘metaverse’ is becoming more real.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

It is widely known that among the top determinants in a start-up’s success or failure is the executive team. One vaguely controversial, age-old discussion is around the numerical age and corresponding maturity of CEOs and how age, which translates to experience, can impact the trajectory and level of success of a company. .

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Ron Edmondson

AUGUST 15, 2016

Every organization and team has times where everyone is stretched, stress abounds, and even times where it seems things are going backwards for a while. Mature leaders know the way they respond in stress will directly impact the organization and everyone attempting to follow them. It could be a crisis or an exceptionally busy season.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Where Dan lost me was on point #4 – Teams Decide by Consensus. In recent months I have observed a decent amount of politically correct discourse on the topic of team building and equality. The gist of the argument seems to be that for teams to be productive, employees have to feel “empowered&# by having an equal voice.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 8, 2024

You can have the best systems – the best strategies – the best programs – and still struggle with the performance of a team. Knowing the difference between a systems problem and a people problem, and being mature enough to handle it, will make you a better leader. Sometimes it’s not a systems problem.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

This resource-intensive and time-consuming process put additional pressure on FinTech executives while leading highly diverse and remote teams. The diversity across markets results in a mixture of backgrounds of different belief systems, habits, and perceptions that govern the behavior of local team members.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Whether your team is just starting up, or has the battle scars of a team fighting for results, they need to find a way to talk about the behaviors getting in their way. I like to use this exercise early in a team’s formation to get folks talking about common experiences and appropriate remedies as early in the game as possible.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

Recognizing the leader without acknowledging the team. One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. “Joan” was a bit of a witch who had thrown all of us under the bus a few times to do what was right for her and her team. Wait, What? (A

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 7, 2022

Research from Colorado State University examined how decisions are made in teams and found that the way teams work together was crucial to successful outcomes, with those teams who spent more time both gathering and then examining data seeming to do better than those who followed their gut instinct. ” A measured approach.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

When offered in the spirit of improvement and shared success, constructive feedback cultivates an environment where team members feel valued, respected, and motivated to contribute their best. Providing Effective Feedback Giving team members feedback requires sensitivity, finesse, and purpose.

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Great Results Team Building

MAY 2, 2013

Team building activities are certainly entertaining and interactive, but they only become worthwhile and impactful if they are followed by debriefing questions. Debriefing questions are the part of your team building event where your facilitator helps your people to pull out their rabbits. Describe your experience – what happened?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Successful implementation happens when responsibility is decentralized and functional units are empowered.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 20, 2024

Yet, they often didn’t need to lead – until they matured. They aren’t the rule followers on the team. Strong-willed people can be the backbone of a team. What leader doesn’t want more people like that on their team? No one ever learned to lead them, so they struck out on their own. (Be

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 31, 2019

Whether I was coaching a bunch of energetic 5-year-old kids in tee-ball where we didn’t keep an official score of the game, or with older kids playing a practice game against one another or an opposing team, the kids always kept score of who was winning and losing. So how can leaders be fair and build trust with their team members?

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The process involved a handoff at various stages, with some teams involved throughout and others receiving ideas much later on. “If you already have a mature idea and realize that unique skills are needed to implement it, handing the idea off to someone with the requisite skills may be worth it,” the researchers explain.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 13, 2016

My team may or not be impacted. I see examples of pre-mature disclosure wreaking havoc all the time. At the same time, over-disclosure can send your team off the deep-end worrying about all kinds of issues for which they have no control. Does my team need this information to make informed decisions? Don’t share.

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HR Digest

APRIL 10, 2024

At Stash, she leads efforts to cultivate a culture of continuous improvement, adapting structures and incentives to inspire teams. I believe that in any good company, the best parts of its culture are an equal result of ideas trickling down from the board and ideas trickling up from the team—ideally it should come from both directions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

If you have a cocktail of the above going on, chances are you’re dealing with some degree of workplace bullying, or at the very least toxic management or bad team culture. But his boss thought I had made a mistake, and left me a scathing voicemail copying six other people on the team. He was really personal in the attacks.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 16, 2019

The scale of this split was emphasized in the latest version of the annual digital survey conducted by Deloitte and the MIT Sloan Management Review, which found that 80% of respondents in digitally mature businesses were able to successfully cultivate relationships with companies that supercharge their digital innovation.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 19, 2012

With maturity came realization that the worship of money is the root of all evil. With maturity came realization that power is not taken from a title, but granted with influence. With maturity came realization that the opinions of others mattered less than value in self and service to God. New Perspective. So please, grow up.

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