Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In many corporate workplaces, the brains of the people working there are the biggest asset of the business. Meanwhile, stress, anxiety, and loss of engagement at work are major factors in modern work life and statistics are staggering in a negative direction. When you’re reactive, you get into the red zone and react from your autopilot.

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Lead from Within

APRIL 29, 2024

Studies show that high-urgency workplaces see a 40% drop in high-quality decision making. These statistics underscore a critical issue: the chronic sense of urgency in the workplace is not just a pressure point but a pervasive inhibitor of true productivity and well-being. Foster open and transparent communication within your team.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Leiter on the source of burnout: “We believe burnout is the result of a mismatch between employee and workplace. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Christina Maslach and Michael P.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2024

Keep these tips in mind , and you’ll be well on your way to finding a company culture that feels like home. Take initiative to find a great company culture that’s the right fit for you. You’re looking for a job, perhaps even your first “real” job out of school. What advice do you have #askingforafriend?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Their research also identified certain “invisible skills” going unnoticed in the workplace. Ironically, the ignored skills are some of the most necessary for productive conflict i n the workplace: empathy and compassion (27.4%), a sense of curiosity, (19.8%), and listening skills/emotional intelligence (15.4%). Silly, right?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2023

Stop Workplace Gossip from Stirring Up Conflict and Distracting Your Team I first heard this frustrating bit of workplace gossip from my wonderful, human-centered executive assistant back in my Verizon days. ” “Oh, do tell…” I wasn’t quite prepared for the absurdity of the workplace gossip that followed.

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Episode #232 – When issues or conversations come up in the workplace do you want to be responding not reacting? Despite having a desire to succeed, we are so accustomed to working hard to reach our goals and produce results in the workplace, that many of us sacrifice our deeper humanity. There’s more to it than that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 22, 2023

How to Know If You Should Stay or Go One of the heartbreaking findings in the World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Survey was the number of people who said if they were faced with this workplace conflict again, they would quit, or quit sooner. Is the workplace conflict impacting other areas of my life?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. The workplace and the business world are not all zero-sum games. The workplace and the business world are not all zero-sum games. There can be more than one winner, and a workplace of battling egos inevitably suffers in productivity.”.

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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 12, 2023

And, while I speak about Leadership and Workplace Culture, I realize that other topics are timely and meaningful based on an organization’s specific situation. In that follow-up zoom call, I try to be as helpful as possible in sharing any data I’ve collected from pre-event surveys or attendee interviews I use to prepare for their event.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2023

I am still grateful that they decided to trust me and be open about how they saw the situation!” – Male, 58, Denmark, World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration Survey The Most Important Courageous Conversation is With Yourself It can be tempting to avoid a courageous conversation at work. What do I want to happen because of what I say?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 23, 2023

When you understand the art and science of listening, you’ll master the missing half of communication―and create a more powerful impact in your workplace and beyond. How Leaders Listen 07:06 Listening is the willingness to have your Mind changed. Communication isn’t all about what you say. In short: it’s about how you listen.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 27, 2024

Empathy and Understanding : Be mindful of your colleagues’ diverse backgrounds and personal contexts. In the modern professional landscape, where remote work is increasingly common, mastering interpersonal skills is more critical than ever. Aim for precision and simplicity in your language to avoid misunderstandings.

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Tanveer Naseer

MARCH 8, 2023

Rising employee stress levels and employee burnout are becoming a worrisome trend in today’s workplaces. Click to continue reading Rising employee stress levels and employee burnout are becoming a worrisome trend in today’s workplaces. Obstacles leaders should be mindful of that can impede their efforts to create a well-being culture.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2023

You can lessen your frustration and help solve bad delegation by aligning expectations. Why Do I Even Try? Declan paced back and forth, fuming. “I I busted by ass to get this done. Made sure it was perfect and met every one of the project’s requirements. I met with my boss today and she blew it off. She’s a poster child for bad delegation.”

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Source: Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Source: Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

My mind rushes to the dozens (or more) times I’ve worked with teams facing similar challenges. Fred was proud of the human-centered workplace culture he had worked tirelessly to create. And yet, I know I’m guilty of this. I’m curious if you are too? Not to mention actually learning what’s REALLY going on.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

You’re better off entering the conversation in a calm state of mind. Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. This article gives you some practical tips for better influence and less stress. Sound familiar?

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Great Results Team Building

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The Gallup 2023 state of the workplace report found that organizations with high levels of employee engagement, a key indicator of a high-performing culture, are often led by self-aware leaders who understand their impact on others. The ability to cultivate awareness stands out as the most crucial trait for leaders to develop.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Michelle King in stressing that gender equality is not about fixing women, but fixing workplaces, says: “Gender equality is not about raising women up at the expense of men. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Clarity is key to better collaboration and more productive workplace conflict. Great teams know where they’re going, and need each other to be successful. Easy to say. Harder to do. Today in our “Great Teamwork Series”, we share 12 collaboration habits to help get (and keep) everyone on the same page.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 26, 2023

With that idea in mind, I thought this month would be a great one to hit on the best relationship books out there. The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging People by Gary Chapman: Gary Chapman wrote the bestseller The 5 Love Languages. February is the month of love. Business is both.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2023

With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are reevaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2023 curated just for you. Absolutely!

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The ability of the organizations, the workplace, and the workforce to transform themselves in response to these unprecedented changes will determine their survival success. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is disrupting the businesses and societies in a manner that is unseen before. The end result remains to be seen.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Someone asks you a direct question about confidential information. Maybe it’s a personnel matter. A sensitive business negotiation or a product launch. In all these scenarios, there are sound ethical reasons for the information to remain secure. If you tell the person what you know, you violate confidentiality. 1) “I protect sensitive information.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

You can encourage your employees to work out more by setting up a gym in the workplace. You can promote health and well-being in the workplace by getting preventive care for some of the common illnesses. Mindful Exercises. Mindfulness and well-being at work are very important. Encourage Employees to Work Out.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2023

via @DeckerComm Start Your New Leadership Role with the End in Mind by @MichaelDWatkins Why Teaching and Learning Must Be Two-Way Leadership is learning at all levels, or it is not leading. Insider Ted Van Dyk Can America overcome the recent political polarization and dysfunction? by @suzimcalpine Coaching: Sometimes Good Enough Is Enough!

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QAspire

MARCH 11, 2024

Having a calm mind that is focused on the outcome is our greatest asset when we are in conflict at workplace. In the podcase, William suggests three specific strategies to turn any workplace conflict into a constructive negotiation. Having done this a few times in conflict situations, I can vouch for this approach.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

How well we think, learn, and engage in the human tasks of the future depends on how well we manage and optimize what’s going on with our minds, brains, and bodies. Inner peace is important because in this state, you are better able to approach things with an open, nonjudgmental, and fearless mind. Ed Hess calls it Hyper-Learning.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Arrogance is often a sign of weakness, and people who display it create toxic workplaces and make decisions that put others at risk. But arrogant people ruin their chances by doing certain things: When you are arrogant, you tend to get stuck in a closed mind, which makes it less likely that you will search for new techniques and knowledge.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The answer is in learning to master your mind. Falk offers “proven step-by-step tools and approaches that will make it easier and less energy-consuming for you to master your mind and to think and act deliberately in your professional life.” N O MATTER WHAT you are doing, you can be motivated by the work you do. It is an inside job.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 10, 2023

Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Stress in the workplace affects family life, causing more stress in the family. I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Meaning is something you build into your life. The ingredients are there.

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HR Digest

JULY 24, 2023

Anxiety is a common mental health condition faced by many people, including those in the workplace. Understanding Workplace Anxiety Workplace anxiety is a type of anxiety that is related to work. Job Insecurity Job insecurity can also cause workplace anxiety. This can lead to anxiety and even burnout.

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Joseph Lalonde

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This blog post will discuss ways that you can become a great leader in your workplace. It’s important to set clear expectations for your employees so that everyone knows what is expected of them and how they should conduct themselves in the workplace. Work with Laborde premises liability lawyer to assure safety in the workplace.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 14, 2023

Click to continue reading Over the past several weeks, I’ve had the pleasure of delivering keynotes to several audiences on a wide range of issues leaders are grappling with today – from how to better navigate the current turbulent waters of change, to how leaders can create impact in a fast evolving and transforming workplace.

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CQ Net - Management skills for everyone!

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The ability of the organizations, the workplace, and the workforce to transform themselves in response to these unprecedented changes will determine their survival success. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is disrupting the businesses and societies in a manner that is unseen before. The end result remains to be seen.

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