Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

No matter who you are or what you do, it’s important to surround yourself with people who can speak into your life, especially if you are looking to grow. A great mentor can teach and help perceive emerging problems, share how to grow from them, and guide you towards becoming both a better person and leader. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

If that sounds familiar, this article is for you. 8 Practical Ways to Be a Better Working Manager Set Clear Expectations for Your Team Relentlessly Prioritize Invest in Your Team Delegate Effectively Communicate Reliably Practice Rapid Accountability Lead Up Take Care of You 1. Ultimately, you only have time to do what matters most.

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Next Level Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When you satisfice, you accept an available option as “good enough.”. Is This Just My Version of Perfect? More and more of the leaders I’m working with are learning how to let go of their version of “perfect.” It probably won’t be the last. Instead, we need to do what economists call “satisficing.” Is It a 10 or a 2? –

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2022

How do you build a culture of feedback? Our job as leaders isn’t to be the smartest person in the room, it’s to help others become the best version of themselves. Our job as leaders isn’t to be the smartest person in the room, it’s to help others become the best version of themselves.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2023 curated just for you. Forget the old concepts of time management and the hustle culture of working until you burn out. Forget the old concepts of time management and the hustle culture of working until you burn out. Sound familiar?

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

While they’re not leading six-year-olds, in the emerging new normal of hybrid workplaces and lots of debate about return to the office policies, I’d argue that they need to be developing their own versions of lesson plans if they want their people to be engaged and enthusiastic. Short answer – they wouldn’t.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Reaching your full potential means becoming the best possible version of yourself. But you don’t have to be one of those people. You can reach your full potential if you set your mind to it and put in the effort required. How Can You Help Your Employees Reach Their Full Potential? Photo by fauxels.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2018

Has this ever happened to you? Watch the Stage Version of this Story and Key Insights Here The Very […]. The post The Very Best Secret to Holding Tough Conversations (with video) appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! We would love to hear from you in the comments. Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year.

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QAspire

JUNE 26, 2023

The best learning happens in the flow of work. I recently re-read the book “How to Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci” by Michael Gelb and realized how profoundly the book impacted my thinking about creativity, learning and well being back in time. Here are my key thoughts these 7 aspects: 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2023

Inspire Your Team By Isolating Habits and Behaviors Through “Confidence Bursts” What if you believe your strategy is achievable, but your team is skeptical if they can pull it off? You’ve set and reinforced clear expectations and clearly communicated “what” you need them to do and “why.”

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

I’m not in the camp of it’s all about your strengths and you should focus on finding roles that allow you to just optimize them. But, if all you focus on is “what you need to fix,” you’re missing a lot of the opportunities available to you by leveraging your strengths. Big mistake. Don’t get me wrong.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? I constantly feel guilty that I’m not doing enough for them, but if I let my work go, my results will suffer. ” In this episode, get eight practical ways to help you reduce the overwhelm and become a more effective working manager.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 8, 2017

So, every day you and I have a golden opportunity to be the leader we want to be – that best version of ourselves. Being that “best self” leader takes conscious effort, but it’s worth it. You’ll feel great, bring out the best in everyone around you, and make a greater impact in the world.

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”. ? But if you can identify where you’re wasting your time, it’s easier to eliminate the time wasters and fully take advantage of your time at work. Plus, practicing delegation allows you to become a better leader, so you can focus on the things that really matter.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Have you ever felt like this? You’ve worked hard to build your leadership brand, but the negative perceptions linger. You can improve your reputation and your leadership brand with this proactive approach. Put simply, your leadership brand is how others would describe you in one sentence. Admit when you screw up.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

But if you think about it, there’s a good chance that you’re a very different person than you were 10 years ago—and that means there’s an equally good chance that you’ll be a very different person in the future. Who you were may be a part of who you are and who you’re becoming, but it’s not the whole story or your destiny.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 26, 2022

Here’s what I notice about you,” she said. I’m not paying you to follow the room’s energy; I’m paying you to lead the room’s energy.”. I’m not paying you to follow the room’s energy; I’m paying you to lead the room’s energy.”. I took a deep breath and said, “Sure.”. When the room is high energy, you’re high energy.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Thus seems rational and is a version of trying to maximize what economists call expected utility —your expected well-being in the future. Darwin is looking at marriage from just what you can see from the outside—the outer life of marriage. You can’t really know the costs and benefits of a choice until you have experienced it.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 22, 2022

You may be great at growing a business, but if you aren’t willing to grow and change, you’ll never be an effective leader. You may be great at growing a business, but if you aren’t willing to grow and change, you’ll never be an effective leader. Personal development can help you harness your natural talents.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

It is routinely done in tech—Steve Jobs and Bill Gates copied and improved on Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s Alto computer to bring us the Macintosh and windows—but it is also done in with the best speeches, art, movies, music, and literature to discover what makes them so successful. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack London is copywork. “It

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 4, 2024

Finding the balance As a result, you tend to need to strike a balance between speed and the quality of the output in meeting your needs and particular style. For instance, the tools might give us a couple of versions and ask us to choose what we think is the best one. In other words, do we favor speed or style?

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Next Level Blog

MARCH 9, 2021

You may not have thought about it this way, but for the last year many of us have been on a version of what nutritionists call an elimination diet. As WebMD explains , “An elimination diet is a meal plan that avoids or removes certain foods or ingredients so you can find out what you might be sensitive to or allergic to.”

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Lead from Within

MAY 10, 2022

If you are constantly transferring your anger or frustration onto others, or if you’re having to apologize for blowing up at someone who hasn’t done anything wrong, you’re leading with displacement. You may have found yourself in situations where you blame others for your shortcomings, or attribute your unacceptable impulses to others.

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Lead from Within

MARCH 30, 2021

But if you speak to most successful leaders, you’ll discover that they’re constantly pushing themselves in new directions and learning new skills. They make personal development a priority—and if you aren’t doing the same, your leadership is not as effective as it could be. If you know you can develop and change, you surely will.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

How many have you read? The titles listed below—published in 2023—capture many of the key themes and trends organizations are wrestling with. In a time of great uncertainty, courage, empathy, love, and a passion to improve the status quo now and forever are required. These titles address how it can be done and how others are doing it.

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Next Level Blog

OCTOBER 5, 2021

For executives and managers, the default response is often a version of fight – to hammer on deadlines, drive for results, to lose patience with what they view as friction and pushback. what can you do to make sure you do? It wasn’t pay; it wasn’t remote working; it wasn’t even about the workload.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 29, 2021

If you can share what particular audiences need to know about plans and outcomes before they need to know it and give them plenty of time to think things through before they respond, even better. Occasionally, I get to work with an executive coaching client who’s exceptional at communicating with their colleagues.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 15, 2019

If you are able to link your personal and professional growth to the organisation, you are more likely to stay and participate at a higher level through increased commitment and loyalty. But the day you stop LEARNING is the day you stop EARNING! It’s the day when you lose your edge and stop being your best self.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Here the components that we’ve learned are important to have in our mix: Get Away If You Can – A change of scenery makes it a lot easier to relax and reflect. It should be close enough that it’s not a hassle to get to but far enough away that you can use the trip there as a time to transition from your everyday routines to the retreat itself.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 5, 2021

Which brings me to the question, “Who do you need to be this year?”. Later in this post, I’m going to share a process with you to answer and act on that question, but first, let me clarify it. By asking it, I’m not suggesting that you try to turn yourself into something you’re not.

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The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

You have to make the program apply to everyone, not just those who volunteer.”. The company introduced some changes to their mentoring programs, with the researchers testing two versions of the program. The company introduced some changes to their mentoring programs, with the researchers testing two versions of the program.

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Strategy Driven

APRIL 20, 2024

Do you ever wish your website could be found more easily online? In this blog, we’ll dive into the best practices for on-page SEO. You’ll learn how to optimize your website so that it plays nicely with search engines and much more. So, how do you conduct effective keyword research?

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2019

Did you know the power to change our world exists within all of us? What if you could learn how to be the best version of yourself every day? That makes it tough to consistently be the leader, parent, mate, colleague, friend, and person you truly want to be. The happy news is you can learn a new way!

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 25, 2023

Lead From Within: Leadership coaching is about unlocking a person’s potential to become the best version of themselves. #1 Here are some important ways I know I am helping my clients: Pointing out Blindspots: A leadership coach can help CEO’s identify blind spots. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 30, 2019

In doing so, you won’t stand out; people will struggle to pick you out among the countless others who mirror your behaviour and way of speaking about the industry. Don’t try and be someone else or have multiple versions of you. The best news? Embrace your authenticity. Start recording vlogs regularly.

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Modern Servant Leader

MARCH 17, 2020

Infographic : 9 Tips for Working Remotely (Large version here ). Are you new to working from home or working remote? Have you considered the challenges and special needs of your remote employees? You need a working space. Whether you have roommates or live alone, choose a space with the fewest possible distractions.

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