Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. These stars perform across a wide variety of fields, but they all have something in common: when they are at work they know how to think clearly, stay focused, and shrug off setbacks under very high levels of stress. It's time to fight back.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Why Do I Even Try? What did she say?” She looked at what I’d done and frowned.” Pretty soon she says, ‘This isn’t what I wanted.’” “But it’s what you asked for!” It’s not what we need. We need to do this differently.” Why would he be satisfied with something that doesn’t do what we need it to do?”

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2023

by @artpetty Leaders Love Puzzles (for Better and for Worse) by @edbatista No Time for Career Development? Here are a selection of tweets from March 2023 that you will want to check out: Chronos or Kairos—Is it Your Moment for a Career Change? by @Julie_WG Self-Esteem: Why It's Career Rocket Fuel!

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 24, 2024

Play Video about Mentoring Secrets Thumbnail 01 Choose Your Champion: Self-Select Your Mentor The best mentoring relationships can come from self-identified pairs. You can help most with professional advice, when you know each other as whole persons. You can help most with professional advice, when you know each other as whole persons.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

If you want great results, you’ve got to figure out what works, be sure everyone knows it, and get them to do that too. The post Uncover the Best Kept Secrets: Get Your To Team Share Best Practices appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. And yet, most […].

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Robin Sharma on leadership roles: “Know your role. Everyone needs to behave like a leader—no matter what they do. Everyone needs to do their part to shape culture. Everyone is a leader. Source: The Greatness Guide: Powerful Secrets for Getting to World Class II. But not everyone is the same.”

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Leading Blog

MAY 9, 2023

G ERALD FORD was an inner-directed leader that gave him quiet strength. A leader with the courage to do what needed to be done despite the consequences. Never taking himself too seriously and wanting to do what was best for the country, he recruited people who knew more than he did about the issues he faced.

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Great Results Team Building

JULY 9, 2021

Is it easy to build a great team? To achieve these great results for your teams, there are some things that every leader should know. Team building in Atlanta can come in a number of great forms to help any team work well together. Here are the secrets that a great leader should know.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 29, 2024

Creative teams stay open to what’s possible and explore alternative perspectives. Some of the best teams we know are great because they stay curious and creative. They show up genuinely interested in other perspectives and what’s possible. What would happen if we did the opposite of our plan?

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

How have you been doing on your reading goals for the year? I want to help you curate great books to read throughout the year. Every month, we make a list of the leadership books that I think will help you become a better leader and person. You don’t want to miss what Wensil and Heath have to share in this great book.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 3, 2021

Perhaps then, it is the ability to provide the appropriate leadership qualities and skills at the appropriate time that s secret to being great. Source: Leading for Success: The Seven Sides to Great Leaders. The Polish philosopher Zygmunt Bauman has a great phrase for what I’m talking about: liquid modernity.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

With Christmas just around the corner, I thought it would be great to change up the book recommendations for the month of December. Instead of being specifically leadership-focused, these books will inspire and encourage leaders through the season of Advent and Christmas. 5 Christmas Books Leaders Should Read In December 2022.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. The Secret of Culture Change : How to Build Authentic Stories That Transform Your Organization by Manoel Amorim, Jay B. So how do companies succeed in this endeavor? We barely know how trust works. Champions aren't born. They're built.

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Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

One of the most difficult parts of any team leader’s job is to have positive and effective feedback conversations. Effective leaders and winning teammates “POINT” at the issue or behavior while still appreciating and encouraging the person! What is the effect their actions had on others on team members or on clients?

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Joseph Lalonde

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The movie stutters here and there but sets us up for a great new world as it appears The Gray Man world will be expanding. When Six, a CIA operative whose identity is known to no one, discovers there are dark agency secrets, his world changes. However, you know there’s more to the movie than action, intense thrills, and a story.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 20, 2021

As a leader, we are all too familiar with the struggle that often exists between the need to get things done (results) and the need to build and maintain relationships, with clients and team members. So how as a leader do we maximize the effectiveness of our time investing in our people. So how do you know what to do when?

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Joseph Lalonde

OCTOBER 16, 2022

That’s what I did and I encourage you to give it a go during this month. We have to alter our plans and figure out what to do next. Know that you can recover when plans don’t go your way. Know that you can recover when plans don’t go your way. What teamwork?!? It was a plan that failed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Skip level meetings help you connect “what to why,” reinforce the MIT (most important thing), help you build genuine relationships, give you a chance to ask strategic questions to learn what’s really going on, and most importantly, to build genuine relationships. Learn what’s up with the people in the room.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 16, 2022

But there’s one important skill that every leader needs to master—something that will benefit you no matter what your leadership style may be, what your specific role is or what field you’re working in. The skill of connecting is the secret sauce of great leadership. When you connect, you hear better.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

However, Marvel Studios had to change the storyline due to the passing of this great movie star. What’s answered in this article is what leadership lessons are there in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? Spend time on what matters: The movie opens with Shuri (Letitia Wright) scrambling in her high-tech lab.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and to help others accept the discomfort of disruptions to the status quo.”. Leaders are dealers in hope. Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. What helped?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Sports trainer and mindset expert to Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and others, Tim Grover (with Shari Wenk) provides a look at what it takes to perform at the highest levels in any field in Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness. When you know what to think, you’re ready to compete. Insecurity.

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Leading Blog

JULY 4, 2021

We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant. But he had little interest in abstract theories.

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Next Level Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Not surprising necessarily, but how do you do it? Not surprising necessarily, but how do you do it? Eight of them answered and, collectively, they’ve come up with a great list of steps to take for any leader who wants to build a team of go-to people. When I asked, “Which works better for you? Be Patient.

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Lead from Within

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

At the beginning of my career as a leadership coach, I became curious about what makes some teams better than others—why some teams facing significant challenges outperform those with more advantages. If you want people to thrive and excel, you have to figure out what motivates them. Successful leadership requires a similar approach.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Scientific research shows that human beings are not always good at evaluating the true qualities of leadership, and are even occasionally attracted to the arrogant confidence that some leaders exhibit. Because you think you know everything, you also stop growing further. Photo by Dragos Gontariu on Unsplash.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 19, 2020

Guest post from Alain Hunkins : Over the past two decades, I’ve worked with thousands of teams, and tens of thousands of leaders in twenty-five countries around the world. I’ve worked with every industry you can think of, as well as some industries you probably don’t know exist. So what separates great leaders from the rest?

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2019

“What do you do after you go home at night?” We talked over the day and the week, and how we were doing. That’s great. What makes the difference is what you do after you leave here.” If you only do one thing on this list, do this. Just do them.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2021

Ask any group of leaders about the most important leadership skills, and much of the discussion will focus on capabilities like strategic planning and budgeting. In my work as a coach to leaders around the world, I see the importance of these areas—but I also see that a leader’s humanity is the source of their most essential skills.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 11, 2014

What do you want to accomplish? What are the critical things you must accomplish, and what lofty opportunity would be great, though not necessary to attain? Must wins help us know what we must do! In addition to his writing, Mark loves speaking to leaders. How are you going to get there?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 9, 2019

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of meeting some pretty awesome managers who are also awesome leaders. But the difference between these really smart and driven managers and those that are operating in a less-then-optimal way is that they also do things that aren’t in their job description. Photo credit: 123rf.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2017

So what do the best managers know about disengaged employees? Today I share a story from one of the most disengaged times in my life, and how my leader helped me get through. The Secret to Overcoming Disengagement. The Secret to Overcoming Disengagement. –and then what? Do you roller skate?”

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

The great ones in any field make it look easy. The secret is lots of small actions that remove the need for a few heroic ones. The great supervisors spend time and effort on preventing problems and prompt action. Great team leaders touch base a lot. They listen to what’s said and notice what’s not said.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2017

Have you ever had a supervisor who congratulated you for doing something that you knew wasn’t praiseworthy, or worse, something you knew actually made things worse in the long run? Or have you seen a peer recognized for their “great work” only to find yourself secretly muttering “If they only knew?”

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Marcia shares: “ Achieving inner stillness is getting comfortable with the beautiful emptiness of not knowing. I say we should do our part to lessen the burdens carried by our fellow man. It’s not that difficult to do. Here’s how to do it. Brenda explains: “How do words become real? Communication.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 2, 2019

As a good more human leader, you’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, established a culture of accountability , and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. How do you really FEEL about this road you’re on? Yep, it’s gut check time.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 30, 2022

So what went wrong and what can leaders learn from the example? There are leadership lessons in Southwest Airline’s fall from grace. The company has been a servant-leadership darling since it’s inception and co-founder Herb Kelleher applied the principles for decades before stepping down as CEO in 2001.

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