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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

Rationalizing : Leaning on pessimism to shield ourselves from taking chances, engaging in conflict, or doing other scary but potentially rewarding actions. Some coaching clients receive recipes to try to help them give more resonant praise, apply more skillful delegation, or approach a conflict constructively.

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Three Responses to Conflict

Lead Change Blog

Our stated topic this month is responding to conflict. We can’t avoid conflict. Conflict comes with purpose. Think of conflict like friction. When working with people, the more we work toward our chosen purpose, or our desired goals, the more possible and noticeable conflict becomes. Conflict is an outcome.

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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Bill Treasurer of Giant Leap Consulting contributed How to Resolve Team Conflicts When You’re Working From Home. Communication. With Words.

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How To Navigate Controversial Topics In The Workplace

Lead from Within

Any conversation has the potential to turn controversial at the workplace, but there are some topics that we know are likely to lead to controversy and disagreement: politics, religion, personal relationships, even family problems. Make sure managers and senior staff respect the views of others and know how to navigate conflict.

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How to Deal with Political Conflict at Work

Let's Grow Leaders

Navigate political conflict at work with a combination of clarity, connection, and curiosity When you think of talking with people at work who have different political beliefs, your first response might be like that of many people we’ve encountered as we wrote Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict : “Yeah, no.

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Leadership Team Dynamics: Culture Change Begins Here

The Practical Leader

We did a series of focus groups, interviews, and surveys within a division of a large company to help Chris, the division manager, determine why their culture wasn’t performing at the level he wanted. I then discussed all the research showing that an organization’s culture ripples out from the management team leading it.

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Is your Leadership Development Developing Leaders?

Great Leadership By Dan

I managed a national top-forty accounting and consulting firm (SS&G). Several of our initiatives set the industry standard for successful firm management. While it didn’t take long to weed out incompetence, we recognized that technical ability alone was not reason enough to promote professionals to managers.