Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Managers are relearning how to lead and support their teams. Managers are relearning how to lead and support their teams. Teams are figuring out how to build meaningful relationships and get work done. Closely followed by advice related to speaking up, talking about it, and addressing the problem head-on. “Be

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 4, 2023

Get Your Coworkers to Embrace Your Great Idea and Make a Bigger Impact “I went to my boss with a great idea, and she said, “Go see what your coworkers think.” ” They’re already so busy and overwhelmed, I’m finding it hard to get their attention. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. They look at the work they’re doing and ask “how can we” do this EVEN BETTER? How do we better leverage the strengths of every team member?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2022

Courageous questions are specific, vulnerable questions that get right to the root of the matter. Why Courageous Questions Matter. What makes a courageous question useful and how to craft your own). Why Courageous Questions Matter. What is a Courageous Question? This usually takes a while.”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

00:37 So today we’re talking about a question that came from one of Let’s Grow Leaders Asking For A Friend segments, which is something we do in our leadership development programs. And so please, if you have a question, I love to hear it. 02:41 Alright, so our question today came from an overwhelmed working manager.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

How to Help Your Boss Stop Wasting Time with Bad Delegation ( 02:07 ): A question of bad delegation? Alright, today’s question comes from a manager named Declan, and that is not Declan’s real name, but we’re going to use the name Declan here. So I asked, okay, what’d she say exactly? Why bother trying?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Just like a great Thanksgiving meal is nice, but not sufficient when it comes to letting your family know how grateful you are, it’s hard for a grand gesture to make up for week after week of feeling over-pressured and undervalued. Why 7 days? Because frequency matters. I don’t need much.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 2, 2023

The new year is a great time to talk about what you need at work. But, how do you ask for what you need, without appearing needy? Why Human Connection Matters: Do You Really Need a Best Friend at Work? Why It’s Harder Now. Technically, I spend all day talking with people. The benefits are tremendous.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Are you making the most of it? Negative self-talk only reinforces this. Dual Awareness is having an “awareness of both our external and internal environments and how they impact each other.” C HAOS and uncertainty are a part of life. Here’s the problem. Deliberate calm is about adaptability and self-mastery.

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

Is it just a hip way of saying we should talk to coworkers? There isn’t any real connection, as there is no interaction. So monolog means talking to coworkers. A dialog means talking with coworkers. Dialog isn’t a monolog, and it also isn’t allowing the other to make some noise. Sounds good, doesn’t it?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 23, 2021

In this episode, David shares a meaningful thank you and how you can encourage your people – even when you haven’t had a recent “win.” So yeah, you get a note like that. Why did it matter to her? So just a great example of a well done. ” Powerful Thank Yous. ( Thank you. (

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2021

Negative feedback that makes no sense.”. Because many managers lack the courage or know-how to give meaningful feedback and help their people grow, they default to useless negative feedback that isn’t just a waste of time—it’s painful and destructive. Three characteristics make performance feedback so destructive.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Morgan (a family friend who also happens to be a millennial) was practically screaming in frustration as we began our mentoring session, “Arghhh, Karin, I’m just so frustrated. They want me to do all this crap… none of it seems important, and it’s getting in the way of my real work.” Thank goodness.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. We happened to have a chaplain in attendance, so I asked her to say some words as well.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 15, 2020

To do that, you have to show how your market is big enough (a multi-billion dollar market) to support that kind of valuation. The real issue here is that if an entrepreneur comes in to a pitch and goes on and on about how they’re going to build a billion dollar company in just a few years, most investors eyes tend to glaze over.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Plus, if your team doesn’t respect you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there? . How do I gain their respect?” Why don’t they like you?” Of course, leadership is not about being liked.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Plus, if your team doesn’t like you, you’re not going to have the influence you need to make an impact. So, how do you gain respect, when your team’s just not there? . How do I gain better influence and connection. Why don’t they like you?” My first response was, “It depends.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Leaders tell you how critical it is to building a team. But what exactly is “trust” and exactly how do you get it? That is why there is no such thing as “soft skills.” If you cannot define what you are shooting for, how could you ever hit it? So, how should you define “trust”? Is it safe? What did I do?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 2, 2021

Read this post to learn how to fully be with people when interacting. Diana Peterson-More shared Words Matter: Make Communications Reflect Intentions. Diana explains: “ Words matter,” have been on the lips and fingertips of many. Real-life examples and suggestions are provided. Communication. Team Building.

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Tanveer Naseer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

That’s something that not all of us get to say, which is why I realized that it’s worth taking the time to share this important milestone here on my leadership blog. So what was this dream that came true for me? So I’m sure you can appreciate why this is definitely a memory-of-a-lifetime for me.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 20, 2019

I can’t count how many times I’ve heard business leaders, community leaders, experts, etc., talk on and on about servant leadership. It’s fascinating that we all talk about how much we value servant leaders, we want to be led by servant leaders, and strive to become one. Here’s how.

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Skip Prichard

MARCH 1, 2021

” They drive people away; they make real communication impossible; they make people afraid to be their true selves, and they can poison an entire culture from the top down. In our last episode of “Aim Higher,” we talked about how to improve your approachability. ” -Skip Prichard.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 30, 2017

Over the past several weeks, there has been a recurring theme in the news of organizations being caught at their worst and with it, how often leaders drop the ball in owning up to these failures incurred by those they lead.

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Lead from Within

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

How you handle that situation is important—to your employee, to you, and ultimately to your entire team. Like many things, communicating expectations can be tricky when you’re unable to speak to people in person, so it’s important to be very clear and to make sure you’re understood. Manage how you give feedback.

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Tanveer Naseer

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

When it comes to improving the way we lead, there’s a number of approaches that have been championed by both leadership experts and researchers looking into understanding what makes someone a successful leader. One example of this is the idea that we need to be “more authentic” in our leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 21, 2015

But get out in real life, and what seems obvious and easy, suddenly becomes more difficult than securing funding for a corporate hover-craft. The sooner we talk about trust, why it works, and how it breaks down the better. That’s why I always start any emerging leader program by talking about trust.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2019

The correlation seems clear: we can learn a good portion from books, seminars, and podcasts, but seeing things work themselves out in real time gives such hefty knowledge it becomes ingrained in what we should do (or not do) in hard situations. There are countless ways to thank our past leaders for why we do things differently now.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If you can make some things less urgent, you’re being more honest with yourself and helping to create a better working environment for everyone else.” If you can make some things less urgent, you’re being more honest with yourself and helping to create a better working environment for everyone else.” S STRESS is a given in our lives.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

CEO coaches and authors John Baird and Edward Sullivan share that anyone can learn how to make an authentic connection with their teams in order to drive better outcomes. And their book provides readers clear and practical insights to help them succeed in making those connections.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

A few weeks ago, I was the invited guest on CBC Radio’s Daybreak where I shared advice on how to successfully achieve your goals for this year. Now, the start of a new year is typically when most of us make efforts to create goals for what we’d like to achieve over the course of the next 12 months.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

You can only say that once with real credibility. Do you trust them enougth to share real information (if you don’t trust them, they won’t trust you)? Yes, yes, talk about the plan, but also tell stories that reveal who you are as a leader to build deeper connection. They don’t understand why this matters.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Randy Conley shares how you can make competent and confident decisions in trusting others in, The 4-Point Test to Evaluate a Person’s Trustworthiness. Randy Conley shares how you can make competent and confident decisions in trusting others in, The 4-Point Test to Evaluate a Person’s Trustworthiness.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Leaders in every field want to be successful at what they do—but they don’t always know how to get there. Most people receive very little workplace recognition, so it’s vital that you recognize and reward people for their efforts at work. Every organization has problems, and people can get real negative real fast.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 23, 2024

I talk some about change in my book The Mythical Leader. Keep the “why” as simple and easy to understand as possible. You will have to repeat it often – like continually – so, you want it to be sticky enough for people to quickly grasp. People matter. Understand the real resistance.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 11, 2013

I remember this meeting oh so well. For a leader that was more human, believing so strongly in putting things in the right context, and focusing on the things that really matter, it was torture. So my emotions got the better of me at this meeting, and I was too “real” I said out loud what was on my mind.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” – Dwight D. Why is integrity such an important leadership trait? To help understand how leaders shape organizational behavior, we reached out to David M.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

Can they grasp real meaning in their work beyond the growing daily to do list. As we continue our series on the biggest mistakes team leaders make , we focus on the perils of under communicating the big picture. One mistake I see team leaders make is not connecting each person’s role to gaining/retaining customers.

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