Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
T HINK back to the last difficult conversation you had. What happened? Maybe you lashed out, got defensive, dodged or overexplained; possibly you lied, got passive-aggressive, or completely shut down, unable to talk. Whatever the reaction, I want you to know that its normal. In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
How to Communicate Like a BossWith a Little Help from Your Pod Whales have a pretty cool way of navigating their world. They use echolocationsending out sound waves, listening to the echoes, and adjusting based on what they hear. But heres the key: they dont do it alone. They move in pods, supporting and protecting each other. They get better feedback because communication is a team sport.
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Coaching is harder when the coach is the boss. Open listening, courageous honesty, and not fixing are rare in conversations when one person has organizational authority. Frameworks provide clarity, consistency, and confidence in coaching relationships. Use four questions that align with the GROW model.
Rich Gee Group
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Ever wake up with that nagging feeling in your gut, like youve outgrown your current company? That youve squeezed all the juice out of this gig and theres just nothing left? Thats what I call your corporate half-life. Its that pivotal moment when you realize your time in a role, a team, or even an entire organization has hit its expiration date. You might still love some aspects of your jobthe free coffee, the friendly colleague next to youbut deep down, you know youre done.
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Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton As humans, we are flawed thinkers who easily fall victim to biases and traps. The biases and traps we so easily fall into reshape our thinking in ways that can lead us to make bad decisions. As you review the list of leadership traps below, think about how each can lead to unethical thinking and actions.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Michael Doctoroff on conflict: Conflicts, when properly controlled and resolved, can be a powerful tool for developing creative business plans and objectives. Without conflict, the organization would remain in a happy state of inactivity.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Episode 290: What if the secret to reducing stress at work wasnt in planning more but in responding better? Unexpected changes and challenges are inevitable in leadership. How you respond to them can either add to your stress or unlock new levels of creativity, influence, and problem-solving. This episode reveals how the principles of improv can help you embrace uncertainty and lead with confidence.
Rich Gee Group
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Listen to the interview. Lets talk reality here. Youve been at the same company for 15, 20, maybe 25 years. Thats awesome, right? Youve worked your way upclimbed each rung of the ladder through decades of promotions, salary bumps, cost-of-living increases, and a ton of sweat equity. But heres the cold, hard truth: youre not bulletproof. You might be a walking target.
Sales Wolf Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Are you experiencing Founder Mode? If you work for a founder-led company, it is almost a certainty that you are experiencing Founder Mode that intense, high-stakes mindset where the person at the top is laser-focused on scaling, optimizing, and eliminating roadblocks. Founder Mode manifests through a relentless push toward excellence, and if you do not understand how to operate in this environment, you will struggle.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
O RGANIZATIONAL teams determine overall performance, shape culture, drive growth, and deliver results or not. Todays teams face a new reality. Never before have they encountered the changes and challenges brought on them by remote, hybrid, and in-person work environments. Add in the emergence of AI and countless other workforce and societal trends, and its apparent that yesterdays approaches no longer apply to todays realities.
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Feeling bad isnt always bad. Stretching yourself creates uncertainty. Tough issues cause discomfort. Learning new skills calls for courage. The purpose of empathy is empowerment. Here are 5 ways to express empathy like a leader.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
When youre a senior executive, your success depends on influencing, aligning, and mobilizing others toward strategic goals. Yet, even at the highest levels, misalignment often arises due to differing motivations. How well do you truly understand the priorities driving your peers, board members, or senior team? And are your assumptions accurate? The best way to understand whats motivating someone is to engage them in a conversation that surfaces their goals, their ambitions, and their fears.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In the face of rapid change and disruption, organizations everywhere find themselves in a race to not only preserve their market share, but discover the next big opportunity that will given them the keys to future growth and innovation. And according to my guest in this episode, that opportunity can.
Lead from Within
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The greatest threat to your organization’s success isn’t your competitionit’s your leadership style driving top talent out the door. In my work coaching senior executives, I’ve documented a concerning pattern: leaders often remain blind to the behaviors that prompt their most valuable employees to quietly plan their exits. As I challenge C-suite executives through talent retention transformations, one truth remains constant: leadership behavior, not compensation, determin
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Great Results Team Building
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
The most talented employees in your organization have optionsand if youre not creating a workplace culture that keeps them engaged, they will leave. A great culture doesnt happen by accident; it requires deliberate effort and investment. Organizations that prioritize building a sticky culture one that retains top talent and inspires loyaltysee higher performance, lower turnover, and a more motivated workforce.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
people persecute joy out of life. How many people are busy and sad? How many are miserable while seeking the good life? Part of the problem is daily conversations that oppress joy. When life is miserable, words have something to do with it. Do you know the one rule for words?
Chartered Management Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The Economic Impact of Management Apprenticeships How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth cta?? --> --> Unlocking Economic Growth Through Management Apprenticeships Management apprenticeships are playing a crucial role in shaping the future workforce by boosting productivity, enhancing social mobility, and strengthening the economy.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 15, 2025
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Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
Frank Sonnenberg Online
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Have you ever thought of saying something but never got around to it? A compliment, a thank you, or an apology ? Maybe you were busy , had other things on your mind, or simply put it off for another day. Sadly, the moment passed, and the opportunity to tell that person was gone forever. But at least you had good intentions, right? Do you leave people wondering, “Why didn’t you tell me?
QAspire
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Charles Handy, the renowned Irish author and philosopher who shaped modern thinking on organizations and careers, passed away in mid-December 2024 at the age of 92. While his passing marks the close of a remarkable chapter in management thought, his insights remain as relevant as ever. Handy had a remarkable ability to anticipate shifts long before they unfolded.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Never make decisions until theres disagreement. A camel is a horse designed by consensus. Consensus distills dynamic options into dull decisions. Complex situations have many solutions. People arent thinking when everyone agrees. Consensus empowers obstructionists. You havent found the best decision when everyone agrees. You found the easiest decision.
Chartered Management Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The Economic Impact of Management Apprenticeships How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth cta?? --> --> Unlocking Economic Growth Through Management Apprenticeships Management apprenticeships are playing a crucial role in shaping the future workforce by boosting productivity, enhancing social mobility, and strengthening the economy.
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Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
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Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
Fear creates the gap between who you are and who you can be. Courage closes it, explains Margie Warrell, PhD , author of the new book, The Courage Gap: 5 Steps To Braver Action. To clarify, closing your courage gap is not about de-risking your life or sheltering from problemsnatural and human created. Rather, it is about bringing the bravest version of yourself to every situation, adds Dr.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Public debates on ageism usually highlight bias against older adults, with stereotypes casting them as slow, grumpy, and forgetful. But new research from Wharton reveals that the most negative attitudes are actually directed toward young adultsa phenomenon called “youngism.” In two large surveys of U.S. adults, researchers found that people held more positive views of older adults than younger ones, challenging the idea that age-related prejudice mainly affects older people.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Microsoft (MS) missed the Smartphone revolution. Windows operating system never got traction in the mobile sector. Zune Microsofts music player was a colossal failure. The launch of Xbox One required a retooling of their approach to gaming. They weren't learning fast enough. CEO Satya Nadella is building a learn-it-all mindset at Microsoft.
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Chartered Management Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Article: How I helped deliver a state-of-the-art e-sports facility Written by Dave Waller Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Richard Mortimer CMgr MCMI explains how, as the leader of the technical team behind a project to revamp the University of Staffordshires e-sports facilities, he implemented learnings from his Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship E-sports is big business these days.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
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Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
T he new book, How To Get Along With Anyone , by John Eliot and Jim Guinn , is the playbook for predicting and preventing conflict at work and at home. As you read the book, you will discover how to defuse any heated conflict by learning which of the five conflict styles you are and how to resolve even the most sensitive dispute with this must-listen guide.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
What exactly is digital stress? Existing research shows that digital stress comes from several sources related to the use of technology. These stressors can disrupt work, mental health, and overall performance. A study from the University of Colorado Boulders Leeds School of Business identifies five key sources of digital stress. First, employees face a constant flood of tasks and information from emails, notifications, and alerts.
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