The Center For Leadership Studies

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

The Power of Storytelling in Leadership: Engaging Your Audience When you’re engrossed in a good book or television series, it’s tempting to stay up late and read the next chapter or watch one more episode. Follow this step-by-step process: Create a hook: Engage your audience with an interesting opening statement.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 4, 2022

In some cases, the leaders in attendance were front-line managers, while in others, my audience consisted of senior level executives from the C-suite. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been giving keynotes to a wide range of leaders in different industries. But while the subject of these various keynotes was. Click to continue reading.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

” Another person I spoke with said, “My manager was all about us working remotely until he realized that he’s an extrovert and now had no one to talk to. Every Friday morning the most popular morning radio show in town hosted Live Audience Friday. I’d listened to their show for years.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2020

Arjan van Weele , a Professor of Purchasing and Supply Management living in the Netherlands , discusses his perspective on leadership competencies that apply for any leader, no matter where you are within your career journey. This broader audience (customers, employees, etc.) Interview Summary. is quick to judge and often unforgiving.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. Lesson: The point of a visual presentation is to get the audience to listen.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

But true reach is about expanding your audience while making a meaningful and enduring difference that has a lasting impact. 9:40 – The equation for influence and impact is REACH (expanding your audience plus lasting impact). Too many think it’s a question of numbers—the more people you can get in front of, the better.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 28, 2021

For most people, the sole idea of standing in front of an audience, presenting something, is terrifying. How you arrange them and which visuals you use can have a huge impact on the audience’s engagement, as well as the presenter’s success. Let’s see some tips for the visual elements in your presentation. Sum things up.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 22, 2022

I am looking forward to sharing insights to help human resource professionals increase employee retention during an upcoming virtual event hosted by the Anchorage Society for Human Resource Management. Audience: Open to both members and non-members of ASHRM. Looking for a training course to help you navigate this area?

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

As I conduct observation coaching with leaders, I watch for how their words resonate with their audience. This step requires the sender to know their audience and convey their message clearly and concisely to support understanding. L ANGUAGE matters. Does what they say induce fear? Excitement?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 24, 2012

In fact, The Journal article stated: “Deployed at the right moment and in the right setting, a well-chosen curse word can motivate a team, dissolve tension or win over an audience.” People identified as having anger management issues typically don’t reach their full potential without learning better skills.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 4, 2020

In my last article, I spoke about the importance of managing candidate relationships while searches are on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While many executive searches will be in a holding pattern, there will be significant hiring done at the manager and executive level for companies across a range of sectors.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 28, 2017

It’s a question we hear all the time from audience members […]. Let’s Grow Leaders Q&A In a recent post we invited you to send us your biggest leadership challenge. We received a great question from a healthcare leader in the United Kingdom.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 29, 2018

With employee disengagement remaining at very high levels in America and globally, and growth in significant new scientific findings that shed light on conditions necessary for human flourishing, it’s time to reconsider management theory and our approach to maximizing the performance of individuals and organizations. You May Also Enjoy: .

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 13, 2013

The audience was frozen as the great general fought to will words from the writing. After finishing his prepared words, he turned to a letter from a member of Congress and began to read to the skeptical crowd. Squinting at the small print and struggling to capture the words, he paused. Follow me on Twitter @BrainLayer.

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Leading Blog

JULY 12, 2021

Studies show that the better we perform a task, the worse we are at communicating how we managed to do it. We need it to be specific, improvement-focused, reflective of the audience we are trying to reach, and properly timed. Mentally rehearsing the specific actions we need to take in advance reliably elevates our performance. #10

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Capacity is a leader’s ability to contain, manage, or affect change in the evolving circumstances within their role. Assessments should rely on a feedback loop from leaders, managers, and coaches to evaluate and track progress. We have opted for manager/employee alignment tools.

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2020

Featuring commentary from the leaders themselves describing how they handled each situation, it helps managers better understand not just what emotional intelligence is, or how to measure it, or how it is linked to bottom-line results: it also shows how real leaders used their emotional intelligence to deal with real situations.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 12, 2019

Effective leaders use the right words combined with the right gestures to deliver powerful messages that inspire a performance from the intended audience. Learn How to Listen and Engage Your Audience. You can use bulleted points in a note to remind you of the ideas you wish to communicate to your audience. Always Prepare.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 31, 2024

By monitoring customer behaviors, preferences, and trends, a business can adjust its marketing efforts in real time to better meet the needs of its audience. The Importance of Brand Management Online Cultivating a robust online presence has become integral for businesses on the digital playground, the internet.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 25, 2021

Be clear about the target audiences and the outcomes you are seeking. Use an image, analogy, or a “word picture” to associate with something already familiar to the audience. . Will your spokespeople or other characters resonate appropriately with the real-life people in your audience? Purposeful. Well crafted.

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Leading Blog

JULY 23, 2021

Uncertainty is now a workplace norm, and quickly managing new circumstances is a must-have survival and success capability. The biggest challenge most leaders and managers face is deciding what to do when confronted with a new situation. Managing Uncertainty. Managing Me: Managing the Unknown.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

It means diving deep into your target audience, analyzing the competitive landscape, and keeping an eye on evolving economic trends. Optimization of Distribution Channels: Skills in refining and managing the channels through which your marketing content reaches customers.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

As part of our baseline assessments of every client, my team and I use Launchbox’s proprietary assessment tool, BRIDGEdex, to identify where the significant disconnects exist between millennials and managers—between employee expectations and what they are experiencing in the workplace. Lack of initiative and problem-solving. Lack of trust.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 10, 2019

Joyce, a manager at a fast-growing IT firm, had been tasked with finding the perfect motivational speaker for her company’s training seminar. Do you wish to increase productivity among your employees or to nurture leadership in your management team, for example? “Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.” ?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. Be sure the managers participating in your employee recognition program can offer a sincere celebration with no “yeah, buts.” If showing up is the best behavior you can find to recognize, keep looking.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 31, 2020

My main emphasis and message across to the audience were ensuring that people take accountability for how they lead. TO: Without a doubt, it would be managing change. What is your perspective on challenging someone on the importance of “leading and succeeding”? . TO: Thank you, Jim, for the question.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 17, 2024

Their spectrum of influence now transcends marketing to touch upon core aspects of business strategy, including product innovation, customer relationship management, corporate communications, and talent development. The post Transforming Customer Engagement: The CMO’s New Mandate appeared first on N2Growth.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Strategies are iteratively developed in the context of the company’s audience, challenges, and opportunities. Seizing the leadership opportunity and making the leadership difference in fact requires courage and also an ability to look beyond the every day and near-term tasks of basic management.… Getting Great People on Board.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Here are some of the ways to spread the knowledge: Set up a Knowledge Management System — All topics must be documented and stored in the knowledge management system as a reference for the future. Lunch and Learn — Lunch and learn is an effective way of sharing knowledge across a diverse audience.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2021

Everyone who wants to be successful listens to their target audience. Balance your desired outcomes with their expectations, your vision with their passion, your management with their muscle, and your budget with their cash. The challenge is knowing which ones to listen to—to which should I pay attention or seek out? Voices matter!

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Ellen Snyder is now managing Lead Change and is ready to support you in making your Lead Change experience seamless, fun, and productive. Want to reach our audience through sponsorship of the site? We also want to continue to grow interest in the content we create, attracting new readers. Want to make sure you don’t miss a post?

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

Organizational policies and practices, including performance management and compensation practices, create expectations about teamwork. The forms of coordination that matter the most are: maintaining situation awareness, providing back-up and support, learning and adapting, and managing team emotions and conflict. Coordination.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 23, 2024

What audiences do you most need to engage? Based on your lessons learned from 2023, what are your keep, start, and stop doing personal routines for self-management this year? What rocks will you drop or reduce to make room for the more important rocks? What are the personal leadership levers you want to use the most this year?

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Reality check: Great presenters have the mindset of a great Sales Manager. Just ask the Sales Manager. For instance, just because your audience loved your design of your slides last week, doesn’t mean this next group will join them in their adoration. In addition, they are unaware of how to manage their weaknesses.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While many attributes are essential, a few key qualities truly stand out: Expertise in Customer Experience Strategy: A talent for designing and managing the overall client experience, with a knack for crafting strategies that meet and exceed customer expectations.

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Leading Blog

JULY 19, 2021

If you are seen as someone who has the organization’s and other people’s interests at heart, your words will be seen as less threatening, and you are more likely to get an audience. “If Managing the Message. Managing our emotions makes it easier to focus on others’ responses.”

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