Lead Change Blog

MARCH 6, 2017

Welcome to the March 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! Cory Rieken of the Development Dimensions International (DDI) contributed What Happens When Leaders Fail to Use Key Principles? Do you as a leader find it difficult at times to be bold or to awaken boldness in others? After all “The Universe”.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 10, 2014

If you’re just tuning in, I’ve been teaching an MBA course on Managing Difficult Employees and gave these “students” (read that, really smart working millennials with big jobs in our nation’s capital) “homework” to developing an approach to manage their difficult employee and to journal about it.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Welcome to the February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Development. The post February 2020 Leadership Development Carnival appeared first on Lead Change.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” It entails continuous fanatical attention, development, and nurturing, fanatical focus on the vital areas of improvement, fanatical about alignment, fanatical about follow-through, and fanatical about the why.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

What middle managers do is actually much more complex than what either executives or frontline workers do: They manage both up and down, and serve as translators in both directions. The people in the middle were the only ones who could connect the big goals at the top with the details at the bottom, and do so quickly.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 15, 2021

My favorite teacher pushed me to develop my gifts.”. Early in my career, my boss challenged me to speak up and be more of a leader in staff meetings. ”. They share their insights and ideas to help us grow and develop. A spiraling up effect occurs. “My Bottom line—are you providing the right C in the right amount?

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Remarkably, the most consistent area of incompetence pertains to developing leaders. Getting Soft The issue with leadership development is that there is too much emphasis on the hard skills (technical knowledge, teachable, easy to quantify) and not enough focus on the soft skills (interpersonal skills, subjective, harder to measure).

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

They take their cues from the situation, stepping up when needed, but when their stewardship is fulfilled, they step back and follow others with equal ease. While others wait for direction, Impact Players step up and lead.”. Source: Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 1, 2021

Whether it's the death of a friend, loss of a job, a bad break-up, or the isolation of Covid-19, those who manage to be where their feet are will grow, stretch and emerge stronger, smarter, and more prepared as we find peace and gratitude in the pause. The human spirit craves connection. Authenticity. We need to make our interactions count.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 24, 2019

And the bottom line is that trust is anything but soft. Customer satisfaction occurs when a companies products and services live up to brand promise thereby improving reputational value and trust. Customers are willing to speak up, organize, and boycott when their expectations aren’t met. What is trust?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

If you do not have the time or resources to develop everyone, you are not alone. 23:17 The top 10% and bottom 10% is not an assessment of the character of the person. If the criteria you are focusing on change, the top 10% and bottom 10% can swap very quickly. Do you want to bring peak performance to your organization?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Organizations have many walls that hamper culture, development, and operations. While we love our “bottom line” tangible measures of results, Beth Beutler of H.O.P.E. “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.” Culture and Teamwork. ” – Michael Jordan. Follow David.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2016

That’s why it’s vital for you to develop a Winning Well relationship with your assistant(s.) . Blend the bottom line with the human spirit. I owned up and made a commitment to making sure it didn’t happen again. Let’s Grow Leaders/ Winning Well has a team of several people who assist in the mission.

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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

DECEMBER 19, 2018

People show up with emotions that affect how they act. People have lives outside business that affect what they’re like when they show up. They come up with good ideas. People on your team will develop relationships with you and with each other. Your challenge is to help people grow and develop. Bottom Line.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In a previous post , I posited the seven things you as leader should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety , ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go. When what you seek is to build into others more than glorifying self you have developed a level of leadership maturity that values surrender over control.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When “our decision frames are set by others, and we forget to keep track of what options and factors we ignore, [we open] ourselves up to unnecessary risks and missed opportunities” and unsubstantiated fear and perspectives. The bottom line is that we are all dependent on others to some extent; it’s a fact of modern life.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

In 2022, he upped the ante, investing $10 billion in OpenAI to acquire just short of a majority stake. Innovation powerhouses don’t leave innovation up to chance. You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices. Doesn’t micromanaging and process smother creativity?

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

Lock up a good partner who thrives on being the best no. There are some amazing leadership development assessments to help you accomplish this goal. Develop executors. Unfortunately, many organizations come up short on their risk tolerance and make decisions that end up impacting morale and hurting the long-term bottom line.

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Joseph Lalonde

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

Protecting your business should always be one of your main priorities, but figuring out how to develop a full business security plan can often seem like a particularly tricky task. Figuring out how to develop a full business security plan has never been such a simple task!

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

According to a retrospective on his life published in The Independent , Marinho “insisted on working his way up from the bottom, learning all aspects of the business.” Rede Globo signed up 113 affiliated stations, extending its reach into every corner of Brazil—according to one analysis, it eventually covered 99.98

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2021

Anticipating is 90% bottom-up and only 10% top-down. Information, insights, and marketing intelligence must bubble up, not cascade down.”. Acknowledging fears must come first, before collective genius can ‘bubble up,’ instead of information just cascading down.” To anticipate, you need to make the hierarchy invisible.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This is our Development Gap.” The bottom half is comprised of 11 Reactive Tendencies. Also a Generative Tension or Strategic Intent must exist as leaders take responsibility for and establish a development agenda for themselves and their organization. How do you show up as a leader? We are often pushed to our limits.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Her Uncle John developed a face cream, and she began demonstrating it in high school. She would end up selling her $40 worth of Cosmetics.”. If you launch into the heart of the market, there’s always someone who will sell a similar product cheaper than you, and you have no way to go but down in what becomes a race to the bottom.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Bottom line, organizations are seeking to reconstitute themselves as a network of teams, ditching the traditional hierarchy. Leaders are at the bottom of the pyramid supporting those in the team above them and not the other way around. His new book is “Wake up and smell the coffee – the imperative of teams” [link]. Not really.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2021

Ask questions because if you do what everyone else is doing, you will end up like everyone else. Losers brace for impact and wonder how to clean up the mess. They gave it up. Start at the bottom and work your way up. Go back to the bottom and work your way up.” Fear shows up on its own.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 25, 2019

With all the emphasis on leadership development, I always find it interesting so many companies continue to struggle with being able to retain their best people. Ask any CEO if they have a process for retaining and developing talented people and they’ll quickly answer in the affirmative.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 18, 2017

Southeast Asia is one of the world’s fastest growing regions, yet nearly two-thirds of its executives say their organizations can’t develop leaders fast enough to capitalize on growth. How Do I Sign Up? The symposium is FREE.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 7, 2023

The bottom line : We don’t have to like a person to work with them, but we do have to have a level of respect for them. He’s the author of the award- winning bestseller The Respectful Leader: Seven Ways to Influence Without Intimidation and its follow-up release, Restoring Respect.

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Career Advancement

MAY 25, 2021

Research has shown that as leaders rise up in the ranks , their proficiency in nurturing talent declines rather than increases. Leaders should always be working to develop new leaders, helping their employees develop the skillsets that will allow them to effectively manage others. How can you develop your talent?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 18, 2019

Well, they were made up of interchangeable parts. They’re made up of unique human beings, not interchangeable parts. Give up control. Help them grow and develop. Children may pull up plants for fun. The Powers That Be may come up with an idea that threatens your productivity or morale. Bottom Line.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 31, 2014

It’s been almost 4 years now since my cable TV company was sold, and my wife and I packed up and moved from Stamford, Connecticut to Portland, Oregon. Are my principles of More Human Leadership up to this task? Can we lead a company that can lift up way, way more than just the bottom line?

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 12, 2019

For example, it’s not uncommon for companies to believe that improving the bottom line is more important that employee engagement or development. Picture the playground teeter-totter with one side up and the other down. A singular focus on metrics (side up) results in workplaces where employees aren’t fully engaged (side down).

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2011

Those of you more creative than I could likely come up with a much longer list, but I think this exercise makes the point that understanding other’s perceptions is a critical part of being an effective leader. The Politician : Let’s take a poll and then I’ll render my opinion as to how full or empty the glass is.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2021

It is a well-written story that takes us from his days as a student-athlete through his formative years working his way up in bars and restaurants from busboy to manager, to the wild ride founding and growing Texas Roadhouse into the international success it is today. His story is told in Made from Scratch. Most [leaders] are made.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 2, 2014

She’s tried everything: more recognition, contests, she even came in dressed as a superhero to try to get the team riled up. Each of these stunts worked for a day or so, but then the results returned to their normal mediocre state and the stress levels creeped right back up. Insatiable thirst for recognition.

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