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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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Casciaro and Lobo shared their extensive research across a wide array of industries which found that although managers SAY they prefer to work with competent over likeable people, in reality, they actually seek out and work with people they like, even when they’re less competent. Lower your jerky tolerance threshold.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

” “The last time I presented to senior management, I got so nervous I forgot what I was going to say.” Career & Learning Communication Energy & Engagement Results & Execution helping your team be more confident improving confidence' . “The last time I gave someone feedback they cried.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. Your career lags. You can’t help it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 30, 2014

Many leaders go through their career (certainly once they get to a higher level) believing that their station or title in their company validates that their perspective is somehow best, or more insightful. I believe strongly that helping people defend themselves against an imperfect system and regaining their power is vital.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 20, 2014

Your next promotion won’t happen until you “be the change” that those who have your career in their hands expect to see. brings us How to Stop Burning Emotional Energy. In this article, David shares a practical tool you can use to reduce and eliminate wasted change-related emotional energy. Jennifer V.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 19, 2014

They manage them like employees instead of connecting as humans. Do what you can to manage up and sideways to make your team’s job easier. Career & Learning Energy & Engagement frontline leaders HBR leadership mistakes mistakes team leaders' Always err on getting to know your team and how they roll.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

Ian McAllister, General Manager at Amazon, reports that one of his greatest challenges as a new manager was thinking too small. You have less energy to think about strategy. It also means less energy to consider the big picture threats facing your organization. 2- Failure to focus on strategy.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust. Interestingly, Gallup found that the most important element is career wellbeing. Career Wellbeing: You Like What You Do Every Day. “ My job and my manage r are the two strongest links to net thriving.”

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

I begin by reassuring them that time-management strategies like these ones can relieve a lot of their stress. Go through your to-do list with a fine-tooth comb, asking yourself if anything simply isn’t necessary or if you’re spending far too much time on it (think about email time management ). Weed out the nonessential tasks.

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Career Advancement

OCTOBER 21, 2019

He decided to reevaluate his time-management skills. Is procrastination negatively affecting your own life and career in these ways? When you’re procrastinating, you’re not managing time well. Stop procrastination in its tracks with this success formula: Motivation + Energy + Action = Results. Motivation generates energy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Every manager and team member will be more effective with greater skill in this arena. But, tackling the topic head on will save a lot of wasted time and emotional energy, for you, and your team, while preparing your team members for larger roles in the process. It’s not easy. 7 Ways to Help Your Team Deal With Ambiguity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. Your career lags. You can’t help it.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

With this post I’m pleased start a 5-part series that outlines 25 timeless leadership lessons – lessons that I’ve applied successfully during my 30+ year career as a leader and businessman. Practice Full Spectrum Management. Practice Full Spectrum Management. Teach Instead of Tell. Develop a Zen-Like Mantra.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Every ounce of energy they spend on a project is a gift. Gratitude is missing when…. Every action from every person on your team becomes a gift.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 8, 2021

“Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time and energy needed to develop yourself.” – Denis Waitley. You need to proactively help him develop a strategy for remaining marketable and valuable, helping him define a viable pathway for his career. Foster collaboration. Provide learning resources.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 2, 2020

In All In: Driven by Passion, Energy, and Purpose , he shares the values and beliefs, the ups and downs of his career, and the lessons he has taken from them. It helps us guard against energy vampires. But there is a difference between being an energy vampire and lacking confidence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2017

However, as you go through your career it changes. That realization came to light when someone recently asked me a question I had never really considered: Does engagement look different as a leader moves through his or her career? Over the course of a career, a leader’s primary focus often shifts. Judging Your Engagement.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2020

We’re changing jobs more than ever and pursuing multiple careers and projects simultaneously. Take a moment to consider how many jobs you’ve had and how many careers you’re yet to embark upon? Modern ways of working require us to consistently tap into our cognitive powers, creative energy, and collective genius.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Over-involved managers frustrate people all over the world, telling them what to do, slowing them down, and getting in the way. Interestingly, we hear an equally common frustration from these over-involved managers. This leads to a negative feedback loop where the manager causes some of the very outcomes that lead them to micromanage.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

” I’m thinking about the handful of managers I had over the years who were the epitome of a jerk at work — the bullies who crush courage with their toxic leadership behaviors or who seem to be lacking a moral compass. In Courageous Cultures , I share a story of a well-intentioned manager who was coming across as a bully.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

And yet during times of stress, ambiguity, and change , when you need your team to be THE MOST resourceful, some managers clamp down, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow their team down. Similarly, if even small decisions require multiple layers of approval, your team will lose energy to try new things. No fancy budget.

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Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

You will follow the impressive career journey of Lutoff-Perlo, from her stories as an ambitious young woman to first women President and CEO of Celebrity Cruises to Vice Chairman for External Affairs at Royal Caribbean Group. Failure is inevitable; it’s what we do with those “failures” that counts.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. Tommy’s boss saw that Tommy had freed up time and refocused his energies on what the manager needed from him, and told him, “I’ve been waiting for you to figure this out.”. These are just a few examples.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

For example, in “ Seven Ways to Sell Your Ideas to Management ,” Joel Garfinkle of the Career Advancement Blog shares how to present your ideas in order to get them implemented – a skill you need to master if you want to be an influential leader in your company. Management Issues. Need advice on a management issue?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You’ll want to watch the interview, particularly if you, or someone you care about, feel called to take on a new challenge, or are particularly stuck or stagnating in your career. The first decade of my career (and all my formal education) was about leadership development and communication. The S Curve of Employee Growth.

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QAspire

JULY 31, 2021

Managers are linchpins who have a big impact in building an organizational culture where people thrive. High-impact managers are those who are adept at driving high-level agendas without losing focus on small things (that are actually big things) that go on to define good leadership. However, this tends to be overlooked.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

If you want to aspire toward a career in leadership, work toward building and developing these characteristics. Great leaders have high energy. Leadership requires enormous drive, hard work, good stress-management skills, and enthusiasm. Here are the most essential traits that great leaders have. Great leaders have Integrity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

According to David Grossman of The Grossman Group great leaders don’t just manage employees; they make sure employees are motivated, engaged and inspired when coming to work. David Chaudron of Organized Change recalls that Traditional Management theory had managers dictating work and assigning tasks to workers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 15, 2024

In this podcast episode, Andre Martin discusses the importance of finding the right fit in your career and building a culture that supports employee motivation, engagement, and satisfaction. He emphasizes the need to reflect on values, goals, and ideal work environment before making career decisions.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How can you manage to do it all—without burning out? Over a five-year span, one of my clients in the biotechnology field kept moving up through the ranks, from manager to senior manager to VP. By doing so, you’ll make your workload more manageable. In many workplaces, employees receive assignments from multiple people.

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Career Advancement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

How can you manage to do it all—without burning out? Over a five-year span, one of my clients in the biotechnology field kept moving up through the ranks, from manager to senior manager to VP. By doing so, you’ll make your workload more manageable. In many workplaces, employees receive assignments from multiple people.

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Career Advancement

OCTOBER 12, 2020

How can you manage to do it all—without burning out? Over a five-year span, one of my clients in the biotechnology field kept moving up through the ranks, from manager to senior manager to VP. By doing so, you’ll make your workload more manageable. In many workplaces, employees receive assignments from multiple people.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 1, 2024

Effective academic leaders have distinct skills that enable them to efficiently manage and guide their teams, tackle complicated challenges, and promote innovation in the academic sector. Academic leaders must clearly articulate their vision, motivate and inspire others, and manage conflicts with diplomacy.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 16, 2020

For example, lead management becomes easier with software that streamlines the whole process. It’s time to start managing projects like the leader you are. Share the ones you have time and energy to implement—and the ones that could give you the broadest exposure. Contact him today to begin your career progression.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

From the aggressive rethinking of workload management, to introducing seasonal variation, to shifting your performance toward long-term quality, Slow Productivity provides a roadmap for escaping overload and arriving instead at a more timeless approach to pursuing meaningful accomplishment. But are these really our only choices?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Over time, this relentless pace can lead to burnout, diminishing their energy, creativity, and focus. You can make this a collaborative conversation by asking: Whats taking most of your time and energy? How can we adjust your workload or expectations to ensure you focus your energy where it matters most?

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