Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Bailey [00:00:00] – Setting the Stage for Resiliency Simon and host David Dye open the conversation with a powerful idea: people are learning how to be resilient by watching their leaders. Building resiliency means focusing on your purpose and priorities rather than trying to manage how others may feel about your decisions. [00:41:08]

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Theyre mentally tallying how much money they need to save before the next quarterly review. Theyre wondering how to keep their boss happy and avoid getting grilled in the next exec meeting. Theyre strategizing how to roll out a major company shift without sparking a mutiny. Performance pressure? Big, scary change?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Here’s how to reset performance expectations. You care about __ (your team, your boss, your co-workers, your career, not rocking the boat…) so you’ve looked the other way when the destructive behaviors started creeping in. Here’s how to have the conversation. You’ve been so nice.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Career advice you wish you had learned sooner. On this week’s episode of Asking for a Friend, I interviewed Kathryn Heath and Brenda Wensil , authors of I Wish I’d Known This , about the career advice they have after years of professional coaching. . . Career Advice: Have a posse and know your personal brand.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2025

How to Warm Up Your Relationship with an Icy, Difficult Boss You know the type: the difficult boss barely acknowledges you, keeps conversations strictly transactional, and never lets you see their human side. Try this simple yet powerful phrase: “I’m curious how this looks from your perspective.” Frustrating right?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2021

Support Your Team with Career Development Even When You’re Busy. You want to help your team with career development, but time is limited. How do you support your team? And, ensuring that every member of your team has an active career development plan as part of your talent strategy. What support do you need?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

But, how do you get others to see it? After all, your boss has bigger fish to fry than talking about your career. The post How to Demonstrate Your Leadership Potential Now appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You know you’ve got leadership potential. Particularly, now. But this crisis could go on for a while.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

41:13 – 42:18 | The Impact of Caring Leaders Phil recounts an experience with a former boss who canceled his entire afternoon to discuss Phil’s career goals. The post Unlocking Creativity: How to Cultivate a Fun Work Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Practical Steps to Address the Slump Now that weve looked at reasons for the downturn, heres how to address the situation in a way that supports your top performers and helps them find reclaim their mojo. Start with Curiosity Whatever is happening, you don’t have all the information.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

Spotting Problems at Work Detection is about how to spot problematic situations that might require you to intervene and deliver bad news. In my career, I have always taken the approach of raising the temperature slowly, and I wholeheartedly recommend that approach as you prepare to deliver bad news. Dont cross it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

And curiosity about how to approach your work differently. The Help-Seeker’s Script: How to Holler for a Helping Hand And, here are a few powerful phrases to help get past that feeling of overload by asking for help. The post Overloaded at Work: How to Ask For the Support You Need appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 9, 2021

For years, we’ve been asking this critical question in our leadership development programs: If you knew someone truly cared about you, your career, and the success of the team, would you want to hear difficult feedback, even if it was hard to hear? Ground yourself in connection and intention. But, practice builds confidence.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Either way, theyre reeling, and youre wondering how to help without overstepping or offering a bunch of empty clichs. Id love to hear: How have you shown up for a friend during a sudden layoff or career setback? See Also: After the Layoff: How to Help Your Team When It Just Got Smaller Should I Quit This Workplace Conflict?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

How do you truly measure the ROI of remote vs. in-person work? In this episode of Asking For a Friend, Jack Phillips, author of High-Impact Human Capital Strategy and Chairman of ROI Institute about how to calculate ROI for remote work vs. in-person work. 4:20 Reaction: How do people (employees and managers) see this situation?

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 2, 2020

10 Things to Look for in Your Live Online Leadership Development If your business is faced with a newly-remote workforce, you know how vital it is to have strong leaders in place to get everyone the support they need, nimbly respond to […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2022

My LinkedIn feed and email inbox are filled with news of layoffs and reorganizations causing unexpected career turbulence. Or, it could be you are worried about how to sustain momentum with a reduced staff. How to Lead Well After a Layoff or Downsizing. Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. I’ve been there.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Among the many accomplishments in his career, Jones was the producing partner for Michael Jackson’s three most successful albums, Off the Wall , Thriller , and Bad. As reported in an appreciation in the Wall Street Journal , “Throughout his own ever-morphing career, Jones maintained a fierce commitment to the art of music production.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

Early in my career my boss Jim, the Executive Vice President, took me to lunch at a popular spot for business meetings where the dining room was packed and bustling. How to Address Team Conflict Productively. The post How to Deal with Team Conflict appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Schedule the Finish.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 12, 2024

If you want to push your career and your organization forward, you need to get bold. How to Engineer a Hot Streak Science tells us that you are likely to experience a hot streak after a period of intense exploration. I NNOVATION is more about being bold than being disruptive. One True Fan You only need to deliver to one true fan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 15, 2024

This cycle escalates until someone storms off, slams a door, turns off their camera, or commits one of those “career-limiting activities,” like saying something they regret or heating fish in the breakroom microwave. See Also: How to Deal With a Moody Boss: Even a Dropper of F-Bombs What Do I Do if They Cry? Nothing resolves.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2022

Here are just a few examples that we’ve faced in our careers: Decreasing insurance benefits or eliminating positions. We would love to hear from you: how have you or another leader you respect navigated seeming no-win scenarios? The post How to Lead Through a No-Win Scenario appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The most resourceful leaders I know learned how to do more with less because they had to. The other day, one CEO we work with was using our developmental discussion planner to have a career conversation with a senior-level direct report (who we’ll call Kim). A few “How can we?” “How can we?”

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

She encourages women to treat their career like an investment portfolio with early deposits of bold moves, courageous actions, and informed risk. One thing I know for certain that I wish to impart to you: Brilliant careers are seldom built without bold moves ,” says Hunter Arscott. Instead of asking: “How do I balance?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

How to Build These Important Coworker Relationships. What do they need from you (how can you best help?). How can they best help you? How did you help one another? The post How to Build a Better Network of Peer Relationships appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Maybe they’re just wicked smart.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

Learning How to Be Less Negative Will Make You More Effective. If you often hear that you’re too negative, learning how to be less negative is a critical skill to master—and fast. If you often hear that you’re too negative, learning how to be less negative is a critical skill to master—and fast. Why It’s Hard to Hear.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2022

If money were no object and I could pick any career I wanted, I would love to be a professional. The post Compassionate Conversation Starters: How to Help Your Team Connect More Deeply appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. On weekends I love to __. Some of the people most important in my life are _.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

Have you ever noticed it’s not necessarily the times in your career that you worked the longest or hardest that led to better recognition? How to Give Your Team Better Executive Exposure. How to Prepare Your Successor For Success. Help them become leader teachers. Differentiate Performance.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

ON COMMUNICATION: 1 John Stoker- Difficult Conversations: 9 Tips to Improve Conversational Effectiveness Many people struggle with holding difficult conversations because they don’t know where to start or how to prepare. Julie Winkle Giulioni- Not Happy With Your Career? The same is true for your career.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Further, the approach taken early in a career can help or hinder in the future, and that goes for any field. from Austria in 1939 and embarked on a long career in the energy and chemicals industry with seven of his own scientific patents. In today's climate, truly anything is possible, and we need all the solutions we can create.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

They will learn how to inspire their organization to move mountains, improve their ability to listen, communicate and, when necessary, persuade. His unique method combines powerful insights with real-life examples, showing you how to break free from limiting beliefs and reach your most ambitious goals.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2023

Learning how to be a less negative leader is a critical skill to master and fast. How to be a less negative leader. As I said, I know because I’ve heard this feedback before in my career and relationships. The post How to Be a Less Negative Leader appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The post How to Manage Your Stress Without Frustrating Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. But now your team is looking at you and wondering if you get it. They think, “If she really understood what was happening here, she wouldn’t […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2024

The post How to Find More Joy at Work and Disrupt the Monotony appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. It could be preparing for a new role, or taking on a special project, or going deeper in the work you currently do. 4. __ Your turn. What advice do you have for someone looking for more joy at work?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Ultimately, The Entrepreneurial Mindset Advantage shows us how a subtle shift in our perspective can make a big difference in our lives. Momentum : How to Avoid Going in the Wrong Direction: Maximize Clarity, Manage Distractions, and Minimize Resistance by Sam Silverstein Momentum is magnetic.

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