Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

But as I went to craft the talk, I found myself just staring at my computer, hopping on twitter, and finally finding time to take that run… as Steven Pressfield would say, I was deep into the resistance phase of the creativity process. I really resisted all the advice that well-meaning supporters gave me as I launched my business.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Resist the urge to let your competent players get away with bad behaviors. Career & Learning Energy & Engagement do they like me likable leaders' Have them help bridge and build relationships for those competent players with a more jerky edge. Lower your jerky tolerance threshold.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

Here is a selection of Posts from April 2024 that you will want to check out: Three Options to Help You Strengthen Your Feedback Skills by @artpetty Person Behind The Title via @LeadershipMain Be curious. Be Empathetic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

If it’s been a year or more since you experienced a significant change for yourself or your team, you might be missing out on great opportunities to build morale, build your career, and enjoy your work. But resisting natural, healthy change will prevent growth and stagnate your team. Your career lags. Your credibility suffers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2014

But then I would come to the convention and see how much everyone else was doing to build their speaking career, and I would get depressed thinking of all the things I should be doing. I couldn’t resist: “You might really enjoy my e-book on developing leadership in kids… it’s free. ” I asked. She replied.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Resist the urge to focus only on what everyone already knows. Career & Learning Communication dealing with ambiguity dealing with uncertainty leading your team through change' Know What You Collectively Know and What You Don’t. Chances are that you and your team, when you put your heads together, know more than you think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

Seek to understand, but resist the urge to judge. The team needs to know you care about them and their careers at least as much as you care about your own. Listen, and then Listen Some More. Hear the frustration and understand the root cause. Get to know the team as human beings. But be careful. Watch your facial expressions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It’s optimistic, encouraging, and full of opportunities to help you navigate your company, career, team, and life through the fog of disruption. 47:21 – The role of anti-fragility – how to make you, your team, and your organization more resistant to bumps and disruptions. Leading Through Disruption.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s not an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life, leadership, and your career. The books I mention in this episode are: How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Econom y by Jenny Odell. That’s playing The Long Game.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2014

If a leader assumes their formal authority and position are sufficient to lead, they will quickly run into resistance. Career & Learning big mistakes leadership mistakes mistakes' It’s true that a new leader has some credibility by virtue of their role. Relationship building is important for everyone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

Resist the urge to throw it all up on your slides. Career & Learning Communication communicating to executives giving presentations to executives managing up' A great, easy read to inspire better presentations is Get to the Point: How to Say What You Mean and Get What You Want. Overstuffed Slides. Santa did…just saying ;-).

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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. In my career I have observed that a lot of managers like to stay in the middle of a management “spectrum”. Be Ever the Statesman.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

” Developing Employees When They Resist You’re trying to do the right thing. How do you see your career evolving over the next few years?” By helping your team members develop—even when they’re resistant—you’re future-proofing their careers and your team’s success. “I’m Good. I Don’t Want to Be Developed.”

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The danger of all this is that, instead of recognizing how experimenting, failing, falling, and starting again (only smarter), is what equips us to become better tomorrow than we may have been today, weariness convinces us to resist change. The more we resist, the more we stagnate. The book has since sold 30 million copies.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Are you teaching your employees to resist change? Cultivate these five skillsets—part one, developing as a strategist by @artpetty Paul Giamatti: Master Your Craft By Reflecting On It from @JohnBaldoni Firing everyone from a previous administration says a lot about a CEO’s belief in their ability to lead. Let your brain play!

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Leading Blog

APRIL 14, 2020

Harvard Business School is an ideal training ground for intellectual humility: While all of you are extraordinarily smart, you have now spent two years in classes where you have inevitably learned from someone else in the room—and this is an attitude you should continue to exhibit throughout your careers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Resist the urge to label and box your talent and move on. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement helping managers become more strategic strategic thinking teach strategy' Managers can learn to be more strategic through understanding, exposure and challenge. It’s a win-win.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

If it’s been a year or more since you experienced a significant change for yourself or your team, you might be missing out on great opportunities to build morale, build your career, and enjoy your work. But resisting natural, healthy change will prevent growth and stagnate your team. Your career lags. Your credibility suffers.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

T HIRTY-NINE LEADERS were interviewed on subjects related to leadership and were assembled by Roger Dean Duncan into LeaderSHOP Volume 1: Workplace, Career, and Life Advice from Today’s Top Thought Leaders (not to be confused with the LeaderShop ). Even the best ideas will go nowhere if you don’t anticipate the potential resistance of others.

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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. There was one dark point in my career when I received a call once a quarter for two years, giving me my Reduction in Force (RIF) numbers. Practical Tips to Help You and Your Team Heal. I’ve been there.

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Kate Nasser

APRIL 30, 2023

Leaders, are you & your teams persistent or actually resistant to change? Latest from Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale The post Leadership: Persistence vs. Distorted Resistance to Change appeared first on KateNasser.com. It's easy when you can see more than just persistence or surrender.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Career issues may occur. 17:48 There is the possibility of resistance from managers because some are under the impression they have to see workers. Jack: so far, yes. 11:40 Karin: Are there any downsides? . 12:00 Jack: Yes. Teamwork, collaboration, and engagement can go down. 13:58 There are distractions from home as well (i.e.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For leaders facing resistance or a need for change, this episode offers actionable insights to create a more engaging and motivated environment. 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.

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Lead from Within

MAY 7, 2024

It creates an atmosphere where career advancement feels unjust and unattainable. Resistance to Change: Change is inevitable, but unfit leaders may resist it, clinging to outdated practices and processes. This resistance hampers innovation and growth, leaving the organization stuck in a time warp.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Momentum : How to Avoid Going in the Wrong Direction: Maximize Clarity, Manage Distractions, and Minimize Resistance by Sam Silverstein Momentum is magnetic. Whether you're a recent grad, a mid-career professional seeking change, or simply striving for continuous improvement, this book is your roadmap to personal and professional growth.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 11, 2017

Resist the Temptation to Seize Control When mistakes happen, is your instinct to exert greater control? But when mistakes happen, they resist the temptation to seize control. Hire Some People Who Can Replace You Your efforts to drive top performance are likely to accelerate your career growth. They don’t ignore mistakes.

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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2014

10 Reasons I Have Come To Admire Christian Senior Adults Who Resist Change by @BrianKDodd. 9 Career Lessons I Wish I’d Learned Sooner by Karin Hurt @letsgrowleaders. Today''s Challenge: Developing Leaders by @LeadersServe (Mark Miller). Leading Change – It’s Not About You by @paul_larue. Are Bosses Becoming Extinct? by @wallybock.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

To better understand the challenges of changing the mindset of employees at an organization, we should identify the factors causing this resistance to change. Only professionals with versatile careers will have the ability to orchestrate such complex projects and steer multiple high-ranking decision-makers in the right direction.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2021

Think back on your career. Where are we most likely to meet resistance? .” It’s human nature to remember a negative experience you had speaking up more than a positive one. This means an important step in gaining the confidence to speak up is to remember the times that you did speak up and it made a difference. E- Engaging.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

MAY 14, 2014

It’s also an expensive proposition if the individual is resistant to being coached. They have a good solid career ahead of them but may have some behaviors that require a change in order for them to be at their best. This takes a lot of forms: denial, resistance, blaming others.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2012

When you’re dealing with somebody’s career, you are also dealing with a person’s sense of power, ego, financial security, self-worth, and many other things people will do virtually anything to protect. Avoid office politics where you can, resist being political, but do everything you can to become politically savvy.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

All of us recognize that to develop in our careers we must push out of our comfort zone. It would impact my personal life and my career. Previous attempts to complete the integration had failed due to resistance from the company’s executives. It gave me visibility, which helped propel my career.

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Modern Servant Leader

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

The alternative of selfish focus on individual careers is all-too-well documented in failures. We fail to stand up and resist toxic leadership when we see it. Without service to stakeholders as the primary goal of a leader, organizations fail. This, in essence, is what most leadership books boil down to. No, I’m not naive.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 30, 2024

This process helps organizations align their current and future business goals, promotes employee career development, and ensures smooth leadership transitions. Open communication helps mitigate any potential resistance, build trust, and encourage feedback and discussions.

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 26, 2021

At a time when the careers of many of us are in significant doubt due to the uncertain economic circumstances posed by Covid-19, the ability to successfully transition from job to job, or even career to career, is hugely important so that we avoid the kind of career interruptions that are so harmful to our long-term success.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 24, 2012

Few things can change the course of a project, career, company, category, or industry like successful efforts in innovation. Most leaders are quite skilled at embracing change – except when the focus of the change initiative happens to be on them. Turn Innovation Inward. Innovation continues to be a hot topic, and rightly so.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

But as more human leaders, we MUST resist that temptation in many, many circumstances. Indeed, these are short cuts on our leadership map, and early on in my career, I fell to temptation and tried just about all of them. Teaching by saying things only once. Assuming people know what you are thinking without telling them.

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