Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 25, 2020

It Takes Clarity and Curiosity to Encourage Creative Thinking Businesses around the world face a changing normal, where it’s hard to say what things will look like in one year, much less six months from now. The post 7 Ways to Encourage Creative Thinking in Your Team appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2025

How can you ensure your leadership communication strategy cuts through the noise and actually sticks with your team? Creative ways to reinforce messages so they become second nature to your team. This episode introduces a leadership communication strategy to ensure your team internalizes what matters. [02:16]

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Invisible Coach by @toddordal Everyday Im Side-Hustlin: 5 Learnings from Creative Side Quests by Nick Hearne creative director at @onegreenbean The principle applies. What people do outside of work interests me far more than what they accomplish on the clock.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Leadership fears can significantly hinder an individual’s ability to lead effectively. When left unaddressed, these fears can lead to poor decision-making, stifled creativity, and a toxic work environment. This practice demystifies leadership decisions and fosters a culture of trust and accountability.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

by @workwithpassion - Alaina Love VIDEO from @artpetty: Leadership Caffeine 60-second leadership tips: frame your day for success How Really Good People Can Be Really Ineffective by @stopyourdrama - Marlene Chism 11 Ways to Build Trust by @JonGordon11 Cultural Monoxide via @LeadershipMain VIDEO from @artpetty: Leadership Caffeine 60-second tips: (..)

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Leading Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Josh Linkner on walking and creativity: Researchers isolated walking from all other factors to determine the impact of strolling on creativity. The results: creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when the person was walking compared to sitting. Source: Detach: Ditch Your Baggage to Live a More Fulfilling Life II.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

International crisis management specialist Ben Ramalingam writes in Upshift: Turning Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity , that between the two extremes is the “sweet spot” where we experience a healthy level of stress. But if we want to be creative, we have to learn to dodge the bullets.’” Upshifting is not a given.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 13, 2025

Source: Brave Together: Lead by Design, Spark Creativity, and Shape the Future with the Power of Co-Creation II. Joel Kurtzman on leadership: The leader is not separate from the group he or she leads. People running full speed toward their dreams know this feeling. But its fleeting.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Many people think leadership in the AI era is all about understanding technology or staying up to date with trends. The most successful leaders are those who embrace uniquely human skills—empathy, creativity, and adaptability. Consequently, leaders who thrive will use their creativity to think beyond the immediate problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 18, 2022

This conversation came up when we were looking at curriculum design for ongoing training for one of our long-term leadership development clients. The post Too Many Ideas: How To Help Your Team Stay Focused and Creative [VIDEO] appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. What do you think we should do?”

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Understanding the Digital Frontier’s Impact on Leadership Needs The rapid advancement of technology has created a landscape marked by constant change and disruption. Visionary Leadership: Exceptional executives have the foresight to anticipate industry shifts and envision how technology can transform business operations.

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 28, 2025

Traditional leadership approaches are destroying innovation potential at an alarming rate, with 76% of employees reporting their best ideas die in bureaucratic approval processes. The insights that follow reveal why conventional leadership approaches fail and what successful organizations do differently.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 8, 2024

When you set the expectation that appreciation is a team sport, you’re equipping your team with valuable habits they can transfer to future leadership roles. ” With those foundations in place, let’s give you a few of our favorite, creative peer recognition ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. How do you ask for the leadership support you need without looking needy? Is it appropriate to ask for this senior leadership support directly? Ask for exactly what you need.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Building a team with this mindset encourages a positive work environment where creativity flourishes. When team members are willing to take risks and stand up for their beliefs, it cultivates an atmosphere of innovation and creativity. She frequently speaks on compliance, leadership, and risk management.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

To foster this, you must cultivate a space where creativity and risk are encouraged and expected. That’s the essence of Catalyst Leadership—making decisions with the customer (or end-user) at the center of every strategy. It’s this kind of leadership that transforms companies, reinvents industries, and, ultimately, changes the world.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding these leadership pitfalls is essential for fostering a thriving workplace where top talent can excel and feel valued. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen how leadership behaviors impact team dynamics. Constant oversight and control erode autonomy and creativity, leading to frustration and disengagement.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

21 Letters on Life and Its Challenges I call that leadership: creating the conditions for good work, choosing the right people and setting them standards of achievement that they can understand, and rewarding them when they meet them. (By By things, I mean the buildings, information systems, or anything else physical.)

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Lead from Within

JANUARY 7, 2025

The gap in your leadership style is costing your organization millions in lost talent and unrealized potential.Recent Deloitte analysis reveals 82% of senior executives overestimate their leadership capabilities, while only 34% of their direct reports rate them as highly effective.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

That is why leadership is essentially the management of dilemmas, and why tolerance for ambiguitycoping with contradictionsis essential for leaders, and why appreciating the coexistence of opposites is crucial to the development of a different way of thinking. Source: Management of the Absurd: Paradoxes in Leadership II.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

His unique style is both entertaining and offers a novel way of learning about leadership and self-improvement. He is the founder and president of his own leadership consulting firm, Kaplan DeVries. He invented a 360 survey, the Leadership Versatility Index, that earned a patent for its unique way of assessing leaders.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This matters to effectiveness in the business domain, too, where such practices are often ignored or dismissed, even though they support ones centeredness and capacity to maintain focus, be creative, and make good decisions, even under great pressure. The bottom line: exercise is an important practice for effective leadership.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in September 2020. From distorting the past to limiting creativity to reducing happiness, experience can cause misperceptions and then reinforce them without our awareness. Leadership is a relationship, and humility is the foundation for all healthy relationships.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

Navigating the complexities of leadership and management styles requires more than conventional wisdom; it requires a deep understanding of how different management styles impact an organization. Ichak Adizes provides a valuable framework that categorizes leadership into four distinct styles, each with unique strengths.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Michael Doctoroff on conflict: Conflicts, when properly controlled and resolved, can be a powerful tool for developing creative business plans and objectives. Source: Leadership Blindspots: How Successful Leaders Identify and Overcome the Weaknesses That Matter * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business world is changing, and with it, the need for a new approach to leadership is growing. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial it is for future leaders to go beyond traditional management techniques. A strategic understanding of technology is vital for leadership success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2021. It makes us smarter and more creative, and it can even bring us closer together. The most crucial component of leadership, he writes, is the willingness to make decisions. Build your leadership library with these specials on over 28 titles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You’ll help your leadership when you can embrace and recognize the strengths that people bring and invest in that. How People Are Like Trees and Why That Will Help Your Leadership. Looking at this 400-year-old tree, I see a testament to human creativity and discipline, but it’s more than that.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. Furlong held senior global leadership roles at TD Securities, retiring in 2012 as vice chair.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

The importance of this role in high-performing organizations cannot be overstated: research from various organizational studies shows that effective operations leadership is one of the most reliable predictors of sustained performance and competitive advantage in business.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Importance of Effective Leadership in Nonprofits Effective leadership is vital for the success and sustainability of any organization – no less for nonprofit organizations. Strong leadership is invaluable to the success and impact of any organization, nonprofit or otherwise.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Those in leadership are often scared of losing their edge. Creativity and Productivity In our lives, we go off instinct, and one of the most popular ways to manage others off instinct is to micro-manage. Think about what might happen if you did the opposite. Once trust is established and a bond is formed, loyalty is close behind.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 30, 2021

How to reclaim your creativity, conquer busyness, do your best work, and be your best self. It’s time to reclaim your energy, creativity, and brilliance – it all starts by finding your minute to think. 3:55 – The importance of self-awareness and progress in your leadership development. A Minute to Think.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

an executive hears a presentation and immediately responds with questions, concerns, critiques and challenges, without a pause to consider the depth and breadth of work entailed, the long hours, and the creative thinking. Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Traditional qualities like decisiveness and charisma are no longer the sole markers of exceptional leadership. By offering personalized guidance and strategic insights, I help leaders harness these traits to transform their leadership approach and achieve greater impact. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2023

framework in Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Move When the Stakes Are High. Handling high-stakes, high-risk leadership challenges requires preparation and practice. Sometimes the situation calls for a wide view especially where creativity is called for. The M.O.V.E. At other times we need to take a narrow focus.

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