Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 26, 2024

Most employees don’t come to work hoping to screw up. Be sure they master that before moving on to the next development priority. She’s the hero, and the credit goes against my numbers and I still end up on progressive action. What to do instead: If you want your employees to hear your coaching, follow your standards.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2021

And you follow it up, with some more positive feedback. Want to do better than sandwich feedback, join us in our new open-enrollment leadership development program beginning this Fall. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? You start by telling them something great about their performance. See Also: What Do I Do If They Cry?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

A Forbes article in 2017 titled “If You Want To Be ‘CEO Material,’ Develop These 15 Traits,” created a laundry-list of traits needed to be a great CEO. We chose to address the following traits in this article: . As we grow and learn, our neural networks become more developed. Grit and courage . Decisiveness/judgment .

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Lead from Within

MARCH 4, 2024

Great leaders understand that developing leaders within their organization is essential for long-term success. Tailored development initiatives, reflecting employees’ roles, enhance retention and foster a culture of personalized learning. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. Imagine what would happen if every member of your team showed up 10% more compassionate, courageous, and curious this week. As a start, give your team deeper skills to … Speak up in meetings.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

But what do you do if your senior leader is not showing up as often or as supportive as you would like? If you’re looking for more executive leadership support, ask for what you need, be easy to help , and follow-through. I’d love for you to come up with your ideas on that. Follow through.

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Leading Blog

MAY 11, 2023

If you think you’re inherently bad (I am a failure), rather than a normal person who makes mistakes or bad decisions (I occasionally fail), you’ve essentially given up before even trying. It is a responsibility of management to make it possible for people to recognize and develop these human characteristics for themselves.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Collaboration (This is a chance to talk about when teamwork was at its very best) Of course, a good follow-up question is… what made these best-ofs so great? The natural follow-up conversation is to talk about how your team can continue to contribute in meaningful ways. Probes: In what areas have you developed?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs—for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy—with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

by @jamesstrock The Vice Presidential #Debate on October 1 May Be Milestone in Generational Transition 7 Destructive Leadership Myths That Will Ruin the Way You Lead by @LollyDaskal Encouragement is 51% of Leadership by @DanReiland 5 Expensive Personal Leadership Decisions That Are Worth More than the Cost by @EricGeiger 8 Uncaring Workplace Reasons (..)

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Now, as you help them grow from counting those visits to quality visits, you’ll have them analyze who they’re visiting, what they discuss on the visits, and whether or not they set up a next step. This is a good time to pause and reflect on your busy day: do you have common activities that take up far more time than the value they add?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 14, 2021

To begin to build your constellation, you have to be yourself and ask yourself the following questions: Who do you need to be around you to be your best? By doing so, you will make yourself an invaluable asset, a trusted resource for others that will outlast the gains from a quick LinkedIn follow.

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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. How likely are employees going to speak up under these conditions?

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Harvard Professor Paul Lawrence on making morally significant choices: “It is as much within our power to make choices that lead to the destruction of species as it is to make choices which keep us on the track of continued life and development. The problem crops up when our factual judgments become generalizations and personal attacks.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

I’ve got to follow up on everything or we miss deadlines. Let’s start with five steps to get things done and help your team develop a common sense of urgency. (02:00). “My team lacks urgency. I’m tired of babysitting. How can I ensure things get done on time?” ” Sound familiar?

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

People listen to what you have to say, and follow you, because they want to, not because they have to. In my new book, Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most , written with George Bradt, we provide the tools every leader needs to grow and develop into the leader that others want to follow.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

I am a HUGE proponent of showing up with genuine curiosity at work. The more experienced I am with something or someone, the harder it is to show up curious. Five Opportunities to Show Up with a Bit More Curiosity at Work. Sales are significantly up in your market month over month. I’m curious if you are too?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

We looked up and 90% of the managers had clustered around “prioritizing what matters most.” On my first overnight shift, I followed the procedures. But when I looked up, there was no one at the door. Feedback is a gift and to reap the full benefit of its value, follow these steps. But by the second night, I got sloppy.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

The following are 3 strategies to build inclusive teams: Align on values – focus on what we share ( common goals, work ethic, expectations, etc.). This philosophy applies to any team, on a court or in the boardroom, and a critical element in developing a winning team is inclusion.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

0:33 – We’re excited to announce (after many requests) our live-online OPEN ENROLLMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT program. 4:13 – Today’s question is a follow up to our last episode with Scott Mautz where we discussed Leading from the Middle. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership. Seats are limited.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 3, 2023

and advises him to “find the right leader—someone who has done what you want to do and follow the leader right away, get started, and don’t quit (“If you have to cross a minefield, it makes sense to follow someone who’s already crossed it.”).” You have to temporarily give things up to get to the next level.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Opening our minds up is also hard because it is a form of shifting our identity. Brad Stulberg developing rugged yet flexible boundaries: “If you rigidly dig in, hoping to stay the same and trying to insulate yourself from change, then you run the risk of falling apart. When we’re surrounded by similar beliefs, we’re rarely challenged.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A leader’s responsibilities include being a good role model, training others, keeping a good attitude, saying, ‘I will go first,’ volunteering for things outside your purview, being on time, rising with courageous, faith-filled affirmation, holding up your primary leader’s arms, and giving your best. And guess what happens?

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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. What kind of qualities and skills does the job require? Consequently, Senior leaders should make transforming the role of middle managers their top priority.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

The word active highlights the reality that market leaders rarely freeze up when faced with change; rather, they escalate tried-and-true methods that prove ineffective in a changed context. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Now, if William Goldman or Mike Nichols reads your work and suggests you do X to it, you might want to listen, but if you alter your work for every rejection, you’ll end up running in all different directions trying to please an imaginary audience. That’s probably not true. It can be damaging and destructive.”

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 28, 2021

I am sure we have all heard the leadership adage, never walk past a piece of trash on the grounds of your workplace because it sets a precedent for those working for you to follow. When those who report to you are willing to step up and take over, and the task is within their capability to do it well, let them.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

What follows is a lightly edited portion of Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview , released in 2012, explaining what is required from a team to achieve excellence. But what I’ve always felt is that a team of people doing something they really believe in is like … When I was a young kid, there was a widowed man that lived up the street.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Steenkamp begins to shore up that deficiency, by looking at the lives of 16 men and women and the decisions they were faced with that changed the course of history. Developed from Isaiah Berlin’s expose of the Greek poet Archilochus statement that “the fox knows many smaller things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.”

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discovering an inflection and developing an insight from it is not easy. From a start-up perspective, what makes inflections interesting is that they create an opportunity to alter the rules that govern competition in the future rather than simply improving existing products according to the current rules.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

When an empathic leader, for example, sees a team member faltering, they don’t crank up the pressure to perform or use criticism to motivate. She’s a leading voice in the fields of medicine, psychiatry, empathy, and intuitive development. Nor do they lead with impatience, which only makes people freeze or panic.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2020

O NE OF THE MOST challenging leadership problems is to get people to speak up , especially as it concerns realizing the value of the “small voice in the room.”. I had already completed some training in company principles and was pressuring the team to follow through on the “honoring commitments” part of the practices I had put forward.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 26, 2024

Give up trying to mind other people’s business and focus on what you need to do so you can become the person you want to be. Although you can credit someone else for being the source of your bad mood, you’re the one who’s picked up the baton. Quit judging others. Capitalize on your innate wisdom. Make conscious choices.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer. I regularly held town-hall meetings and other motivational meetings to get the team fired up and connected to our bigger purpose. I asked more questions than I answered.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You deal with these excess use of these strengths by asking the following Simplification Questions : Drive – when it turns into overdrive – needs to hear: Is there anything I can let go of? (Associated with overload) We impulsively grab the next to-do on our list because we feel we should always be active. associated with frenzy).

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Leading Blog

JUNE 22, 2024

It’s hard to throw, catch, block and tackle and hit kids when they’re way bigger and way more developed than you, only to go home that night bruised and battered and strained, but knowing that you have to show up again the next day for just the chance to try again. Here are some of his key thoughts that apply to us all.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 28, 2021

There is no ideal path to follow. In 1903, he married; his first child, Roberto, was born on December 3, 1904 (five additional children would follow). 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.”

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