Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Giving up isn’t an option as it would mean forsaking the company and their career. They follow the example of their leader’s belief in the mission of the company and are willing to go to great lengths to ensure its success. For a leader, resilience is especially important as it involves being flexible, resourceful, and diligent.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 10, 2023

I N AN ESSAY published in 1908, Orison Swett Marden encourages leaders to give responsibility to their employees—to develop leaders at all levels. Responsibility is a great power developer. People who are never thrust into responsible positions never develop their real strength. Give power so that others may grow.

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Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It’s my pleasure to host this month’s Leadership Development Carnival, sponsored by Weaving Influence. So, without further ado, I present to you the December 2024 Leadership Development Carnival! Connect with Dan ) Is Development Feeling Heavy? Connect with Dana ) How to Develop a Positive-Impact Organization? ,

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

They speak up when others stay silent. Otherwise, the Leader is just a follower. It should not warp. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * * Leaders have the courage not to go with the flow. They act when others hesitate. But emotion should not discolour.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How questions bring up negative thoughts and inadequacies. It can also send up the red flag that lets you know youre about to do something stupid. I just want to emphasize how important it is to concentrate on the step you need to take right now and not trip yourself up by looking too far ahead. Principle #1: Find Your Why?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

This time of disruption demands that organizational leaders take an honest look at their teams and how they function and then apply accurate data to inform new ideas, explore strategies, and pursue professional development to position themselves for success. More alarming, 1 in 8 (12%) remain silent even when prompted to speak up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Some of the greatest heroes in your life are probably ones who have done the simplest things, like shown up when you needed it, encouraged you when everyone else walked away, or stood up for you when others did nothing. It means showing up and paying attention to what you can impact to build a better world. What is your story?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This time of disruption demands that organizational leaders take an honest look at their teams and how they function and then apply accurate data to inform new ideas, explore strategies, and pursue professional development to position themselves for success. More alarming, 1 in 8 (12%) remain silent even when prompted to speak up.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2025

The one who shows up with Connection, Clarity, Curiosity, and Commitment aka the Four Cs of productive collaboration that ground our book Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict and our SynergyStack Team Development System. In our leadership development programs, we talk about being interested and interesting.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For forceful leaders, its seen as giving power away; giving power to your staff means giving up your power. Its also accepting power up. Quite the contrary, within bounds, accepting power up actually extends your personal power. But to be empoweringhow clear is that? Worse than unclear, empowering is widely misunderstood.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

When team members are willing to take risks and stand up for their beliefs, it cultivates an atmosphere of innovation and creativity. Learn more at fabianalacercaallen.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The problem is that most business executives, even high-performing ones, dont recognize the value of mental state like elite athletes do, so they dont develop skills and habits to get to that state consistently and effortlessly. His background is in organizational development, with a focus on leadership, strategy, and process optimization.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

What is important is to develop a culture that constantly asks the questions: Where do we go from here with what is working? You need to always be growing and improving over and over again to keep up with the demands of the marketplace and an ever-changing world. First, be as aggressive as you were when you were on your way up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can. Our bodies tense up, and were on the defensive. Opening ourselves up to listen and acknowledge the other person or group during a stressful moment, helps those coming to you feel that they can trust you.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 11, 2025

If you’ve been following David and me for a minute, you know we’re big on team building activities that go deeper than trust falls and marshmallow stacks , and get people talking about what matters. When we feel seen and heard, we show up more fully for one another. And isnt that the essence of human-centered leadership?

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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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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. You have to be good at reading, and read good things.” — Paul Graham, Y Combinator co-founder * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas. And I mean that last "well" in both senses.

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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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Great Results Team Building

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Follow-Up to Ensure Long-Term Success Resolving a conflict doesn’t end with finding a solution. To ensure long-term success, it’s critical to follow up and check on the effectiveness of the resolution. Set a specific time to revisit the conflict and assess how well the agreed-upon solution is working.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. With all that experience, I’ve learned a lot about how to develop and write an agenda that gets a leadership team engaged to create meaningful insights and outcomes.

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Usually, its enough to remind her to loosen up and take one point at a time to bring her back down to her preferred range. If Im too chill during a match, my opponent will start catching up, which will eventually increase my nervousness level, she says. Wangs coaches can easily tell when shes overly nervous during a match.

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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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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

DECEMBER 25, 2024

While I cant promise that any of the titles suggested are cozy reads, they will get you fired up. Like The Illusion of Innovation by Elliott Parker, they will get you thinking in new ways and set you up for the others. Personally, I would start with Productive Failure and Mindshift. Use this list to create your own winter reading plan.

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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

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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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

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

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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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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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

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

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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