Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Welcome to the October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. ” Follow David on Twitter at @ThoughtPartner. Development. Communication.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

They speak up when others stay silent. Otherwise, the Leader is just a follower. You win great victory or manage to ascend somehow to the top of what the nineteenth-century Conservative prime minister Benjamin Disraeli called the greasy pole. Leaders have the courage not to go with the flow. They act when others hesitate.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 3, 2021

Welcome to the August 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Development. ” Follow Marcella on Twitter at @MarcellaBremer.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2020

Welcome to the August 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. David Grossman of The Grossman Group provided What’s Keeping You Up at Night?

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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! It’s about understanding where cash comes from, how it flows through the business, and how to measure and manage it effectively.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Despite its perceived importance, for the most part, companies have a miserable track record when it comes to managing their people. Yet, on the other hand, the data shows that following through on this conviction can be elusive. The Culture Dilemma Employee engagement in American companies has hovered around 30 percent for 60 years.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They not only manage their own stress effectively but also help to stabilize the team as a whole. 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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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Welcome to the September 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. ” Follow Julie on Twitter at @julie_wg. Follow Jon on Twitter at @jonverbeck1.

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Lead Change Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Welcome to the November 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. These are all phrases we’ve heard from managers (and executives) recently.

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Leading Blog

JULY 7, 2023

The best way to avoid the Map Paradox is to continuously place your mental model up against models that are different from yours. As we take our maps into the future—especially an uncertain future (as most futures are)—they are subject to revision when scrutinized under the light of tomorrow’s reality.

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Lead Change Blog

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Welcome to the September 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Development. ” Follow Jim on Twitter at @JlcTaggart. Communication.

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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

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

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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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

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. Management does not put them there. The same thing occurs when you label other people. You see them as totally bad,’ David Burns writes.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. Known for his famous "Ten Surprises" and "Life's Lessons" lists, Wien guides readers through the complexities of investment strategy, risk management, and lifelong learning. And I mean that last "well" in both senses.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

You're the Boss : Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) by Sabina Nawaz as our job expands, the added pressure to perform corrupts our actions, and our increased power will blind us to the impact of those actions. Even the most well-intentioned manager can quickly become the boss nobody wants to work for.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 26, 2024

Most employees don’t come to work hoping to screw up. 5 Reasons Your Employee Isn’t Acting on Your Coaching When we ask employees in our training programs why it’s hard to hear their manager’s feedback, here’s what they tell us. Be sure they master that before moving on to the next development priority. I can’t win.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2022

I’ve seen many breakthrough moments when people from all walks of life set their sights on developing new thoughts, actions, and habits. We can choose to open ourselves up to others and invite them to share their observations, feelings, and opinions about us and the way we interact as we move through the world.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You investigate and it turns out that they’re spending time with the same three low-level managers because they have a good relationship. 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.

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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. For a large majority of leaders, the struggle to have influence and impact comes from things that you can manage and change. Or, they push for autonomy when their manager wants engagement. These are just a few examples.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 30, 2023

He explains what happens: Managers get trapped by success, a condition that I call active inertia , or management’s tendency to respond to the most disruptive changes by accelerating activities that succeeded in the past. A better analogy is a car stuck in a rut: Managers put the petal to the metal—and dig the rut deeper.

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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. If you’ve wanted to attend a program or have a couple managers, but not enough to bring us to you, this is a perfect opportunity. 6:59 – The vital role a manager plays for every employee.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Another time, we were working with an organization’s managers and having them rate the leadership behavior where they felt the most need to improve. As the managers moved around the room and sorted themselves into groups based on their perceived needs, we asked the senior executive which behavior he would choose. “Oh,

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Speak Up to Get Better Feedback in Your Next Performance Review. A few years ago, I wrote “Avoid These Infuriating Phrases in End-of-Year Feedback” to encourage managers to stop making stupid comments when giving a performance review. One of the easiest ways to tank employee engagement is to screw up an end-of-year review.

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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

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.”. With this impressive implementation, it had managed to enter into an agreement with a much larger, high-profile player in the industry. Unfortunately. He holds a Ph.D.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Peter Drucker was asked whether he considered himself more of a historical writer or a management thinker: “More a historical writer,” Drucker answered. We therefore gain more valuable leadership insights from historical analogies and examples than by embracing the latest management fads. Servant Leadership—Put Followers First.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Great Results Teambuilding is the home of the April 2023 Leadership Development Carnival… And it is an honor to host this impressive version of monthly curated articles with insights that will equip you to become a more effective leader! Solving the Talent Development Puzzle We don’t often know who’s on first or what’s on second.

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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. What does “regular” mean?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 20, 2023

This means that every leader, manager, and employee can describe the culture and what it stands for, and the descriptions will be very similar to a large extent.” Take a bottom-up approach. Culture needs to be top-down directed but then bottom-up created.” Nothing makes up for poor leadership.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 8, 2021

While the last decade has flattened our organizations and reduced the need for some managers, the need to create leaders at every level has never been more necessary. We need connected managers to create community and spark collaboration. Supervisors hold the success of a business in their hands, and it’s all in how they manage.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

You can become an empathic leader whether you’re a new manager, a C-suite executive, or you’re simply leading by example in any job even if you don’t manage anyone. 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.

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Leading Blog

MAY 20, 2024

T ODAY, change management is an integral part of organizational strategy. Whenever new concepts, methods, or ways of thinking are introduced, they are bound to come up against resistance. It’s helpful to know that, despite their differences in approach and methodology, all change management initiatives share common elements.

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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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