Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 2, 2018
It’s never too late to begin team accountability. “Karin and David, can I ask you a question?” We had just finished a keynote where we gave leaders the tools to have the tough conversations. Sarah, a middle-level manager, came up to talk […]. The post How to Start Team Accountability When You Never Have Before appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
General Leadership
AUGUST 13, 2018
The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be. Michael Hyatt. Across my leadership journey, I have worked with and for many leaders. Some were very good, some good, and some not-so-good. As I have reflected on each of those experiences, I recognized traits, skills, or abilities that each leader either possessed or was lacking.
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 31, 2018
There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period. – Brene Brown. Everyone experiences failure now and then. What do you do when a poor performance triggers a strong reaction of shame and regret? How can you turn performance failure into learning? Here are 9 steps to follow: 1. Cling to the belief that you are a capable learner. Manage any negative self-talk that reinforces a brittle, fixed identity by remembering your ability to learn from experience.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 27, 2018
A WARENESS is the ability to have knowledge of or are conscious of yourself and your surroundings in real time. Without it we tend to be reactive, disengaged, an unimaginative. The more conscious we are, the faster we adapt, and the higher performing we become. Bob Rosen and Emma-Kate Swann wrote Conscious: The Power of Awareness in Business and Life , because they believe that becoming more conscious is critical in our increasingly disruptive and accelerating world. “ Most of us believe they ar
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Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 27, 2018
A Reel Leadership Article What do you get when you cross My Big Fat Greek Wedding with a cast of Asians? You get the hilarious, entertaining, enjoyable movie Crazy Rich Asians. Crazy Rich Asians tells the story of the extremely wealthy and good looking Nick Young (Henry Golding) and his girlfriend Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) as they travel to Singapore for Nick’s best friend’s wedding.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
AUGUST 7, 2018
Leadership starts with you. If you want to build a strong team, the place to start is with a look in the mirror. Your vision for your team arises from your own character, motives and beliefs. How you regard yourself determines the grandeur and scope of your vision. Successful leaders tap into a trust […]. The post The Trust Feedback Loop appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
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General Leadership
AUGUST 1, 2018
GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If your action inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader”. John Quincy Adams. Anyone following the news these days is painfully aware of the divisiveness plaguing politics.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 13, 2018
In a previous post , I posited the seven things you should do for excellent interpersonal communication: create safety, ensure feedback loops are in place, encourage trust in others’ competence, implement stepped decision-making, involve bottom-up, use transformational leadership, and match stated and actual organizational culture. In this post, I delve deeper into the first task: create safety.
Leading Blog
AUGUST 3, 2018
N EW TECHNOLOGIES are shifting the way we work and interact. Jobs are being eliminated, and industries are being disrupted as we try to come to grips with how this technology is changing us and how we can use it. The thing to keep in mind is that machines are machines and we are human. And if you are reading this, that’s your advantage. Specifically, your edge if your ability to communicate in imaginative ways, in a way that develops empathy with your listeners.
Leading in Context
AUGUST 8, 2018
By Linda Fisher Thornton What is Meaningful Leadership? Seeking the Truth & Excavating Grey Areas Using Ethical Values In Part 1 of this series we looked at how leaders generate meaningful environments where others can thrive. In Part 2 we explored a leader's own quest for authenticity. In Part 3 we looked at the role of powerful conversations and a focus on collective success.
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RapidStart Leadership
AUGUST 21, 2018
“In any leadership interview, they are going to ask about your experience. What if you don’t have any?” Everyone has to start somewhere. Moving up in the organizational hierarchy often involves taking on a formal leadership role. But if you haven’t had one before, how you respond when they ask … Leadership Interview: 7 Ways to Talk About Leadership Experience When You Don’t Have Any Read More ».
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 28, 2018
Are you listening to your team and the stories they tell? During times of change and uncertainty, your team is desperate for information. They’re looking for the story behind the story. They’re thirsty to listen to anyone who knows what’s REALLY going […]. The post How to Know What Your Team is Really Thinking appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
General Leadership
AUGUST 7, 2018
“Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.” Reba McEntire. If you’ve ever been to Pacific Heights area of San Francisco, California, you know the charm of Fillmore Street. This boutique chic, street is quintessentially SF trendy and has been for decades. If you know the street, you know Blue Bottle Coffee on the corner of Fillmore and Jackson.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 20, 2018
These days, it isn’t uncommon for a startup to be run from home. The advancements in technology over the years have allowed business owners to do many things from the comfort of their homes, from marketing research and diving into analytics to communicating directly with their customers. A virtual office environment saves an immense amount of spending on office space and appeals to many because it offers a more flexible lifestyle.
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Leading Blog
AUGUST 24, 2018
W E ARE BORN with a desire to engage. We want to learn—to relate and interact. We want to connect. But over the years, depending on our upbringing, our schooling, and our work, our desire to engage gets suppressed. It gets covered up. Our job as leaders is to uncover and rekindle that child-like desire to engage with others and our environment. We can’t create engagement, but we can uncover it.
Leading in Context
AUGUST 15, 2018
By Linda Fisher Thornton What is Meaningful Leadership? Making a Difference By Building a Better Society For the Future In Part 1 of this series we looked at how leaders generate meaningful environments where others can thrive. In Part 2 we explored a leader's own quest for authenticity. In Part 3 we looked at the role of powerful conversations and a focus on relational ROI.
Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 2, 2018
Guest post from Glenn Elliott and Debra Corey : The world of work has and continues to change. Our workforce, which now consists of five generations working side by side, expects and demands different things from its organization, its job, and most certainly its leaders. We conducted a study to better understand these new expectations of leaders, asking 350 millennials the question: What do you want and expect from your leaders?
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 9, 2018
I’ll be honest. I didn’t even know bulldozer parents were a thing until Friday night. When did helicopter parents become bulldozer parents? Are they really bulldozing at work? I had to Google the whole “bulldozer parents” thing after having dinner with some HR execs […]. The post What Bulldozer Parents are Doing to Our Gen Z Workforce appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Speaker: Cy Wakeman, M.S., CSP, President, Reality-Based Leadership
Most HR leadership philosophies are grounded in two completely faulty assumptions — “change is hard” and “engagement drives results.” Those beliefs have inspired expensive attempts to keep change from being disruptive to employees. What these engagement programs actually do is create and reinforce feelings of victim-hood and leave employees unprepared to adapt to real changes that are necessary for the health and profitability of their enterprises.
General Leadership
AUGUST 20, 2018
Originally published by Guest Author, Karen Ross, at sharpdecisions.com. No Longer Desperate for Work, Veterans Seek More Meaningful Careers. For veterans, underemployment is the new unemployment. With the U.S. Labor Department announcing earlier this month that veteran unemployment has hit a historic low, veterans groups, advocates and veterans themselves are sounding a new alarm: underemployment.
Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 7, 2018
Welcome to the August Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, creativity and inspiration, development, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Art Petty submitted Why You Should Obsess Over Challenging Conversations (and what to do about them).
Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 29, 2018
The ordinary often becomes the mundane. Work, family life, friendships. You do the same thing over and over again, and it’s no longer special. You can only tell someone you love them so many times before they get tired of hearing it. You can only hang out and do the same thing so many times before you get bored. And you can only lead in the same manner before you lose your team.
Leading in Context
AUGUST 29, 2018
By Linda Fisher Thornton We need to be talking about where ethics should be… how and where it fits into real life. Too many leaders and organizations have crossed ethical boundaries and that seems to be all we’re seeing in the news headlines. Starting the Conversation When ethics is central to our decisions and actions, we are […].
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Great Leadership By Dan
AUGUST 9, 2018
Guest post from Bethany Andell: “To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.” – Mahatma Gandhi Recently a CEO friend of mine said that the three key ingredients to building a great culture are: 1) belief in the mission, 2) clarity of the vision and 3) having fun while living the values. There is a growing movement in the business world that proves all of these points to be true.
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 14, 2018
“These guys are seasoned managers, and these are fundamental leadership expectations. Shouldn’t they just know the right thing to do?” “I’m so frustrated, my team is just not executing on what I consider fundamentals.” “There’s just no accountability here. If someone is going […]. The post How to Communicate Remarkably Clear Leadership Expectations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Women on Business
AUGUST 6, 2018
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Lead Change Blog
AUGUST 6, 2018
Work culture, like music, has the uncanny ability to bring people together or drive them apart. Personal preferences about every genre from rock to reggae can end up building or burning bridges. Similarly, people in the working world may survive being out of sync with their company’s vibe, but they’ll never really thrive! It’s no wonder that new articles on what makes or breaks employee engagement drop every week like new albums hoping to top the charts.
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver
Joseph Lalonde
AUGUST 24, 2018
There are days when I long for my runs with Lok the Vizsla to be easy. I don’t want to feel like I taxed my body or pushed myself further than I thought I could go. I want my runs to be convenient. Photo by Mitchel Lensink. And yet my runs aren’t convenient. Running can take away time from my wife or with friends. Running takes extra energy and effort.
Leading in Context
AUGUST 22, 2018
By Linda Fisher Thornton This post is an updated version of a reader favorite. There Will Always Be Grey Areas There will always be ethical grey areas. We see plenty of information about lying, cheating, stealing and other obvious ethical violations. It is more difficult to know what to do when we encounter behaviors that fall into ethical grey areas, particularly in term of relationships with other people.
RapidStart Leadership
AUGUST 14, 2018
“Can Team Leadership really be boiled down into four steps?” Leaders are always busy, and whatever we are involved with, things only seem to grow more complicated over time. As complexity grows, it can help to view our roles as leaders in the simplest terms possible. What should we be … Team Leadership: 4 Simple Steps to Getting Stuff Done Read More ».
Let's Grow Leaders
AUGUST 7, 2018
You’re passionate about your work and you’re nailing your role. You’re working hard and your results are on fire. And then in the middle of an otherwise raving performance review, your boss brings up the conflict you continue to have with another […]. The post Coworker Conflict: 7 Ways to Get Along with Other High Performers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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