RapidStart Leadership
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
Taking a cue from master artists, a leadership sketchbook may be just the thing we need to master the art of leadership; here's how. The post Leadership Sketchbook: 7 Keys to Mastering the Art of Leading appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.
Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
By Linda Fisher Thornton This week I’m sharing The Last 10 Years of Top Posts on the Leading in Context Blog. It’s a time capsule of the issues you thought were most important over the last 10 years. For each year, I have selected a theme that reflects the topics and focus of the reader's most read posts.
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Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
From Counting to Quality: Help Your Busy Team Work Smarter Last week, we talked about meaningful metrics , focusing on the game, not the score, and identifying and isolating the daily habits most likely to lead to success. Today we go a level deeper with a practical way to ensure your team’s busy day is worth it– giving them the breakthrough results they’re working so hard to achieve.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
T HE SCOTTISH POET Robert Burns wrote, “The best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry,” in a poem to a mouse whose nest was disrupted by the plow. The implication is that things rarely go just the way we want. Disruptions fall all along the spectrum from “the whatever” to “the paralyzing.” From my-coffee-is-too-hot to the death of a loved one; from the game was canceled to a divorce.
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Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
It seems like every day there’s another news report of yet another company mandating employees return to their office, another report of new findings about the consequences of rising employee anxiety and burnout, and more reports warning about the ever impending arrival of another economic downturn. Against that backdrop, I. Click to continue reading It seems like every day there’s another news report of yet another company mandating employees return to their office, another report of new findin
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
In more than 20 years of executive coaching, I long ago lost count of the number of conversations I’ve been in about the challenges of personal time management. A quick count today of 15 years of my blog posts suggests that I’ve written on the topic at least a couple of dozen times. So, in the interest of helping you manage your time more effectively and saving you time while you do it, here’s my ultimate (for now) guide to personal time management tactics and strategies.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Joseph Lalonde
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
As we approach the new year, I want to touch on a topic that’s bothered me for a long time. That’s the topic of hustle culture. Culture tells us that we need to hustle. What is the idea behind hustle? Hustle culture tells us that we work constantly. We have to put our nose to the grindstone 24/7, or we won’t be successful. Photo by Fernando Hernandez on Unsplash Lots of thought leaders have told us to do this.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
To Change Your Reputation Set Human-Centered Goals and Stick With It It can be super challenging to move beyond the stories of the past that affect your leadership reputation. We all have mishaps from the past that haunt us. Leadership is never handled. We’re always in progress. If you’re looking to change your reputation, today’s Asking for a Friend is a start.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Robert Kaplan on learning to ask the right questions: “Fortunately, the key to managing and leading your organization and your career does not lie in ‘having all the answers.’ The key lies in making a conscious effort to regularly step back to reflect, and then identify and frame the issues that are central to leading your organization effectively into
Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
By Linda Fisher Thornton "Global Peace Index 2022 results show that the average level of global peacefulness deteriorated by 0.03%.
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Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2023
One of the great truths of life is that things never stay the same. It doesn’t matter if it’s a good thing or a bad thing; it’s going to change. It’s just as true in your professional life as it is in your personal life. For instance, you can work really hard to build a great team and then things change. Someone leaves or someone joins and the dynamics change as a result.
Sales Wolf Blog
FEBRUARY 16, 2023
The two following forces have the greatest influence on the trajectory of your team and organization: Who you hire. How effectively your team works together. The team effectiveness framework shared in this article was first introduced in 2002 by Patrick Lencioni through his powerful book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team has been a bestseller for 21 years for good reason.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
Navigating change is a reality every leader has to face, and yet despite this truth, 70% of change initiatives end in failure. While we might think this high failure rate reflects a technical deficiency in leaders, Erika Andersen, my guest for this episode of my “Leadership Biz Cafe” podcast, makes. Click to continue reading Navigating change is a reality every leader has to face, and yet despite this truth, 70% of change initiatives end in failure.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
Emotional intelligence is rocket fuel for competent, intelligent leaders. “CEOs, on average, have the lowest EQ scores in the workplace.” Emotional Intelligence 2.0 Five components of emotional intelligence.
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Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 27, 2023
P ROBLEMS come our way. They always do. And too little of the associated stress is not good. We become disengaged, demotivated, and unfulfilled. But with too much stress we become overloaded, and we just feel like shutting down. But in between is the Challenge Zone. 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 stre
QAspire
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
As an organizational system grows complex, it hardens through processes, beliefs, mindsets, legacy decisions and culture. However, most change in complex organizations is implemented with a short-term focus on results. Let’s do this differently and we get that. This plug and play approach to change may lend short-term results but organization pays the cost elsewhere in form of unsustainability of new practices, other impacts, employee morale etc.
Great Results Team Building
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The longer I work with teams and help organizations with events and experiences to improve their culture and productivity, the more clear it has become to me that TEAMWORK, TEAM BUILDING, MORALE, and WORKPLACE CULTURE are all symptoms of leadership. It is the quality of your leadership that will determine the quality of results in any organization. And effective leaders not only inspire their team to be productive and efficient but also create an environment of collaboration and teamwork.
Lead from Within
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Good communication is a core principle of leadership. In my work as an executive coach, I stress communication to my clients every day. Two problems in particular seem to have the worst consequences when it comes to communication: Mistake No.1: Secrecy. Leadership requires transparency. That’s part of the reason that leaders who pride themselves on their authority often find themselves in trouble.
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.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 3, 2023
With tech, finance, and other industries feeding off each other, the risks that are involved have increased. Data has become a central component to business. It is quite valuable, both as a company resource and as an asset to sell. When you are in business, you probably work on a.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Relationship building is the difference between getting stuff done and being a leader. Results are the cake. Relationship building heats the oven. Relationship building is the heart of success. Community contributes to flourishing.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
I N THE BEGINNING, as civilizations grew and became more advanced, work was organized around specialized lines of work. These sectors of work, like the mining, textile, or glassmaking industries, thrived with their own supply chains, expertise, and proprietary distribution. And this is basically how we think of business today. But that is changing. McKinsey partners Venkat Atluri and Miklós Dietz illuminate that change in The Ecosystem Economy.
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 13, 2023
The 2023 Edelman Trust Barometer is hot off the presses and chock-full of valuable information. This tried-and-true resource for more than two decades provides data-based insights on trust and credibility by helping readers to understand those institutions that people turn to most when they need information, guidance, or a general pulse on decision-making influencers.
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Mike Cardus
FEBRUARY 5, 2023
As a leader, one of the most important things you can do is to communicate effectively with your team. This is particularly true when it comes to sharing the results of employee surveys. Whether you are conducting regular check-ins or an annual review, it’s crucial to communicate the results in a way that supports implementation plans and encourages action within your team.
Lead from Within
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
As a leader, having executive presence is crucial to gaining the trust and confidence of those around you. It’s about showing people that you lead you’re a capable and reliable leader. Additionally, it’s about exuding confidence and charisma. So, you can inspire trust and belief in your ability to lead. To get executive presence, you need to develop a combination of skills and qualities that enable you to effectively lead and earn the respect of others.
Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 15, 2023
Boosting employee engagement within your organization is easier said than done, but any step in the right direction is sure to have a positive impact. The question you need to address is how to best improve employee engagement. Once you have a strategy, you can then carry it out with.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 10, 2023
The trouble with fear is sometimes it helps and sometimes it stabs you in the back. Helpful fear tells you to obey the speed limit because the cops are out on holidays.
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
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Here are a selection of tweets from February 2023 that you will want to check out: Five Beliefs To Toss Aside To Grow Your Leadership by @TerriKlass 6 Leadership Tips for Not Being a Jerk at Work by @JenniferVMiller Why One Conversation a Day Is Essential for Us Humans by @DrNickMorgan PODCAST: How to Coach Leaders to Be More Effective via @CliftonStrength Companies that change the game can change the world via @stratandbiz Want to Make a Career Change?
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 6, 2023
The prevalence of disinformation – defined as deliberately misleading or biased information – continues to be a significant problem in both Canada and the U.S., according to the 2022 Institute for Public Relations Disinformation in Society Report, which was conducted with Leger and McMaster University.
David A Fields
FEBRUARY 14, 2023
You see a lot of book lists floating around the interwebs. Many contain great recommendations of useful books for consulting firm leaders. However, the books on the list are largely not unexpected or trajectory shifting. (I say that despite many lists highlighting one of my books, which is flattering, of course.) Some of the most … Continued The post 5 Unexpected Books Every Consultant Should Read appeared first on David A.
Lead from Within
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
When it comes to leading, working, and living, we all experience stress, but there are ways to combat and avoid burnout. You can try the following four mindset shifts that can help you avoid stress and make you more effective. These shifts include: Prioritize self-care. Make time for activities that nourish your mind, body, and spirit, such as exercise, meditation, or spending time with loved ones.
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