Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 28, 2023

Becoming the most interesting (and exciting) person in the room requires a combination of qualities and skills, including intelligence, confidence, charisma, and the ability to communicate effectively. Here are some tips for cultivating these traits to stand out in social settings: Be well-informed and knowledgeable about a wide range of topics. Read widely and stay up-to-date on current events, science, technology, and culture.

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Modern Servant Leader

JANUARY 13, 2023

The principles of SERVANT-Leadership and The Great Game of Business (GGOB)* share many traits. GGOB (also known simply as, “The Great Game”) is an approach to business management where you ensure all stakeholders understand the core business operations, high level financial statements, and key numbers. The intent is inform and engage all employees in business planning and operations, while having fun.

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CO2

JANUARY 6, 2023

There’s a significant shift developing as GenXers and Millennials take on leadership positions. Employees now want creative ownership—an expectation that contrasts sharply with traditional views on leadership. “Today, people believe that their value is in their ideas and creativity, not in their ability to be agents for someone else’s vision,” explains John Sandahl, Executive Team Coach at CO2. .

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2023

When your responses are perceived as negative it’s time to change your approach “Don’t be so negative” can be incredibly frustrating feedback to receive when you’re genuinely trying to help and don’t want to be perceived as negative. Or as one manager told me when she is perceived as negative, “It’s not that I’m negative, it’s just that I care so F-ing much!

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

Q UIET QUITTING. Quiet firing. Quiet thriving. What will be the next viral workplace term? Today’s businesses aren’t plagued by these “new” movements—except for the reactionary movement of buying into the latest buzzword and letting it affect their workplace culture. As talked about in this Business Insider article , these trends have caused panic among leaders in all industries, who are now looking to combat these “new” issues, and consultants are right there with them, offering all sorts of “s

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 15, 2023

A Reel Leadership Article My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. I didn’t know what to expect going into A Man Called Otto. I knew it would be an emotional ride, but this… I didn’t know I’d have these feelings leaving the theater. A Man Called Otto was originally a book called A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 25, 2023

Over the past several months I’ve had some interesting conversations with leaders who attended one of my keynotes or workshops. In particular, what was noteworthy was this common thread underlining each of these conversations. Whether it was a middle-level manager or an executive from the C-suite, in each of these interactions I couldn’t help but note the sense of self-doubt these leaders expressed about their continued ability to lead.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 25, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton What will 2023 be like? We've been through so much over the past few years. Will things be better? Whatever happens, the start of a new year is a great time to take stock of our leadership strengths and areas for improvement. Regardless of the leadership challenges we may face this year, there are important things we should be doing to make it easier for others to succeed, and our teams are counting on us to do them so that they can do their best work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

Effective leaders hold meetings that get results and people want to attend. Horrible meetings are a cliché of the business world and with good reason. Too many meetings are a waste of time and don’t accomplish anything. Minutes creep along while the meeting leader fritters away everyone’s time, people have meaningless conversations that don’t solve problems, and everyone is frustrated that they could be doing something more productive with their time.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

C HAOS and uncertainty are a part of life. Are you making the most of it? To make the most of a turbulent world we need to be able to balance our emotions with a rational and deliberate thought process in real time that allow us to learn and thoughtfully and creatively move through the circumstance or what authors Jacqueline Brassey, Aaron De Smet, and Michael Kruyt, call Deliberate Calm.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 1, 2023

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available <a href=”[link] Amazon</a> If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Moviegoers have been treated to natural disaster movies. These include films such as Twister, The Day After Tomorrow, and others. Natural disaster movies tap into something that terrifies us while thrilling us.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

My son Brad’s girlfriend Renee is a brand new first grade teacher this year. In addition to her commitment to setting little kids off on a strong path for their lives, I’m really impressed by how much thought and effort Renee puts into her work every day. It takes a lot of planning plus improvisational skills to keep a roomful of six-year-olds engaged and learning from 8:30 in the morning to 2:30 in the afternoon.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 11, 2023

The beginning of a new year is always an exciting time because of what it represents – a chance for new beginnings, to start something new, and build on successes gained over the past year. For my podcast, “Leadership Biz Cafe”, it also means the start of another season of speaking with people with fascinating insights and perspectives on the challenges of leadership today.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 4, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton Of the 52 weekly posts published on the Leading in Context Blog in 2022, these 10 were the most popular.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 23, 2023

Use these powerful phrases to ensure every voice can be heard at work As all of us strive to create a more human-centered and inclusive workplace where everyone can feel comfortable being who they are, leaders have a unique opportunity to help voices be heard at work. Whether you’re in a formal leadership position or are participating on a committee, in a meeting, or on a project team, you have a role to play.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 26, 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. Niccolò Machiavelli on resistance to change: “It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 22, 2023

My latest book, Reel Leadership, is now available on Amazon. If you love movies and leadership, you will love this book. Plane is an action movie that will have you at the edge of your seat for most of the film. Starring Gerard Butler as pilot Brodie Torrance, Mike Colter (of Luke Cage fame) as convict Louis Gaspare, and Yoson An as co-pilot Dele, the thrills keep coming for the whole film.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 25, 2023

I thought self-leadership was gobbledygook when I first heard the term. You live in frustration when leadership begins with others.

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2023

Boardroom diversity is far from just a hot-button buzzword, and today, it’s well understood that diversity is never recommended simply for the sake of “checking a box.” The truth is that boardroom diversity brings immense benefits to the CEO, the entire organization, shareholders, and the board itself. For organizations that want to outperform their competitors and have a board operating at its maximum effectiveness, diversity is key.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 18, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton In my 600th post, I wrote about my top 10 Leadership Lessons Learned. In this 700th post, I want to take a moment to dream and imagine what life could be like if all leaders took the time to learn ethical thinking, decision making and leadership, and applied them every day.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 9, 2023

Ghosting May Feel Easy, But the Impact is Hard. It’s getting worse. This phenomenon of ghosting at work. What is Ghosting at Work? Ghosting at work is when you THINK you’re in an important conversation. And THEN, the other party completely disappears. Such disappearing stunts are not that different from their close cousin in the dating scene.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2023 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. When Everyone Leads : How The Toughest Challenges Get Seen And Solved by Ed O’Malley and Julia Fabris McBride. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Those challenges appear in our professional lives, in our communities, our families―and they seem unsolvable, beyond our ability to see what needs to be d

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 10, 2023

Upon the completion of my 200-mile Ragnar Road Michigan race, I was awarded a medal. Every person who crossed the finish line received one as well. The cool thing about the Ragnar Road Michigan race is that the 12 medals the team receives contain a message. Individually, the messages may not make much sense. Combined, they tell a story. Yet, the medal I received contained a quote that I love to live by.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 3, 2023

A friend asked me to complete the following sentence. “2023 will be a success if _.” (He included “in my opinion” which released pressure.) New Year’s resolutions are a waste of time.

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Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 11, 2023

Delivering constructive criticism can be difficult, but it is an important part of helping others improve and grow. Here are nine tips on how to deliver constructive criticism effectively: Be specific — Be clear and specific about what the person did or said that needs improvement, rather than making general or vague statements. Be objective — Stick to the facts and avoid personal attacks or making judgments about the person's character.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 11, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton The Top Post Series for last year on the Leading in Context Blog reflected the urgent need to move ethical thinking and decision making forward in organizations. It featured specific areas of focus and strategies for improving organizational ethics. Use these posts to identify areas you want to improve in 2023.

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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

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2023

If you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team will end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. But if you don’t pay enough attention to tactics and effective management, you’ll create needless conflicts, frustration, and hurt feelings. When you can embrace effective leadership strategy and tactics, they will work together to help you, your team, and your organization thrive.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

T HE context of leadership has changed. It is more complex, and values that must be addressed have shifted. What we once glossed over now requires our attention and action. Mostly it requires that we be more intentional about relationships. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 12, 2023

I’m a firm believer that leaders are not there to demand things, push people around, and expect to be served. Instead, leaders are there to serve others. In that, leaders need to give the people they lead certain things. These things aren’t hard to do. They’re relatively simple. Photo by Natalie Grainger on Unsplash. Many of us aren’t doing or giving our people the things they need, even when it’s easy enough to do.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2023

You see who you are by reflecting on who you were. One way to practice self-reflection is to give advice to your younger self. I’ve done this a few times over the years.

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