Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

Help your team be more compassionate, courageous, and curious. During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? We’ve been asking this question of the leaders we work with around the world. Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Wouldn’t it be nice if a new year truly ushered in a fresh start? The optimism we may have ordinarily had in past years as we turned the calendar to January and considered all of the new possibilities that lay ahead of us is a little harder to muster up this time. The Covid-19 pandemic, now in year three, and other stressors have taken a toll. Many people are exhausted and struggling.

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 12, 2022

It takes a kind of leadership double-vision to help your team reach its goals; here's how seeing this way can help you get things done that matter. The post Do You Have Leadership Double-Vision? Should You? appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 19, 2022

As a writer, it’s not uncommon to get inspiration for a new piece from an unlikely source. And that is certainly the case with this one where I found myself finding some timely lessons on how to succeed at leading during these uncertain times while reading some of the tributes. Click to continue reading.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 31, 2022

Leading is hard enough in “normal” times. But the times in which we are living and leading are far from normal. Supply chains, viruses, economic changes, and changes in expectations, needs, and demands can all create exhaustion. Sure, a big challenge can create a spike in engagement and focus, but we can’t survive on adrenaline […]. The post Overcoming Leadership Fatigue appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 5, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton Of the 52 individual posts published on the Leading in Context Blog in 2021, these 10 were the most popular.

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Joseph Lalonde

JANUARY 11, 2022

It’s easy to look at someone else and think “Man, they’re good. They always do the right thing. They always make the right decision.” It’s easy to think everyone else is good while you’re not. We get this way in our hobbies. We don’t want to pick up a pencil to try our hand at sketching. The […].

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RapidStart Leadership

JANUARY 4, 2022

Dr. Richard Feynman shares a key insight about how some of the smartest people got that way; if we follow his idea of "get that guy" we can do the same, and become better leaders in the process. The post Lines for Leaders: “Get That Guy” appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 12, 2022

As a leader, you’re responsible for accomplishing many tasks, most critical among them is setting and articulating the strategic goals of your team and organization. Of course, creating goals is not the same thing as achieving them. And most of us have certainly set out goals for ourselves and our. Click to continue reading.

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Nathan Magnuson

JANUARY 18, 2022

Wellbeing Wins – 3 min, from the 10 Day Engagement Challenge. There’s a legend about Socrates that one day a young man approached him asking his help to find knowledge. Socrates took him out to the beach and waded into the water. When they were at shoulder depth, Socrates turned to him and asked, “What was it you wanted from me?” “I want to find knowledge!

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Leading in Context

JANUARY 26, 2022

By Linda Fisher Thornton Global unrest is being fueled by widespread misinformation campaigns. Who's fueling these campaigns? The bad actors who are creating misinformation? Or the platforms who intentionally or unintentionally share false information for profit? Or the people who believe the disinformation they read and incite violence? Or the leaders who fail to recognize the clear and present danger of the disinformation machine?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2022

Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing priorities, create structures to help the team shift, and advocate for their team to ensure their work is meaningful.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 24, 2022

Every challenge, every trend, every new situation presents opportunities to learn, if we look for them. The trend toward people rethinking their work and careers, often called The Great Resignation, is one of these times. As a leader, have you thought about what this situation can teach you? Have you learned any lessons from The […]. The post Leadership Lessons from The Great Resignation appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JANUARY 26, 2022

In Patrick Lencioni's powerful book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, he outlines the five core causes of dysfunction that can hold a team back from reaching its true potential. The ultimate objective of a team is to achieve results that align with its mission, vision, and values. Every time I facilitate a Five Dysfunctions of a Team Workshop, I am in awe as I witness a transformation that occurs literally before my eyes over a couple of days.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 27, 2022

In some of my leadership keynotes and workshops, I point out how one way to foster a sense of cohesion and community among your employees is to make time to celebrate milestones. What’s important here is not to just have a party where people can feel a sense of completion, Click to continue reading.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 25, 2022

There are lots of reasons for what’s come to be known as the Great Resignation or, lately, the Great Reassessment. From what I’m seeing and hearing, most of those reasons can be summed up with two questions: Do I matter? Does what I do matter? Both of those questions really turn on whether or not people feel engaged with their work in meaningful ways.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 3, 2022

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 17, 2022

These conversation starters make caring dialogue a bit easier. For most teams, having genuine caring conversations takes practice. It can feel easier to keep the conversations light, particularly if that’s your team culture. But at a time when people are longing for compassion and connection, taking the conversation a level deeper can make all the difference for your employees’ mental health, as well as for building deeper trust.

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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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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 18, 2022

Most of us have plenty of goals that we set in our lives – health, financial, personal. And today we’re talking about team goals or organizational goals. But before we get to that, I want you to think about it as a team member, as an individual contributor. Have you ever had someone hand you […]. The post Why You Should Set Goals Collaboratively appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 10, 2022

Bad habits – in the beginning – are easier than good. The habit of almost finishing stuff destroys effectiveness, diminishes respect, and drains energy. Anyone can start. Leaders finish.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 26, 2022

In today’s digitally connected yet often geographically distributed workplace, it’s especially important that leaders cut through the clutter and ensure their messages are effectively reaching their employees. Even then, the work doesn’t stop with ensuring messages are simply received. Effective communications also means that the messages are understood.

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 11, 2022

So, this is usually the week when your good intentions for the year smack up against the reality of the work at hand. In the words of the great philosopher, Mike Tyson, “Everybody’s got a plan until they get hit in the jaw.” As the meetings mount and the emails accumulate, that clarity and sense of calm you developed over the extended holiday break can start to fade.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2022

Pandemic has been a great disruptor for many businesses and individuals. Personally, I have seen friends in industries like travel and hospitality whose businesses and hence careers were suddenly disrupted with no where else to go. Another phenomenon that pandemic brought forth was “self awakening” – people questioning the most fundamental beliefs they held about what it means to work and contribute.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2022

The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. Connection, Communication, and Stay Curious About New Ways of Working. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. They’re consistently asking “how can we do this better?” They spend time communicating about how they communicate AND make an extra effort to build psychological safety , trust and connection.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 3, 2022

The best leaders are curious about the world, the future, their businesses, and their people. Another way to say that is that great leaders are question askers. Last week, I posted my leadership imperatives for 2022. Today, I want to augment that by sharing the most important – the big questions for leaders at the start […]. The post Some Big Questions for Leaders in 2022 appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 26, 2022

You can’t move forward when you’re running in circles. You can’t efficiently do two complex tasks at the same time. We’re addicted to constant distraction and repeated interruption.

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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

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 10, 2022

Through the "Great Resignation," employees are sending a strong message that their needs aren’t being met at work. The demands and challenges of the pandemic have led people to reexamine their lives and priorities and one topic in particular comes up often: burnout. What is employee burnout? Burnout results “from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed,” according to the World Health Organization , which updated its definition in 2019 to classify it as an occupational phe

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Next Level Blog

JANUARY 18, 2022

One of the many challenges of leading during the pandemic is that the constant stream of changing circumstances can make work feel really episodic. When that happens, it’s natural that people feel some degree of disconnection from their work. One more day of logging into meetings from the office you set up in your basement can feel indistinguishable from the day before.

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David A Fields

JANUARY 25, 2022

Many of your consulting firm’s clients are prioritizing diversity in terms of thinking style, work style, age, cultural background and, of course, race and gender. What about you and your consulting firm—should you increase your diversity too? The question is more nuanced than you’d think. Quick note: this article is not about DEI (Diversity, Equity … Continued.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 21, 2022

Trust takes time, but sometimes you need to get everyone working together quickly. If you’re going to succeed, you have to build a team that’s able to work well together and get results, and you need to be able to do that quickly. In, How to Quickly Build Team Commitment, get four activities to speed up the process and improve your team’s commitment to outcomes and to one another.

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