Let's Grow Leaders
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most. Your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about …” or a team member suddenly explodes at their teammates and storms off the floor. It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. Handle it well and you’ll build trust and influence.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 31, 2024
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. Doug Hirschhorn on gaining a competitive advantage: “Gaining a competitive advantage is like having a two-edged sword, and you need to keep both of them sharp. One edge is internal—knowing what unique skills you bring to the table.
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Leading in Context
OCTOBER 16, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical awareness may have been considered private in the past, but it has become easier to observe in a society that is always socially connected. Since ethical reputation is a defining element in individual and organizational success, it is time that we consider ethical awareness as a key element of experience when selecting leaders for our businesses, community organizations, governments, and nations.
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 31, 2024
It's book giveaway time on Leadership Freak. "Vital Behavior Blueprint" Inconsistent behaviors derail improvement efforts. Getting key behaviors to become habits can feel like herding cats. Unfortunately, only 30% of employees receive the 3 Pillars of essential performance support (1) clear expectations, (2) actionable feedback, and (3) barrier removal.
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Tanveer Naseer
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Have you ever had a workday where you were so busy that the time flew by, but you didn’t really accomplish anything? The sad reality is that you’re not alone. One study found that 42% of employees spend half of their workday on busywork. Another study by Visier found 43%.
Sales Wolf Blog
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Think you know your people? Think again. Talent misalignment is costing you millions—maybe more. Let’s get straight to the point: if you are leading a team without understanding how your people think, you are setting yourself up for failure. Ray Dalio built Bridgewater into one of the largest hedge funds in the world by mastering this skill, and it is time you did too.
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Leading Blog
OCTOBER 24, 2024
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. Errol Doebler on being in the moment: “Emotions are simply a record of the past. We spend an inordinate amount of time on our negative emotions of the past, and, as such, we’ve become neurochemically addicted to them.
Leading in Context
OCTOBER 30, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton Dialogue is a powerful tool for developing ethical organizations. Workplace issues are complex and opinions vary about what ethical leadership means. This combination creates a kind of “murky uncertainty” that keeps leaders from giving us their best, most ethical performance.
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 18, 2024
Fatigue isn’t overwork; it’s failure to refuel. You go dry when you pour out more than you pour in. You can’t flourish on empty. Life management is energy management. Depletion is inevitable apart from intervention. Energy flows out naturally; it’s restored intentionally. Create a refueling schedule. Learn more.
Next Level Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2024
Repeatedly answering the same questions or dealing with recurring requests can prevent you from tackling high-value strategic work. If this sounds familiar, you’re likely applying temporary fixes to broader, systemic problems. Take it from a recent coaching session I had with an executive, an attorney turned strategist, overwhelmed by daily interruptions from staff with “legal issues”—many of which weren’t legal issues at all or were minor enough not to warrant escalation
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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr
Sales Wolf Blog
OCTOBER 20, 2024
Scaling Leaders Do Not Dodge Uncomfortable Realities. What if I told you the biggest threat to your company’s growth is not your competitors, but your refusal to confront the brutal facts? Leaders who hope to scale their business who dodge uncomfortable realities, seeking comfort and validation, are sabotaging their future and that of their stakeholders.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2024
C ULTURE has the power to inspire and unite an entire workforce in the service of common goals. It can create meaning and purpose and a positive day-to-day experience while ensuring that the company is well positioned to meet its business objectives. But when an organization’s culture is negative and dysfunctional, it has the opposite effect. A study from MIT/Sloan found that a toxic culture is by far the strongest predictor of employee attrition.
Leading in Context
OCTOBER 23, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton Workplace issues are complex and opinions vary about the right thing to do in challenging situations. This complexity and uncertainty combine to create a “murky uncertainty” that may keep people from giving us their best, most ethical performance.
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Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 14, 2024
You didn't wake up thinking, "I want other people to run my life." Healthy people want power to make decisions. Normal people want a voice. Dominance perverts a healthy urge for power. Servant leaders lift themselves and others. Your superpower is servant-power. Here's how.
Great Results Team Building
OCTOBER 23, 2024
While a few hours of laughter and small talk may be a welcome break from daily routines, the best team-building activities go far beyond fun. As a team leader or business owner, you don’t just want to entertain your team—you want to create a lasting impact. Truly meaningful experiences influence your team’s attitudes and actions, build deeper trust, and improve how well they collaborate long after the event is over.
Sales Wolf Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2024
The Fifth Rockefeller Habit - Knowledge is Power In the high-stakes world of business leadership, knowledge is power, and one of the most valuable sources of knowledge is right under your nose: your employees. The fifth Rockefeller Habit underscores a simple yet often underutilized truth—your employees are the eyes and ears of the organization. They are in the trenches, facing daily challenges and opportunities that leaders may be blind to.
Lead from Within
OCTOBER 25, 2024
Office politics can be a major source of stress and frustration. It can decrease productivity, lower morale, and increase turnover rates. As an executive leadership coach, I have seen the negative impact of office politics on company culture. Completely eliminating office politics may be impossible. However, I have found that strategies can help minimize its effects.
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.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2024
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. Brian Solis on keeping an open mind: “I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered anyone who self-identifies as ‘close-minded.’ But the fact is, our minds have been built to resist new information, especially when it refutes our prior experience or goes against our beliefs.
Leading in Context
OCTOBER 9, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton Since not everyone believes in the human soul, it's not typically going to appear on a list of "self care" items people tackle like exercise, sleep or diet. In this post, I will make the case for why it's important to tend the human soul, and how to do that. Start by watching this video of Jane Goodall as she talks about the soul.
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Relationship building feels like a pain in the butt when your schedule is packed with deadlines. But healthy relationships make life better. You can’t force people to connect. But you can engage in behaviors that make strong relationships more likely.
Great Results Team Building
OCTOBER 30, 2024
A lack of conflict on your team can be a real problem. When teams put their head in the sand or bite their tongues regarding issues, that can be a sign of a need for more psychological safety and trust between team members. Because conflict is inevitable in any team. But how you handle it can make all the difference. The ability to navigate and resolve conflicts effectively is crucial to maintaining morale, fostering collaboration, and driving productivity within your team or organization.
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Every company wants to be a leader in innovation, but how can you tell if your company is really innovating or just going through the motions? See the 5 signs you might be faking innovation and what to do if you are.
Sales Wolf Blog
OCTOBER 1, 2024
The clock is ticking. Your company is growing fast, but let me ask you this: do you have the right leadership framework in place to sustain this growth, or are you relying on blind ambition alone? Scaling is not just about revenue, new hires, or expanded operations. It is about vision, commitment, and—most critically—leadership. Not just any leadership, but transformational leadership.
leaderCommunicator
OCTOBER 17, 2024
No matter the industry, losing great talent is one of the toughest challenges for leaders and employees. Not only is there the question of trying to fill that person’s role, but the associated work of training and onboarding a new team member, plus the potential for disruption to the business and added work for those who remain. In some organizations, when departures are widespread, the challenges are naturally greater – and even harder to overcome.
Leading Blog
OCTOBER 7, 2024
T REND HUNTER CEO Jeremy Gutsche says the most important trait we need for our fast-moving future is the ability to change. He wrote Create the Future + The Innovation Handbook: Tactics for Disruptive Thinking (two books in one) to help us. “We are more dependent on our past decisions than we like to admit. Once a path is set, we often walk down it blindly, failing to question why it was put there to begin with and whether a better path might exist.
Leading in Context
OCTOBER 2, 2024
By Linda Fisher Thornton Taking the ethical path and showing others the way does not just involve the things leaders do that we can observe. It also involves the hidden things they do, the mental work they do to make good decisions that add value for others and not just themselves. Ethical leaders seek shared value. They look for ways to meet the needs of others while they champion their own projects and ideas.
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
Leadership Freak
OCTOBER 2, 2024
The dark side of leading is being haunted by dark memories. Painful experiences shape you. Painful experiences are headwinds at first. When pain achieves its purpose, it propels you forward. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” Herman Hesse More.
Great Results Team Building
OCTOBER 7, 2024
The best leaders and managers understand that investing in a leadership coach is essential for achieving clarity and improved performance. As a manager or leader, your ultimate goal is to drive your team towards success. But the path to excellence is often blocked by challenges that can be difficult to navigate alone. Just as elite athletes rely on quality coaches to refine their skills, maximize their potential, and achieve peak performance, leaders can benefit immensely from a skilled mentor.
Lead from Within
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Leading a team that is resistant to your leadership can be one of the most challenging aspects of being a leader. Whether you’re taking over an existing team or forming a new one, it’s crucial to win over their trust and support. Without the backing of your team, it becomes incredibly difficult to achieve your goals and drive success. As an executive coach, I have worked with numerous leaders who have struggled with teams that were initially resistant to their leadership.
QAspire
OCTOBER 3, 2024
Language plays a critical role in fostering psychological safety. Let me illustrate this by two contrasting examples. In one instance, a project manager failed to deliver on an agreed scope, and when senior leaders intervened, the manager was harshly asked, “Who’s standing on the fault line? Whose salary should we deduct for this?” This punitive language created a hostile environment, discouraging openness and learning.
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