Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 4, 2013
'Many readers write to me and disclose, “I hate my job.” You’ve gone from skipping to work, to dragging your butt. Little annoyances mushroom in the dung of frustration. Reasons vary: a witchy boss, unrealistic expectations, downsizing pressures, stagnating gifts, unrecognized contributions. You’ve considered quitting, but that’s a bold move and another post.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Sales meetings are an important process to organizing and motivating staff in order to increase sales and maintain business relationships. Ideally these meetings should be productive and inspirational. However, they can also easily veer off-course, lose focus and in turn, discourage employees. Following a few of these tips will help to improve the productivity of [.
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Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 15, 2013
'I believe leadership shoud be more human, because it paves the way for an atmosphere of trust and a culture of accountability, two absolute essentials for success. To put it even more simply, a leader needs to be two things that are seemingly at opposite ends of the spectrum: Tough, AND Nice. Nice , in the ablility to nurture, coach, inspire, respect, and truly care for those you lead.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. One question I hear from executives is this: How can I tell if people want to follow me? The answer to that question lies in your example. The way you communicate, challenge, plan and evaluate. Here are five questions to ask yourself to check if you are on track. Thoughts? Follow me on Twitter @JohnBaldoni.
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Michael Lee Stallard
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'#6 Seek the Unique - When meeting someone for the first time, ask questions to identify something that is both unique and positive about them. Doing this will make you more likely to remember them and what differentiates them from others. While teaching a leadership seminar in Boston, a participant from the American Red Cross told me that Elizabeth Dole, the former president of the Red Cross, practiced this and Ms.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'Condescending: having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority. Most managers would be shocked if they found out they were seen as condescending. If confronted by a brave employee, they would probably deny it (“that’s not what I meant”, or “you’re being too sensitive”). However, even decent managers sometimes say things to their employees, with good intentions, that may come across as condescending.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development In today’s world, we are connected through various forms of communication channels. Emails, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ continue to drive what leadership instigator Seth Godin termed, “The connection economy.” The world is truly smaller. You can literally connect with someone in another continent in less than a minute without spending a dime.
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 29, 2013
'I fell in love with road maps when I was 4 years old, paging through my dad’s Rand McNally atlas in the backseat of our Oldsmobile Jetstar 88 as we made our annual trips to northern Minnesota to visit my grandparents and extended family. (Quick aside – it was quite a cool car for its day, check out the pic). It was a two day trip, so I had plenty of time to do my version of “route planning” Even then, it didn’t take me long to start looking for short cuts that my
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . In this leadership interview, Mike Myatt of N2growth interviews Brad Lomenick of Catalyst. They discuss Brad’s latest book, “The Catalyst Leader,” Catalyst Conferences, Leader Cast, and other leadership topics.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2013
'Part of the reason we get stuck and part of the reason we lack the feedback we need is that we are surrounded by the familiar. The familiar that continuously reminds us that we are doing the best we can and that we are doing it right. We are mired in the familiar when what we need is the strange. We need strangers. “These strangers,” writes Alan Gregerman in The Necessity of Strangers , “whom we quickly choose to ignore or form an opinion about, are the people who force us out of our comfort zo
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Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
'Guest post from August Turak : On March 31, 2000, my partners and I sold our company. Though the financial incentives were more than generous, giving up control over an enterprise that we had patiently built from scratch was not an easy decision. What clinched the deal for me was the almost instant friendship I had developed with the CEO of the acquiring company.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'The secret to moving and shaking is stirring. Anyone in power can shake and intimidate. Real leaders stir hearts and minds toward powerful possibility. Growing leaders long to be stirred, not shaken. Shaken Not Stirred Joe was visibly shaken as he left the readout with the senior eam. His results were solid, and he was [.] The post Shaken Not Stirred appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 5, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Reviews How many of you have had a mentor who helped you learn the ropes in your new job, who took on the role of teacher and demonstrated the “right” way to do things? Me too! In fact, that was the way mentorship was presented to me back in my previous life. And, it turns out [.].
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 1, 2013
'You’ve put in your time, done all the work, and you’re ready to climb up to the next rung on your career ladder. It’s time to get that promotion, and move up to a leadership role. A role that will give you a new title, a raise in pay, and something much more valuable – a chance to make a difference, and show the way. The question is, are you ready?
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N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
'By Brian Layer , Chair, Organizational Development, N2growth. The U.S. response to Syrian chemical weapons dominates this week’s news. Thankfully, most of our problems are simpler than the President’s, but the Syria puzzle exposes the risk of one leadership tactic–leaders who draw red lines are likely to get stained in the process. We draw these lines for a variety of reasons but mostly because it’s easy.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 2, 2013
'Robert Murray believes that everything you need to be a great leader is already inside you. “It’s in your DNA.” I also agree that many people graduating from our schools today do not have the ability to think critically. “Problem finders are everywhere,” writes Murray. “Innovative problem solvers are rare. Imagination and thinking outside the box is scarce.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
'Welcome to the September edition of the Leadership Development Carnival ! For this month’s edition, I asked an all-star cadre of leadership development bloggers, authors, and consultants to submit an answer to the following question: “We all know that individual development plans (IDPs) need to be tailored for each leader. However - if you had to recommend ONE THING that every leader should have in their in IDP, what would it be?
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
'I’m sick of being told how to win the hearts and minds of millenials. I’ve never bought into the notion that an entire generation of human beings falls into a prototype we can master. I’ve been brewing this sentiment for decades. I thought the HR meetings I attended as a young HR leader (charts [.] The post How to be a Successful Intrapreneur (Even If You’re Old) 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.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Students, recent graduates and those new to the workplace have grown up in the digital age, and as a result think nothing of spending around two hours on their smartphones, using an average of six apps a day. This ‘Generation Y’ doesn’t have to adapt to new ways of working or learning, they do it [.].
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 22, 2013
'It’s getting harder and harder for entrepreneurs to create a product or service that is truly “ brand new “ That is, something revolutionary that creates a market of its own. However, there still is ample opportunity to figure out a way to do what I call “threading the needle” – creating a tiny crack, or distinction, that forces it to stand out even in a crowded existing market.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 3, 2013
'By John Baldoni , Chair, Leadership Development, N2growth. Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. That is Rule No. 10 that Elmore Leonard , a gifted storyteller and author of some 46 novels, posited in an essay on writing for the New York Times in 2001. Leonard died this month and since his passing has brought forth boatloads of praise for this gifted storyteller.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 23, 2013
'This is a post by August Turak, author of Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks : One CEO''s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity. In a marketplace gone global, productive partnerships are more crucial than ever. Partnering has become so critical that the word "coopetition" had to be coined to describe companies that partner in some areas while competing in others.
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Michael Lee Stallard
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'Who experiences greater levels of stress: management or employees? Managers seem to think they do, but hard research data makes it clear: Employees experience greater stress, and that affects the company’s bottom line. It doesn’t have to be that way: Effective leaders can create an organizational culture that reduces “killer stress” and encourages “challenge stress,” which produces gains in productivity and performance.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
'What do you appreciate most about each member of your team. Have you told them? The other night I heard a fantastic leadership best practice. Every time the leader has someone new join his team, he takes the time to write down “why I hired you,” frames it, and gives it to the new team [.] The post What I Appreciate Most About Your Leadership appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
'Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership I’ve come to notice some warning signs in my speech. These are words that help me identify when I’m not being a character-based leader. Whenever I use these words, I’m avoiding a character attribute that is valuable to me. For each one, I try to let them trigger me to change my thoughts and my [.].
Terry Starbucker
SEPTEMBER 8, 2013
'“You are beaten. It is useless to resist.” Man, Darth Vader was a bad dude. I remember sitting in the movie theater back in 1980, watching the Empire Strikes Back for the 15th time, and still getting riled up as this classic villan was standing over young Luke Skywalker, trying to turn him to the “Dark Side” In fact, to this day, Vader’s theme music, that ” da-da-da, da-ta-da, da-ta-da “, still runs in my head when there is trouble ahead, or a nemisis
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
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N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
'By Mike Myatt , Chief Executive Officer, N2growth . Leadership not deeply rooted in a foundation of truth is leadership destined to fail. The reality is the best leaders are also absolutists when it comes to truth – they view truth as a non-negotiable. However in the wake of some of the recent, and highly publicized business, financial, and political scandals, it’s not too difficult to understand how some may actually question the existence of truth in business or government.
Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2013
'Gaps in what we know can trouble us for a time, but gaps in what we know about ourselves and others can truly keep us up at night. We are unpredictable, messy, complicated, illogical, and fallible. That will never change, “but through a commitment to self-awareness we can all become more highly attuned to the subtle and not-so-subtle red flags that sometimes pull us off course.
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 27, 2013
'Yesterday I found what is already one of my all time favorite New Yorker cartoons. I pulled the current issue out of the mailbox, started flipping through it and saw the classic guy on a therapist’s couch. The caption was “I did seize the day. But then it seized me back and used some kind of jujitsu move to flip me on my ass.”. Click headline to continue.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
'You work hard to select the right candidate. Missing the mark is emotionally and financially expensive. Take a deeper look at your processes. The techniques you use to find Ms. Right, may be leaving you with Mr. Just Okay. Don’t settle for good, attract great. 4 Surprising Reasons You’re Hiring the Wrong Candidate 1. It’s [.] The post 4 Surprising Reasons You’re Hiring the Wrong Candidate appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
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