Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'Executives are naturally a tough audience. They’ve got limited time, competing priorities, information overload, demanding bosses, and pressure to make great decisions quickly. Your job is to give them all the information they need in a way they can easily digest. Most of us have stories of times when the message we tried to send was not the message received, and the tidy PowerPoint presentation spiraled downward in a frenzied fiasco. 9 Mistakes To Avoid When Presenting to Executives. 1.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'“Thunderbirds Check…. Two, Three, Four, Five, Six”. “Lets Run’em Up…”. “Smoke On – Ready…. Now”. “Smoke Off – Ready… Now” “Release Brakes – Ready…. Now”. With these simple commands, Thunderbird 1 initiates the roar of afterburners which thrust the Air Force Thunderbird demonstration team skyward. With high-G, high-speed, split-second accuracy and precision, the men and women of the USAF Thunderbirds leave spectators spellbound evertime.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'I am honored to host the December installment of the Leadership Development Carnival, a collection of helpful leadership advice from top bloggers. This month’s carnival doesn’t adhere to any particular theme, but rather features content on a variety of leadership topics and issues. Take a moment to click through each of the great submissions, and be sure to share this collection of posts with someone you believe would benefit from the advice. .

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'By Grant Wattie. President, N2Growth Australia. The Red Badge of Courage is a novel by Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound, a “red badge of courage,” to counteract his cowardice.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Asked to define what a great leader is, many people might say something like “Great leaders have integrity” or “Great leaders inspire people” or “Great leaders lead by service and setting the right example.”. And each one of those answers is correct in its way. At its root, leadership is a collection of competencies. This list outlines the most central of those competencies.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 7, 2014

'My Dad used to love wearing trucker hats. He was a carpenter – that is, when he wasn’t working full time for the county sheriff’s department – and he had a closet full of cool hats to wear out on his jobs. He loved helping friends and neighbors that way, hanging a door, installing a window, fixing a roof, repairing siding, or even building an entire garage (I was with him on that adventure , in the summer of 1974).

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 12, 2014

'Leaders of character shine! “Learn from others’ mistakes, you don’t have time to make the all yourself” GK Chesterton. From the time we’re very young we’re presented with a list of “don’ts” to set boundaries. To be sure young people get the lion’s’ share of the boundary setting, but every society and organization has its list of what you can’t do.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 7, 2014

'#62 Provide Autonomy in Goal-Setting. As much as possible, let your direct reports establish their Top Five annual goals after communicating that their goals need to align with your Top Five. Talk through the goals with each employee to find SHARED goals that will advance your organization’s and the individual employee’s interests. It may not be possible to find a perfect set of goals that meet the interests of all so make the effort to find the best possible set of goals and you will be reward

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'By Damian D. “Skipper” Pitts. Chair, Organizational Development, N2Growth. The extension process within the Crisis Leadership & Performance-Driven Execution framework’s Leadership GPS System evolves from the new reality in business analytics and organizational design. Preemptive Crisis Analytics, an extension of the Five Ws Agenda within the Leadership GPS System, examines incoming data and decision sciences to increase productivity, efficiency and effectiveness for leaders an

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'We recently published an Aha Amplifier social media enabled eBook called Bryan Kramer & Leadtail On The Influencers Behind The Brands We Love that we’re very excited about. The eBook is based on a study that PureMatter and Leadtail collaborated on. In Behind The Brand: 30 Influencers That Drive Social Media For The Brands We Love , the companies analyzed the behavioral data of 30 successful influencers on social media such as digital executives who influence digital and social progra

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 28, 2014

'I always appreciate this time of year because a new year is approaching, which gives us a chance to reflect on our leadership over the past 360+ days, and make important resolutions for improvement in the future. While many of these resolutions will focus on the words we need to use (both in speech and on paper) to be better leaders, I’d ask you to think today about the other, more subtle messages that we send every day through our actions (or inactions) in the workplace.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'“What’s the best way for John to improve?” I asked, one of those coachy-interviewing questions people like me say to bosses and peers of folks we’re working to support. “Honestly, I wish he would just stop trying so hard to improve, and just lead. We’ve all given him plenty of advice. He’s taken a gazillion courses.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Like all Americans, I followed the congressional proceedings on ISIS with great interest. Of particular note was the testimony of retired Marine General Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis, former Commander of US Central Command. If Gen Mattis thinks we will probably need boots on the ground, well I believe him. Now let me tell you why I say this. I have immense respect for Gen Mattis, personal respect he earned in the early days of our Post 9/11 war in Afghanistan.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 11, 2014

'Guest post from Rosalinda Randall : Are you ready to consistently set a good example? Can you be engaging, good-humored, tactful, available, considerate, courteous, honest, reliable, and understanding, every day, all day? Being an effective leader is a task not everyone can do. At least not without guidance from mentors, experience, desire to think of others first, and the will to absorb his or her staff’s positive and negative traits.

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Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 14, 2014

'#63 Celebrate High Five Moments. In Fired Up or Burned Out , we wrote about Cranium, the games company, and how it is intentional about designing games so that people will experience “high five moments.” One form of physical touch that can be appropriate in the workplace (depending upon the context) is to give someone a “hive five” or “fist bump” when they perform well.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2014

'With all the juggling and balancing of being a parent and doing your leadership day job, it’s easy to feel like you can never do enough. After all, you only have so many hours in a day, and on most days someone gets the short stick. If you’re like me, there are days the guilt comes on so strong you wonder if you’re trying to do too much.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2014

'The 5 Choices is a nuts and bolts solution to greater productivity. Ironically, while we live in a time of unprecedented opportunity, we spend almost half—40%—of our time attention and energy on unimportant or irrelevant activities almost insuring that we miss the possibilities all around us. Not only does that leave us feeling empty, but we end the day uncertain that we’ve accomplished what we needed to, worry about things left undone, and end up dreading the day ahead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 1, 2014

'The band had travelled 13 hours on 14 buses for this once in a lifetime experience. Now slime was falling from the sky. The 500 piece band had planned to hold their final rehearsal on the fields of Newark airport. Now they were stuffed into the Marriott ballroom. It was raining, sleeting and blowing on their parade. David Starnes, the band’s director, stood on the makeshift podium– a pile of chairs– on the far edge of the ballroom,”I know this is not ideal, but sometimes

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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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General Leadership

DECEMBER 10, 2014

'“Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible.” Ronnie Oldham. Expectation management is critical – at home, at work, in business, wherever it is that you walk – properly managing expectations is a difference maker when it comes to results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'Guest post by Peter T. Coleman and Robert Ferguson : Great leaders are not afraid of conflict. They put it to work. Conflict in an organization is a lot like fire. When it sparks, it can intensify, spread and lead to pain, loss, and irreparable damage. It can distract, distance, derail, and occasionally destroy opportunities and relationships. It makes most people anxious, and as a result it is often mishandled and made worse.

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Tanveer Naseer

DECEMBER 9, 2014

'With the arrival of this last month of the year, I’ve been finding myself in a mixed state of mental exhaustion and reflection, which considering the work involved in bringing my first leadership book out into the world alongside my regular workload is quite understandable. What’s interesting, though, is how many of the leaders I’ve spoken and worked with over the past year are also in this dualistic state.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2014

'My team and I will soon pass an important milestone as a company. It’s a milestone I identified and have been looking to achieve by year’s end. If I look at it from a big picture, strictly business perspective, I would have reason to downplay or even feel disappointed about my results as a business owner so far. However, when I view the results and this milestone through a larger perspective – through the lens of our company values and my own personal values – I have a d

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2014

'No one likes to be uncomfortable. But, there is a correlation between our growth and success in life and the discomfort we’re willing to impose on ourselves. Growth necessarily takes us outside of our comfort zone. In a world of rapid and continual change, radical personal growth is required. We need to get used to it. If we are going to stay relevant, we are going to be uncomfortable.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2014

'It’s almost always easier to say yes than no–in the short run. Yes, it’s okay for you to treat me that way. Yes, I’ll stay late tonight and miss dinner again– after all my wife won’t say no. Yes, it’s okay skip my workout. Yes, your work is fine (even though it could be better.). A close second to expectation violations , the inability to say no is one of the top sources of intrapersonal and interpersonal conflict in organizations.

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General Leadership

DECEMBER 2, 2014

'Digit Murphy, David Webb, Matthew T. Fritz, John E. Michel, Hilary Knight. It’s that exciting time of the month again when you have the opportunity to interact with us LIVE on SiriusXM Patriot Channel 125 at 9pm Eastern (8 Central, 7 Mountain, 6 Pacific) Wednesday, 3 Dec 2014. This special “12-Talents” broadcast will feature David Webb, newly-retired General John E.

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Modern Servant Leader

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'Jolly old Santa Claus has a reason to be so happy. After all, he only works one day a year and gets credit for all the gifts his elves made and the work his reindeer do. In return, what do the reindeer and elves get? Left over cookie crumbs, some carrots, and one hit movie vs. dozens for Saint Nick. Santa Claus is really a bad boss, here are several examples of his poor leadership behavior: Santa Claus the Bad Boss.

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Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

DECEMBER 23, 2014

'Many of us find our energy dissipates at this time of year when the days are short and the nights are long. Instead of trying to muscle your way through it, here’s how to maximize the energy you do have. Even when your energy is lower than usual, there will be periods in the day when it is higher than others. It’s important to identify these times so you can plan for them.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2014

'“He made me mad.” “They irritated me.” “That ticked me off!” To initiate means to start something; to cause the beginning. A reaction is never a beginning. It is always a second action. When we react to things we give some previous action or person the ability to dictate to us. We let them dictate our behavior or our attitude. One of my favorite qualities of leaders is how leaders choose their response.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2014

'Efficiency always seems like the right answer. It’s reflexive. Faster. Easier. Who doesn’t want that? And yet while efficiency is critical and often a competitive advantage, it is a problem when it becomes a mindset that is applied to everything we do; when it becomes an excuse for our lack of real connection. Faster and easier is not always better.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 12, 2014

'It had been an insane but productive year of game-changing projects and really long hours. I was proud, but exhausted. We had our final push just as the holidays were approaching, and I was more stressed then ever. My phone rang and Laura, my boss, told me she needed my accomplishments a week earlier than expected. I was beyond annoyed. Laura knew what we had done.

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