Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is all about creating connection. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival follows up on this month’s with a theme all about team time. The question for the month is: What practical tips do you have for working well with a team and building a sense of teamwork?

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “The key to leading today is influence, not authority.” Ken Blanchard. So you have a boss. Does that mean you just sit back, follow orders and float down the river of life? No! Just because you are not in charge doesn’t mean you can’t be a leader.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The first thing you’ve got to let go in order to be a great leader is the stereotype in your head. Good leaders come in every shape and size. Some are indeed smartly dressed, tall and authoritative. Others, however, might be short, introverted or less domineering in their approach. Leaders come in every shape and form. Trying to fit yourself into the stereotypical role might end up selling you short, as you actually hide away your best skills and try to do things in a way that doesn’t suit you.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

In a fast-paced and ultra-competitive business world, it’s rare when a leader can get immediate feedback about how they are doing. Annual, semi-annual, and even monthly performance evaluations and “360 Degree” feedback from your bosses, peers and teammates just don’t have the same impact, especially when it comes to the quality of the leadership itself.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

B EING A LEADER often means making far-reaching decisions that require major investments of time, resources, and energy. Complete certainty is seldom possible. Competing agendas often complicate the process. The future is never something you can take for granted. So you need to be as dispassionate as possible in how you examine opportunities and vulnerabilities.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The following is a guest piece by Terri Williams. “The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower A lot has changed since Eisenhower marched first into war and then into the White House.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Leadership to me means duty, honor, country. It means character, and it means listening from time to time. -George W. Bush. This month, I continue my series on successful leadership transition. If you missed the first part, y ou can go back and read it here.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It was 1994 and I was in Indiana, attending the National Thespian Convention with my high school theater mates. We were losing ourselves in plays and musicals from some of the nation’s best. “Please excuse our mess, we’re remodeling.” This line had just been spoken by the actor playing Mr. Mushnik, a main character in the musical production of Little Shop of Horrors.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

As soon as we are labeled as a “leader”, especially one in the executive suite, there is a very strong tendency to put ourselves on a pedestal. After all, we are on a higher rung on the ladder, right? If we’re not careful, this “higher level” thinking can also have an effect on how we interact with our teammates. Suddenly, we’re more aloof, more reserved.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

You aren’t fit to lead if your greatest strength is seeing weakness. Smart talented leaders find it easy to point out inadequacies, describe what’s wrong, and explain disagreements.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

No matter what field or industry you work in, one thing that all leaders share in common is the necessity of having an extensive toolkit at their disposal. Of course, while there are various technical skills and aptitudes that are required for leadership positions in various industries, one thing that every leader needs to succeed in their role is to be an effective communicator.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

She looked right at me and yelled across the gym floor with conviction, “You are a dancer!” Now there are a lot of labels I’m ready to buy: “You are a leader!” I hope so. “You are a Mom!” Well, that one could go both ways, couldn’t it? Anything from “Good job, Mom” to “Is this your kid?

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “I am not concerned that you have fallen; I am concerned that you arise.”. Abraham Lincoln. “99% of excuses come from people who make excuses”. George Washington. Does anybody send cards to the President on President’s Day?

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

There are hundreds of thousands of resources that tell people about what it takes to be a leader. Everyone has an opinion on how it should be done. Studies have been conducted to prove that leadership is achievable. Former leaders are emulated. Current leaders serve as inspiration. But leadership is a combination of some tangible things and some less tangible qualities.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

About six years ago when I started my post-doc programme at Harvard Business School and contacted several top executive search firms, the majority of them told me that social media does not affect their work at all. I was surprised and a little bit dissappointed, because my goal was to study how online networking platforms influence talent search activities.

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

You aren’t fit to lead if your greatest strength is seeing weakness. Smart talented leaders find it easy to point out inadequacies, describe what’s wrong, and explain disagreements.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Leaders face an ever-growing number of challenges leading their organization in today’s faster-paced, increasingly interconnected world. One of the more common issues a leader has to address is dealing with change. In most cases, when we talk about change, the focus is often on the process – of what steps we need to implement to ensure we achieve a successful outcome.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Oh he’s good. Very good. He gets sh__ done. It’s hard to argue with the results. So what if he’s ruffling a few feathers… with his team, with his peers, with HR, with IT? The better he does, the better you look. And so you choose to look the other way, shrug your shoulders and chalk it up to the cost of genius. And that may work.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. The most effective way to do it, is to do it. Amelia Earhart. Have you ever paused to consider that in every great story or notable achievement there is a footnote behind the headline? The footnote is the hard work, sweat, tears, failures and disappointments that went into preparation for the main event.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

There are so many ways we get in our own way. You might know a team member who regularly pipes up with, “We tried that 5 years ago and it didn’t work.” Maybe you have your own go-to excuse, like, “That’s the way we’ve always done it.”. Of course, it never seems like an excuse at the time. One of my favorites is, “That’s above my pay grade.” To me it’s only another version of “It’s not my job.”.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Civility costs nothing, and buys everything. — M. W. Montagu. C IVILITY has a way of winning people over and garnering influence. Civility isn’t just the absence of incivility. In Mastering Civility , Christine Porath explains that “Civility in the fullest sense requires something more: positive gestures of respect, dignity, courtesy, or kindness that lift people up.

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Tanveer Naseer

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece about 3 fundamental storytelling elements leaders should employ to successfully drive change. Now when it comes to using storytelling to help describe our vision or change initiative, the common tendency is to frame our story within the hero on a quest narrative, given how it’s the decisions and choices we make through our leadership that ultimately impact whether we collectively succeed or fail.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Yesterday a high-potential, high-performing VP called: Karin, the thing is, I know I’ve been accomplishing a lot. And I shouldn’t need this. But, I just wish one of the big guys would just say “thank you.” HR and my peers have told me “Oh, if you haven’t heard anything, you can be sure you’re doing just fine. if you’re screwing up, that will be perfectly clear.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Talent wins gam es, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. ” – M ichael Jordan. Students of leadership are no strangers to the concept of situational leadership. It’s a leadership theory developed by Paul Hersey and Ken Blanchard that essentially states that there’s no single “best” style of leadership.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Welcome to the February 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! In a recent webinar, Jack Quarles, author of Expensive Sentences , talked about the trap of “we’ve always done it that way” and how that can adversely impact productivity and morale. In reviewing this month’s contributions, I see a willingness to put aside “we’ve always done it that way” and risk “what if we tried this?

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Career Advancement

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

“Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson~. Caleb, a manager in his workplace, often found himself fumbling for words. He wanted to learn how to make the most of his daily interactions with employees, even the brief ones. He reached out to several mentors in leadership positions.

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Great Leadership By Dan

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Guest post by Ted Frank Scientists say our attention spans are now shorter than a goldfish, so it’s more important than ever to make our presentations as engaging and compelling as possible. How can we do that? One way is by taking cues from the place that can still captivate us for hours at a time: the movies. Storytelling: In the way execs have wanted it all along Movie-style storytelling is actually a perfect fit for corporate presentations because it’s built on the same principles we’ve all

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

There are always good reasons to play it safe. Repeating the past may be painful, but at least it’s predictable. Fear is the reason today is like yesterday. Every meaningful act requires courage.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

We had not discussed politics since the election, treading warily with each other, neither of us wanting to trigger an unpleasant scene. But tension was just under the surface and seeping out in other forms. Since the US presidential election, many people have experienced tension with a close friend or family member whose views are […]. The post Dialogue Bridges the Divide appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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