Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 3, 2015

I’m not sure why so many people in positions of power think sarcasm is a leadership competency. Sure a quick wit, used well, can energize the team and lighten the load. But a sarcastic remark meant to belittle those who don’t dare fight back diminishes confidence, degrades trust, and leaves folks looking for the nearest escape route. In fact, an audience member asked me again last week (anonymously through my polling app) , “Can you talk about the danger of sarcasm?

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General Leadership

AUGUST 31, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.”.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 24, 2015

Have you ever noticed how people tend to herd into groups and stay in those groups? Do you notice that most people “seek their own” in your organization and stay in those comfortable groups? Have you ever been frustrated that your people don’t seem to cross the aisle, or the building, and readily build relationships among each other? Getting your folks integrated with each other is a challenge for most leaders.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 23, 2015

On December 25, 2005, it started this way : Hello blogland, starbucker here – I figured that Christmas Day was the best time as ever to start doing this. Yes, I always tend to look at the glass as “half full” – call me an eternal optimist, call me a fool, but I find it’s the best way to live one’s life with the least amount of angst. I hate angst. Now I wish I could always see the bright side of everything, but hey, that’s why I need to blog – to share perspectives and learn from other experienc

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 9, 2015

#97 Give People Time to Finish Speaking Before You Begin. Make sure there is a pause in the conversation so that you don’t cut someone off from what they were trying to communicate. Don’t interrupt! This is the ninety-seventh post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 28, 2015

Fairness is Overrated is a solid leadership primer on what it takes to create a healthy culture day-in and day-out. Tim Stevens comes from a Church leadership perspective. However, his 52 principles are applicable anywhere because people are people with the same issues—only the peer pressure changes (unfortunately). The 52 principles are organized around four key areas: Be a leader worth following, Find the right people, Build a healthy culture and Lead confidently through a crisis.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 21, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success. Henry Ford. As a freshman engineering student, I remember vividly the day my professor announced we needed to know the answer before we performed the calculations.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 12, 2015

Many of the organizations that I have worked in this year are involved in dramatic change. They are doing more to meet the increasing demands of customers in order to compete with companies within their industry. They are implementing new productivity standards, causing them to measure more effectively the behaviors of their employees and the return on investment for the implementation of newly defined competencies.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 9, 2015

“I never want to grow up.” – Terry “Starbucker” St. Marie, August 3, 2008. This is the second in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!) post coming up on August 23rd. As always, I’m eternally grateful that you’re here today to read this post and join my More Human Leadership journey.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 2, 2015

#96 Treat People as Partners. Treat people as equals. Never speak down to anyone or intentionally ignore him or her. This is the ninety-sixth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others. Although the language, attitudes and behaviors focus on application in the workplace, you will see that they also apply to your relationships at home and in the community.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 26, 2015

Your strengths will get you in the door, but to make progress you are going to have to become more of who you are and draw on your hidden strengths. Hidden strengths are not weaknesses. They are capacities you have that have yet to be recognized, developed and utilized. They become your Learned Strengths. Your strengths and weaknesses need to be managed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 10, 2015

Great commercials, strong PR, a brilliant social media strategy all warrant effort when building your company’s reputation. But there’s no better PR than an army of loyal employees living and breathing your brand. You know the type– folks with enthusiasm bursting from their veins–talking up your products and services with their friends at every bar, baptism and bat mitzvah they attend. “No, I’m telling you this works, I’ve seen it from the inside!

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General Leadership

AUGUST 7, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” Winston Churchill. How do you listen as a leader? Have you ever really spent much time as a leader thinking about how you listen?

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 31, 2015

My first job as a manager ended up being much more of a lesson than I had hoped. My prior leadership experience was limited to my fraternity or the Jaycees. In my jobs, I had only had 2 or 3 bosses by the time I became a boss so I made things up as I went. Many of the things I made up were mistakes. The trucking business experiences high turnover, but ours was even high for the industry.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 16, 2015

This is the last in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!) post coming up next Sunday, on August 23rd. I’m so grateful you’re here reading this today, and I hope you’ll join me again next week to help me celebrate this milestone (to make it easier for you please be my guest to sign up for email delivery of my posts in the box on the right side bar).

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 23, 2015

#99 Read a Book Together Quarterly. Periodically select a business book for your direct reports or team members to read together. Consider reading one book every quarter. Meet to identify ideas from the book that you can implement. Some examples include The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace , Pour Your Heart Into It , and It’s Not About the Coffee.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 1, 2015

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in August. Humans Are Underrated : What High Achievers Know That Brilliant Machines Never Will by Geoff Colvin. Unthinkable : The Culture and Politics of Getting Innovation Wrong by Tom Hopkins. Louder than Words : Harness the Power of Your Authentic Voice by Todd Henry. Leading Continuous Change : Navigating Churn in the Real World by Bill Pasmore.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 5, 2015

Nothing will improve your team’s productivity faster than better communication. Having a deliberate process and cadence of communication will save hours of lost time, productivity and drama. If you don’t have a formal plan, or haven’t spoken with your team recently about how communication is going, it’s worth taking the time to communicate about communication.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.”. John F. Kennedy. In his TED talk from February 2011 Retired Army General Stanley McChrystal talks about how after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 he had to become a different leader, a leader who in some ways had to completely relearn how he did things.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 4, 2015

I’m a working musician on the side. I’ve been playing music professionally since the early ’70’s. It is difficult to make a living in music, as much today as it was forty years ago. The band I’m in here in Denver has been together since 2006. It’s a team of skilled musicians with shared values and common goals. We all have day jobs – but we commit a great deal of time and energy to this band.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 2, 2015

In anticipation of my 1,000th post coming up on August 23rd, I wanted to share a few of my favorites over the past 10 years. These posts go to the core of my principles of More Human leadership, as well as take a peek into my heart and soul. That’s been the nature of this blog – documenting a personal journey that has revealed itself little by little, and week after week.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 30, 2015

#100 Begin “Stop-Start-Continue” Meetings. Periodically hold “stop-start-continue” meetings to review your team’s activities. During these meetings, identify the activities your team should start that you are not presently doing, current activities that your team should stop doing, and activities that your team should continue doing. “Stop-start-continue” meetings give your team an opportunity to voice their thoughts on projects and enhance connection.

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AUGUST 31, 2015

You’re moving on up. Making your way up the ladder, dodging bullets, using every last bit of your intellect and motivation to deftly ingratiate yourself with key decision-makers. It’s a high-wire balancing act many executives go through to grab the golden ring. What are some of the techniques used? Based upon many hours of advisory with C-Level clients, here are the two major tenets that bubble to the top: IQ – Intelligence Quotient (or Tactical Intelligence).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 19, 2015

Have you ever noticed how much easier is to remember someone’s point when they wrap a story around it? So why do so many leaders stick with dry powerpoint presentations and yawner “motivational” pep talks when they could tell a story. How could you better use stories to galvanize your team toward stronger results? This Summer, I’ve trained hundreds of people on my STORIES model of impactful communication.

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General Leadership

AUGUST 12, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. “When in command: command.” – Admiral Chester Nimitz. If being a leader means anything, it means taking charge and executing the responsibility others gave you.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 26, 2015

I have had a challenging time with my left eye over the last fourteen months. It started with a torn retina that became a detached retina, which was immediately operated on, until finally a cataract developed in my left lens as a result of the retina surgery. For over a year my vision has been impaired. The cataract, first diagnosed in March, developed so fast that almost every fifteen days I could tell of negative changes in my vision.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 13, 2015

Guest post by Nigel Dessau: I have never met anyone who was successful in life who did not have at least one mentor. Having good mentors indicates that you have a great network—something every 21st century executive and leader should have. However, finding the right mentor can be a challenge. A few years ago, I worked for a company that was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

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Michael Lee Stallard

AUGUST 16, 2015

#98 Seek Individual Ideas and Opinions. When possible, ask for the ideas and opinions of your direct reports, especially on actions you expect them to implement or believe they want to have a voice in deciding. This behavior reflects humility and wisdom. This is the ninety-eighth post in our series entitled “100 Ways to Connect.” The series highlights language, attitudes and behaviors that help you connect with others.

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Modern Servant Leader

AUGUST 24, 2015

Can I get 1 minute of your time? I’ve been running this blog to advocate servant leadership adoption and digital media action, for free, since 2008. In all that time, I never asked a favor. Today though, I have a favor to ask. It should only take a minute of your time. I want to continue spreading servant leadership adoption and digital media action, to help others succeed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2015

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our August Festival is all about communication. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Festival is all about Building Effective Peer Relationships. New contributors welcome. Refining Your Personal Communication Style.

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