Terry Starbucker
MARCH 25, 2012
Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. (Yes, here I spread my coffee dollars around between the national chains and the local brews). For an hour or so, we just chat about their businesses, and about them – and I have to tell you, these discussions have been revelatory for me.
N2Growth Blog
MARCH 26, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leader Beware – ignorant bliss, no matter how enjoyable, is still ignorant. If you’re in a position of leadership and don’t feel you have any blind spots, you’re either very naïve or very arrogant. All leaders have blind spots – the question is what are they doing about them? The reality is most leaders invest so much time assessing the cultural and functional dynamics of their organizations they often forget the importance of critically
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Lead Change Blog
MARCH 9, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development We base our first impressions on external appearance. Grooming. Teeth. Attire. Accessories. Accent. We notice scuffs on shoes, extra pounds, and age. Then, we unconsciously jump to conclusions about the person’s potential and abilities. We decide in a split second whether individuals are competent, even before they’ve opened their mouths to speak.
Michael Lee Stallard
MARCH 24, 2012
Connecting with people requires empathy i.e. you feel the emotion another individual feels. This is different from sympathy where you recognize the emotion but don’t feel it. In Fired Up or Burned Out , I wrote about the company Cranium and how it designs “high five moments” into its games. High five moments are times when people connect via the shared empathy of joy (remember that we define “the force of connection” as shared identity, empathy and understanding).
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Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 2, 2012
Guest post by By Mark Miller , Co-author of Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader for Life: For more than a decade, I've used the metaphor of an iceberg to talk about leadership -- the 10% above the water line represents the skills of the leader and the 90% below represents their character. The Secret , a book I co-authored with Ken Blanchard, outlines what we believe great leaders do -- the skills part of the picture.
Next Level Blog
MARCH 27, 2012
We hear a lot these days about achieving work/life balance. I’m here to tell you that in an age of doing more with less – or in some cases, less with less – work/life balance is a myth. If you’re a leader in a demanding job, you’re about as likely to find it as you are a purple unicorn. And I. Click headline to continue.
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N2Growth Blog
MARCH 4, 2012
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. It’s not what you have, but what you’re able to make out of what you have that matters. Every great leader understands the importance of creating leverage via proper resource allocation. The best leaders possess an innate understanding of how to create resources where none exist - they know how to deploy and redeploy resources to maximize opportunities and to minimize risk.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 16, 2012
Posted in Change Management Resources Reviews A recent book by a new friend got me thinking about transparency and leadership. The book is Business at the Speed of NOW by John M. Bernard. John’s an Instigator here at Lead Change. We met through social media and we’ve spoken a few times about how the Internet and a number of other issues [.].
Great Results Team Building
MARCH 18, 2012
There are certainly many other Bible verses that could be discussed as relating to great teamwork, but this list identifies five that are strong and inspiring examples for the topic. Improving organizational teamwork is the goal of most teambuilding activities, and like most any other subject, the Bible provides wisdom about how to achieve it and why it is important.
Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 28, 2012
When I first started out in the corporate training business, I was responsible for training new managers and supervisors. We had a mandatory three week program that covered all the usual HR and operational topics, including performance management. In performance management, we would spend most of the time teaching managers how to deal with performance issues, and about two hours teaching them how to deal with good performance.
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Kevin Eikenberry
MARCH 26, 2012
I caught myself humming a tune from my past the other day. It’s an old Tom T. Hall song titled “I Like Beer.” Just to give you a flavor, here is the second half of the chorus. “Whiskey’s too rough, champagne costs too much, and vodka put my mouth in gear. This [.].
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 18, 2012
Leadership should never be “ comfortable “ The leadership pool should never be tranquil. Waves are good. The great leader understands this, especially when it comes to managing a staff to successful outcomes. There’s a balancing act that needs to take place, between two ends of what I call the “Management Spectrum” One end is the “Touchy Feely” side (aka Praise and Reward).
Modern Servant Leader
MARCH 29, 2012
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip. – Richard Steele. Gossip is toxic fuel to a bad corporate culture. I was reminded of this last week when a subscriber asked for tips on dealing with gossip. She writes: I feel surrounded by “toxic” co-workers that… like to talk bad about all other leaders.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 5, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Jon Bon Jovi, Desi Arnaz, Mikahil Gorbachev & Karen Carpenter… what do they all have in common? They share a birthday with Dr. Seuss! March 2nd, 1904 Theodor Seuss Geisel was born. He published 46 children’s books, and I daresay that most of you have read or had one or more of them read to [.].
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Leadership Freak
MARCH 10, 2012
** You make a difference by inspiring others to make a difference. Here’s how: 1. Stop fixing. If your passion for excellence and success drives you to constantly fix people, stop it. Problem centered fixers invite self-protective restraint in others. 2. Compassion wins. The pursuit of personal gain and glory doesn’t inspire, it threatens. Inspiration occurs when [.].
Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 22, 2012
When you’ve been a manager for a long time, or are used to working with lots of managers, you sometimes forget how hard it is for an employee to approach their boss to discuss something that’s bothering them. For many employees, the thought of “confronting” a boss can be so intimidating, that they will come up with all sorts of other ways to cope with the situation, including: - Avoidance. - Being a victim. - Passive aggressiveness. - Discussing the problem with their co-workers, friends, and fa
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
MARCH 25, 2012
I don’t need a crystal ball to see what will be required of leaders in the future. All I need to do is look around. Most of the companies I work with these days are multi-national – not because I am changing, but because companies are changing. They are expanding, becoming larger and more complex as they seek to establish a presence in new markets.
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 11, 2012
(Terry’s Note: This is the latest in a series of posts written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies. His primary focuses have been talent selection, employee engagement, and leadership development.).
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.
Modern Servant Leader
MARCH 27, 2012
Anyone can practice leadership or sports, but not everyone will succeed. Not everyone has the same capacity for sports or leadership. In his book, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership , John Maxwell calls this the Law of the Lid: “The Lid represents the limit of our leadership abilities. Hard work, efficient management, and knowledge can only bring us so far.” Here are 7 ways that leadership and sports are alike: 1.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 2, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Why do you have so much resistance to setting “soft skill” goals? If I were to ask you “Do you have your goals to be a better leader (or communicator) clearly defined, written down and measurable?” I will probably hear your eyes roll into the back of your head. Because many of you have set [.].
In the CEO Afterlife
MARCH 20, 2012
During my tenure as a CEO, my Board of Directors never challenged me with questions pertaining to the corporate culture. I wasn’t surprised in the least. Jacobs Suchard directors expected me to run the company as an entrepreneurial enterprise, and as long the numbers were coming in, they assumed I was doing just that. Like most Boards, they were more interested in hearing about profit, financial ratios, efficiencies, headcounts, labor climate and strategic initiatives.
Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 15, 2012
Guest post by Brad Hams : Entitlement has become more and more pervasive in our culture over the past several generations, due in part to the (misguided) self-esteem movement, but also to government’s ever expanding promise to give people things that most of them could, in fact, obtain themselves through work and perseverance. This has created dependence, which crushes potential.
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Tanveer Naseer
MARCH 9, 2012
When it comes to what we communicate to our employees, few messages have as much impact as offering words of praise to those we lead. The importance of praise to an organization’s success has been shown in numerous studies performed by management experts, psychologists, and neurologists. One study even demonstrated how just saying ‘thank you’ to your employees can lead to an increase in productivity and employee engagement.
Women on Business
MARCH 27, 2012
Women in technology are finding many successes, but those triumphs are still not the norm. An infographic from IT Manager Daily and Killer Infographics attempts to raise awareness of the impact women are having in the technology field, including their triumphs and barriers. Check it out below to see some uninspiring statistics, inspiring success stories, and resources for inspired women in technology.
Modern Servant Leader
MARCH 22, 2012
When Sales is a responsibility of every role in the organization, you increase revenue, investment in the organization and overall morale. Let’s look at an example of someone who views sales as their responsibility, regardless of formal role: I learned a long time ago, unless I wanted a monologue about how amazing GM products are, I better not mention any problems with my vehicles in front of Eric.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 20, 2012
Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership I recently sat down and created a list of the most powerful lessons I’ve learned so far, in life and in leadership. Seven of those lessons stand out as lessons that are critically important to share: Your calling can become your idol if you let it. Without a vision people and organizations really do perish. [.].
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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
In the CEO Afterlife
MARCH 15, 2012
He or she is the leader who is constantly thinking about tomorrow – not the next week, the next month, the next quarter or even the next year. The future these leaders envision is the one they choose to create; their tomorrow will be a business ‘lotus land’ that is poles apart from an unwelcomed future determined by their competition, a future that inevitably forces defensive reactivity.
Great Leadership By Dan
MARCH 26, 2012
Guest post from Hay Group's Mel Stark: Hay Group is often asked about what we’ve learned from the World’s Most Admired Companies. When it comes to fostering and developing leadership, my answer tends to be that it’s just a part of what WMACs do; it's engrained in their DNA. That's not to say that these companies are not conscious of leadership. In fact, I mean quite the opposite.
Persuasive Powerhouse
MARCH 14, 2012
“Relationship” is a word that we are hearing more about in the workplace to designate positive personal connections with our colleagues. Although expressing emotions at work is still considered unacceptable in most workplaces, positive emotions have an impact on the quality of relationships at work and ultimately, the work that gets done.
Kevin Eikenberry
MARCH 28, 2012
I spend many of my days with leaders and employees from all over. Of all of the conversations we have, or of all of the side conversations I hear, one topic is most universal. Time. Or more specifically, that they don’t have enough of it. I get that people feel that they have lots to [.].
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