Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 24, 2021

Best Practices for Better Decision Making. Have you ever heard any of these common decision-making frustrations? “Our conversations just go in circles, it seems like we can never make a decision around here!” “This is so stupid—you asked for my opinion and then ignored it. I don’t know why I even bother! From now on, I’m just going to shut my mouth and do my work.”. “We talked about so much I’m not even sure what we’re talking about.

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2021

L ANGUAGE matters. As I conduct observation coaching with leaders, I watch for how their words resonate with their audience. Does what they say induce fear? Excitement? Do attendees in the meeting cringe at certain words, or do their metaphors generate inspiration? Effective leaders use communication as a critical competency to build trusting relationships, align team members around a vision, lead necessary change, and drive action.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2021

Darrin Williams , CEO of Southern Bancorp, may have been a little surprised when a world-class business school professor came knocking at his door. He wasn’t used to that kind of attention deep in the heart of Arkansas. Yet, he could no longer fly under the radar. Professor Rebecca Henderson , an esteemed professor of management at Harvard Business School and a world-leading expert in reimagining capitalism, was interested in the Bank’s trajectory and purpose.

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Leading in Context

MAY 26, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leaders create fear-free work environments, which are foundational in building and maintaining ethical culture and protecting reputation and ethical brand value. This week let's build on research previously shared in a popular post, and look at additional insights about the negative impact of fear-inducing leadership on individuals and organizations.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 28, 2021

In 2001, I accepted my first official leadership position as a human resources director with one audacious goal – to be and do all the things to serve all the people. With a background in public relations, marketing, and internal communications, HR had become an accidental specialty – I was a jack-of-all-trades and master of none. It didn’t take long to figure out that I wasn’t good at trying to be and do all the things to serve all the people.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 12, 2021

If you’re reading this, odds are, you’re a middle manager, i.e. someone who has a boss and is a boss, who has to lead and influence from the messy middle, up, down, and across their organization. Take pride and take heart because I’m going to help with the toughest job. Click to continue reading.

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Leading Blog

MAY 21, 2021

B USINESS is not a discipline, but an endeavor made up of disciplines such as accounting, communications, economics, finance, leadership, management, marketing, operations, psychology, sociology, and strategy. 101 Things I Learned in Business School , written by Harvard MBA, Dr. Michael Preis helps to provide the broad knowledge based needed to succeed in business.

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Career Advancement

MAY 10, 2021

“If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie. Maybe you see yourself as a consistent overachiever—someone who always gets the job done well and on time—but you still have the sneaking suspicion that you’re not one of the boss’s favorite employees. Perhaps one of your coworkers has a much stronger rapport with your boss, even though you always go above and beyond expectations.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 6, 2021

You probably know Moses as the leader of the Israelites. However, there are ten surprising facts about his leadership you should not miss. Read further. Who is Moses? Moses is a Hebrew prophet God used to free the Israelites from Egyptian slavery. Saved by the basket from the Egyptian slaughter, he reached Pharaoh’s daughter, who […].

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 4, 2021

Welcome to the May 2021 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. John Stoker of DialogueWORKS contributed Are Your Assumptions Getting the Best of You ? John writes: “ Sometimes we are consciously unconscious about what we are thinking.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 5, 2021

In the previous edition of my podcast series “Leadership Espresso Shot”, I mentioned how to better appreciate the journey towards achieving success, we must learn to value failure as that necessary teacher that helps us reach our goals. Of course, if we’re going to delve deeper into understanding failure, I. Click to continue reading.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2021

How to Draw out Better Ideas from Every Member of Your Team. You’re a human-centered leader working to create a courageous, speak-up culture filled with psychological safety. A culture where employees feel invited and encouraged to speak up and share their ideas and express their concerns. Even if you’re a rock star human-centered leader, doing all the right things to encourage micro-innovation and problem solving, it’s also likely that you have a few team members who still hav

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Leading Blog

MAY 28, 2021

A S the Baby Boomers continue to age, business continuity and succession planning are on everyone’s radar. Take, for example, the financial industry: the average age of financial advisors in the U.S. exceeds age 50 , and less than 12 percent of advisors are under the age of 35. In my observation, among the most successful advisors, the median age is even higher.

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Leading in Context

MAY 5, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton What kind of leadership legacy will you leave? It's a powerful question that we don't often stop to think about. Here are some questions to reflect on to assess your legacy, as it stands now, and determine whether that's the "message in a bottle" that you want to leave for future generations.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 23, 2021

Prior to the launch of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, comic book fans were treated to hit or miss comic book movie adaptations. Ghost Rider, starring Nicholas Cage as Johnny Blaze/Ghost Rider, was one of those misses. Ghost Rider is a favorite comic book character of mine. He made a deal with the devil (unbeknownst to […].

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 3, 2021

“Corey, Aaron, and Justin, I would like to have you three be the leaders from our class to represent us. We will be presenting the Twin Towers model to the city for a temporary display.”. Their faces filled with smiles and big bright eyes. Priceless. No one would have used leader to describe these boys. They were in trouble, missed school, and had difficulty in academics.

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Tanveer Naseer

MAY 19, 2021

As we move to a hybrid work environment, the organizational culture we foster both internally and remotely becomes critical to what we’re able to achieve. So how can we ensure we’re creating an environment – both virtually and in-person – that inspires employees to share their ideas and insights on. Click to continue reading.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 28, 2021

If you are (or have been) a middle manager, you know how tough this role can be. You don’t set the strategic priorities, but you are accountable to make it happen—often without the influence to get all the resources you would like (or need) to get the job done. And every day, your team looks to you for support and a voice, which you may or may not able to provide.

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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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Leading Blog

MAY 31, 2021

Here are a selection of tweets from May 2021 that you don't want to miss: FYI: Your Chaotic Story Is an Asset — So Share It! The Secret Advantage That You Didn't Know You Had by @markdmckinney. The Gravitational Pull of Weaknesses by @Julie_WG. Wrongheaded thinking about remote work and how teams can optimize for hybrid by @ferrazzi. Mentoring: From The Ballpark To The Boardroom And Beyond from @JohnBaldoni.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 3, 2021

The frustration is real. You say things, share things, and communicate important messages, and it seems to fall on deaf ears. Have you ever wondered why people aren’t listening to you? Have you ever considered that it might not be about them at all? At the core, effective communication is message sent; message received. Listening […]. The post Four Reasons People Don’t Listen to You appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leading in Context

MAY 19, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ethical leaders can't really "control" organizations, but there are specific things they can do to bring out the best in others and teams to move the organization forward. Here are five things ethical leaders can and should control to have a positive impact on the organizations they lead.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 17, 2021

Power is a good thing when used effectively. The more power you have, the more able you are to direct, influence, and inspire people to make positive changes. There are three types of power. Position Power. You gain power based on your formal position in the organization. The chain of command gives you power over the people below. Position power allows you to do the following: Reward and Recognize People —Dole out desirable things to employees such as pay increases, bonuses, promotions, public r

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 2, 2021

A Reel Leadership Article. I slept on the recent movie Nobody (you can rent it on Amazon). After watching Nobody, I am regretting my choice. However, with a movie named Nobody, it is hard to fault someone for skipping over it. Nobody is a great, smart revenge movie that brings more to the table than movies it has been […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 21, 2021

If you’re ambitious, talented, and ready to take your career to the next level, this episode is for you. Ed Evarts shares several principles of taking responsibility for your career. You’ll get practical ways to build a positive relationship with your boss, vital questions to ask yourself, the power of curiosity to advance your career, and more.

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Leading Blog

MAY 12, 2021

A S WE finally start to see the light at the end of the tunnel of the catastrophic COVID-19 pandemic, many business leaders are looking for ways to better anticipate future disruptions and prepare for uncertainty ahead. There is often confusion between scenario planning and forecasting, with the terms used interchangeably and inconsistently. But these are different methods that involve specific activities, outcomes and value add.

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Kevin Eikenberry

MAY 10, 2021

One of the things you learn in drivers training is about the existence of blindspots, and why becoming aware of your blindspots is critical to your safety. But we have blindspots outside of our car as well. While not being aware of them might not be fatal, they can have a huge impact on our […]. The post Becoming Aware of Your Blindspots appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 25, 2021

It seems like every week I speak with executives who tell me they’re burned out or exhausted. And why wouldn’t they be? Everyone has been on a full out sprint for the past year as we’ve run the biggest business social experiment in history. And now, after more than a year of 10 to 12 Zoom meetings a day (that’s the average I’m hearing), COVID vaccinations and the freedom they bring have unleashed a wave of pent-up demand to pack even more into our days.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 21, 2021

Few leaders doubted that the impact of COVID would change the way we live and work, but few foresee how fundamental these changes would be. There is no going back to the old normal. Things are irreversibly changed and that means that the way we lead our teams need to change. Are you ready? Today leaders find themselves grappling with the following challenges: Nearly 3 million women who have dropped out of the labour pool, in the US alone.

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Joseph Lalonde

MAY 14, 2021

I love sharing new books with my readers. I normally do this at the end of the month through the 5 Books Leaders Should Read In XXX. That post is still coming. However, I also wanted to recognize the power of audiobooks. Amazon’s Audible.com (You can get up to 2 free books using my affiliate […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2021

What’s Going to Happen? – It Will Be Predictably Unpredictable. If only you had a crystal ball to know what’s going to happen. The planning, the decisions, the choices would be so much easier. But you don’t. And those decisions and tradeoffs aren’t easy. Will office work remain fully virtual, or move to a hybrid model? Is that project still realistic with all this uncertainty?

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