Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 6, 2015

It’s easy to fool ourselves into the illusion that “just having a conference call,” instead of a face-to-face meeting or one-on-one, will save time. In fact, it’s that kind of thinking that leaves many managers moving from call to call with little time to connect with their team. In an attempt to salvage some productivity in their day, they put the phone on mute and try to get real work done at the same time—and don’t pay close attention to much as a result.

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General Leadership

JULY 24, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. If you want to leave a legacy, invest in people, and encourage those you develop to pass on everything they learn from you to others who will do the same. – John Maxwell. A leader owes it to his organization to lead in a way that will benefit the organization in the future.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 19, 2015

Who experiences greater levels of stress: non-leaders or the boss? When I ask this question while teaching workshops on leadership, nearly all the bosses in the room respond that they are the ones under greater stress. They’re wrong. Hard data makes it clear that non-leaders experience greater stress and in many instances it has a negative effect on their performance.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 20, 2015

Please Don’t Do This. Last week I spoke with a company executive who said, “People are upset, can you help us with some team-building?” I replied, “Probably not.” He looked at me with a combination of shock and amusement – he wasn’t used to trainers or consultants telling him they didn’t want his money. “Okay, tell me why you won’t help us?

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 12, 2015

Frank sat back, shook his head, and looked me straight in the eyes. “How did you do this? I mean, to get from where you started to where you ended up must have been a hell of a story.”. It was May of 2010. We had just finished a review of one of our operating centers in Cheyenne, Wyoming. Our company was up for sale, and Frank was with a group representing one of the opening bidders getting a chance to really “kick the tires”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 16, 2015

Guest post from regular contributor S. Chris Edmonds : When I consult with executives on crafting a high performance, values-aligned culture, one of the first things I do is to examine the effectiveness of their leadership team. Whatever that team is called - an executive team, a leadership team, a management team, etc. - that core team must model, reinforce, coach, and drive their desired culture.

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General Leadership

JULY 15, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” Truman Capote. At its core, leadership is about conversations.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 28, 2015

“A company is stronger if bound by love than by fear.” – Herb Kelleher, cofounder of Southwest Airlines. When Kip Tindell, CEO of The Container Store, first heard Herb Kelleher’s words more than 40 years ago he was, in his own words, “completely taken by it.” In Tindell’s excellent book, Uncontainable , he describes how he and his leadership team went on to shape The Container Store’s outstanding “employee first” culture in ways that reflect love.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 24, 2015

Conflict. The very word sends negative and fearful thoughts through even the most hardy leaders. None of us like conflict. If we had our way, each one of us would steer away from it and navigate towards the less painful, smoother waters. However, where would any one of us be if we avoided conflict altogether? We must admit that while uncomfortable, and even painful, conflict helps us become better leaders.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 26, 2015

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case? It’s a question that has banged around in my head for a long time.

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Leading Blog

JULY 24, 2015

Leaders work on a spectrum of effectiveness and the continuum varies with the ups and downs of your work’s natural rhythms. When you are in a good place, with available margin to deal with your load, you take a balanced approach to meeting your demands, use your strengths wisely, and sustain the capacity to manage well against the challenges of the day.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 10, 2015

When you’re overwhelmed, stressed, and busy, you know the natural answer is to delegate more. But there’s a risk. When you’re moving fast it’s wasy to get sloppy or overbearing in your delegation: ( see 3 delegation mistakes you don’t have to make). That’s why I’ve created this easy checklist for you to use the next time your delegating an important task.

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General Leadership

JULY 8, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. “ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. “ Mother Theresa. I think the story goes like this: Wife chides husband, “You never tell me you love me; you never say “I love you.” Husband replies, “What are you talking about?

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 26, 2015

#95 Create a Book to Celebrate Your Workplace Culture. Create a book of employees’ stories or articles about living out the core values of your organization. Two excellent examples are Zappos’ Culture Book and Smile Guide: Employee Perspectives on Culture, Loyalty and Profit, which is about The Beryl Companies. You can read a review of Smile Guide by Bob Morris on ConnectionCulture.com.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 8, 2015

There are opportunities every day to engage in some form of conflict. Someone cuts you off while driving. The customer service rep on the phone gives you the runaround. Your coworker undermines you in a meeting. A friend lets you down on a promise made. Want to de-escalate conflict? Don’t do these things. For some reason it is easier for me to describe what to avoid, rather than how to creatively deal with conflict.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

Note: This is the 3rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” The first installment is here , and the second here. . It’s a story about how a fun employee recognition program pulled a team closer together in their quest to go from good to great, building and cementing a solid foundation of pride, respect, trust and goodwill.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2015

Bernard Roth, one of the founders of the multi-disciplinary d.school at Stanford University, has written a book titled, The Achievement Habit. However, it is much more than the title might let on. It’s about how you can achieve your goals more fully and faster by expanding your limited view of reality. It’s about design thinking applied to every aspect of your life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 24, 2015

Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our July Festival is all about leading through influence. 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 Effective Communication. New contributors welcome. Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seeds of either success or failure in the mind of another. – Napoleon Hill.

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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

JULY 17, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. This article was originally published on Huffington Post by Vala Afshar in prep for an interview with our Co-Founder and Senior Curator , Brigadier General John Michel. You can join Vala and Michael Krigsman every Friday at 3PM EST as they host CXOTalk.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2015

Texans know every herd follows a lead steer. On several days throughout the year, you can see a herd in the old cow town of Fort Worth, Texas, a city of approximately 800,000 people, following its lead steer. The surprise, however, is that this herd is on bicycles and its lead steer is their mayor, Betsy Price. Mayor Betsy Price mounts her bike each summer to lead “rolling town hall meetings.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 2, 2015

There are two types of organizational change: change that is mandated and change that is proactive. The latter is easier and can be less emotional than the former, yet the lines often blur between the two – frequently because proactive change launched by one group is perceived as mandated change by another. Thus, both types take preparation and skillful execution if they are going to produce positive results.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JULY 9, 2015

Guest post from Jeff Wolf: Warren Bennis, acclaimed scholar, author and advisor to corporation presidents said "Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality." Well expressed, but it's easier said than done. What's needed are practical steps to develop a communicable vision coupled with practical steps to achieve employee buy in. Notice that I emphasized the word practical, because unless the leader's vision is easy to understand, believable and clearly stated, even the most imagin

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Leading Blog

JULY 20, 2015

“I was presenting myself to the world as an out-of-shape, intimidated middle-aged man. That needed to change,” writes Jay Samit. Disruption can be a powerful and positive force. If we are to work with and take advantage of the disruptions in the world around us, we must be willing to disrupt ourselves. All disruption, says Samit in Disrupt You! , begins with introspection.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 17, 2015

I had just finished reviewing the syllabus with my Masters level leadership class, and asked my typical follow-up question. “What else would you like to cover?” Lin raised her hand and asked sincerely, “Professor, you are so passionate about what you do, it’s oozing out of you. How do we motivate ourselves to feel like that?” Oh boy, a challenge.

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General Leadership

JULY 3, 2015

GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” When the Second Continental Congress voted to approve a resolution of independence declaring the United States independent from King G

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Michael Lee Stallard

JULY 12, 2015

#93 Be Sensitive in How You Describe Colleagues. Saying this is “my employee” or “one of my people” is disconnecting. Refer to people as “a colleague” instead. This is the ninety-third 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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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

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 27, 2015

We’ve moved through the Information Age at light speed over the last few years, and find ourselves lost in the deep space of the Information Overload Age! Knowledge from the ancient thinkers, wisdom from our founding fathers and the most current insights from some of the best minds of the world are at our fingertips. A simple Google search turns up hundreds of thousands of answers to the very same question.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 19, 2015

Note: This is the 4rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. . Today’s story is about how I found my leadership secret weapon – an operational metric that could play a key role in our march to greatness, and provide a critical link between great customer service and profit.

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Leading Blog

JULY 31, 2015

Here are a selection of tweets from July 2015 that you might have missed: At the Intersection of Must And Want We Find Ourselves by @LollyDaskal. 10 Lessons from the World’s Most Successful Talent Hotbed by @PaulJSohn. Disrupting beliefs : A new approach to business-model innovation from @McKQuarterly. 30 People You Want On Your Team by @BrianKDodd.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 27, 2015

I had asked the group to share their teachable point of view on leadership in the form of a TEDdy Talk (e.g. learn to improve your speaking Karin Hurt style). Ultimately everyone would have their 5 minutes of TEDdy Talk fame, but tonight we were just practicing “Wow” openings. “Carrie,” who hadn’t said a heck of a lot before this, stood up and gave the most impassioned imitation of a horrible boss I’ve ever heard– as her “wow” opener. “

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