Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
To lead in a caustic culture, focus on your influence It’s a question we hear after every keynote we deliver: “I want to build a Courageous Culture, but I don’t know if it will work at my company. It’s not a healthy […]. The post How to Lead in a Caustic Culture appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient – it’s a waste of time. Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are. Not only do they care how effective you are, but they also care about the effectiveness of those whom you lead. It’s important to remember leadership is a people business, and people are messy.
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Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Plant this seed within your core Provide it space to sprout, and tend to its rise Ensure it penetrates through each organizational layer Cultivation, participation, and appreciation will be your essential tools Allow this seed to transform into a solid footing A personal and organizational launch pad This mighty seed has significant yield A vigorous and holistic whole.
Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
By Dan McCarthy : Want to be a better leader? Then try improving your vocabulary. No, I'm not talking adding the latest management and leadership buzzwords or jargon to your repertoire. I'm talking about adding some powerful phrases to your vocabulary that will engage, motivate and inspire others. 1. "How can I be a better leader?" Variations of the question include "How can I be a better parent?
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Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
The extent and limit of influence is identity. Identity is impact. You can’t inspire confidence when you’re timid and doubtful. Become what you expect. Do you expect optimism? Become optimistic.
Lead from Within
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Great leaders must be effective communicators. That means they have to know how to speak and write clearly—and it also means they also have to know how to listen. Most of us don’t think of listening as a communication skill, but it’s one of the most important. The best leaders are skilled at listening—here’s how they do it: They listen with full attention.
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Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
It’s inevitable. It happens at virtually every airport, every day, across the world. Flights are delayed or canceled. Sometimes, it’s weather-related. At other times, maintenance issues, crew schedules, or other logistics are to blame. No matter the cause, the response from the flying public is fun to watch as I did on a recent business trip. That night, stormy weather in the Atlanta area turned the world’s busiest airport into a case study on human behavior in a cauldron of unwanted change.
Let's Grow Leaders
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
You know you should encourage your team – but how do you encourage people in a way that’s authentic and builds results? In this episode, David shares three ways to guarantee your encouragement builds momentum and helps your team achieve results. The post Encouragement that Gets Results appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. You know you should encourage your team – but how do you encourage people in a way that’s authentic and builds results?
N2Growth Blog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
Let’s cut right to the chase; stop focusing on being efficient – it’s a waste of time. Nobody other than perhaps you really cares how efficient you are, but everyone cares how effective you are. Not only do they care how effective you are, but they also care about the effectiveness of those whom you lead. It’s important to remember leadership is a people business, and people are messy.
Tanveer Naseer
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
One key to succeeding at leadership is creating a workplace environment that empowers employees to commit their best efforts. To that end, shouldn’t leaders also be looking at measures to improve employee health and wellness to help attract and retain employees? That’s the focus of my conversation with Virgin Pulse. Click to continue reading.
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Leading Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
D ISRUPTION is happening in even the most stalwart industries, leading business leaders scrambling to create a culture of innovation in their organizations. Coming up with amazingly novel ideas isn’t an innate ability but can be a learned skill that leaders and their teams can develop. The techniques of improvisational comedy can provide important lessons for developing a innovation mindset.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
“Experiment. Make it your motto day and night. Experiment and it will lead you to the light.” That’s Cole Porter’s advice. He wrote the song, “Experiment” for the 1933 musical comedy Nymph Errant. If you want to cut your failure rate, get better results, and get them faster, you’ll follow his advice. Cut Your Failure Rate.
Leading in Context
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
By Linda Fisher Thornton One of the challenges of responsible leadership is staying on top of fast-moving trends. This week, I’m making that process a little easier for you by sharing 19 interesting leadership trend reports. Get ready to read about leadership trends including disruption, adaptation and reinvention. You may scan the list and read […].
Joseph Lalonde
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
Leading Millennials. You may be thinking you don’t want to welcome millennials onto your team. They’re lazy. They have no work ethic. And they’re going to leave anyway. I have to say, your thinking would be wrong to think millennials won’t benefit your team. They won’t destroy your organization. They won’t make you less productive.
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Great Leadership By Dan
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Guest post by Dr. Steven Mintz: Ethical leaders create a culture in the workplace that promotes moral values and establishes an ethical tone at the top. Creating an ethical culture means setting a standard that decisions are made and actions are taken that are right, not wrong; good, not bad; and they benefit the stakeholders of the organization. Ethical leaders are role models for others in the organization to follow.
Lead Change Blog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
When leaders give up their perceptions of power and start focusing on the greater good, a culture of collaboration is born. Some people think collaboration is the same as teams—but it’s not. Collaboration is an integral part of an organization’s culture. It’s a mindset that promotes communication, learning, maximum contribution, and innovation—all of which lead to a healthy bottom line.
Rich Gee Group
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
You have a Growth Attitude when you see your abilities as just the starting point which can be developed by dedication, hard work, and effort. This viewpoint creates a resilience, a love of learning, and easy acceptance of new challenges. Frequent inner thoughts of a growth attitude: “Failure is an opportunity to grow” ”I can learn to do anything I want” ”Challenges help me to grow” ”My effort and attitude determine my abilities” ”Feedback is constructive” ”I am inspired by the success of others
Joseph Lalonde
SEPTEMBER 20, 2019
Leading Millennials. When you hear the words millennial and work together, you may instantly think about the ways millennials will try to get out of work. You may have a negative connotation towards millennials that skews your idea of how their work ethic is. We need to break this mindset. Millennials are not lazy. They are not […] The post Getting Millennials To Work appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
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.
Next Level Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
One of my mentors, Harvard professor Ron Heifetz, likes to say that leaders can either be on the dance floor or on the balcony. In the fast-paced world that we live and work in, it can be all too easy to spend most of your time dancing and not enough up on the balcony observing what’s working, what’s not and what adjustments you need to make to live and lead at your best.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
“Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” Ann Landers 7 reasons humility is a brilliant idea: You’re not as smart as you think. Make room for ignorance.
Lead from Within
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Employees require a certain amount of energy and motivation to be engaged and feel fully committed at the workplace. According to a recent study of 1.2 employees at 52 organizations, most of them Fortune 1000 companies, there’s cause for concern. Most employees start out with high levels of engagement and enthusiasm, the study finds. But after six months on the job, their morale declines sharply—and it continues to deteriorate for years.
Joseph Lalonde
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
A Reel Leadership Article. The Great Train Robbery is a two-part British television miniseries that was first broadcast in 2013 (Currently available on Amazon Prime, Netflix, and others). It tells the story of the robbery of £2.6 million (£53.5 today) from a Royal Mail train heading from Glasgow to London on 8 August 1963, first from the perspective of the robbers, and then from the perspective of the police.
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QAspire
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
When you consistently create novel work with care and attention in a way that changes others for better, you can call yourself a craftsman. Because craft is about adding your uniqueness into each piece of work you ship. Craft is about creating an experience for others through your work. Craft is about generous sharing with your community. Craft is about exercising your judgment, nuanced process and intuition through your work.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 15, 2019
Trust is valuable for a team to be successful. And it is hard enough to build when people see each other and work together every day. It is perhaps even more valuable when those people work remotely. More valuable, but even harder to create and maintain. Therefore, building trust is something worth working on. Unfortunately, […]. The post Building Trust on Remote Teams appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
I’m doing a waving experiment while I walk and have made a surprising discovery. We live in the country. Sometimes I don’t see any cars. But during “rush hour,” I wave several times.
leaderCommunicator
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Often the biggest complaints from employees today is about all the change going on. Another restructuring, transformation, cutback, change at the senior leadership level. and on and on. Change is the Norm. Change can be exhausting for employees; yet it can also be exhilarating and help evolve an organization in a great way. Regardless, the most important thing for employees to realize is that change IS.
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Change Starts Here
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Silos form in organizations as a result of a rigid classification system that comes naturally to humans. We form ourselves into groups and separate people into “us” vs. “them.” As a result, silos cause problems in organizations: Silos can hinder collaboration, because groups don’t communicate or share information.
Kevin Eikenberry
SEPTEMBER 17, 2019
Believe it or not, two viewers issued me the same challenge this week – asking me to compare leadership to SHOES! Check out the video below to see if I can rise to the challenge this week… Tweet it out: Strive to be a leader people love as much as their favorite pair of shoes. […]. The post How Being a Leader is Like a Pair of Shoes – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Leadership Freak
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
I always hated people checking up on me. I felt insulted. I thought: Leave me alone. Get off my back. Mind your own business. Don’t you trust me?
leaderCommunicator
SEPTEMBER 18, 2019
When employees are engaged and inspired, they can move mountains—driving productivity, business growth, and the success of your organization as a whole. Effective leaders understand that it’s their job to connect with employees and fulfill their need to feel inspired and valued at work. They also understand that the only way to get things done and move a business forward is through their greatest asset—employees.
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