Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 20, 2020

Communication is tricky, even during “normal” circumstances, but it’s even more important now. You know we’re huge believers in 5×5 communication. Communicating anything that’s important five times, five different ways and are always on the lookout for great communication techniques to make […]. The post Communication Techniques for Challenging Times: A Frontline Festival appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

This article was co-authored by Laura Musgrave , Kevin Bijas, and Jeffrey Cohn. “People over 45 basically die in terms of new ideas.” said venture capitalist Vinod Khosla in 2011. “People under 35 are the people who make change happen,” he further asserted. Taking the exact opposite tack, in a recent CNBC interview, Alan Patricof , founder of Greycroft Partners, an elite venture capital firm, said: “academic studies show that the success rate of entrepreneurs who start at the age of 60 a

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Nobody likes dealing with office politics, but learning how your company operates and identifying who is holding the power over your advancement is a key component to success in your career. Bonnie Marcus, author of The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead , shares strategic tips to navigate office politics in her upcoming webinar in the Women’s Empowerment Series.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

I S YOUR CULTURE holding you back? Are the signals you are broadcasting as a leader, creating the culture you want—you need? Culture experts Jeff Grimshaw, Tanya Mann, Lynne Viscio, and Jennifer Landis say in Five Frequencies that to make a good culture great, leaders must deliberately transmit strong and steady signals. Leaders create culture for better or worse, through the signals they are consciously or unconsciously broadcasting over five frequencies.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2020

Awareness and intention will help stop remote work from stealing your life It’s not your imagination: if the pandemic shifted your job to working from home, odds are, you’re working longer hours. For many of the leaders we’ve spoken with over the […]. The post How to Stop Remote Work from Stealing Your Life appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 19, 2020

How can leaders overcome those typical assumptions that not only distort what realities their employees have to deal with, but what their employees really need to be successful in their efforts? In this edition of Leadership Espresso Shot, I share 4 questions leaders can use to gain greater clarity in. Click to continue reading.

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Career Advancement

AUGUST 17, 2020

“Recognition happens when you see yourself from the inside-out: as someone who can make an impact on the world instead of navigating the impact the world has on you.” ~Justine Musk. Ascher, who worked in a medical technology firm, had been making an effort to enhance how others perceived him over the past six months. He felt certain his coworkers saw him in a positive light.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2020

Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking. In this episode, you’ll get a powerful tool to draw out your team’s best ideas. The post How to Draw Out Your Team’s Best Ideas appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 20, 2020

All eyes are on the leader when a crisis hits. Then the questions start flying in. What just happened? Is everyone okay? Now what? It’s normal for leaders to focus attention on the emergency. Someone needs to rally people together to stabilize the situation, assess for damage, and push ahead with a wise response. Think about it…. No one wants to be on a plane, 35,000 feet in the air with one engine on fire and a flight crew sitting in silence.

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 16, 2020

A Reel Leadership Article. I missed one of the best movies of 2019. My guess is you probably did as well. This movie flew under the radar. There wasn’t a lot of hype or advertising for it. However, the movie was stunning in its beauty and portrayals. That movie is The Peanut Butter Falcon. The Peanut Butter Falcon follows […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From The Peanut Butter Falcon appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 21, 2020

F ACING OUR FEARS is often what is standing between us and success. Touching the Jaguar is a cathartic memoir by John Perkins about confronting the things you fear to make the necessary changes in your life. In this memoir, he touches on the value of altering your perception to change your reality. It’s a valuable lesson expressed in a new way. While working in the Amazon, a shaman told him about touching the jaguar : The jaguar stands on a Perception Bridge “that could convey us from a reality

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Leading in Context

AUGUST 19, 2020

"For ethical leadership to stick, the culture needs an infrastructure that consistently supports acting on stated values.Ethical cultures treat ethical thinking as something that must be cultivated, demonstrated, and practiced over time.".

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2020

In 1903, Alfred Fuller left home in Nova Scotia and followed his older siblings south to Somerville, Massachusetts. There he set about getting fired from everything he tried. . Fuller got fired from jobs as a gardener, floor sweeper, and delivery boy. Then his older brother got him a job selling brushes door to door for William Staples’ Somerville Brush and Mop Company. .

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Joseph Lalonde

AUGUST 21, 2020

Knowing how to have real conversations has value beyond the corporate world. While knowing how to have real conversations as a leader is important, you also need to know how to bring this skill to your everyday life. Without the ability to carry on conversations, your world will be a much smaller place. The problem […] The post How To Have Real Conversations appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 20, 2020

I DEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Peter Boghossian and James Lindsay call it the Unread Library Effect. Most of us don’t know all we think we know. We rely on borrowed knowledge, ideas and beliefs. We haven’t really checked it out for ourselves.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 17, 2020

No one would argue against the value of empathy. Yet, most would agree it is often in short supply. And while, from an organizational or societal perspective, we could always use more of it, the need is greater than ever. That is why now is the Age of Empathy. Let me tell you why, why […]. The post Now is the Age of Empathy appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 17, 2020

As the vast majority of companies rush to reopen and people rush back to public life, they’re falling into the trap of “getting back to normal.” They’re not realizing we’re heading into a period of waves of restrictions once again, due to many states reopening too soon. Indeed, some of the states to open early onward have already reimposed some restrictions , showing that as I predicted in an editorial way back at the start of the pandemic on March 10, 2020, we will be facing rolling waves of r

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 19, 2020

Riding in the car when my wife is driving is an exercise in humility. My wife slows down when I would speed up. She’s a defensive driver and I’m an offensive driver.

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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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Lead from Within

AUGUST 20, 2020

We are living through a crisis with no modern-day precedent. Organizations of every size and type, from businesses and governments to hospitals and schools to faith communities and nonprofit organizations need leaders. We need people who can help others overcome their weakness and fear and come together to do better, more difficult things than any one of them could do on their own.

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 18, 2020

The topic of today’s episode would have been nearly unthinkable six months ago…and yet, here we are, talking about masks and how contentious they have become. I have a problem with masks, and it’s not what you think. It’s not political and it’s not scientific. Check out the video below and tell me if you […]. The post My Problem with Masks (It’s Not What You Think) – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 20, 2020

Guest post from Karin Hurt and David Dye: You’ve asked your team for their great ideas. You have an open door. You’re also committed to MBWA (or in today’s pandemic-constrained world, Management By Clicking Around- MBCA). But if you’re like most leaders in our Courageous Cultures research, you’re still not getting all the great ideas you need. Why? In our research conducted in conjunction with the University of North Colorado, despite all the asking leaders think they’re doing, 49% of employees

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 20, 2020

Stop asking stupid questions like: How are you? How are you doing? How are you feeling? You already know how people are doing. The future feels like mushy spaghetti.

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Lead from Within

AUGUST 18, 2020

These days, many of my coaching clients are telling me that they’re feeling burned out. Nearly everyone I talk to has some version of the same concerns: they feel busier, stretched further and more exhausted than ever before. They’re working harder and keeping longer hours, all under the stress of the pandemic and its personal and economic effects. As an executive leadership coach, part of my job is helping my clients learn how to refuel when they feel depleted so that they can get back on track

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Kevin Eikenberry

AUGUST 16, 2020

Of all the consequences wrought by the COVID-19 situation, one has been a nearly complete stoppage of all development for leaders. This stoppage is understandable, but unfortunate when leaders (you!) need support and development now more than ever. That is why we have created a first-of-its-kind, virtual leadership broadcast, bringing world-class leadership experts to your […].

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Mike Cardus

AUGUST 17, 2020

How do I determine my values – Mike Cardus. Values , do you have them? Do they change? Do you determine them? Do they determine you? Do values matter ? . In company and coaching meetings, we talk about the company and personal values. They often seem like some invisible hand guiding our actions. Values = those things to which an individual will give priority or wants to do.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 18, 2020

A loaf of bread should be short, much shorter. The longer the loaf, the longer the wait for my favorite piece of bread. The heel!

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 19, 2020

Leadership is personal, and in focusing on business goals, leaders can detach themselves from the human element in the workplace. Yet building trust and making a personal connection are key to motivating and engaging employees, which in turn are essential to delivering business results. A recent study published in Harvard Business Review found three elements necessary for leaders to build trust among employees: positive relationships, good judgment/expertise, and consistency.

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David A Fields

AUGUST 18, 2020

Imagine how fun this would be at your consulting firm: you and your colleagues launch every day with a towering pile of valuable gifts that will make the hours more productive and effective. You can have that. In fact, you, personally, can create that scenario. Well, one of you can. (See below.) The Three Yous … Continued. The post The 7 Greatest Gifts You Can Give Your Consulting Firm appeared first on David A.

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Engaging Leader

AUGUST 21, 2020

With the virus still plaguing us, there are no standard operating procedures for our everyday lives…at home or at work. However, the benefits open enrollment for 2021 must go on! What’s worked in the past will need to be tweaked, if not completely revamped. Meet employees where they are by using a multi-channel approach. […].

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 21, 2020

I’ve done things that make Tweedledee and Tweedledum look like Einstein and Edison. Like the day I shot myself in the head.

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