Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 15, 2021
The sandwich method of giving feedback has long been taught as a coaching and feedback technique. What is the Sandwich Feedback Technique? You start by telling them something great about their performance. Then you give them the constructive feedback you really want them to hear. And you follow it up, with some more positive feedback. Why the sandwich technique doesn’t work.
Leading in Context
JULY 14, 2021
By Linda Fisher Thornton of values as a critical element in enabling and focusing individual and collective success. Values shape your life, leadership, career and relationships. If you are currently going through life without knowing what your values are, you're missing out on a powerful force for good that can offer a turbo-charged boost to propel you to where you want to go.
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Michael Lee Stallard
JULY 12, 2021
The current labor shortage and employee retention are concerning issues for organizations. Many leaders are scrambling to attract and retain the workers they need. A combination of factors has resulted in an insufficient number of workers to meet available jobs: job quits hitting historic highs , declining immigration, and fewer individuals who are of working age (16-64 years old).
Leading Blog
JULY 12, 2021
R EVERSE ENGINEERING is systematically taking things apart to discover how and why they work. It is routinely done in tech—Steve Jobs and Bill Gates copied and improved on Xerox Palo Alto Research Center’s Alto computer to bring us the Macintosh and windows—but it is also done in with the best speeches, art, movies, music, and literature to discover what makes them so successful.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 16, 2021
Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. Promote leaders aligned with your culture and you build momentum. Get this wrong and you’ll undo all the good you’ve done. In this episode, you’ll get two essential criteria to examine when considering who you promote into a leadership role.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 14, 2021
What does it take to find the sweet spot in leadership? Some leaders operate at the extremes—doing too much, then too little. They centralize, then they decentralize, only to centralize again. Some leaders delegate, but then swoop back in and grab control. Finding your leadership sweet spot in each situation is challenging. Join us as Paul Thornton, author of Leadership: Finding Your Sweet Spot: Move From Being a Good Leader to a Great Leader , talks about how to find your sweet spot and move fr
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Leading Blog
JULY 15, 2021
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. Journalist George Leonard on mastery: “How long will it take me to master Aikido?” a prospective student asks. “How long do you expect to live?” is the only respectable response. “Ultimately, practice is the path of mastery.
Let's Grow Leaders
JULY 12, 2021
Handling team conflict well distinguishes outstanding leaders. You’ve got a clear focus on what matters most, your team seems to work well together, but then you get that call: “I need to talk to you about…” It’s conflict, a disagreement, or a clash of personalities. What you do next will reinforce your leadership and influence—or erode your credibility.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 15, 2021
You know the saying…”He who hesitates is lost!” Right? Well, it depends! When I was a young banker with a few bucks in my account, I was looking for the next hot investment. It was the 80s and people were buying businesses left and right, and I wanted in on the action. My first deal was awesome. A friend mentioned that company XYZ was ripe for a takeover, targeted to be snatched up any day.
Joseph Lalonde
JULY 13, 2021
I’ve shared how I think meetings need to die. Most meetings offer nothing to the attendees and very little to the one who called the meeting. It eats into valuable time. There is a meeting that is very powerful. That meeting? The one-on-one meeting. The Power Of Regular One On One Meetings What is a […].
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Leading Blog
JULY 16, 2021
F AKE IT ‘TIL YOU MAKE IT is a common refrain in our culture. But it has been wrongfully used to justify all kinds of poor behavior and outright lies, as Sabrina Horn correctly points out in Make It, Don’t Fake It. Of all the business and career memes to gain popularity, few have compromised integrity in business, leadership, and personal success more than the expression “Fake it till you make it.
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 13, 2021
Do you have friends at work? According to a survey at Olivet Nazarene University, 82% said they do and in fact, on average they had 5 friends at work. 29% would even describe one as a best friend. So, it’s likely that your answer to the question I posed above was yes. And when I […]. The post Do You Have Friends at Work? – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 12, 2021
Did you know? Countless organizational changes are currently underway all over the world. Despite good intentions, many of these efforts will fail. Various studies have found that 60-to-70 percent of change initiatives don’t achieve the desired results. To increase your success, start by getting specific answers to these questions: Why is the change needed?
Joseph Lalonde
JULY 15, 2021
When people think of risk, they think of things being unsafe. The lack of safety leads to injury or trouble. Yeah, there are those kinds of risk. But there’s an even bigger risk. The risk of playing things too safe… Isn’t safety the opposite of risk? Yes and no. Being safe does prevent bad things […].
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Next Level Blog
JULY 13, 2021
If there’s one topic that’s a common denominator in many of the conversations I’ve had with senior executives over the past few months, it’s how to handle the issue of employees returning to the office. Other than the ones who have said that everyone can work remotely, I haven’t talked with or heard of any companies that have really figured it out yet.
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 11, 2021
Business and organizational life is a human activity. To think that we can succeed alone without connections to and working relationships with others is folly. Personal productivity and technical expertise are not enough. Research shows (and our experience proves) that the most successful people are good at building and nurturing strong working relationships.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 16, 2021
No one disputes that the past 18 months have been some of the toughest that the world have ever experienced and for business leaders, their teams have been through a massive trauma. The world has changed and life will never be the same again. So, as we start returning to work, as the COVID restrictions ease across the world, leaders need to consider the impact the pandemic has had on their team and act accordingly.
Leadership Freak
JULY 12, 2021
I haven’t had a warm shower in more than seven months. If you’re counting, it’s 226 days, but whose counting. The water I use is 54 degrees Fahrenheit, 12.2 degrees Celsius.
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.
Mike Cardus
JULY 11, 2021
I had a great time talking about team building , organization development , experiential education , and facilitation with Phil Brown of High 5 Adventure. Questions Presented In This Episode. How did you get your start in Experiential Education? Can you share tips on how how to develop new activities, new variations as a facilitator? What does the term “Exaptative” mean?
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 12, 2021
Friends at work. Is that a good idea? What about as a leader? In working with groups of leaders for thirty years, I know this question will always create a variety of opinions, some pretty strongly held on both sides of the fence. Let’s unpack the question and give you some clearer direction. But first […]. The post Is It Wise to Have Friends at Work?
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 13, 2021
With so much of the workforce working remotely during the Covid era, communication has been particularly challenging, and yet so fraught have circumstances been that it has never been more important. Recent research from Baylor University highlights some of the key communication lessons learned during the pandemic. The study found that the key to successful communication was what the researchers refer to as “ethical listening” This was defined as listening with an open mind and th
Leadership Freak
JULY 14, 2021
Where would we be without curiosity? Curiosity is: Enthusiastic “not knowing”. Willingness to be wrong. Drive to make sense of things. Delight in surprises. Dissatisfaction with the status quo.
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Frank Sonnenberg Online
JULY 13, 2021
What does it mean to become a better person? Better yet, where do you start? Becoming a better person will require dedication on your part — and then commitment to keeping that promise to yourself. If that sounds intimidating, it doesn’t have to be. It’s important to set ambitious, yet realistic, short-term goals as you pursue your long-term interests.
Management Excellence
JULY 11, 2021
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The Horizons Tracker
JULY 14, 2021
In a recent post , I wrote about Richard Easterlin’s latest book on happiness. The book covers the 50 years or so of research into happiness conducted by the noted economist. You’ve perhaps heard of Easterlin from his eponymous Easterlin Paradox, which states that if we look at any particular point in time, people are generally happier when they have more income.
Leadership Freak
JULY 15, 2021
Inexperience is a state of opposites. In some, inexperience is caution, doubt, and paralysis. In others, inexperience is naïve boldness. The disadvantage of inexperience is also its advantage – ignorance. Inexperience: #1.
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CEO Insider
JULY 15, 2021
With the normal pressures of work compounded by the pandemic, stress and burnout are proliferating in the business world. Even before Covid-19, stress and burnout were ravaging the health of Americans. The number of hours worked is said by the non-profit American Institute of Stress to be the main source of job stress and this […]. The post A Yogi’s Take on Stress and Burnout appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
Strategy Driven
JULY 16, 2021
As the effective ability of social media to provide marketing to our pockets has taken on its strongest form, consumers have become increasingly adept at phasing this out and instead only searching for the content they want to see. This means that marketing departments must work overtime to fulfill this space but also to get noticed and generate those demands into leads.
The Horizons Tracker
JULY 15, 2021
The Covid pandemic has sparked widespread concern that the shift to remote working will have a catastrophic impact upon our cities as people move to quieter, cheaper, and greener environs rather than squeeze into our major cities. The importance of greener environs is perhaps ably illustrated by a new study from Yale that examines its impact on the migration patterns of Chinese workers.
Leadership Freak
JULY 13, 2021
Living without purpose is easy; just run around doing stuff as fast as you can. Turbulence, opportunity, and too much to do are the perfect environment for doing machines.
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