Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 8, 2020
We get it. It’s all a lot right now. Some days it takes every ounce of energy just to make it through. Who has time for mid-year reviews? Why not just skip them this year? After all, a great mid-year review is […]. The post How to Hold an Effective Mid-Year Review in a Pandemic appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
JUNE 10, 2020
F ORMER rocket scientist turned law professor, Ozan Varol, believes that while we can’t all be rocket scientists, we can all learn to think like one. Think Like a Rocket Scientist is about creativity and critical thinking—two skills in short supply today. We all encounter complex and unfamiliar problems in our daily lives. Those who can tackle these problems—without clear guidelines and with the clock ticking—enjoy an extraordinary advantage.
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Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 10, 2020
In today’s increasingly complex workplaces, leaders need to be experts who can make the best decisions for their team. But how do you succeed at leadership over areas where your expertise is limited? That’s what I’ll be asking my guest, Wanda Wallace, in this episode of Leadership Biz Cafe. Wanda. Click to continue reading.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 11, 2020
It’s ok, you can admit it. We’ve all been there. Working in teams can be incredibly frustrating. Whether it was in school, work, or a community organization, you’ve probably had a dysfunctional team experience. It’s that team who can never seem to productively discuss challenging topics. Either they avoid the conversation completely and pretend the issue doesn’t exist, or when someone does get the courage to raise the topic, the discussion becomes heated and spirals out of control.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 11, 2020
Whether you’ve been leading remote teams for years, or you’ve been pushed into the deep end of remote leadership without much time to prepare, we image you’ve learned more than you could ever dream of over the last few months about leading […]. The post How to Find the Best Ideas to Make Remote Work Easier appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
JUNE 12, 2020
A crisis demands a certain kind of leadership. But crisis leadership is not something you turn off and on. The ability to handle a crisis is something you develop long before a crisis hits, and people turn to you for guidance—before they declare, “You’re it!”. You’re It: Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most by Leonard Marcus, Eric McNulty, Joseph M.
Leadership and Management brings together the best content for leadership and management professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 9, 2020
As more and more team members have started working from home as a result of the lockdown, great leaders have been taking the time to check in with them and ensure that they are staying engaged and motivated. As a result, many businesses have seen their employee engagement scores increase at this time. According to Engagement Multiplier, engagement levels have risen 5% since the start of the COVID quarantine.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 12, 2020
So many people are hurting, frustrated, traumatized, scared, or, at the very least, uncertain. That includes your team – and they’re looking at you. In this episode, we talk about fundamental ways to make space and listen. Your team needs you. […]. The post Make Space and Listen appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. So many people are hurting, frustrated, traumatized, scared, or, at the very least, uncertain.
Leading Blog
JUNE 8, 2020
C ONFLICT is inevitable. It is part of life. Some of it is good for us. We grow from it, it moves us forward, and it makes life more interesting. However, there is a kind of conflict the seems to reoccur no matter how hard you try to resolve it. And some of that becomes self-perpetuating as we react in ways that cause even more conflict. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler calls a conflict loop.
Joseph Lalonde
JUNE 8, 2020
A Reel Leadership Article. Just Mercy has been on my “to-watch” list for some time. It slipped by me while it was in the theater. I’m disappointed I wasn’t able to watch this challenging film on the big screen. Thankfully, during this time of racial unrest in the United States, many streaming platforms are offering Just Mercy for a […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Just Mercy appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
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Leading in Context
JUNE 10, 2020
By Linda Fisher Thornton A pandemic happens to all of us. All our plans are scrapped and we have to reinvent ourselves in real time, with others depending on us for services. It is the ultimate leadership challenge.
Engaging Leader
JUNE 9, 2020
Psychological safety is a team member’s sense of confidence that the leader and the rest of the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish them for speaking up. They feel safe to take risks, fully contribute, share ideas, and raise concerns – all of which are necessary for an organization to innovate, solve problems, survive, […]. Psychological safety is a team member’s sense of confidence that the leader and the rest of the team will not embarrass, reject, or punish them for speaking up.
Leading Blog
JUNE 11, 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. Rocket scientist and law professor Ozan Varol on the need for critical thinking: “Companies fail because they stare at the rearview mirror and keep calling the same plays from the same playbook. Instead of risking failure, they stick with the status quo.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 9, 2020
Have you ever given feedback to someone and gotten a surprisingly negative reaction? Have you received negative feedback that made you feel humiliated, even worthless? Given correctly, feedback can inspire a team to reach its highest potential. Deliver it improperly, and things can unravel quickly. In my book, Saving Face: How to Preserve Dignity and Build Trust , I detail how “face”—our sense of personal dignity—can be lost, recovered, and honored.
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Joseph Lalonde
JUNE 10, 2020
If you could go back in time and communicate with yourself, what would you tell your younger self? Michelle Hoverson had this idea and acted on it. Out of her idea was birthed the book Mentoring Moments With Myself: Letters To My Younger Self About Life, Faith, Love, And Leadership. In this book, Michelle writes […] The post The Power Of Self-Reflection appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Lead from Within
JUNE 11, 2020
I can tell you from my experience as a leadership coach that many leaders suffer from anxiety. If we’re being honest, everyone experiences anxiety to some degree. I make sure my coaching clients have the tools they need to manage their anxiety because left unchecked, it can do great damage to their decision-making ability and overall effectiveness. Here are some of the techniques I share with them for managing anxiety: Acknowledge your anxiety without denying it.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 12, 2020
Responding to unforeseen events is part of your day. But if all you do is bounce from one issue to the next: You’re a problem-solver. The better part of leadership is seizing opportunities.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 10, 2020
Do you deal with incivility in the workplace? Have you ever experienced rudeness, impatience, or harassment before? A recent study found that 84% of Americans experience some form of incivility on average about 10 times a week. These incidents are often work-related and involve a look, an angry comment, open hostility, and everything in between. So, how do we deal with incivility and promote respect in the workplace?
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.
Michael Lee Stallard
JUNE 9, 2020
How can we protect people in the workplace so they don’t contract Covid-19? The Centers for Disease Control just released guidelines for offices that include temperature and symptom checks; encouraging employees who have Covid-19 symptoms or sick family members to stay home; prohibiting hand-shaking, hugs, and fist bumps; wearing face coverings; physical distancing of work stations (or separation by plastic shields); and eliminating seating in common areas.
Lead from Within
JUNE 9, 2020
As an executive coach of leaders around the world, I spend much of my time asking important questions of my clients. It’s one of the skills I always try to pass on to them. My goal is to help them become not just a great leader but a great coach—one who knows how to ask the right question at the right time. Questions are the key not only to building a strong bond but also to keeping people on track, motivated, and growing.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 11, 2020
I was shocked when a black friend told me she wasn’t welcomed in some stores in our town. This was years ago. I still don’t understand the realities of racism.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 9, 2020
You’ve likely heard of the Law of Attraction. In short, the basic idea is that our thoughts turn into things eventually. The idea is that we are like human magnets – always attracting something. Not everyone agrees with this principle and the principle often leaves out an important part – the fact that thinking alone, […]. The post What Are You Attracting?
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Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 11, 2020
Guest post by Chuck Swoboda : As increasing competition, new technologies and evolving customer expectations continue to disrupt nearly every industry, business leaders are turning to innovation as a way to keep their companies relevant. The standard solution is to create teams that focus explicitly on innovation. The problem? Most of these teams struggle to innovate, often delivering incremental improvements at best.
CO2
JUNE 12, 2020
In the last few months, the world has been learning devastating lessons from uncertainty. It comes at a grave cost of life, health, wealth, and psychological wellbeing. If someone tells you that there is a playbook for this level of disruption, they are sadly mistaken. We can and should learn, however, from key trends, historical precedents, and wise prognosticators.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 10, 2020
“Somehow our devils are never quite what we expect when we meet them face to face.” Nelson DeMille 3 ways to use stress for advantage: #1. Schedule decisions. Stress tells you to wait.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 8, 2020
In the middle of March, your working world and the view from your “desk” may have changed drastically. Government officials (and perhaps your boss) decreed that the work would continue, but not in the office, and not closer than six feet apart. Suddenly, and nearly without warning, you were thrust into long-distance leadership. While a […]. The post When A Sprint Becomes a Marathon – Leading as the Lockdown Rolls On appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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David A Fields
JUNE 9, 2020
Extraordinary times present you and your consulting firm with the opportunity to make extraordinary contributions. You can employ the toolkit you’ve assembled for consulting to support broader, deeper impact. As noted here, you’re already doing good by promoting your consulting firm, building relationships, helping clients and sending chocolate-covered espresso beans to worthy colleagues.
The Horizons Tracker
JUNE 8, 2020
One of the few virtues of the coronavirus lockdown is a degree more free time to tackle the seemingly ever-growing tower of books in my ‘to read’ pile. The latest of these is a new title from Wharton’s Stewart Friedman and DePaul’s Alyssa Westring, called Parents Who Lead. The general hypothesis of the book is that the various factors that go into making a great leader can also help us to become great parents.
Leadership Freak
JUNE 8, 2020
It’s not the work that stresses you out. It’s doing it alone. 15 Sources of stress for leaders: Incompetence. You’re flaying in water that’s too deep for your current abilities. Procrastination.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 7, 2020
Have you ever seen a child completely filled with wonder? Do you notice how they almost glow? If you think for a minute, you can remember what those moments where like for you, too. Childlike wonder creates a moment of complete presence and joy. According to John O’Leary’s new book, IN AWE: Rediscover Your CHILDLIKE […]. The post IN AWE: Rediscover Your CHILDLIKE WONDER to Unleash INSPIRATION, MEANING, and JOY appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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