Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Has this ever happened to you? You sit down for an earnest performance improvement conversation. Your employee listens intently. She thanks you for the feedback, and promises to try harder. Things improve for a minute. But a week later, they’re back to […]. The post How to Hold a Better Performance Improvement Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2020
W E are conditioned to believe that to be happy, for life to be good, everything should be going our way. Life is supposed to be comfortable when done right. Most self-help books are based on this line of reasoning. But when you think about it, a constant state of comfort is numbing to the human spirit. It takes us nowhere. What really makes us feel alive are those times when we are challenged, pushed, distressed.
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Leading in Context
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Senior leaders set the tone for the organization's ethics, but the senior leadership responsibility for values leadership includes much more than that. Today, I'll look at the senior leader responsibility for sharing clear expectations, and explore more important roles that go well beyond setting the bar for expected behavior.
Joseph Lalonde
DECEMBER 18, 2020
There’s an age-old saying about assuming things. I won’t quote the saying because it is slightly inappropriate but often accurate. However, I think we can begin assuming things about others. I began to think about assuming in a different light after a recent church board member orientation meeting. Pastor Doug Tuttle, from Grand Rapids First, […].
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Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 17, 2020
If you’re like many leaders we talk with, you’ve been on such a fast pivot this year, you may not have had all the strategic planning time you’d hoped for. Or, your business has changed so much, it’s the perfect time to […]. The post Strategic Planning Tool: How to Engage Your Team in Better Conversation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2020
P REDICTION has never been easy – or that accurate. Over and over again, forecasts and models fail us. And when they do, they won’t go away because the agenda behind them lives on. As a model or a forecast is designed to do, we become “recruited into an army of believers.” “The more we believe, the less we question,” says Margaret Heffernan. In Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future , she writes that “Overwhelmed with complexity, we seek simplification and too quickly reach for binary perspective
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Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Tom Hall and his partners grew Ensslin and Hall Advertising into one of the top regional advertising agencies in less than a decade. The core of their success was the question that Tom asked every new client: “What do you want to be known for?” That’s great advice for marketing and advertising, but it’s great life and career advice, too. . What do you want to be known for?
Let's Grow Leaders
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Whether affected by the pandemic or some other unforeseen and monumental setback, to lead, you have to find a way to move beyond anger, guilt, emptiness or pain. It’s not only possible to overcome adversity, but it’s imperative. In this episode, retired […]. The post Overcoming Adversity – Interview with Jason Redman appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
DECEMBER 17, 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. Margaret Heffernan on what it takes to make your predictions more thoughtful and accurate: “Ordinary people who were open-minded, educated, prepared to change their minds, humble, and attentive could gain real insight and awareness into what might happen in the next year or so.
Kevin Eikenberry
DECEMBER 15, 2020
One of my all-time favorite Musicals is Fiddler on the Roof, and one of the famous songs from it is Sunrise, Sunset. Here are part of the lyrics: Sunrise, sunset Sunrise, sunset Swiftly fly the years One season following another Laden with happiness and tears The song talks about how our lives are flying by […]. The post How You Start and End Your Day – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Everyone needs a positive influence in their lives. If you think about the various types of leaders you’ve encountered—parents, teachers, coaches, bosses—you can probably pinpoint one leader, perhaps more than one, who provided the support, the skills, or the inspiration that helped you become your best self. According to Michael and Glenn Parker, authors of The Positive Influence Leader , there are four types of positive influence leaders, and we can all leverage the strengths of each to become
Great Leadership By Dan
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Guest post from Barbara Bruno : Would your current team or new hires describe you as a leader who supports, teaches, and encourages them? This type of nurturing often determines whether the members of your team become engaged and retained employees or end up as a costly turnover statistic. Technology has changed the way we communicate however a combined high-tech and high-touch communication style is most effective.
Career Advancement
DECEMBER 14, 2020
“Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new challenges not previously encountered.” – David Grinspoon. If you’re concerned about whether you have the right skillset to navigate the business world throughout the coming years, you’re actually ahead of the pack.
RapidStart Leadership
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Achieving great things requires a leadership trust between leader and led; in one simple story, here's what that means. The post Leadership Trust: The Secret to Achieving Impossible Things appeared first on RapidStart Leadership.
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Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Have you seen people that stubbornly adhered to their first impressions regarding the pandemic and its business impact? The truth is that lots of people refuse to adapt their position on the virus, not believing that we should adhere to updated guidelines, regardless of evidence that doing so will certainly protect us from COVID-19. Anchoring in Fintech: A Case Study.
Kevin Eikenberry
DECEMBER 14, 2020
Regardless of your view or your organization’s stance on remote work a year ago, 2020 forced you to move people to work away from the office. Many leaders yearn for the chance to bring everyone back to the office and get things back to normal. Even when the regulations and a vaccine allow that, it […]. The post Why You Must Consider Flexible Working Arrangements – Even if You Hate the Idea appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Joseph Lalonde
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Four years ago I installed a ceiling fan in my bedroom. I’d never tried anything like that before. I was scared and anxious. When I was done installing the fan, I was beaming with pride. I’d installed a new fan and it worked! It’s always good when something like this works. And then it happened. One night while […].
Next Level Blog
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Last week I had a thoughtful client ask me a question I don’t get asked very often – What makes a great leader? Since, as an executive coach, I’m usually the one asking the questions, she caught me off guard with hers. What followed next was a quick real-time distillation of long-held thoughts and observations on the nature of true leadership.
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.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 17, 2020
Spoken-word poet and filmmaker Tomos Roberts struck a chord this year. With over 60 million views, he unmistakably drew the heart of humanity into the plot of his reflective children’s bedtime story, The Great Realisation [sic]. Tom’s pre-reminiscent tale paints a portrait of a spuriously progressing world with blinders on that needed a global virus to heal from its own undoing.
Kevin Eikenberry
DECEMBER 13, 2020
Each week, I interview a leadership expert or expert leader on The Remarkable Leadership Podcast. I learn so much in each of these conversations and I am confident that listeners and viewers gain lessons from each episode as well. But at the end of the year, I wanted to do something different, and I wanted […]. The post My Lessons from The Remarkable Leadership Podcast This Year appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
Joseph Lalonde
DECEMBER 13, 2020
A Reel Leadership Article. Klaus is the 2019 English-language Spanish 2D-animated Christmas movie. It is unique in that the film is 2D but looks 3D. It was a sight to behold. Klaus is a quirky film. It has its bright moments but it also lost me at the same time. The animation was stunning. The whiny Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) […].
Lead from Within
DECEMBER 17, 2020
These are hard times. The pandemic, its associated economic and social problems and if your employees are like most people, they’re feeling exhausted and stressed even when nothing specific is going wrong. At times like these, the way you communicate with your people is more important than ever. Here are some reminders: Communicate with care. When people are working through difficult times—and especially when they’re working remotely and you can’t be in the same room to pick up on subtle cues of
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Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 14, 2020
A problem to you is a solution to someone else. Friction and conflict are advantages when they inspire learning, growth, or innovation. You might believe bureaucracy is a problem.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 18, 2020
“Leadership comes from a place that troubles your heart.”. I read these words years ago in an article and have never forgotten them. The article was about Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy, affectionately called Dr. V. In 1976, he founded the Aravind Eye Hospital for the purpose of performing cataract surgery because cataracts are India’s leading form of blindness.
David A Fields
DECEMBER 15, 2020
You and your consulting firm are pretty spiffy. But does your firm employ the one, best consulting approach? Let’s find out. You savor the evidence that your consulting firm produces excellent work. Glowing testimonials and multiple, word-of-mouth referrals provide ample evidence that your consulting firm consistently pleases your clients. Yet, other consulting firms proceed quite … Continued.
Lead from Within
DECEMBER 15, 2020
Most of us are working from home these days. We may have started off thinking of it as a temporary measure, but now it’s clear that many of us won’t be returning to the office in the foreseeable future—if ever. Now that we have a base of experience, it’s time to think about how we can create virtual teams that are truly effective and will serve us well in the long haul.
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Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Alan Alda: “Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.” Alan Alda I will enter conversations open to learning and willing to adapt.
Joseph Lalonde
DECEMBER 15, 2020
I’ve often written about my love for the outdoors and all the fun activities you can do. These have included ice climbing, running half marathons, and more. As a leader, it’s important to have a hobby that gets you outside of the office and enjoying the great outdoors. Without a great hobby, it is easy […].
leaderCommunicator
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I've seen over the past week. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 , I'm continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I'm seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams.
Strategy Driven
DECEMBER 18, 2020
Saving money in your business is never really a bad thing. It’s good to always have a bit of extra cash lying around when you need it and for many businesses, an emergency fund is in existence for a rainy day. If you’re looking to save money for your business, then here are some helpful tips that you might find useful. Control Department Spending. Departments are likely to have individual budgets that you’ve distributed out at the start of the financial year.
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