Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

Practical strategies to encourage enthusiastic team members from talking too much and empower collaborative conversation So what do you do when your well-meaning, enthusiastic team-member is just talking too much in meetings? It’s tricky, particularly in virtual meetings. “Hi Karin, I watched your #AskingforaFriend about how to encourage people to speak up more in meetings, but I’ve got the EXACT OPPOSITE CHALLENGE.

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Leading Blog

JULY 14, 2023

A DDING value and sustaining growth is accomplished by developing others to lead at every level. Simply put, Noel Tichy writes in The Cycle of Leadership , “The company that fields the better team with the smarter people and has them working most often on the things that create the most value will win out over its competitors.” The way this is done is through an interactive teaching/learning process, not a lecture.

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Leading in Context

JULY 12, 2023

By Linda Fisher Thornton Ask for profitability and your company may get it, at the expense of customer satisfaction, employee engagement, and product safety. Making profitability a top business goal without balancing that with adequate ethics awareness is extremely risky, and could lead to community backlash that ends up destroying your brand.

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Rich Gee Group

JULY 10, 2023

Reclaiming Your Time: Strategies for Busy Managers As a manager, it’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of the workday, from leading team meetings and managing projects to resolving conflicts and making crucial decisions. Amid all this, finding time for personal development might seem like a luxury you can't afford. But let's be clear: growth isn't just a luxury—it's a necessity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 14, 2023

To achieve culture change, you don’t want to be scared of the conflict between values. When people know your values as an organization, but you don’t see those values being lived out, the problem is likely one of two invisible conflicts within change. Culture Change Not Working? Start Here 00:02 Hey, it’s David and you’re listening to leadership without Losing your soul, your source for practical leadership, inspiration tools and strategies you can use to achieve transfor

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Leading Blog

JULY 13, 2023

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. John Mattone on the importance of critical thinking: “Much of your natural thinking as a leader, when left unchecked, is biased, distorted, partial, uninformed, or downright prejudiced. Your effectiveness as a leader, however, depends precisely on the quality of your thoughts.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 10, 2023

Begin the day by choosing to make it a great day. Don’t expect others to make your day great. 12 ways to make today a great day: 1. Pause, breathe, and focus.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 10, 2023

Navigating Workplace Gossip, Better Meetings, Know-it-Alls, Passive Aggressive Co-workers, and More… It’s that time of year when we pause to review what you’re reading here on Let’s Grow Leaders. We inventory the most-read leadership articles of 2023 and here’s what you’re most interested in so far. We would love to hear from you.

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Leading Blog

JULY 10, 2023

A RTIST AND ENTREPRENEUR Larry D. Thornton says growing up with brown skin in the 1960s in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, he was “socially and internally maladjusted.” He was often angry because “for every single day, essentially everything around him reminded him that he was inferior for no other reason than being born.” He says, “For that reason, I rejected school and disregarded and discounted people with white skin.

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Lead from Within

JULY 10, 2023

As an executive leadership coach who works with leaders around the world, I often hear leaders asking their employees a wide range of questions on a regular basis. However, some of these questions can be inappropriate or harmful to the work environment. To help leaders create a positive and supportive work environment for their teams, and establish healthy boundaries, I have compiled a list of questions that leaders should never ask of their employees.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 13, 2023

People don’t make you feel defensive. Defensiveness is your response. Defensiveness is feeling attacked when others are trying to help. Defensive language: My natural response to criticism or corrective feedback is self-protection.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 14, 2023

In our previous blog post (Part 1) , we shared indicators that your company may not be a Positive Energy Workplace. If you missed it, make sure to check it out because it's essential to understanding what might be holding your organization back from reaching its full potential. But today, we're flipping the script and focusing on the signs that show your company is already a Positive Energy Workplace AND in growth and optimization mode!

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Next Level Blog

JULY 11, 2023

One of my sources of entertainment on a recent trip to Los Angeles was watching a traffic cop masterfully manage a very busy Melrose Avenue intersection while a work crew replaced the stop lights. Wearing her white gloves and a bright yellow vest, the traffic cop exuded grace, authority, intelligence and confidence all at once. Seriously, how much of all of that do you think it takes to stand in the middle of a multilane, four-way intersection with pedestrian crosswalks on every corner and keep

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 12, 2023

During periods of economic uncertainty, a common response from leaders is streamlining their operations and focusing on what they deem as being essential to their organization’s ability to ride out the storm. Unfortunately, one thing that often is considered in these moments to be a luxury is taking time off. Click to continue reading During periods of economic uncertainty, a common response from leaders is streamlining their operations and focusing on what they deem as being essential to their

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Leadership Freak

JULY 14, 2023

The dragons you face are inside you. Stop blaming. Your shortfalls belong to you. Face the dragon. You are the dragon.

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Anese Cavanaugh

JULY 11, 2023

At Active Choices, Inc., we've been in the business of helping organizations cultivate Positive Energy Workplaces for more than two decades, and during that time we’ve worked with many high-performing teams and organizational partners and gathered an immense amount of insights along the way. As we continue to reach more companies and expand our Positive Energy Workplace Initiative™ (PEW-i) , we've noticed some common themes and symptoms that can help you understand where your organization stands

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Lead from Within

JULY 12, 2023

Working with an incompetent leader can be challenging and frustrating, but it is possible to find success and maintain your productivity despite this obstacle. Here are five strategies that may help you navigate this difficult situation: Practice diplomacy: It’s important to remember that your leader is still your boss and deserves respect. While you may not agree with their actions or decisions, try to communicate your concerns and needs in a diplomatic and respectful manner.

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Women on Business

JULY 13, 2023

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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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Leadership Freak

JULY 12, 2023

Vibrant meetings are as rare as they are beautiful. Here are 7 quick techniques you can use today.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 11, 2023

Do you need your current position? We cannot lead what we need. Are you dependent upon your current employer for income and benefits? Yes? Then you cannot lead there. Let me explain… There are two dependencies preventing most people from being great leaders in corporations: Salary & Benefits Dependency : If you lack confidence in your ability to find great employment elsewhere, a sufficient financial reserve to allow you time to find new employment, or both, you seek to please your bos

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Lead from Within

JULY 13, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have worked with many leaders on a variety of skills. However, there is one skill that always stands out as very important: the ability to lead others effectively. Leading others is not necessarily difficult to do or learn, but leading well is crucial for achieving dynamic results. So, how can leaders lead with ease?

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Women on Business

JULY 11, 2023

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Strategy Driven

JULY 9, 2023

Technology has transformed the farming industry dramatically over the past few decades, which is making farming more productive, profitable and sustainable. While automated machinery, robots, regenerative agriculture, and more have transformed the industry, financial technology is now beginning to make significant changes as well. Financial technology or fintech has transformed other industries such as banking, and now it is making its way into the farming industry.

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Modern Servant Leader

JULY 11, 2023

Heineken CEO Dolf van den Brink, Unilever CEOs Hein Schumacher (June) and Alan Jope (prior), Philip Morris CEO Jacek Olczak, Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put, and Nestle CEO Ulf Mark Schneider have all demonstrated a lack of ethical behavior. Each of their organizations promised to exit business in Russia when war began. These leaders have not delivered on that promise.

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Lead from Within

JULY 11, 2023

Trust is a crucial component of any relationship, but it is especially important in leadership. When trust is present, leadership is strong and effective. But when trust is broken, it can be difficult to regain and can have serious consequences. Many leaders struggle with building and maintaining trust, and they often make mistakes that can destroy trust and hinder their team’s success.

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Women on Business

JULY 10, 2023

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The Horizons Tracker

JULY 9, 2023

Among environmentalists, there has long been a suggestion that the transition to net zero has been far too slow. Research from PIK Potsdam suggests they might be right, and that a rapid transition easily pays off. The researchers have created a new approach to evaluate the significance of decisions in scenarios with highly uncertain outcomes. Using the method on a model greenhouse gas emission issue shows that it is reasonable to choose an early shift to a carbon-free society, even when the chan

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Leadership Freak

JULY 11, 2023

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Lead from Within

JULY 14, 2023

Every leader will inevitably encounter failures along the way. These setbacks can be tough to navigate, but by learning from them, you can become a stronger and more resilient leader. Here are the top three failures that every leader will likely experience at some point: Bad Hiring: Even if you have an intensive process in place for vetting potential hires, there’s always a chance that someone may not live up to your expectations.

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Women on Business

JULY 8, 2023

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