Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
T HINK back to the last difficult conversation you had. What happened? Maybe you lashed out, got defensive, dodged or overexplained; possibly you lied, got passive-aggressive, or completely shut down, unable to talk. Whatever the reaction, I want you to know that its normal. In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
4 Workplace Distraction Traps Keeping You Swirling Ever feel like your workday is a full-blown tornado of workplace distractionsemails flying in, urgent requests swirling around, and meetings popping up like unexpected hail? Just when you think youve got a handle on things, another task comes spinning your way. Distractions at work are everywhere, and if you dont take control, youll spend your day chasing debris instead of making real progress.
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Rich Gee Group
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Ever wake up with that nagging feeling in your gut, like youve outgrown your current company? That youve squeezed all the juice out of this gig and theres just nothing left? Thats what I call your corporate half-life. Its that pivotal moment when you realize your time in a role, a team, or even an entire organization has hit its expiration date. You might still love some aspects of your jobthe free coffee, the friendly colleague next to youbut deep down, you know youre done.
Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
By Linda Fisher Thornton As humans, we are flawed thinkers who easily fall victim to biases and traps. The biases and traps we so easily fall into reshape our thinking in ways that can lead us to make bad decisions. As you review the list of leadership traps below, think about how each can lead to unethical thinking and actions.
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Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
H OW do successful people think? The key to doing well is thinking well. Its a way of being in the world. Becoming great means making the hard choices necessary to get you there. Performance coach Doug Hirschhorn advances eight principles in 8 Ways to Great that direct the decisions of top performers. Principle #1: Find Your Why? How questions bring up negative thoughts and inadequacies.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
How to Communicate Like a BossWith a Little Help from Your Pod Whales have a pretty cool way of navigating their world. They use echolocationsending out sound waves, listening to the echoes, and adjusting based on what they hear. But heres the key: they dont do it alone. They move in pods, supporting and protecting each other. They get better feedback because communication is a team sport.
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Tanveer Naseer
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
In the face of rapid change and disruption, organizations everywhere find themselves in a race to not only preserve their market share, but discover the next big opportunity that will given them the keys to future growth and innovation. And according to my guest in this episode, that opportunity can.
Leading Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
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. Michael Doctoroff on conflict: Conflicts, when properly controlled and resolved, can be a powerful tool for developing creative business plans and objectives. Without conflict, the organization would remain in a happy state of inactivity.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
Episode 290: What if the secret to reducing stress at work wasnt in planning more but in responding better? Unexpected changes and challenges are inevitable in leadership. How you respond to them can either add to your stress or unlock new levels of creativity, influence, and problem-solving. This episode reveals how the principles of improv can help you embrace uncertainty and lead with confidence.
Lead from Within
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The greatest threat to your organization’s success isn’t your competitionit’s your leadership style driving top talent out the door. In my work coaching senior executives, I’ve documented a concerning pattern: leaders often remain blind to the behaviors that prompt their most valuable employees to quietly plan their exits. As I challenge C-suite executives through talent retention transformations, one truth remains constant: leadership behavior, not compensation, determin
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Coaching is harder when the coach is the boss. Open listening, courageous honesty, and not fixing are rare in conversations when one person has organizational authority. Frameworks provide clarity, consistency, and confidence in coaching relationships. Use four questions that align with the GROW model.
Chartered Management Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The Economic Impact of Management Apprenticeships How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth cta?? --> --> Unlocking Economic Growth Through Management Apprenticeships Management apprenticeships are playing a crucial role in shaping the future workforce by boosting productivity, enhancing social mobility, and strengthening the economy.
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Would you dare sabotage your own career over a workplace squabble? Gone are the days of watch your back if you do so advise. Disgruntled employees are dreaming of payback and even carrying it out by revenge quitting. Many moons ago, I saw an intern get into a dispute with her supervisor. Before the HR manager could be called in for an intervention, the intern packed her bag and left the office never to be seen again.
QAspire
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Charles Handy, the renowned Irish author and philosopher who shaped modern thinking on organizations and careers, passed away in mid-December 2024 at the age of 92. While his passing marks the close of a remarkable chapter in management thought, his insights remain as relevant as ever. Handy had a remarkable ability to anticipate shifts long before they unfolded.
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
I asked three of the best question-askers, What helps leaders ask great questions? The second most important behavior of leadership is asking questions. The first is being honest. Dont worry if you arent the smartest person in the room; be honest and ask questions. Curiosity sees more than congealed brilliance.
Chartered Management Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
The Economic Impact of Management Apprenticeships How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth How Management Apprenticeships Boost Productivity and Economic Growth cta?? --> --> Unlocking Economic Growth Through Management Apprenticeships Management apprenticeships are playing a crucial role in shaping the future workforce by boosting productivity, enhancing social mobility, and strengthening the economy.
Frank Sonnenberg Online
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Have you ever thought of saying something but never got around to it? A compliment, a thank you, or an apology ? Maybe you were busy , had other things on your mind, or simply put it off for another day. Sadly, the moment passed, and the opportunity to tell that person was gone forever. But at least you had good intentions, right? Do you leave people wondering, “Why didn’t you tell me?
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Edward M. Marshall 's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.
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.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
people persecute joy out of life. How many people are busy and sad? How many are miserable while seeking the good life? Part of the problem is daily conversations that oppress joy. When life is miserable, words have something to do with it. Do you know the one rule for words?
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, seen as crucial for cutting carbon emissions in transportation, are proving to be good for business too. A new MIT study shows that these stations benefit not just the environment but also local economies. The study, which focused on California, found that installing EV charging stations increased yearly spending at nearby businesses by an average of $1,500 in 2019 and $400 between January 2021 and June 2023.
HR Digest
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
Everyone knows who CEOs are and what the job involves, but what do a CHROs job responsibilities involve? The role of Chief Human Resource Officer is a prized position that many HR workers aspire to reach, however, for freshers in the industry, it can be hard to understand what kind of career progression an HR role may entail. The CHRO leadership role in HR involves many key responsibilities that determine the function of the rest of the organization and the HR team, which is why it is essential
CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Im sure most of us have been in conversations when a friend called us amid a challenge or all-out crisis. We hear the angst and urgency in their voice. We ask clarifying questions, and to demonstrate empathy, we engage our friend by sharing our own story. We feel the need to explain that weve been […] The post Stealing the Stage and Being Given the Stage appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.
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Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
The most important thing you manage is your energy. Multiply energy gains by subtracting these unexpected energy drains. Stop needing to be right. Know-it-alls feel drained by idiots. Your exhausted when you think you're surrounded by fools. Acknowledge constant improvement means everything is always imperfect. Learn more.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Isaac Asimov’s first law famously remarks that robots should not do anything that harms humans. While causing physical harm might be quite clear-cut, psychological harm is rather harder to qualify. Would lying count, for instance? Whether lying is a good or bad thing has been a topic of philosophical debate for many years, but it has very real implications when it comes to how we program robots.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Why do some teams succeed while others stumble? Because hiring, developing and engaging talent requires careful decisions that are too easy to get wrong without data. In The Science of Dream Teams: How Talent Optimization Can Drive Engagement, Productivity, and Happiness , author Mike Zani introduces the science of talent optimization , a new discipline thats a far more reliable way to manage your employees than your gut instincts.
Mike Cardus
FEBRUARY 8, 2025
Screenshot Is the uncanny and mystical pushed out or ignored in favor of logical and known processes within work? Reflecting on this discussion, I did notice that in many orgs the faint clue of uncanny-ness is within orgs, and will be rationalized in power points and ways to reduce anxiety, with structured or highly ritualized processes (i.e., board meetings, strategy presentations, PMO).
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Chartered Management Institute
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Article: How I helped deliver a state-of-the-art e-sports facility Written by Dave Waller Share Share to Twitter Share to Facebook Share to LinkedIn Share via email Richard Mortimer CMgr MCMI explains how, as the leader of the technical team behind a project to revamp the University of Staffordshires e-sports facilities, he implemented learnings from his Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship E-sports is big business these days.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
Public debates on ageism usually highlight bias against older adults, with stereotypes casting them as slow, grumpy, and forgetful. But new research from Wharton reveals that the most negative attitudes are actually directed toward young adultsa phenomenon called “youngism.” In two large surveys of U.S. adults, researchers found that people held more positive views of older adults than younger ones, challenging the idea that age-related prejudice mainly affects older people.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Within the workplace there are Contributors and Impact Players each representing a distinct way of working the first leads to a job well done while the other carves a path to true leadership and generates immense value. More specifically, Liz Wiseman , author of the book, Impact Players , explains that: While others do their job, Impact Players figure out the real job to be done.
Leading with Trust
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
I find that when I speak about servant leadership , many people misunderstand what it means. Some say, “Oh, you mean being nice to people.” Others think, “That’s all about not micromanaging employees.” One of my favorites is, “Letting the inmates run the prison!” Really? Is a prison the best analogy for the workplace?
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