Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2018

Project management isn’t for the faint of heart. You’re pressured from above to produce results and from below to cultivate relationships with your project teams. And in between, you’ve got scope creep, stakeholder politics, and vaguely supported contingency plans. You can become […]. The post Project Management: How to Hold the Best Accountability Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 6, 2018

Imagine trying to lead an organization or team without words or conversation. Impossible, right? Everything leaders do is mediated through conversation. So, what are you doing with your conversations? What if you had the keys to ensure your conversations would fuel productivity and engagement? Keys that would inspire creativity, motivate collaborative action, and generate innovative possibilities for resolving complex challenges?

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Tanveer Naseer

APRIL 3, 2018

The following is a guest piece by Alex Vorobieff. A healthy relationship with feedback exists when you can unemotionally assess the results of your business and then rationally determine what inputs or actions you need to change. Denial is a very frequent manifestation of an unhealthy relationship. It’s important to honestly evaluate and improve your relationship with feedback before you implement them.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

Vision alone is not enough. Vision requires action. Vision without action is nothing more than a daydream. The key to success is to stay focused on your vision and also to be realistic about your current situation. And that can be a challenge. Here are 7 tips to help you stay the course as you […]. The post 7 Tips to Move From Vision to Reality appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 3, 2018

It’s easy to talk about collaboration. It’s much harder to do it. After visiting one of our clients in Guatemala City, Karin, Sebastian, and I traveled to Antigua, Guatemala where my daughter owns a clothing design business. She took us to Hobbitengango, […]. The post Collaboration – Can We Really Trust You? appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

Welcome to the Leadership Development Carnival. We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, employee performance and engagement, personal and professional development, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. David Grossman of The Grossman Group shared Leadership: 6 Clues It’s Time to Adopt a Strategic Messaging Platform.

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RapidStart Leadership

APRIL 3, 2018

What kind of virtual team building can I do with my distributed team? We all know that teamwork is critical to getting things done through people. Building cohesive teams is already a challenge when everybody is face to face. But developing trust, communicating well, collaborating readily, and problem-solving effectively become … 15 Pretty Good Virtual Team Building Ideas Read More ».

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 1, 2018

You’re on the fast track. You don’t need sustained results, you need quick wins. Results matter. You’ve got a review coming up. With a few simple tactics, you can get your organization performing in no time. You’ll be promoted and someone else […]. The post 5 Ways to Drive Results Through Fear and Intimidation appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 2, 2018

From the heavy demands of a 24/7 world, the whiplash of political turmoil, to the care of aging parents, boomerang kids, and personal health challenges, there is much to test our resiliency. In fact, resiliency is becoming the theme of corporate meetings and church sermons. Let’s first define resiliency as it relates to human. It is not, contrary to Webster’s dictionary, the ability to bounce back.

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Women on Business

APRIL 6, 2018

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

W E LIVE IN A TIME of massive disruptions. It is a common reaction to this change to organize, reward, and promote, selfishness. Leaders and other change makers feel stuck—unable to redirect the course of events in any significant and constructive way. We are, in Otto Scharmer’s words, “collectively creating results that (almost) nobody wants.” Part of the problem is the way we approach what we “know” and do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2018

As we travel the world keynote speaking and working with leaders across a variety of organizations and contexts, we find one of the biggest challenges across cultures is how to have productive, difficult conversations. I was delighted to grab a few minutes for […]. The post How to Have Tough Conversations at Work: An Interview appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 4, 2018

What Attracts Top Talent? This question spawned the original research behind the book Talent Magnet. That research gained insight from more than 7,000 people, collected through various methods across the US. We knew, if we could look at the world of work from the perspective of Top Talent, we could attract more of them. Our research revealed three necessary ingredients* to make your organization an employer of choice for Top Talent.

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Women on Business

APRIL 4, 2018

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 6, 2018

I wonder if you pat yourself on the back because you don’t voice all your complaints. Withholding complaints doesn’t make you a positive leader. Fun: Complaining is fun at least for awhile.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 2, 2018

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ~Arthur Ashe~. Grayson asks: I’m naturally a shy person , and I want to learn how to be confident at work. I know that confidence is key to coming across as a leader , and I definitely want to advance. How can I stop blending into the background and start exuding self-assurance?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 3, 2018

T HROUGH THE PAGES of Servant Leadership in Action , we get a clearer picture of what servant leadership is and isn’t. Editors Ken Blanchard and Renee Broadwell have collected some good essays on the subject. Ken Blanchard begins by telling us that some people think you can’t lead and serve at the same time. But that is because they don’t understand that there are two parts to servant leadership: a visionary/direction, or strategic role—the leadership aspect of servant leadership and an implemen

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Lead Change Blog

APRIL 5, 2018

The following is an excerpt from Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What You’re Told to Do is Wrong. Many, if not most, orders to do the wrong thing concern meeting numerical quotas or goals. Years ago, the guru of Quality Management, W. Edwards Deming, warned us of this pitfall. He argued against tying job performance ratings and monetary rewards to numerical goals.

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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

APRIL 5, 2018

Complaining is about who you are, not the world around you. Ever notice how two people can experience the same thing and have opposite responses? One remains positive, even grateful. The other complains.

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Career Advancement

APRIL 2, 2018

“One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. ~Arthur Ashe~. Grayson asks: I’m naturally a shy person , and I want to learn how to be confident at work. I know that confidence is key to coming across as a leader , and I definitely want to advance. How can I stop blending into the background and start exuding self-assurance?

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2018

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in April 2018. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases this year. The Excellence Dividend : Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last by Thomas J. Peters. On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis. New Power : How Power Works in Our Hyperconnected World--and How to Make It Work for You by Jeremy Heimans.

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Great Leadership By Dan

APRIL 5, 2018

Guest post from Jeff Hyman : It’s hard to say goodbye. But understanding why people leave your company is a crucial part of developing a best-in-class workforce. Regardless of whether the individual is an underperformer or a Rockstar, departures frequently point to broader organizational issues that need to be addressed. Managers often react emotionally when an employee gives notice.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 4, 2018

What are your favorite complaints? Go ahead and let loose. Feel free to type ‘anonymous’ where you put your name when leaving comments. 20 common complaints: Self-centered uncaring bosses. Weather. Politicians. Pay. Customers.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

APRIL 3, 2018

Photo credit:123RF. Tom Hanks is well respected in the world of acting: he’s played roles as varied as a teenage boy in an adult body (Big); a slow witted but kind man who does fantastic things (Forest Gump); and a commercial American pilot who saves his passengers by landing his plane on a river (Sully). And there are many more, as he’s played a wide variety of characters over his decades-long career.

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Joseph Lalonde

APRIL 6, 2018

There is a kind of courage authors use as their clay for the molding of a love story. It’s the same fabric directors use to weave together a cape for their hero. A courage that wins the girl, saves the world, and lives to tell the tale. The “sexy” kind of courage. Image courtesy of Catalyst. Then, there’s the courage that’s not nearly as attractive.

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Michael Lee Stallard

APRIL 3, 2018

Kathy Bloomgarden, CEO of Ruder Finn, wrote a compelling article in Fortune about how the healthcare industry is slowly losing the very essence of healthcare: human connection. Like Ms. Bloomgarden, we’re concerned about the decline of human connection in the patient experience. We’re also concerned that a decline of doctor-patient connection is contributing to alarming rates of physician burnout which research has shown is associated with medical errors.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 2, 2018

Feeling superior comes in many forms. All of them are justifications for looking down on others. You can’t inspire those you look down on. Manipulate yes. Inspire no.

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Women on Business

APRIL 2, 2018

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Leading Blog

MARCH 31, 2018

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2018 that you might have missed: The Reciprocity Ring : When Giving At Work Becomes An Act Not A Check from @JohnBaldoni. VIDEO: Understand blockchain in under 7 minutes : Don Tapscott with Lloyds Bank. Are you a Role Model? by @LeadToday Steve Keating. Career pathing: an obsolete practice? by @Julie_WG. 7 Crucial Things You Must Do Before Graduating College.

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CEO Blog

MARCH 31, 2018

A start up CEO needs a different skill set than a growth CEO or a steady state CEO. In most respects it is a harder role. Recently I was asked for advice. I have found it very difficult to know what to advise - all start ups are different. And by nature - entrepreneurship is uncertain and there is no one right answer. Some rules and secrets on how to deal with things: 1 - You have no money.

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