Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 31, 2022
Help your team master rapidly changing priorities with skillful preparation. Rapidly changing priorities can demoralize and frustrate your team if you’re not prepared to help them navigate the shifting landscape. Effective leaders prepare their teams for changing priorities, create structures to help the team shift, and advocate for their team to ensure their work is meaningful.
Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 31, 2022
Leading is hard enough in “normal” times. But the times in which we are living and leading are far from normal. Supply chains, viruses, economic changes, and changes in expectations, needs, and demands can all create exhaustion. Sure, a big challenge can create a spike in engagement and focus, but we can’t survive on adrenaline […]. The post Overcoming Leadership Fatigue appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 30, 2022
Quotes And Leadership Lessons From. The Netflix original movie, Tick, Tick… BOOM! tells the story of Jonathan Larson (Andrew Garfield). Tick, Tick… BOOM! is the autobiographical musical of Larson as he struggles to become a valued playwright. Larson eventually does but does with the play Rent. Unfortunately, Larson died of an aortic aneurysm before the play premiered.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
In over thirty years of either working for senior executives, being a senior executive, or coaching senior executives, I’ve come to a few conclusions. One of them is that, too often, there’s an overemphasis on strategy and an underemphasis on culture. When that’s the case, the outcomes usually aren’t the greatest. There’s a reason the late, great Peter Drucker said, “Culture eats strategy for breakfast.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JANUARY 30, 2022
The Best Hybrid and Virtual Teams Work on. Connection, Communication, and Stay Curious About New Ways of Working. The best hybrid and virtual teams don’t leave connection and communication to chance. They’re consistently asking “how can we do this better?” They spend time communicating about how they communicate AND make an extra effort to build psychological safety , trust and connection.
Kevin Eikenberry
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Organizational culture has been an important topic for a number of years, but right now, as I’m recording this video at the beginning of 2022, culture has never been a bigger focus. Organizations around the globe are trying to figure out what the future of their workplace will look like. And rightfully so, they’re concerned […]. The post Three Cultures You Must Consider – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Leading in Context
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
By Linda Fisher Thornton Which lenses must we look through to be ethical leaders? That is the important question I answered during a recent talk at the Ethics and Governance Forum at The Saint Anselm Center for Ethics in Society. As you watch the video clip overview of the 7 Lenses of Ethical Leadership, think about how you can apply all 7 Lenses in your daily thinking and leadership.
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Be More Wrong: How to Grow From Failure. As a leader, how should you encourage your team to take risks and make the most of mistakes and failure? In this Asking For a Friend episode, Karin welcomes Colin Hunter, author of B e More Wrong , to discuss the journey of failure and growth. How to Grow From Failure (Highlights). Source of Strength. 1:19 Colin shares about his father’s passing and how celebrating his life was actually a source of strength for him, and refers to the experience of f
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
You’re doomed if you can’t change direction. A turbulent world requires you to be light on your feet. But you can’t get anywhere when you constantly change direction.
Joseph Lalonde
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Employee motivation is essential for any business. When employees are motivated, they are more productive and efficient. This can lead to better work outcomes and a more successful company overall. However, motivating employees can be difficult – especially if you don’t know where to start. Establish Clear Goals And Expectation When it comes to motivating […].
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Great Results Team Building
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Small links can sink great ships. That’s a saying you are probably familiar with. . And a leak of any kind can unexpectedly wreck your team culture. . In Rapid Teamwork I wrote about a management team learning how to build a more positive and profitable workplace culture from a wise river guide as they traveled down the Nantahala on a raft. If there had been a leak in that raft, it would have ruined their day ; ). .
Let's Grow Leaders
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” It’s tough for teams to be quick and clever in those circumstances.
Leadership Freak
JANUARY 31, 2022
Us/them-thinking comes naturally to everyone, even children. Imagine giving blue shirts to one group of children and yellow to another. Us/them-thinking will animate perception quickly.
Joseph Lalonde
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
When you think of love, you may not think of leadership. However, February is the month of love. Valentine’s Day is just around the corner. And, at least for part of February, I wanted to take a look at the ways leaders can lead with love. Love doesn’t have to be mushy. Love can be […].
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Kevin Eikenberry
JANUARY 30, 2022
Are you experiencing flux or continuous change? Chances are you are almost laughing at how obvious your answer is. Here is another obvious question: Would you like to thrive in times of change (like now)? Would you like some concrete tactics to help you deal with the realities and emotions of constant change? April Rinne […]. The post Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
leaderCommunicator
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Celebrating jobs well done and thanking employees for extra effort are common ways organizations motivate and recognize their people, but it could be time to up your recognition game. When change is a constant and employees are looking for more from their employers, it’s good to have a meaningful recognition strategy that can support employees and help advance change.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
I’ve been a fan of New England sports teams since I was a kid. But when Tom Brady went to Tampa Bay, I started rooting for the Buccaneers.
Modern Servant Leader
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
The principles of servant-leadership, as captured in the Acronym Model of SERVANT-Leadership begin with Selflessness. This 7 minute lesson shows this principle as applied by Nelson Mandela (played by Morgan Freeman), during South Africa’s preparation for the 1995 World Cup of Rugby. Also present in this example are the principles of Empathy and Resolve.
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.
Sales Wolf Blog
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Trouble with Fran.
leaderCommunicator
JANUARY 31, 2022
When asked, communication professionals identified their top strategic priorities, challenges and questions for 2022. The common attributions of mission-critical priorities included improving their use of communications tools and channels, aligning staff and skills to support business priorities, and driving reputation and building trust according to a recent survey from Gartner.
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 4, 2022
“84% of people surveyed said Americans are angrier today compared with a generation ago*.” Negative emotions can be useful, but they’re dangerous.
Strategy Driven
JANUARY 31, 2022
Many marketers and business leaders believe a website is complete when it goes live. However, a B2B web design needs consistent monitoring and updating to ensure it is still working properly and you are focusing on the right business goals. To update your B2B website design, try these few things. Do a Website Audit. This doesn’t need to be complicated but is an opportunity to make sure everything on your website is in proper working order.
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The Horizons Tracker
JANUARY 31, 2022
Recent research from the University of Southern California explored the old troupe that the gender pay gap exists in part because of women’s poorer negotiating skills. The study found that men and women are generally as bad as each other, but it fits part of a wider narrative that suggests that women are not as assertive as men in the workplace.
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
Toward the beginning of Joseph Lalonde ’s new book, Reel Leadership , he shares, “We’re going to delve into the leaderships lessons we can find in movies. We’re going to discover that movies are a fantastic way to learn, grow, and engross yourself in leadership. So, sit back; get ready. We’re going to dive into some reel leadership.” You are going to enjoy the journey Lalonde takes you on, by first setting the stage as he chronicles the history of film, the history of leadership, and the science
Leadership Freak
FEBRUARY 1, 2022
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CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
A dear friend and business owner recently sent me a blog defining core leadership skills. While the blog had some useful distinctions that I found smart and interesting, it also included some traits that are not, in fact, essential to effective leadership. They are actually personality traits that, to an American sensibility, determine good character […].
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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.
The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Given their importance to our working lives, we might imagine that we would want our colleagues to be highly competent. Alas, that’s not what research from Binghamton University says, with people instead seeming to prefer colleagues who are trustworthy and likable. When it comes to picking team members, the study found that while things like competence are important, they’re not as important as one’s trustworthiness and friendliness. “We assume that people are selected f
Eric Jacobson
JANUARY 31, 2022
“Being human and doing what needs to be done are not mutually exclusive. In truth, doing hard things and making difficult decisions is often the most compassionate thing to do,” explain the authors of the timely and compelling new book, Compassionate Leadership: How to Do Hard Things in a Human Way. Whether you are a seasoned leader or new in your leadership role, add this book to your list of must-read books during 2022.
Women on Business
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
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CEO Insider
FEBRUARY 2, 2022
Expectations of business leaders are changing at lightning (maybe even frightening) speed. The days when their role was to a large extent operational, focused almost exclusively on delivering financial results, are well and truly over. Today’s top executives are expected also to fit the mode of political leaders. And they will be judged on that […].
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