Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 2, 2020
A note to our international readers: we recognize that we have readers from around the globe, but our home is in the United States and tragedies at home run deep. Whether you are reading from the US or elsewhere, we invite you […]. The post How To Help Your Team Process Tragedies Weighing On Their Hearts appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
JUNE 1, 2020
Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2020. Don't miss out on other great new and future releases. Unleashed : The Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You by Frances Frei and Anne Morriss. Leadership isn't easy. It takes grit, courage, and vision, among other things, that can be hard to come by on your toughest days.
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Tanveer Naseer
JUNE 3, 2020
Establishing remote teams within your business can help you find top-tier talent from anywhere in the world, potentially cut costs, and offer an additional benefit to recruits who are considering joining your company. However, there is an art to successful remote work, so you’ll need to create the right conditions. Click to continue reading.
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 3, 2020
How is community built? Real change requires a shift in story, which occurs in community and how we gather. In a world where we are all connected by technology, why are people feeling more than ever so disconnected, lonely, and isolated? Peter Block, author of Community: The Structure of Belonging, discusses how community is built and what it takes to make transformational shifts occur.
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Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 1, 2020
When your team won’t trust you, that’s job number one. If there’s one realization every leader can take to heart from the pandemic and social-political turmoil gripping the United States right now, it’s that you cannot lead without trust. When your team […]. The post Why Your Team Won’t Trust You – and What to Do About It appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.
Leading Blog
JUNE 4, 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. Consultant Robert J. Thomas on learning to think like a leader: “If you desire to be a leader, you have to think like one. At the heart of that process is a form of deliberate practice that would look familiar to students and teachers of music, chess, or any of a number of complex, highly intentional pursuits—most emphatically in terms of approaches lik
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Joseph Lalonde
JUNE 3, 2020
As the COVID-19 crisis hit the world, very few leaders thought this viral outbreak would be as big as it is. Many leaders thought it would come and go. COVID-19 hasn’t come and gone. It’s left businesses, non-profits, and families in ruins. Not all crises are the same. Not all crises demand economies be shut […] The post How To Determine If A Crisis Is Really A Crisis appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Let's Grow Leaders
JUNE 5, 2020
If it takes courage to show up for work every day, your people won’t have the energy, creativity, or courage they need to solve bigger problems or better serve your customer. This episode challenges leaders to find their own courage to […]. The post Don’t Waste Your Team’s Courage appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. If it takes courage to show up for work every day, your people won’t have the energy, creativity, or courage they need to solve bigger problems o
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 2, 2020
Welcome to the June 2020 Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, motivation, productivity, team building, and more. Communication. Marcia Reynolds of Covisioning Transformational Leadership provided How to Revive a Brain Attacked by Stress.
Next Level Blog
JUNE 3, 2020
As a white male, I’m reluctant to offer a lot of personal commentary in this post but would argue that a lack of empathy for the lives and life experience of others has been a significant contributor to where we are as a nation this week. Likewise, I believe that we’re not going to emerge from this ongoing tragedy without intentional deep work on empathy and the application of it.
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Joseph Lalonde
JUNE 5, 2020
There are so many things we think matter that don’t. We discover what truly matters in a crisis. I hope you’re discovering what matters and what doesn’t matter throughout this crisis. I have. You may be shocked at what I’m about to share. These may seem like things that should matter. In the end, they really don’t. […] The post What Doesn’t Matter In A Crisis appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Great Leadership By Dan
JUNE 4, 2020
Guest post from Beth Armknecht Miller: Recently, I was working with an executive who shared a job description for a new IT position. He leads a rapidly growing company so there were going to be multiple hires for the same position in a short period of time. As he spoke about the position and the next steps in his hiring process, I became uneasy. Why was I concerned?
Lead Change Blog
JUNE 4, 2020
Divots happen. They’re a sign of impact. And so is how you deal with them. The best golfers know that club scuffs in the turf and ball indentations on the green aren’t all bad. It’s part of the game. But so is fixing your divots. It doesn’t matter if you leave your mark because of something positive or negative, the aftermath is your responsibility.
Modern Servant Leader
JUNE 5, 2020
In times of tragedy and civil unrest, it is easy and common for companies to release position statements. It’s good for leaders to offer their support to communities in need. A positive message that says, “we stand with you” feels good. Unfortunately, in these times, your stakeholders need more than warm fuzzies – they need your action.
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Joseph Lalonde
JUNE 1, 2020
A Reel Leadership Flashback Article. Bloodsport is the 1988 action movie that is actually a biography of the real-life Frank W Dux (Jean-Claude Van Damme). Dux has gone AWOL from the military to travel to Hong Kong for the Kumite, the ultimate martial arts competition. (Pick it up on Amazon) The Kumite is a brutal, violent event. It is a […] The post Quotes And Leadership Lessons From Bloodsport appeared first on Joseph Lalonde.
Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog
JUNE 2, 2020
Emotions shape our reality more than facts and trend charts. To coach people in difficult times, the conversation must be about more than the problem. Marcia Reynolds shares 4 practices will enable you to be effective. The post 4 Practices To Coach People in Difficult Times appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.
Lead from Within
JUNE 2, 2020
Being a leader always comes with enormous responsibility, but being a leader in crisis adds significance and depth to that responsibility. It’s easy to become overwhelmed and lose your bearings at a time when many of the usual processes and measures no longer apply, but successful leadership is still possible—and more necessary than ever. One successful approach is to focus on the things people look to their leader to provide in a time of crisis.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 3, 2020
The events of the past few days have been emotional for everyone. A glance at the news will leave you horrified, hurt, angry, sad, or one of many other emotions. I am not qualified to offer solutions to the anger, protests, and violence. Rather, I write to you as a fellow leader and someone who […]. The post Successfully Leading During Protests and Civil Unrest appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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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
JUNE 3, 2020
Frustrated leaders complain about having the same conversation. “We’ve talked about this problem over and over.” Repetition creates the path of least resistance like rivers eventually wear channels in stone.
Great Results Team Building
JUNE 4, 2020
Working with teams, one of the common issues is poor communication… That likely doesn’t surprise you. But what might surprise you is that much of the issues that occur on teams – large and small – could have been avoided if they had BEGUN with a clear set of team expectations. Want to ensure your team is more positive, more productive, and more profitable?
Lead from Within
JUNE 4, 2020
When a crisis hits, your team is more likely to start experiencing burnout. They’re feeling more stress, working longer hours and putting in more focused effort than usual. The combination is one that often leaves people feeling fatigued and irritated—in short, burned out. It’s especially common in an extended crisis where people are not only stressed over work issues but also dealing with the effects on their personal and family life.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 1, 2020
Are you feeling some unease and distress at work these days? Chances are your tried and true routines are a mess, which may be the cause of those feelings. Consciously building work routines might be the best thing you could do for your productivity and stress level right now. Routines help us in every area […]. The post Building New Routines That Work for You appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Leadership Freak
JUNE 5, 2020
88% of leaders report that work is a primary source of stress. What if stress is good for you? These are stressful times. We’d love to avoid or prevent crisis and tragedy.
Great Results Team Building
JUNE 4, 2020
I was reminded while playing Othello last week that people conform to Team Norms. If you want to improve culture in your organization, you have to overcome the challenge of existing conformity. Leading a and improving culture is a lot like playing Othello! In the board game, once a disc is outflanked on both sides by the opposite color you have to flip it over to the opposite color.
leaderCommunicator
JUNE 1, 2020
There’s no doubt we’re facing some of the biggest challenges of our time, as a nation, as people and as leaders. As we all try to make sense of the unrest sweeping the nation, many employees started work this morning with yet another emotionally-charged, hugely complex topic on their minds, on top of the challenges many already face with the pandemic.
Kevin Eikenberry
JUNE 2, 2020
When we give feedback, it is with the hope that the person on the receiving end will take action on that feedback. But giving feedback isn’t a one-and-done action. It’s a journey that has many steps along the way. So before we (or should I say ‘they’) get to action, we must realize the emotions […]. The post Helping Others Apply Your Feedback – Remarkable TV appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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Eric Jacobson
JUNE 5, 2020
Entrepreneur magazine's February 2012 issue offered these great, timeless tips on how to give praise : Praise followed by criticism is not praise. Praise followed by praise is probably a little too much praise. Ending an expression of praise with ".and stuff" nullifies the praise. And, Make it timely. The closer the recognition is to the behavior, the more likely the behavior will be repeated.
Great Results Team Building
JUNE 5, 2020
If you lead a team, at some point you will need ideas to help them thrive in change. Change is inevitable. Adaptation is not – but a refusal to adapt and grow is the first step to frustration and eventually result in team failure. So in order to share a few unexpected ideas to help you lead your team in times of change, I’d like to introduce you to my wife’s 4 favorite people ; ).
leaderCommunicator
JUNE 3, 2020
After months of managing through an unprecedented crisis, our communities and companies were rocked by another tragic, but this time, all too familiar event. After the senseless and unnecessary killing of an unarmed black man, George Floyd, was caught on video, the U.S. is caught in a familiar cycle of grief, anger and protest that is affecting the black community and everyone who cares about justice.
Kevin Eikenberry
MAY 31, 2020
For a time, being an effective remote worker meant being able to survive and get some work done at home during a time of uncertainty. While the uncertainty remains, the benchmark for success is changing. By now you know there is a difference between working from home and being an effective remote worker. Even if […]. The post The Skills and Mindsets Needed to be an Effective Remote Worker appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.
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