Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 25, 2021

Are you blindsided when things break down, problems happen, or conflict occurs? Great leaders anticipate these breakdowns and know that it’s a matter of when – not if – they’ll happen. Lead your team with a planned recovery and equip them with the skills to overcome these setbacks. Leading When Things Break. 0:22 – Last chance to get your Kindle edition of Courageous Cultures: How to Build Teams of Micro-innovators, Problem Solvers, and Customer Advocates at a crazy

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Leading Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

L EADERS in today’s multinational, matrixed, diverse business world have impact through their ability to influence others. In many organizations, authority-based leadership is waning. Success is all about getting others to care about what you care about. The most effective leaders get their teams, their colleagues, and their suppliers to emphasize their priorities.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 23, 2021

Being a leader doesn’t mean bossing people around. As a leader, you’re responsible for motivating, educating, and making sure your employees add value to your organization. This requires you to connect with your team, to create an environment that encourages creativity, to understand your own strengths and weaknesses as well. Click to continue reading.

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Leading in Context

JUNE 23, 2021

By Linda Fisher Thornton This week I'm sharing posts that clearly describe what unethical leadership looks like, and caution readers about the risks of allowing it to continue. While I have always blogged about proactive ethical leadership, my posts on unethical leadership continue to be some of the most popular, so I know you're looking for answers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

Avoid These Big Mistakes When Recognizing Employees. A great employee recognition program is a remarkable way to build culture, increase employee engagement and reinforce critical behaviors. Done well, these programs will have a positive impact on culture and can also serve as a vital part of your 5 x 5 communication plan. And yet, so many companies screw this up.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 25, 2021

T HERE’S much more to workplace fun than having a Ping-Pong table in the employee break room, free soda in the refrigerator, and an occasional office party. Prioritizing fun at work is really about embedding fun into the work culture. According to the employees who work for firms listed in Fortune’s “ 100 Best Companies to Work for in America ,” the most defining characteristic of these organizations is they’re all “fun” places to work.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 25, 2021

When we reward people based on their behaviors, they begin to repeat those behaviors. Edward Thorndike researched this and coined the term The Law Of Effect. The Law Of Effect states: responses that produce a satisfying effect in a particular situation become more likely to occur again in that situation, and responses that produce a discomforting […].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 21, 2021

The pandemic started with little or no warning and changed the landscape of work and the expectations of workers in ways we never expected. Now, depending on where you live and your specific context, the pandemic is ending – or you can see when it will be over. Leading post-pandemic requires understanding of where we […]. The post Where We Stand in Creating a Post-Pandemic Workplace appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 24, 2021

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. Ron Friedman on how experience begets automaticity and automaticity stifles learning. And the need for the right kind of practice to improve and grow: “Working on our weaknesses is unpleasant, stressful, and hard.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s time to stop procrastinating and get more of the important things done! Eating a frog is a metaphor for tackling your most challenging task—but also the one that can have the greatest positive impact on your life. Like adults, students of all ages struggle with how to manage their time. Encountering the necessity of time management for the first time, high schoolers juggle classes, extracurricular activities (all but mandatory for college admissions), jobs, internships, family responsibilit

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 21, 2021

A Reel Leadership Article. Luca is the latest direct to Disney+ movie. The movie is a joint Pixar and Disney venture that delivered great results. What is Luca about? Luca is the story of young sea monster Luca Paguro (Jacob Tremblay), another sea monster named Alberto Scorfano (Jack Dylan Grazer), and a human named Guilia Marcovaldo (Emma Berman). They […].

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 25, 2021

This week, I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Lee Newman, the Dean of IE Business School, in Madrid, Spain. We talked about Connection Culture, the current longing for connection coming out of the pandemic, and how leaders can be proactive to help reconnect their teams. The conversation was broadcasted on LinkedIn Live and is available to watch on demand.

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 20, 2021

There are many ways leaders can improve in their work. One of the most targeted and helpful is providing them with leadership coaching. There is little doubt that a skilled and experienced coach is one of the biggest assets in helping a willing leader grow and become more confident and effective. While most all will […]. The post A Different Way to Think About Leadership Coaching appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning.

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 22, 2021

As an entrepreneur or founder, the bond you have with the company you created can be as strong as that of a parent with her child. CEOs who take command of a company also forge intense bonds, even if they are not the actual founder. The devotion that many leaders feel for their businesses infuses everything, from company culture and engineering to the snacks in the kitchen.

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Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 23, 2021

Do you celebrate successes? You should. And there’s a darn good reason behind celebrating success. In today’s article, we’re going to look at 4 different kinds of successes and why you should celebrate each one. They’re all different and they all impact those you lead differently. Before we get started, celebrating success tells people they’re […].

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Tony Mayo

JUNE 19, 2021

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. This latest podcast is part three of a funny and useful conversation between top executive coach Tony Mayo and his longtime client Ron Dimon. Ron is an expert on the use of information by executives of large organizations. Listen as two experienced business people play with useful ideas in this episode including: Tony’s […].

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Kevin Eikenberry

JUNE 22, 2021

Since the world changed last spring, there’s been a lot of talk about the “new normal” And while I understand why we are phrasing it this way, in the video below, I’m giving us a new way to look at our “normal” Tweet it out: ‘Normal’ is always changing. Make your next normal that serves […]. The post New Normal or Next Normal?

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

“Art makes it look so easy. It’s like he comes to work and puts on his slippers.”. That’s how one colleague described Art Jones, the best supervisor I’ve ever seen up close. There never seemed to be problems with his team. They were always productive. When malcontents or slackers were transferred to Art’s team, one of two things happened. Most were transformed into paragons of engagement.

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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

JUNE 21, 2021

I chased mom around the house with a plastic bug when I was young and foolish. I laughed. She screamed. It was a short-term strategy. Emotion can’t tell truth from fantasy.

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Tony Mayo

JUNE 21, 2021

Tony Mayo Executive Coach. Teleseminar participants had a deep and practical conversation with CEO executive coach Tony Mayo about trust–a vital topic for business, family, and every human relationship. We also practiced a calming and centering exercise together. You can join these drop-in, no-set-fee executive coaching teleseminars by registering at [link] Click here to listen or download […].

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Kate Nasser

JUNE 20, 2021

Prevent these often unacknowledged human trust breakers for success / happiness in business & life. Kate Nasser, The People Skills Coach™, Author, Leading Morale. The post Human Trust Breakers: Acknowledge & Prevent These #PeopleSkills appeared first on KateNasser.com.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 21, 2021

The dominant thinking is that for entrepreneurship to thrive, a large population is useful as it allows not only a diverse population to bat ideas back and forth between each other, but provides a good-sized local market with which to sell to. As a new paper from INSEAD highlights, there are also crucial infrastructure differences for urban and rural entrepreneurs.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 23, 2021

Painful experiences teach you to protect yourself. The tools of self-protection are faultfinding, nitpicking, naysaying, and quibbling. Experience gives birth to protective negativity.

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 21, 2021

What’s Your Legacy ? One of the most memorable conversations in my lifetime happened a year ago. It was a relaxed Saturday morning, rather unremarkable as it began, the sunlight poking in the windows early and signaling a perfect weather day. I called my mom, and we spoke for a few hours. Our discussion covered all of our usual topics ranging from career to spiritual, from family to future, from politics to past neighbors and friends.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 23, 2021

Being an entrepreneur, or as I like to consider myself—a serial entrepreneur, one that has tons of ideas—I have to be a dreamer. I’m a dreamer who starts up a company and goes sailing with it. And then I have another dream. And then, another and another. The key is staying focused and that means […]. The post Purpose-Driven Change Begins with Finding Your ‘Yes’ appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 22, 2021

Bullying at work is not a nice thing whoever the target happens to be, but new research from Linköping University suggests that foreign workers are around twice as likely to suffer from it as homegrown workers, with this risk especially high if the individual is from a culturally dissimilar homeland. “Our results show an increased risk of bullying for people who work in Sweden but were born in another country.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 25, 2021

Your most powerful tool of influence isn’t a strategy or technique. It’s a person. Your most powerful tool of influence is you.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

JUNE 21, 2021

The world is changing at a blistering pace. But just because you intellectually understand that “the only constant in life is change” doesn’t mean that you can be an effective leader. The truth is that many change-management efforts fail simply because the vital human component is underappreciated, when in fact it is at the heart of change. As Dr. Rodger Dean Duncan says, “Change is not the enemy.

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CEO Insider

JUNE 19, 2021

We saw them in 2020 in response to COVID-19; we saw them during the GFC; just as we’ve seen them in every major economic downturn before them: mass redundancies. But at what cost? Major listed companies reveal multimillion-dollar “one-off costs” every time they announce a round of redundancies. However, that is just the tip of […]. The post Redundancies an ineffective means of responding to a crisis appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 22, 2021

As the world moved en-masse to remote working as a result of Covid-19 there was initial bonhomie of a world stripped clean of the much-unloved aspects of working life, such as the commute and the open-office distractions. Over a year on, however, and the sheen is beginning to wear off, with people suffering from burnout, an eroding work-life balance, and isolation as social contact with one’s peers is restricted to Zoom socials.

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