N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Have you ever noticed how the best leaders also tend to be the most curious leaders? Great leaders simply aren’t satisfied with what they know. They possess an insatiable curiosity for discovery and learning – they are in constant pursuit of what they don’t know, and what lies ahead.
Terry Starbucker
MAY 29, 2011
(From www.majordickwinters.com). “I know plenty of heroes, but I am certainly not one&# – Major Dick Winters , commander, Easy Company, 101st Airborne division, World War II. These words are from a man who led his “Band of Brothers&# from the D-Day landings to the German Surrender, bravely and selflessly. He was often out-manned in the battlefield, but still prevailed with his deft strategies and coolness under fire (in fact, his successful assault on German guns on Utah beach,
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Michael Lee Stallard
MAY 3, 2011
Should leaders care about employee happiness or is employee engagement a passing fad? Let me frame this debate in a slightly different way that I believe provides the best answer. As part of creating value, leaders need to be intentional about achieving both task excellence and relationship excellence because our research found that both are necessary to achieve sustainable superior performance i.e.
Lead Change Blog
MARCH 9, 2011
Over the years, I have always enjoyed reading articles about some of the great sports coaches. While I’m not a sports fan myself, I find the methods of coaches who consistently produce championship teams very helpful in understanding how to … Continue reading → Lead Change Group - Leaders Growing Leaders.
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Modern Servant Leader
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Our Weeping Nittany Lion. Dear Joe, In addition to others, especially the victims, I am praying for you and Sue. You could not have stopped it, but you could have mitigated this catastrophe. Therefore, I want you to know, while I may not agree with the method, I must support the university’s decision to let you go. As a Christian, I forgive you.
The Recovering Engineer
OCTOBER 20, 2011
Communication breakdowns are a common cause for conflict, and poor communication strategies can lead to rapid escalation. Likewise, effective communication strategies can help you correct these miscommunications to move conflicts quickly towards resolution. One idea that can help you choose the best communication strategy for the situation comes from what I call the communication continuum.
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Tanveer Naseer
JULY 5, 2011
The beginning of July often marks for many the official start of summer, with children being off from school for the summer break paired with the warmer weather and sunny skies that marks this time of the year. This is also typically the time of year where most of us would start making preparations to take advantage of the vacation time we’ve earned through the contributions and efforts we’ve made for our organization.
Next Level Blog
JULY 11, 2011
This month, the Dalai Lama is in Washington, DC for a couple of weeks to lead a multi day series of Buddhist teachings called a Kalachakra. This past Saturday morning, he came out to the West Lawn of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
Leadership Freak
AUGUST 28, 2011
Arrogant people say they believe in humility but their life says they believe in arrogance. Humble people speak the truth. The temptation to temper the truth and say what others want to hear, for example, is nearly universal. If you’ve found someone who speaks the truth give them a raise. I’ve seen people negotiate how [.].
Lead on Purpose
NOVEMBER 26, 2011
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary lists several definitions for the word relationship. The term is generally used to denote family ties, but it’s also used as a state of connecting or binding participants. Actions that bring people together and bind them in a common cause are key to building effective relationships. I was first introduced to the statement ‘leadership is a relationship’ in the book The Leadership Challenge by James Kouzes and Barry Posner.
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N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 17, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Review any list of positive leadership traits and “ passion &# will undoubtedly rank near the top – rightly so. In most cases passion is an asset capable of carrying you through tough times, sharpening your perspective, revealing purpose, and helping you succeed in the face of overwhelming odds.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 3, 2011
All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are what I consider to be the “Golden 10″ pieces of feedback that we really need to be getting to ratify our effectiveness (and our approach to greatness). Let’s count ‘em down, from the bottom to the top: 10. “I don’t know, but I’ll find out&# - When they trust that you won’t jump down their throats for not knowing an answer. 9. “I made a mistake&# &#
Persuasive Powerhouse
JUNE 14, 2011
We often think of leaders as exhibiting big acts of courage – overcoming huge obstacles and saving lives, metaphorically and literally. Yet I’m amazed and humbled at the courageous things leaders do that we don’t think of as brave. The small courageous things that we overlook every day are the stuff that make up the character of great leaders.
Lead Change Blog
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Posted in Leadership Development A key employee on your team asks to speak with you about a sensitive issue in which you have a role. You have an “Open Door Policy” so the two of you meet. When she explains the issues from her point of view, your impatient response is: “I’m sorry you feel that way.” Your spouse [.] I’m Sorry You Feel That Way.
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Modern Servant Leader
SEPTEMBER 22, 2011
Yesterday, our youngest son (2 month old Gabriel) had a “blow out” You parents know what I mean and the rest can probably figure it out from the title. It was a mess. By the way, if you’re eating while you read this, you may want to come back later… Getting Your Hands Dirty. The Martin Luther King Family. While scrubbing the dirty onesie, I found myself contemplating a key business decision.
The Recovering Engineer
NOVEMBER 4, 2011
When you feel that you have been verbally attacked, it is incredibly difficult to think of the right words to calm the situation and disarm a verbal aggressor. Developing power phrases for use in various situations can help you get past this mental roadblock so that you can respond calmly and quickly in a wide range of situations. In working with workshop participants and coaching clients to find good ways to address specific, emotionally charged situations, I have learned three power phrases yo
Kevin Eikenberry
JULY 11, 2011
The title of this article is pretty declarative, don’t you think? Actually it isn’t completely true. You don’t have to have a positive attitude to have a leadership role, and you don’t even have to have it to lead. But you definitely must have a positive attitude if you want to lead successfully for an [.].
Tanveer Naseer
JULY 12, 2011
Last week, I wrote about why it’s important that bosses take time off from work to go on vacation. It certainly was a timely piece and I’m grateful to see the enthusiastic response it garnered here in the blog comments section, on the various social networks, as well as being picked up as one of the top stories in last Friday’s SmartBrief on Leadership newsletter.
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.
Next Level Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
There’s an old joke that my adopted hometown of Washington, DC is Hollywood for, well, um, not so attractive people. So, of course, to see all the beautiful people in one place one watches the. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
Leadership Freak
DECEMBER 26, 2011
The past is the future for most of us. We cling to misguided notions that persistence, endurance, and more of the same will result in a new future. It won’t. 99% of the conversations I have about the future are actually about the past. People try to create a future by cling to or modifying [.].
In the CEO Afterlife
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home. Leadership. Branding. Life. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader. by John • September 12, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 4 Comments. The sudden, unexpected and potentially catastrophic event that threatens a business is a CEO’s greatest challenge. Ever since the Tylenol tampering recall of 30 years ago, the performances of companies in crisis have come under public scrutiny.
N2Growth Blog
AUGUST 15, 2011
By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. In the world of leadership where the traits of accountability and personal responsibility are so highly regarded, I have one question? What’s with all the finger pointing? One of my pet peeves is coming across leaders who think they’re always right, and that any problem or challenge that arises must clearly be the fault of someone else.
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Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
Every successful leader gets this question posed to them at one time or another: “How did you do it?” It’s always enlightening to read and hear the answers, because, after all, these folks have the benefit of hindsight to piece together all the relevant and important steps that led them to the top of the heap. I’ve been fortunate enough in my 30 year career to have been asked that question too, and after a good bit of reflection, I can break it down to 10 essential steps:
Persuasive Powerhouse
JULY 27, 2011
Being a great leader requires continuous personal change. The ability to lead at your best is dependent on the context that you work within, and because that situation is always changing, you must also change your behaviors in order to be able to work within it. Think about it. When was the last time you: “Acquired” a new boss? Got a new peer on your team?
QAspire
JANUARY 26, 2011
Jack Welch said, “An organizations ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the greatest competitive advantage.” Continuous learning and its respective implementation to generate desired business outcomes is at the core of successful organizations. Peter Senge defined a learning organization as the one “where people continually expand their capacity to create the [.
Modern Servant Leader
OCTOBER 26, 2011
Jon Acuff Method. Jon Acuff wrote about Loving Your Own Dream Too Much to Hate Somebody Else’s. In the post, he explains how he deals with haters: When ever someone attacks me and the books I write, I always ask them a simple question: “How did you write your book differently?”. That response is so powerful, I want to share and expand on it here.
Speaker: Rusty Lindquist, VP Strategic HR Insights at Bamboo HR
Compensation can be tricky, few things carry as much emotional weight as comp. And with the increased transparency in the market, combined with our collective propensity to rate ourselves against others, the frequency of these very difficult conversations is increasing. In this webinar, we will deconstruct some of the psychology around comp. We’ll take an analytic look at comp’s role in the employee experience, and then we’ll get really tactical with guidance on very specific compensation conver
The Recovering Engineer
APRIL 4, 2011
Two questions I often get in workshops, from coaching clients, and in consulting engagements is: How do I work with an unmotivated person? and. How do I motivate someone to work harder? Here are the quick answers: There is no such thing as an unmotivated person. Everyone is motivated to do something. Therefore, everyone is motivated. You cannot motivate someone else to work harder.
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 3, 2011
(Just a short list – we could add so many, many more) “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!&# Patrick Henry, March 23, 1775 We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, [.].
Tanveer Naseer
NOVEMBER 15, 2011
Imagine walking into work one day and your boss decides to divide you into teams of four with the following challenge – to build the largest structure you can using 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string and one marshmallow, which has to be placed at the top of the structure. It’s an unusual assignment, to be sure, but it’s also the basis of a sociological experiment on teamwork called “ The Marshmallow Challenge ”.
Next Level Blog
NOVEMBER 21, 2011
Last week, I spent an afternoon sparking a conversation on leadership presence with a group of rising leaders in a well known organization. The conversation turned to how difficult it can be to lead. Please click the headline to read the whole story.
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