Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2025

If youve been facing challenges with getting your team to share ideas, open up, or work together seamlessly, this episode will give you proven strategies to overcome those hurdles and build the trust your team needs to thrive. The importance of follow-through: using celebration and accountability to reinforce trust and keep momentum.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. But what do you do if your senior leader is not showing up as often or as supportive as you would like? How do you ask for the leadership support you need without looking needy?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Now, if William Goldman or Mike Nichols reads your work and suggests you do X to it, you might want to listen, but if you alter your work for every rejection, you’ll end up running in all different directions trying to please an imaginary audience. That’s probably not true. It can be damaging and destructive.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. Wait, What?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. Another time, we were working with an organization’s managers and having them rate the leadership behavior where they felt the most need to improve. Invest in Your Leadership Growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? Consistently, compassion, courage, and curiosity continue to top the list, closely followed by flexibility and authenticity. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. Compassion.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Trying to fill real but nonmaterial needs—for identity, community, self-esteem, challenge, love, joy—with material things is to set up an unquenchable appetite for false solutions to never-satisfied longings. People don’t need electronic entertainment; they need something interesting to occupy their minds and emotions. And so forth.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

No fluff, no BS, just straight-up value. Amazon’s survival and eventual domination didn’t happen simply because Bezos thought up a novel concept; it worked because he followed through with ruthless focus. They'll follow suit when they know that you’re not just the visionary but the executor. So don’t hold back.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Episode 292: Are leadership challenges making your job harder than it should be? 90% of leadership challenges come down to just four things. Tune in now to start eliminating 90% of your leadership challenges today! One of the biggest leadership challenges is misaligned expectations. Failing to follow through.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Impactful authentic leadership requires careful judgment and context. Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. And yet, authenticity, like any other leadership competency can wreak havoc at the extremes. What is authentic leadership? They learn to do that well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Am I reinforcing and following up consistently? For More Critical Leadership Communication Strategies: Workplace Communication: Stop Asking Do You Understand? So next time you need people to take action, ask yourself: Have I clearly communicated why this matters? Have I shared the message in five different ways?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For forceful leaders, its seen as giving power away; giving power to your staff means giving up your power. Its also accepting power up. Quite the contrary, within bounds, accepting power up actually extends your personal power. He is the founder and president of his own leadership consulting firm, Kaplan DeVries.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2025

How can you prevent these conflicts from blowing up? Its called Reflect to Connect, and its one of the most powerful tools you can add to your leadership toolkit to build stronger relationships at work. Always follow up with a question to check your understanding.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 16, 2021

Who you promote into leadership sends a clear message of what matters most in your culture and business. In this episode, you’ll get two essential criteria to examine when considering who you promote into a leadership role. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership. How to Choose Who You Promote Into Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

In other words, is your team picking up what you’re putting down? I just want to ensure we’re all on the same page for what we’re each going to do next, what’s are the three follow-up items we agreed to?” What are some of your favorite leadership communication best practices?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. Or, maybe you’re leading a fast-growing start-up, and it’s no longer feasible to have the direct influence you once had with every employee and customer. Teach your team how to think.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. The appeal of empathic leadership extends beyond conventional office environments. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types. A S workplace cultures evolve, we must specifically prioritize the needs of each human being.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. How likely are employees going to speak up under these conditions?

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. Others were included because they help us to think differently, opening us up to potential we might not have considered. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. It leads to short-term thinking.

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

Project management, encompassing issues that crop up during planning and issues that show up during execution, is another area that may require your overview and handling. Most people are not good at handling disagreements or conflict situations, especially if they end up on the losing side. They will personalize the conflict.

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Leading Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

The options senior leadership considers may be to sell it, give it a defined period to show or go, or take on the task of rehabilitation. Leadership may wonder whether this is essentially a culture problem or whether poor performance itself creates what looks like one. Steer away from emphasizing how “leadership creates the culture.”

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tony Randolph, who was 6’8”, had to guard Sampson, even though he was giving up nearly 10 inches. In the workplace, team members need to trust each other and the plan in place, knowing that everyone will follow through on their responsibilities. Every player had a role, and they trusted each other to fulfill it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 27, 2025

The one who shows up with Connection, Clarity, Curiosity, and Commitment aka the Four Cs of productive collaboration that ground our book Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Workplace Conflict and our SynergyStack Team Development System. In our leadership development programs, we talk about being interested and interesting.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

So why does maintaining practices that yield a high-performance state of mind matter so much for leadership? It means identifying key skills that will benefit your overall leadership effectivenesssuch as inviting more input from your teamand then practicing in a deliberate manner. They Eat Right Dont forget about nutrition.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But one thing that has largely remained unchanged has been the approach to leadership development. Limiting the definition of leadership Many have asked me how to define a leader, but I have refused. Limiting the definition of leadership Many have asked me how to define a leader, but I have refused.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

And this gets to the heart of leadership: Your greatest potential is not just about you; its about us. Some of the greatest heroes in your life are probably ones who have done the simplest things, like shown up when you needed it, encouraged you when everyone else walked away, or stood up for you when others did nothing.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Further, 54 percent have mentally checked out because a member wasnt stepping up or was ineffective. More alarming, 1 in 8 (12%) remain silent even when prompted to speak up. Learn more at stevengaffney.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. People don’t have to follow you, don’t have to show up, and don’t have to bring their creativity or initiative. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. How they will show up.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

In high-stress interactions, our walls go up, and our armor comes on and were ready to protect ourselves in any way we can. Our bodies tense up, and were on the defensive. Those in leadership are often scared of losing their edge. Humanness Right now, the world is swept up by advances in technology.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

How questions bring up negative thoughts and inadequacies. It can also send up the red flag that lets you know youre about to do something stupid. I just want to emphasize how important it is to concentrate on the step you need to take right now and not trip yourself up by looking too far ahead. Principle #1: Find Your Why?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

When team members are willing to take risks and stand up for their beliefs, it cultivates an atmosphere of innovation and creativity. She frequently speaks on compliance, leadership, and risk management. They lead by example, encouraging a culture of continuous improvement and growth.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Further, 54 percent have mentally checked out because a member wasnt stepping up or was ineffective. More alarming, 1 in 8 (12%) remain silent even when prompted to speak up. Learn more at stevengaffney.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and X for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 1, 2023

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in January 2023 curated just for you. Leadership is engaging others to solve daunting challenges. Because, leadership is an activity―small actions taken in moments of opportunity. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. They are not.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

L EADERS HELP FOLLOWERS find causes worth signing up for—something they can make an emotional investment in. That highlights the importance of leadership communication. Boyd Clarke and Ron Crossland are the ones who said, “The biggest problem with leadership communication is the illusion that it has occurred.”

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Leading Blog

JULY 1, 2024

H ERE'S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in July 2024 curated just for you. Pattern Breakers : Why Some Start-Ups Change the Future by Mike Maples Jr and Peter Ziebelman The breakthrough concepts of Pattern Breakers come from the observations of Mike Maples Jr., To be common is to be an everyday person.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

T HE context of leadership has changed. Rose Patten puts it this way in Intentional Leadership : “The spotlight on leadership has moved to how people lead in challenging and changing circumstances. Good leadership happens when someone, by intention, has a positive impact—whether through empathy, inspiration, or wisdom.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Leave Follow-Through to Chance. Well, they certainly understand that they screwed up. You can use the INSPIRE method to show up for a conversation with curiosity. Follow-up activities are just “what you do.” Additional reading: Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video).

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