Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

They speak up when others stay silent. Otherwise, the Leader is just a follower. You win great victory or manage to ascend somehow to the top of what the nineteenth-century Conservative prime minister Benjamin Disraeli called the greasy pole. Leaders have the courage not to go with the flow. They act when others hesitate.

Leadership

Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 2, 2025

And for each name, he paused and asked himself: “What would it look like to really show up with this person’s best interest at heart?” What followed was eye-opening. When It Comes to “Best Interest At Heart,” Not One-Size-Fits-All For one team member—a high-potential middle manager—it meant, taking their idea seriously.

How To

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 6, 2025

By listening to this episode, you’ll walk away with: A step-by-step method for conducting your own DIY 360 feedback tour to get precise, actionable insights from your team, peers, and manager. A repeatable framework that strengthens trust and credibility with your colleagues by showing that you truly listen—and follow through.

Skills

Joseph Lalonde

JUNE 12, 2025

Whether you’ve been promoted to a leadership position, are considering a move into leadership, or were forced to become a leader because no one else would step up, there are certain things to consider before stepping into a leadership role. Is anyone currently following me? Leaders have to have someone following behind them.

Learning-by-Doing

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2025

Follow-up questions you weren’t ready for. You clean it up a little too much. Are they making a decision, presenting up, or just curious? It’s easy to assume “whenever” means next week—until they show up at your desk at 3 p.m. Then follow up with context, possible causes, and next steps. Blank stares.

Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2025

How can you prevent these conflicts from blowing up? Always follow up with a question to check your understanding. ” In those moments, you might feel like defending your position, explain your point more clearly, or even disengage completely. But any of these reactions will only damage your relationships at work.

Skills

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They not only manage their own stress effectively but also help to stabilize the team as a whole. 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.

Team

Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2025

Decisions pile up. A follow-up message, tailored to what each team needs to know, keeps alignment intact. Before moving ahead, you check with the program manager whos coordinating a related launch. This Quick Gut Check That Can Save Your Team Hours of Rework You move fast. Calendars fill.

Compliance

Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Effective leadership is about more than just managing tasks and projects; it’s about connecting with and leading people in a way that inspires, motivates, and brings out their best. This isn’t about setting them up for failure; it’s about providing the support and encouragement they need to stretch their abilities.

Uncertainty

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. But to be empoweringhow clear is that? Worse than unclear, empowering is widely misunderstood.

Power

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. Opening ourselves up to listen and acknowledge the other person or group during a stressful moment, helps those coming to you feel that they can trust you.

Stress

Rich Gee Group

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Listen to the audio Listen, I get it: trying to get someone to do what you need - when theyre higher up than you or not even in your department - can feel like youre yelling into a void, especially if they talk down to you. So, if you want to move mountains without an official mandate, buckle up. You need credibility.

Influence

Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Imagine a workplace where people aren’t just showing up for a job fully invest in a shared purpose that pushes your organization forward every single day. How will you and your managers communicate at least five times, through five different channels? When you don’t, follow through with accountability: what can you learn for next time?

Succession

Leading Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Those of us lucky enough to join these teamswith loving leaders who carelove our work and enjoy showing up at the office. Any leader or manager can set goals and work plans. Customers and colleagues become more connected and loyal when issues are managed quicklyand managed well. As the founder of Live L.A.R.G.E.,

Leadership

Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Individual and organizational success will naturally follow this proactive approach to leadership fitness, no matter your playing field. * * * Jeremy Blitz-Jones is a Leadership Coach at Peak Leadership Institute , an organizational behavior firm. Laurent Valosek is CEO of Peak Leadership Institute.

Rogers

Rich Gee Group

JANUARY 15, 2025

And lets be honest: If your management style consistently makes people feel belittled or emotionally drained, you might churn out short-term results, but youll never sustain momentum or loyalty. Self-awareness demands introspectionunderstand if youre a visionary who stinks at follow-through or a conflict-resolution ninja who avoids data.

Emotional Intelligence

Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Why 5×5 Communication Works When we first explain 5×5 communication to new managers, sometimes they reply, Do I really need to say something five times? The manager asks the team member to describe the change in their own words and ask any questions they have. Am I reinforcing and following up consistently?

Strategy

Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 6, 2025

Sales Coaching for Habit Change, Not Just Hopeful Conversations We were at the ATD (the global Association for Talent Development) conference, chatting with folks at our booth, when a sales manager stopped by, clearly frustrated with unsuccessful attempts at sales coaching and seeking better solutions. Where are the gaps?” Is that right?”

Video

HR Digest

MARCH 17, 2025

If whispers from late 2024 hold true, were staring down the barrel of a massive managerial purge, up to 14,000 job cuts by the end of March 2025. Because this time, its the manager at the end of the chopping block. As end of layoffs in 2025, Amazon could decrease the worker-to-manager ratio by 15% and flatten the organizational chart.

Bureaucracy

Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Millennials make up the most of the full-time workforce with nearly 50 million workers, followed by Gen X at just over 40 million, and both Baby Boomers and Gen Z at just over 17 million. Understanding and effectively managing a multigenerational workforce requires empathy, adaptability, and strategic communication.

Mentor

Leading Blog

MARCH 1, 2025

You're the Boss : Become the Manager You Want to Be (and Others Need) by Sabina Nawaz as our job expands, the added pressure to perform corrupts our actions, and our increased power will blind us to the impact of those actions. Even the most well-intentioned manager can quickly become the boss nobody wants to work for.

Books

Joseph Lalonde

JULY 15, 2025

He said they created one of the most powerful advertising agencies by doing the following: “When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matryoshka doll from Gorky. They did the following to hire bigger. It was up to the new head of the office to take the initiative to open the doll.

Advertising

Next Level Blog

APRIL 9, 2025

It would seem, then, that the leadership curve on mental chatter is up and to the right. If you think you may be suffering from monkey mind, here are three ways to improve your mental self-management so that you get the outcomes youre leading for. In every year of the last ten, the answer has been harder. Clear your monkey mind.

Self-aware

Eric Jacobson

APRIL 24, 2025

Heres another must-read book to add to your list as you transition from manager to leader. Regarding the do-to-say ratio, Bryant shares that one of the easiest ways to set yourself apart is to build a reputation for reliability and follow-throughsomebody who always does what they say they are going to do.

Management

Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

You know this: the best strategies fall flat without the right habits to back them up. The way you respond to challenges, celebrate wins, and communicate expectations creates the framework everyone else will follow. Are there certain collaboration dimensions (connection, clarity, curiosity, commitment) that show up more often?

Team

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2025

The one people describe with a big smile and a big thumbs up because, theyre just so easy to work with? Its about presence , clarity , and follow-through. Find the Fun This doesnt mean you show up with juggling pins and a kazoo. Follow through. Yeah, be that person. Unless thats your thing). Say Ive got this.

Follow-up

Michael Lee Stallard

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Your team needs you—and not just to talk about connection but to keep modeling what it looks like so your colleagues are inspired to follow your example. Did you feel energized, included, and lifted up? Connection-minded leaders, you are important and very much needed! While we’re at it, the world needs you and your example too!

Leadership Styles

Great Results Team Building

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

” Have you ever left a meeting only to realize there was an unresolved issue no one had the courage to bring up? The key is follow-through. After collecting responses, address recurring themes or critical points during your next meeting or through follow-up communication. Again, follow-up is crucial.

Team

Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Curley Fujihara, their 5-foot manager, stood on a chair with the broom raised high, allowing the players to practice shooting over what would feel like an impossible obstacle. In the workplace, team members need to trust each other and the plan in place, knowing that everyone will follow through on their responsibilities.

Teamwork

Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

You need to always be growing and improving over and over again to keep up with the demands of the marketplace and an ever-changing world. These entrenched division managements fight off any attempts to initiate significant change that might disrupt their fundamental comfort. Real leadership is the key to speed and agility.

Agility

Lead from Within

DECEMBER 3, 2024

If employees hesitate to speak up, it shows that the culture isn’t truly open. Acknowledge and Address Fear Leaders often underestimate the fear employees feel about speaking up. Follow Through on Feedback Ignoring feedback quickly erodes trust. A true open culture addresses these fears.

Active Listening

Leadership Freak

JULY 3, 2025

This person brings up the concern and suggests all agenda items must answer two questions. Courage to bring up a concern. Ask managers to report on who they “caught doing good.” Once I stopped by a former girlfriend’s house to let her dog out and I ended up putting away some dishes that she had drying. Be specific.

Open-book

Great Results Team Building

MAY 30, 2025

That truth is one of the central lessons in What Effective Leaders DO , a leadership parable that follows Jenn, a new manager trying to figure out how to lead her team with more influence and less frustration. And if you’re looking to equip your leadership team with the mindset and tools to level up together, lets talk.

Products

Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 27, 2025

Originally created by Kurt Lewin in the 1950s (a social psychologist decades ahead of his time), Force Field Analysis is change management gold. This is where the good stuff comes up. Follow Up Schedule the finish. You make a plan to shift the balance. Some people already collaborate well. And set a time to check back in.

Analysis

Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For the first time in history, we have up to five generations at work. Known for his famous "Ten Surprises" and "Life's Lessons" lists, Wien guides readers through the complexities of investment strategy, risk management, and lifelong learning. And I mean that last "well" in both senses.

Books

Leading with Trust

DECEMBER 4, 2024

With AI’s power to streamline tasks and open new avenues for growth, those who embrace it early will set their organizations up for success. It’s about understanding where cash comes from, how it flows through the business, and how to measure and manage it effectively. Here’s how to lead the way in an AI-driven landscape.

Leadership Development