Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Specifically, both perform best when they are able to enter and maintain a calm, alert state under high stress, whether facing match point on the tennis court or an unexpected setback at the negotiation table, as research suggests. The bottom line: exercise is an important practice for effective leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 21, 2025

Episode 295: How can you build a high trust culture that empowers your team to solve problems faster, innovate more, and reduce stress? In this episode, we explore the power of a high trust culture and how it can completely transform your teams ability to collaborate and solve problems effectively.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

However, this same drive can also lead to overwhelming stress and a constant sense of inadequacy, ultimately hindering both personal and professional success. By viewing setbacks as valuable lessons rather than shortcomings, leaders can foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

With the finish line in sight, you can innovate without fear, tossing out time-saving hacks like confetti. When your team is under stress, particularly if some knucklehead told them to “do more with less,” you can’t say “thank you” and “I see you” too much. Embrace the wisdom of knowing what ‘winning’ looks like. What’s most important?”

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

There’s increasing pressure on organizations to be more competitive, and leaders need to have the right skills to influence employees’ innovative behavior. Besides helping them better handle workplace-related challenges, leaders evoke innovation and creativity and inspire them to reach their full potential. The answer is both.

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Tanveer Naseer

JANUARY 23, 2018

So to get the most out of innovation processes such as design thinking, truly creative leaders also need to master the social dynamics of… [wait for the punchline}…humor! We have witnessed that skilled leaders, those we call “Stand-Up Strategists”, understand the utility of humor to boost innovation.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2024

However, failure to delegate and share responsibilities can create bottlenecks, stifling innovation and slowing growth. Leaders who exhibit empathy and practice authentic leadership are more likely to build trust within their teams, fostering psychological safety, which is essential for innovation.

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Leading Blog

JULY 25, 2019

Established organizations of a certain size and age, sometimes called “legacy organizations,” are stressed by the entrepreneurial successes. The bad news for established organizations is that innovation for them is much more difficult than it is for startups. The Three Tracks of Innovation. All three are important.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

However, in a rush to meet deadlines and manage stress, we must not overlook the significance of relationships and creating connections—both with ourselves and others. Surveys show that managers are the most stressful part of an employee’s job and account for the greatest impact on their mental health.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

During times of stress and change, when you most need a resourceful team, it’s easy to clampdown, insist on the old ways of doing things, and slow your team down. In our research on innovation and psychological safety, 67% of employees said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.”

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Leading Blog

APRIL 1, 2025

This book empowers you to take the first step toward becoming the leader everyone aspires to work with by enhancing your leadership skills, boosting workplace productivity, and mastering innovative conflict-management techniques. Conquering Crisis provides a new set of tools for facing these stressful moments with poise.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Are there fewer distractions, less stress, and more effort expended to help guarantee the remote option continues? 9:20 What are intangible measures such as lower stress, convenience, money savings for employees? 26:04 Karin: How do you calcuate ROI when it comes to innovation? . The more engaged, the more innovation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 13, 2025

But when it comes to groundbreaking technological innovation, a recent study from the WHUOtto Beisheim School of Management shows that overconfident CEOs need to be balanced by a strong, knowledgeable board of directors. Corporate boards often consist of bold personalities who help push new products and initiatives. ”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Meanwhile, stress, anxiety, and loss of engagement at work are major factors in modern work life and statistics are staggering in a negative direction. Episode 233: Is your team ready or reactive? To be ready, deal with change, and be flexible, people need energy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Of bustling end-of-year stress to meet business goals? Evolve Your Traditions As important and meaningful as traditions can be, you can also get stuck and stressed out trying to maintain a practice that no longer makes sense. And some of the time, your team will be stressed and discouraged. Our Own the U.G.L.Y.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Instability breeds resilience and innovation”. G IVEN we are in a sustained period of instability, how as leaders do we dial up the resilience and innovation, without burning out ourselves or the teams we lead? How do we leverage the instability to build resilience and innovation that creates success in ourselves and our teams?

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 24, 2024

While many executives pride themselves on self-reliance, this mindset can limit innovation, slow decision-making, and increase strategic risk. This pattern increases organizational risk and stress. The disconnect between leadership success and help-seeking behavior creates a critical vulnerability in organizational effectiveness.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Manage Stress Effectively Conflict situations can be stressful, but leaders with strong emotional intelligence manage this stress without letting it affect their behavior. This ability to manage stress keeps the situation under control and prevents escalation.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Have you noticed how hard it can be to stay curious, creative, and innovative? They often express concern about a perceived lack of curiosity, creativity, and innovation in their teams. Are your newsfeeds and podcasts making you tense and stressed out? When those characteristics aren’t in play, stagnation results.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 11, 2024

This puts them in a tricky position, managing their own stress and uncertainty while guiding their teams through new directives. A study by the University of South Africa looked at a major bank to see how middle managers handle stress during corporate restructuring and what strategies they use to cope.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

For more Clarity-building Habits check out: Great Teams: 12 Practical Collaboration Habits to Create Clarity Curiosity: Unlocking Innovation and Problem-Solving The best teams dont settle for surface-level thinking. Instead of saying, Do you understand, ask: What is your understanding of our response time goal?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2024

Critical thinking is essential amidst societal divisiveness, emphasizing the need for innovative problem-solving. 03:10 – 07:18: Introduction to Ed Hess and Meaningful Work Ed stresses the importance of meaningful work amidst technological change.

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Leading Blog

MAY 8, 2020

It generates personal fears, insecurities, and stress, all of which can inhibit high-quality thinking, decision making, and effective collaboration, which is mission-critical in such times. His studies focus on growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes, and servant leadership. Inner Peace does not come easily.

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The Horizons Tracker

APRIL 25, 2023

It’s perhaps natural to view conflicts at work as something that will merely add to the stresses of our normal working life. The research found that both types of conflict are associated with stress responses, such as headaches, but task-related conflicts could also help us to reduce stress.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 2, 2024

A great leader not only steers their team toward achieving business goals but also drives innovation, motivates employees, and adapts to shifting market conditions. Fostering Innovation and Creativity Entrepreneur coaching is much more than just brainstorming or generating ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Avoid These Intimidating Questions That Can Silence Innovation and Problem Solving When someone on your team screws up or has one of those “what were they thinking” moments, particularly when the stakes are high. We’d love to help you and your team accelerate performance, reduce stress, and work better together.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 20, 2017

We all struggle “to self-regulate our basic humanity —our biases, fears, insecurities, and natural fight-flee-or-freeze response to stress and anxiety.” We need to be willing to treat all of our “beliefs (not values) as hypotheses subject to stress tests and modification by better data.”. Negative emotions cause narrow-mindedness.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 26, 2021

Another department doesn’t keep their commitment and creates stress for your team. The increased psychological safety permits healthy risk-taking and innovation. . • A disgruntled customer eats up time–not because of a true product or service defect, but because they are having a bad day. 2) Plan for and train recovery.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Heart of Innovation : A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand by Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman Books on innovation mostly focus on how to nurture innovative cultures and brainstorm ideas. Many attempts at innovation fail because customers turn out to be indifferent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 29, 2024

9:30-11:56: Transitioning to Dan’s current endeavors, he introduces us to his innovative approach to fostering connections within organizations, especially in a remote work environment. A couple of examples are the role of insecurity as a driving force behind striving for excellence and the importance of self-evaluation.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees. When leaders expressed empathy for their team, it increased a team’s innovation and engagement, improved customer service, and helped them balance their home and work life.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 17, 2023

In all three areas, Baldoni stresses the importance of community. Good Leaders Prepare for the Future A crisis often elicits innovation. “When it comes to dealing with change and crisis, grace becomes evident in how we treat one another.” Baldoni looks at the three characteristics of good leaders through the lens of grace. Be patient.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2024

Work is more stressful than it needs to be. Taking initiative might mean anticipating potential problems and proposing solutions, seeking out opportunities for innovation or improvement, or voluntarily taking on additional responsibilities to relieve pressure on your team. ” This one’s tricky. After all, they are your peer.

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Leading Blog

JUNE 18, 2021

61% higher likelihood of burnout often or always 48% higher likelihood of daily stress 66% higher likelihood of worry Double the rate of daily sadness and anger. If you follow this blog, it is obvious to you that this impacts relationship, creativity and innovation, energy, and trust.

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Leading Blog

MAY 10, 2019

His goal is to “teach you how to be both the boss everyone wants to work for and the high achiever every CEO wants to hire—all without drama, stress, or endless hours in the office.”. A culture of trust and psychological safety reduces the magnitude of mistakes and fosters innovation. Shut Off Your Smartphone. Have No Rules.

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Lead Change Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2018

The need for connection is amplified under stress: oxytocin (the so-called cuddle hormone) is as much part of the stress response as adrenaline. Oxytocin not only stimulates connection with others, it is also the neurohormone that helps repair tissue damage incurred due to the stress response. Dealing with setbacks.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 27, 2020

They are cognitive reappraisal, grit, learning from feedback, finding your spark, innovation, resilience, and building balance. Wild Success by Amy Posey and Kevin Vallely illustrates seven leadership lessons we can learn from the harrowing experiences of extreme athletes.

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