Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 28, 2025

If your teams meetings often end with vague action items, low engagement, or zero follow-through, its not just frustratingits hurting your leadership credibility. Press play now to start running meetings that energize your team and elevate your leadership. Lets be honest: no one hates meetingsthey hate the ones that feel pointless.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The Invisible Coach by @toddordal Everyday Im Side-Hustlin: 5 Learnings from Creative Side Quests by Nick Hearne creative director at @onegreenbean The principle applies. What people do outside of work interests me far more than what they accomplish on the clock.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Do you think mastering your leadership path means always having the answers? Leadership demands more empathy, adaptability, and connection than ever before. Learn how to shift from a traditional, bottleneck leadership style to one that inspires trust, builds resilience, and drives high performance.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Leadership fears can significantly hinder an individual’s ability to lead effectively. Here is what you can do as a leader about your fears: Embracing Imperfection: The Power of Vulnerability Leaders often fear showing vulnerability, believing it to be a sign of weakness.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2024

How then, I ask managers, do you think that people in your organizations can survive with one psychological stroke a year, usually combined with some well-intended but critical comment? The Hungry Spirit To be loved, to be held in genuine affection, is the best foundation for learning about oneself. The difference is crucial.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We can’t have resilient leadership without deliberate and sustained rethinking.” The question leaders must now ask is, “Does our leadership deliver nutritional value through how we honor the past, define the present, and champion the future?” Embracing AI is a leadership priority but with a human-centric approach.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2025

How can you ensure your leadership communication strategy cuts through the noise and actually sticks with your team? What Youll Learn in This Episode: The brain science behind how people retain and internalize key messages. This episode introduces a leadership communication strategy to ensure your team internalizes what matters. [02:16]

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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. You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. How to Create a More Sustainable Leadership Development Program.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. It’s no exaggeration to say that if you’re done learning, you’re done leading. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. These characteristics will stunt their leadership if they don’t change. People grow.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

And if your people haven’t internalized critical messages, that means you have work to do in howand whatyou communicate. 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? What to do next? Isnt that excessive?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

In the rapidly evolving landscape of leadership, how we assess and cultivate leadership qualities is undergoing enormous transformation. We delved into the quickly changing environment of leadership and the critical need for organizations to adapt their strategies to keep pace with shifting sands.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 17, 2025

We started calling it a Couth Code after countless executives asked us the same exasperated question: How do we teach couth? ” You might call it “Leadership Expectations” or simply a Team Agreement. Ask: “What do we expect from each other to work well together?” or Ill follow up by [date].

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Curiosity Versus Continual Learning via @AdmiredLeaders LISTEN: @jamesstrock interviews @megan_e_gorman Author of All the Presidents' Money: How the Men Who Governed America Governed Their Money Interesting book and interview! It wasn't mine to keep. Deal with the monkey first.

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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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Leading Blog

JANUARY 2, 2025

Brian Tracy on zero-based thinking: To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Ask yourself, Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldnt get into again if I were starting over today? Heres how it works.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 3, 2022

During difficult times, what leadership values matter most? In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. In fact, in our recent LinkedIn poll, 61% said “compassion” was most the most critical leadership value this year. Compassion.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2021

How do you tap into the grit and tenacity when you are exhausted? In this week’s Asking for a Friend I speak with World Class Ultra Triathlete, Kurt Madden, who is also CEO of The Collaborative, about leadership tenacity and grit. 7:56 How Kurt applies some of what he learned as an athlete into his role as a CEO.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

I’m dropping the first chapter of my new book right here, and let me tell you—I’m doing something totally different from most authors. Creating a Culture of Innovation Amazon’s transformation wasn’t solely Bezos’s doing. He told his people that falling was okay as long as they learned and came back stronger. So don’t hold back.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2024

You can grind grain into flour by your own hand using a mortar and pestle, which human beings learned to do at the dawn of agriculture. Delegation of authority is letting your people do their jobs. To Empower Means GrapplingWith Yourself Do you recoil at the idea of sharing power, thinking, Never. Delegation.

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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? Is it appropriate to ask for this senior leadership support directly?

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Leading Blog

MARCH 21, 2025

I N MY early managerial days, I would often ask my bosses and peers how they learned the skill of delivering bad news. Almost always, their answer was: You will learn it over time, There is no compression algorithm for experience, or some variation of needing to put in the time. So, how do you decide when its time to take notice?

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Each year, after reading dozens of leadership books I select my pick for “best new leadership book” of the year. Even though this book came out in late 2023, it is better than any other leadership book I read during 2024, so that is why I choose it. It’s that good. You don’t have to be perfect, just authentic.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Here is a selection of Posts from February 2025 that you will want to check out: Four Ideas to Improve Workplace Communication by @artpetty The Leadership Trap: Quick fixes by Marlene Chism @stopyourdrama Exemplar or Empire? 4 Leadership Lessons on Scarcity, Dominance, and Delay by @BrianKDodd CEO Coaching: Idiots at the Helm?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

W ITH THE SUPER BOWL around the corner, what can business leaders learn from elite athletes about high-level performance? So why does maintaining practices that yield a high-performance state of mind matter so much for leadership? Heres how they do it. Be like Roger. And Michael. And Simone. And many others.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What’s your most valuable leadership practice? At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. But What’s the MOST Valuable Leadership Practice? What’s the most valuable leadership practice? Then do it again the next day.

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Lead from Within

DECEMBER 4, 2024

As technology evolves, leaders are faced with an important question: How do you lead effectively in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence? Many people think leadership in the AI era is all about understanding technology or staying up to date with trends. Embrace them, and lead with purpose and vision. #1

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Leadership is about hope. Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. When we get it right on the inside, we can do right on the outside. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Blog Post ).

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Leading Blog

MAY 3, 2024

I N THE HIGH-STAKES world of leadership, where every decision can be scrutinized and every failure magnified, the concept of vulnerability often takes on a negative connotation, especially among men, who are taught to equate emotional openness with weakness. This humility not only humanizes you it also strengthens the bonds within your team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Are you ready to discover the power of building resiliency and how it can redefine your leadership journey? Learn from leadership expert Simon T. Tools to create meaningful connections and build a human-centered leadership style. Embracing vulnerability, he argues, is essential for building resiliency in leadership. [00:27:37]

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Leading Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

Certain principals cut across the lives of such leaders as they transcend traditional leadership roles and prioritize the well-being of the communities, economies, and global society they serve. As founder and CEO of Chobani, a top-selling yogurt company, he “operates on a simple fundamental principle, that we do well by doing good.”

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. With similar conviction, Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said, “Empathy makes you a better innovator.It’s a quality my wife helped me begin to learn when our son was born with severe disabilities. It is also for tough people in any field.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The business world is changing, and with it, the need for a new approach to leadership is growing. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen firsthand how crucial it is for future leaders to go beyond traditional management techniques. Embrace Continuous Learning: Tomorrow’s leaders must embrace continuous learning.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Understanding these leadership pitfalls is essential for fostering a thriving workplace where top talent can excel and feel valued. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen how leadership behaviors impact team dynamics. Losing top performers isn’t just a loss of talent—it’s a blow to your organization’s potential.

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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. A common meaning is “how we do things around here.”

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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. Let’s take a look at the anatomy of character, how it establishes itself, and what leaders can do about it.

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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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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Perfectionism in leadership can be a powerful force, driving leaders to set high standards and achieve exceptional results. As an executive leadership coach, I’ve seen how perfectionism can become a double-edged sword, pushing leaders to excel while also creating significant obstacles.

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