Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Welcome to the February 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! ” As I’ve seen in my own leadership journey, that’s often the choice that leads to new and exhilarating paths. Beth recaps, “Beth Beutler refreshes us on an important leadership skill—saying ‘no’ with grace.” Let’s Get Started.

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Coaching Tip

MARCH 21, 2014

How can leaders adjust their leadership style to do so? The answer to effective communication in today''s diverse workforce lies in "flexing"--the art of switching between leadership styles to more effectively communicate with and lead people who are different from you. What is THE POWER GAP? Self-Aware and Fluent Leadership.

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Change Starts Here

JULY 23, 2014

Next month, I’m relaunching the Irresistible Change Guide change management toolkit in a new format with several new templates and even more e-templates. As part of that launch, I’m changing the bonus people get when they subscribe to my newsletter: 12 free change management templates! Leadership Support Chart.

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The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s well known that a greater share of women in senior leadership roles has a wide range of benefits for their organization. Research from Surrey Business School suggests that one of these might be the adoption of environmental standards. ” Environmental standards. ” Environmental standards.

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Experience to Lead

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

What is Sustainable Leadership? Sustainable Leadership is a style of management that drives solutions for environmental, social and economic challenges in the world. It recognizes leadership as a process of influence and breaks down silos to combine efforts towards change and transformation.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 16, 2024

While earlier research explored the reasons behind workplace gossip, this latest study aligns with her leadership-focused research concentrating on interpersonal relationships and social networks. The research revealed that gossip is seen as more valuable when people positively discuss their management or organization.

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Leading Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

FT: Zen and the art of management by By John Paul Rathbone. Best 21st Century Leadership Blogs from @jamesstrock. Don’t be afraid of personal power by @thehrgoddess. Mentoring as Part of the Leadership Role by @gfeiste. FT: Why are good managers so rare? A Leadership''s Judgment by @LollyDaskal.

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CEO Blog

JANUARY 27, 2011

CEO Blog - Time Leadership Thursday, January 27, 2011 The Elements of Power It is beautiful here. If I were a more frivolous person, I would be building a snowman or having a good snowball fight. I read a great book The Elements of Power - Lessons on Leadership and Influence by Terry Bacon.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 14, 2015

Your underlying (and often unconscious) attitudes and motivations determine what you pay attention to and focus on in your leadership role. Before delving into 7 key leadership motivation patterns, let’s first look at 3 often-missed truths about performance. Satisfy the motive and you will manage the behavior.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When you assess the effectiveness of leadership in an organization, there are a handful of parameters you seek to evaluate: Trust : Do employees believe what they are being told? Do they have confidence in the integrity of their leadership? Leadership is an attempt to influence. Power is influence potential.

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The Empowered Buisness

APRIL 14, 2015

In 1987, I flew to LA to a women’s leadership conference for one reason only. Yet her commanding presence was so powerful, 30 years later, that memory is still vivid in my mind. Leadership p resence includes character, charisma and self-confidence YET is much more. Even Before You Speak. You feel it. You know it.

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Leading with Trust

JUNE 12, 2022

Many managers strive to be one. The importance of being an empathetic leader starts with the simple truth that leadership is about people. This translates into creating real partnerships rather than exerting power. This translates into creating real partnerships rather than exerting power. Let’s start with the definition.

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Lead from Within

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Leadership is about building teamwork and collaboration. A big part of leadership is listening to others and working to understand their perspective, but some leaders emphasize their own ideas at the expense of what anyone else might think or feel. Sadly, too many leaders focus on personal power and self-serving goals.

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Lead from Within

JUNE 15, 2018

If you have plans of becoming a manager or taking on any leadership position, you can help yourself tremendously by being aware of the mistakes that hurt the reputations and relationships of new bosses. Here are the ten most common that I see in my work as a leadership coach. Abusing power. Poor communication.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

At its best, leadership inspires people to pull together collectively to achieve something great. That kind of inspiration requires a trustworthy leader—one who treats leadership not as a source of personal power but as a channel for serving others. The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness.

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Frank Sonnenberg Online

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Raise your personal standards. Boost your leadership skills. Listen to Your Conscience contains over 65 powerful essays from Frank’s blog — FrankSonnenbergOnline — which has attracted millions of readers. DR. RODGER DEAN DUNCAN , Bestselling author of CHANGE-friendly LEADERSHIP. Build trusting relationships.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

A few of my clients engage me to teach workshops on leadership skills for non-supervisors. Many I encounter in my leadership sessions still think this work is too hard, or feel that they don’t know enough about this concept. For one, we learn to handle our professional and personal concerns while helping others simultaneously.

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LDRLB

AUGUST 3, 2012

When you’re hiring for a leadership position one of the most elusive qualities is actual leadership. You can usually assess a person’s skills and experience level with some accuracy by using a variety of interview techniques, references, or auditions. Leadership is always harder to get a grip on. Indeed, Davis et al.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Tony wanted to shift out of a management role in a specialized field where he’d been for decades into a broader general manager role. He had a “personal brand’ problem. He needed to rebrand himself from a specialty line manager into a general manager. So, what personal brand would he need to project?

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Vivek and Farai have curated a collection of personal, powerful, inspiring, encouraging, disruptive, and challenging stories of women who grabbed the status quo by the horns. Brown University Culture Education Engineering Farai Chideya Innovating Women Innovation Leadership STEAM STEM Tech Vivek Wadhwa Whitney Johnson Women in Tech'

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Lead Change Blog

MARCH 17, 2015

The scene was a corporate cliché – the annual management meeting. I was a consultant to the company and sat as a guest at a table of eight managers toward the back of the hotel ballroom. The guy beside me leaned over and knowingly whispered, “He doesn’t give a rat’s butt about the managers here tonight.”

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LDRLB

JUNE 18, 2012

Researchers conducted a number of experiments that put people in touch with their feelings of power or powerlessness. Across the board, researchers found that those who felt most powerful following their questionnaire results overestimated their abilities and actually lost the most money. Innovation innovation kaplan'

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

MAY 26, 2015

For example, years before either of us had learned about “large group interventions,” Barbara asked me to help her plan a “working meeting” for their annual Managers’ Meeting, where they would make real business decisions. I had never done anything like that.

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Coaching Tip

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Their leadership fosters those strengths. Honing those leadership skills can happen outside the workplace, too. One of the many leadership "laboratories" helpful to Dr. Eich and myself was our college fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon. John Agno: Can't Get Enough Leadership: Book Notes & Coaching Tips.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 13, 2014

Unfortunately, no change management methodology alone is going to help you. Ultimately, changing your organization requires you to use your own personal influence to get it done — because nothing else will work. Gain Leadership Support. Provide feedback when leaders send inconsistent messages. Of course, the answer is yes.

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Coaching Tip

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The Power Level: how to harness your own personal power. * The Energy Level: the heart and soul level at which connections happen, personal energy makes for the deepest and most lasting connections. Here are five leadership guiding principles that guide respectful conversations: 1. It unfolds with grace.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2014

In our recent book, “ Leadership 2030: The six megatrends you need to understand to lead your company into the future ,” we examined the repercussions of the convergence of major forces like globalization, climate change, increased individualism, and accelerating digitization. Leadership Managing people Personal effectiveness'

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My Own Coach

MARCH 15, 2012

If one of your managers values security for example and you value adventure, you might not see eye to when it comes to implementing a new pay structure based upon commission alone! If your manager had to get the best out of you, how could they do this by knowing what you value most? styles motivation leadership'

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Now, you’re going to be managing a team of high-performers in a division of your company that everyone’s buzzing about. I’m not sure they even really need a manager, they’re that good and that motivated.” You noticed, I’m sure, that you’re the third new manager appointed in the past two years?”

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You're Not the Boss of Me

APRIL 11, 2010

When I reflect on these stories, I am reminded that leadership comes in many forms. I think the difference is that a bossy woman operates from a place of love and a bully from a place of personal power. The bottom line, the leader sets the tone and adopts whatever leadership style fits. It sounds about right to me.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2016

We recommend that you look at three categories of behavior: individual, team, and leadership. Participate in in-fighting and blaming, look out for oneself, have a personal agenda, sabotage projects. Leadership behavior. Care about personal power and prestige, only focus on quarterly numbers. Leadership behavior.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 19, 2011

Even those who accuse him of having a "reality distortion field" manage to find themselves talking about his devices. While being liked can increase your influence, the equation works more reliably the other way around: being powerful will get you liked. One person in management told me that Jobs fired him one day. (At

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2016

of all managers , much fewer women rise to the C-suite. A survey of 25,000 Harvard Business School graduates found that although male and female graduates had similar levels of ambition , men were significantly more likely to have positions in senior management, direct reports, and profit-and-loss responsibility.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Position power gives way to personal power with autonomy. When employees have greater levels of autonomy, they are better able to use their personal attributes to contribute to job performance. Her manager would have achieved the same outcome, but undoubtedly would have left a trail of bodies in his wake.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 24, 2017

Studies show that individuals with political skills tend to do better in gaining more personal power as well as managing stress and job demands, than their politically naive counterparts. But conversely, the sharp edges of hard power can wreck a plan. The Chairman used his formal power to stop the changes.

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Women's Leadership Exchange

JUNE 7, 2007

Or that publishers finally realized that more than half all the managers in corporate America and half all the business owners are women. And add to that all the great books by women that we feature on the Womens Leadership Exchange online bookstore and things are looking up in the land of Business Literature.

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LDRLB

OCTOBER 13, 2010

[This post is adapted from my submission into the M-Prize, the world’s first management innovation award. Studies have shown that those promoted to management will be more likely to develop into pricks as they work to ensure compliance in their subordinates. Managers tried to become leaders. It sounds like despotism.

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