Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Susan Fowler—top leadership researcher, consultant, coach, and author of Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does —says that you can’t actually motivate people: they are already motivated, but generally in superficial and short-term ways. Mark is a business leader, author, and storyteller.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 7, 2020

Welcome to the January Leadership Development Carnival! We’re excited to share posts from leadership experts from around the globe on the topics of communication, development, engagement, team building, and more. Jim Taggart of Changing Winds shared Creating Your Leadership Footprint through the Practice of LESS is MORE.

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Great Results Team Building

APRIL 3, 2023

Great Results Teambuilding is the home of the April 2023 Leadership Development Carnival… And it is an honor to host this impressive version of monthly curated articles with insights that will equip you to become a more effective leader! Miller – Are You Over-Functioning in Your Leadership Role? Everyone does.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Alison utilizes her background in endurance training to explain how to apply the same principles to leadership. Mark is a business leader, author, and storyteller. Since then, he has provided leadership for Corporate Communications, Training and Development, Field Operations, Organizational Effectiveness, and Leadership Development.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 13, 2017

In my previous piece, where I shared the story of how a past leadership failure helped me to learn to become a better listener , I pointed out that one of the keys to effective leadership is learning to be more inquisitive. So how do we become more inquisitive in our leadership? Here are 4 steps to help you get started: 1.

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HR Digest

JULY 7, 2024

Behavioral interview questions are a little harder to answer because they require you to be something of a succinct storyteller, one who can briefly but accurately explain an example that addresses the question you’re presented with. Have you ever had to take on some leadership responsibilities? Can you give us an example?

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 6, 2025

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. Edited by Edward T.

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Great Leadership By Dan

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Your bookshelf: Are they all leadership books? If you are trying to make your operation more efficient, then say so. “To Keep reading the leadership books if you must, but branch out a bit. The Owl Approach to Storytelling: Lead with Your Life , the first book from Sandy Coletta , is available now. Read a novel.

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Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

JULY 8, 2013

My insight on the topic is based on the corporate storytelling work I do on transformational leaderships as well as storytelling for influence and engagement. You see, in storytelling, as noted by Aristotle, there must be logos (logic), ethos (ethics, credibility, values) and pathos (emotions). Future perfect tense.

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Lead Change Blog

MAY 22, 2017

And to go from content owner to storyteller , you need a platform that excels at engagement. Pinterest is a great way to promote your business and your leadership philosophies, no matter the industry you operate within. It could be argued that Pinterest is more a form of content marketing than it is a social media platform.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 27, 2016

But, this transformation has an ally in “ New IT “–a confluence of cloud-based computing, digitalization, automated operational frameworks and platform-driven execution environments that can be redesigned on the fly through the leverage of highly sophisticated data analytic capabilities. is quite an undertaking.

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Tanveer Naseer

JUNE 27, 2017

Is the leadership spine aligned and strong? So this step ensures that the business operating team is ready to take ownership of the change and continue implementing the plan. Are measures of success in place and ready to be monitored on a consistent, timely basis? Were key stakeholders involved in creating the solution?

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

As One by Mehrdad Baghai and James Quigley, is the result of a two year research project conducted by Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, to understand this common leadership challenge and to answer the question, “ What leads to effective collaborations in a wide range of fields? ” Not just working together, but working as one.

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Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

“My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency, and clarity,” shares Gulati. “I I call this, deep purpose.”

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 22, 2023

However, the most important duty associated with entrepreneurship is leadership. While different scenarios demand different leadership styles, leaders can use the following tried-and-tested leadership lessons to lead effectively. This strategy can be implemented by storytelling.

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Rich Gee Group

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Here are some insights and action items to help maintain the alignment between daily operations and your corporate purpose: Express the Widespread Impact of Their Work Make the Connection Clear : Employees need to see how their work contributes to the bigger picture. This creates a sense of belonging and purpose in the workforce.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Many leadership teams seem to think that talking about agility will magically transform their organizations. A department, division, or organization’s culture ripples out from its leadership team. Organizational behavior reflects leadership team behavior. Leadership Team Planning ( click for typical agenda).

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Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 31, 2017

When we feel connected, we operate with a sense of purpose and utilize our many talents and abilities to advance that purpose, consciously as well as subconsciously. Read his blog at impactfulcoaching.com/blog and his new leadership book, " Becoming the New Boss.". There are four things to keep in mind when communicating a vision.

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In the CEO Afterlife

JUNE 10, 2012

The former head of Apple’s retail operations believes the ability to change is the key to success. Schectman’s new boutique in Manhattan’s Chelsea district is linked to storytelling. “70% Van Dyck says this is a habit from her college days when she studied in Cairo and read three newspapers to get multiple perspectives. #4

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QAspire

MARCH 2, 2011

The book also features my classic post titled “ Engagement, Leadership and Power of Storytelling ”. He continued, “See, when I do my job well and clean the operating rooms and other work areas, the doctors have a sanitary, safe place to do their jobs. To help them, Ben Eubanks at upstartHR compiled a fantastic and fr.ee

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QAspire

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.” – Peter Drucker, Managing Oneself. Storytelling in Business : Nancy Duarte. As human beings, we evolve and change continuously. Over a period of time, our interests, world view, ways of working, speed of thinking, approach to learning changes.

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Next Level Blog

APRIL 4, 2023

That’s a starting point for senior leaders, but, for them, leading like an ambassador is much more like operating as if they were an actual ambassador to another country. I first started thinking about this when I helped run a leadership development program for country general managers of a global company.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

More and more of my work involves communicating through the written word and exposing myself to some of the great storytellers of our time improves my ability to make my point "stick" [link] Scott Eblin I read (key word there) once that if you're able to read and don't, you might as well be illiterate. and college.

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Mills Scofield

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Originally published in Harvard Business Review , this post needs to be reread since my friend Vala Afshar will be a storyteller at BIF1 0 and Sidney Kushner will be attending - in just two weeks! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~. One of the biggest assets in anyone’s life is a generous network. It is a gift that grows simply by sharing it.

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Decker Communication

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

But no matter how good the stories are, success or failure is determined by the speaker, the storyteller. Rarely are leadership communications as closely scrutinized as during restructuring announcements and the reorganizations that follow. When leaders underperform as speakers, engagement disappears alarmingly fast.

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Lead Change Blog

AUGUST 18, 2015

What is Leadership, Really? All these pressures have changed the requirements for great leadership. They operate more as a partnership—a confederation of equals with different skills and talents but a shared calling and a collective zeal to see it through. Great leaders are storytellers. Leadership as a Force.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

His presence no doubt stirred animation in the storytelling; his participation likely made the teller of the tales feel celebrated and valued. Leadership is Command Presence. Bender was describing a vital feature of leadership—command presence. Leadership is Being Spirit-Full. Leadership is Being There…All There.

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Eric Jacobson

MARCH 11, 2014

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 17, 2020

Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Leadership Conversations -- Challenging High-Potential Managers To Become Great Leaders. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2021

Stumped for what leadership and business books to add to your winter reading list? Author Paul Smith explains why storytelling has emerged as a vital skill for every leader and manager. AMA Business Boot Camp -- Management and Leadership Fundamentals That Will See You Successfully Through Your Career. Edited by Edward T.

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Eric Jacobson

MAY 9, 2021

Storytelling is one of the most powerful ways to communicate. Courtney then went on to be a volunteer football coach and operator of Classic American Hardwood s, a $40 million lumber company and 2013 inductee into the prestigious Society of Entrepreneurs. It's one of the best character-building leadership books I've read.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 7, 2022

“My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency, and clarity,” shares Gulati. “I I call this, deep purpose.”

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QAspire

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In 2021, I stepped out of matrix after 23 years in corporate life playing diverse roles in technology, communications, corporate quality, consultative selling, team leadership, functional leadership and organizational leadership in global environments.

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The Practical Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

When I was honest and took a longer look in the leadership mirror, I saw that I modelled some of that behavior. In our work with culture development, we clearly see a variation of leadership modelling; people in organizations act like their leader — despite all attempts to train them otherwise. Well,…maybe not.

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Coaching Tip

AUGUST 19, 2012

Guiding Principles: A universal operating standard that guides decision-making both personally and organizationally. Whether you’re changing your own mind or someone else’s, the key is emotional, persuasive storytelling. •Vision: A word picture of the future leading from now through near to far reality.

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Decker Communication

AUGUST 30, 2023

You are pressured with the minutiae of the day; operating daily in response to market demands, you tend to think in facts, tasks, concepts, numbers, etc. Become a storyteller. Storytelling is a method that is available to all of us. The challenge is that facts and figures don’t stick in the spoken medium.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2023

“My interviews with well over 200 executives across 18 firms revealed the secrets of these companies—not the usual facile frameworks, but new ways of thinking about business that allow leaders and companies to operate with heightened passion, urgency, and clarity,” shares Gulati. “I I call this, deep purpose.”

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