Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2024

This article unpacks how to manage confidential information with integrity and professionalism. If you liked this article and you haven’t yet read our new book, Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict, you can learn more and download the first few chapters here. Listen here.

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Leading Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Here is a selection of Posts from October 2024 that you will want to check out: Making the Career Move to Manager (or not) by @artpetty U of V Men's Basketball Coach Tony Bennett Retirement Press Conference “I've been here for 15 years as the head coach, and I thought it would be a little longer, to be honest, but that's been on loan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Most managers will say they want those outcomes and that they believe in an empowered team, but unintentionally prevent their teams from doing their best. There are some times you do “give” power over…for example, when you ask someone to make a decision or offer an opportunity to try something new. Soak up Their Time.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Employees should “feel energized and enabled to use AI as a co-pilot to do value-creating work and waste less time on bureaucratic misery work.” Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn,” said science fiction writer Larry Niven. Half of wisdom is learning what to unlearn,” said science fiction writer Larry Niven.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

It was stated that over a third of employees would never be interested in becoming a manager and almost 40% don’t even want to be promoted. In a business world that moves fast, the data to measure almost everything is right at our fingertips. Business is still built on ideas, and the best ideas are still generated by people.

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Alongside managing the technical aspects of running their company, leaders also have a responsibility for the well-being of those with whom they interact. To be effective, they must not only earn the respect of their employees and communicate skillfully but also inspire team members to do their job effectively.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Learning from others mistakes and successes is the best way to guard against leadership hubris. You can learn from it. But you wont learn anything from the stuff thats vomiting forth, thats written for clicks, that delights in its nastiness, that takes pleasure in the hope it is inflicting pain. On Leadership does just that.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

As a leader, how do you avoid freezing like a deer in the headlights as chaotic change swirls around you? Here’s a graphic of a framework for doing that followed by an explanation of the four steps. The second step in the action framework, therefore, is to do what you can to reduce uncertainty by gathering data and insights.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 29, 2024

Your leadership success depends on your skill at managing change and embracing the future Are you hanging on to a familiar way of doing your work or leading your team because it’s comfortable? Managing change is critical for your success—too much change, too quickly creates instability. What are you learning?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

At N2Growth, our consultative approach integrates reliable data with real-world applications to ensure that evaluations do more than just rate past performance; they also predict and shape future behavior. These insights are often transformative, helping leaders reevaluate entrenched behaviors and embrace a mindset of continuous learning.

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Leading Blog

JULY 7, 2023

Entrepreneurs often find themselves in the Map Paradox because once they build a mental model around their idea, they look for supporting information and fall prey to what they do not know. “A Mental models are a necessary part of who we are.

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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

You see a problem and do something to remove it. Source: Synergistic Management: Creating the Climate for Superior Performance II. Managing blindspots is learning to accept them as inevitable and, in some respects, positive because they force you to remain vigilant.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2025

Just Because They Should Know, Doesnt Mean They Do A few weeks ago I shared a (as it turns out, quite popular article and video) on building a Team Agreement or what we like to call the Couth Code. Managers often assume everyone just knows how to have a sensitive conversation. We “learn” from others. Start here.

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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? Heres how they do it. We dont have control over all outcomes, but we do have control over our process. Committing to high standards and constantly learning, striving, and improving is critical.

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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?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. Now, imagine if you had leaders at every level doing that with their teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Learn from leadership expert Simon T. Bailey [00:00:00] – Setting the Stage for Resiliency Simon and host David Dye open the conversation with a powerful idea: people are learning how to be resilient by watching their leaders. Each new wave is a chance to apply what you’ve learned and approach challenges with confidence.

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Lead from Within

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. These workshops encourage learning from mistakes and viewing failure as a stepping stone to success.

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Great Results Team Building

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Here’s what to do about it You think you’re listening, but you’re missing so much. Here’s what to do about it – where she shares three simple steps for strengthening your “listening muscle”. You will learn that the more you practice listening completely, the better listener you’ll become and the more benefits you’ll reap.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Here’s what you’ll gain from listening: Learn why asking “Do you understand?” Mastering An Essential Communication Skill [00:00] Introduction to Communication Skills You’re about to learn one of the most powerful communication skills that can save you time, reduce frustration, and elevate your leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The key is learning to step out of the storm, focus on what matters, and help your team do the same. And neither do you. Learn to say, Ill get to this after I finish my current priority. just not do? Who do I need to keep happy today? Lets break down the biggest distraction trapsand how to escape them.

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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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Leading Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Creativity and Productivity In our lives, we go off instinct, and one of the most popular ways to manage others off instinct is to micro-manage. Where were constantly checking in on our teams, having meetings, 1:1s to make sure everyone is doing their job and on track. In the working world, being is not whats important.

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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. I don’t believe I can learn anything by asking my team esoteric questions about where I can improve.”. The world changes. People grow. Unsolicited Feedback Saved My Life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Senior leaders serious about changing business culture do three things consistently. Culture is simply “People like us, do things like this.” Visibly Model What you do matters way more than what you say. What you do matters way more than what you say. Be clear about why you make the decisions you do.

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Chartered Management Institute

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Only then did I think: ‘Can I actually do this?’” Jenna Jenkins CMgr FCMI is senior operations manager at Nationwide Building Society. Article Our extensive range of articles are designed to keep you in the loop with all the latest management and leadership best practice, research and news.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2024

Stop Asking “Do You Understand?” But one of the worst ways to waste these precious moments is by asking, “Do you understand?” Maybe they think they understand (and whether they do or not, you don’t know). And you rarely learn about problems in understanding until later when things go wrong. What’s happening now?”

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 27, 2025

What we should be doing is broadening the impact of what is working and adding new but related capabilities. What is important is to develop a culture that constantly asks the questions: Where do we go from here with what is working? How do we broaden and deepen the impact of what is working? That requires real leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2022

How do you give your boss bad news well, while avoiding the proverbial shooting of the messenger? To learn to speak the truth with candor, and work in organizations that encourage them to speak up, share their ideas, and train them to do this well. ” And, what does that have to do with giving your boss bad news?

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Leading Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I sought out the best medical advice, educated myself on AFib, and made the necessary changes to manage the condition. But I also realized I could not do it alone. All I could do was give it 100 percent effort. I embarked on a journey to build Alkemy Partners—a life science training company that would thrive against all odds.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When High Performers Have Problems, Look to Collaboration, Not Correction Youve got a team of high performers who know what theyre doing and have the results to match. Theyre still doing a good job, but The attention to detail you could count on isnt there. It’s time to get curious and learn whats really going on.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

What to say next when you’re overloaded at work (without sounding whiny) Ever found yourself cackling at the monstrous to-do list glaring back at you, thinking “Right, that’s not happening,” only to gulp back a sob as you realize none of it’s optional? When your boss asks what they can do to help, have an answer.

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Chartered Management Institute

JANUARY 28, 2025

To stand out in a crowded market, independent management consultants can leverage their unique strengths, focus on delivering value and build an authentic, compelling personal brand. You choose the types of work you do or the industry sector you work in, so strengthen your credentials in that area, she notes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. Day-to-day consistency and accountability in a few practices will do far more good than multiple pronouncements and intentions. Then do it again the next day. It’s not flashy or charismatic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

I can’t tell you how many times a manager has come to me for advice after they’ve made a technically authentic, but clumsy move: Storming out of a staff meeting in anger. But, they don’t do much to build a leader’s influence, reputation or impact. They learn to do that well. Showing All Your Feels.

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Rich Gee Group

MARCH 18, 2025

Most managers out there? You shouldn't do that." Here's what happens when you do. So, how do you actually do this? Celebrate Wins, Learn from Losses - When a "yes" pays off, shout it from the rooftops - let your team know the risk is rewarded. Think about it. They're the "NO" people. That's not allowed." "I

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

It’s going to be hard to teach your team to think like entrepreneurs if they’ve always been a “just tell me what to do-er.” What did you do with it and what happened as a result? Tell me about a time that you strongly disagreed with your manager. What did you learn? . – Seth Godin.

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