Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The Achievement Matters The most meaningful recognition highlights accomplishments that matter to you. Powerful Phrases to Build Connection: I care about you and what youve accomplished here. Its a reminder that your contributions dont just mattertheyre seen and valued by someone you hold in high regard.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2014

My hope in writing this guest blog today is to respond to Karin Hurt’s post about Humility and Leadership. If I share the photo, I thought, would I be boasting about what I can accomplish as a writing coach? to emphasize accomplishments. I think that humility is one of the fundamental leadership qualities.

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AUGUST 1, 2014

Fortunately, you don’t have to experience every leadership mistake personally in order to grow your skills. Switching from individual contributor role to a leadership role is stressful. With the right planning and attitude, you can avoid all of these leadership failures. Leadership errors and misjudgments are especially painful.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2023

Your Work is Valuable – Let’s Make Sure You Get Leadership Visibility Let’s talk about getting more leadership better visibility and recognition for YOU – and YOUR TEAM’s – work. You might even use our 5×5 communication technique to expand leadership visibility to your work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. When you embrace this fundamental truth – that everyone is a volunteer – it will change your leadership forever. They choose to. Outcome: “You did it!

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Vantage Circle

JULY 30, 2024

Many organizations become locked in a self-created paradox while pursuing sustainable leadership. This discrepancy is known as the recognition paradox, and it acts as a silent saboteur to sustained leadership. RERS promotes systems thinking and teamwork, which are fundamental components for true sustainable leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 6, 2016

I want to address what I believe to be one of the most important aspects of your workplace leadership. In many leadership forums, many leadership books, and not a few social media memes, what I’m about to say would be skewered, and yet… your credibility and influence depend on it. What is this leadership heresy?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 18, 2022

And I am PROUD of all the team has accomplished. Participants in our leadership development programs tell us our I.N.S.P.I.R.E. What’s the most important thing you can accomplish this month. In fact, it’s one of our 6 leadership competencies you can’t lead without. . It takes away the fun.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Karin and I are no strangers to the stress and anxiety that come with leadership. They chose the human-centered leadership that we’d let our stress undermine. If you don’t recognize what’s happening those stress responses will short-circuit your human-centered leadership. Describe what a successful solution will accomplish.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 10, 2015

Ling (not her real name) bravely raised her hand in my Masters level leadership class tonight. Ling continued, “I’m not going to accomplish anything like THAT.” “Am I someone who could accomplish something great?” You can be the guy who “accomplishes something great.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 30, 2022

I was particularly struck by Amer’s practical leadership humility technique of “reflection with purpose” (1:36). 1:35 Cultivate Leadership Humility Through Reflection with Purpose. After a major accomplishment and success, celebrate! The post Leadership Humility: How Can I Be Driven and Humble?

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 8, 2018

“In any organization, you’re going to run into challenges to expanding your leadership influence. Here are four roadblocks to overcome for effective leadership influence. The effectiveness of your leadership, and thus, your influence, will grow when you have a strong rapport with everyone. The company needs a shared vision.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Once my leadership blog started gaining traction, I began paying attention to who else was in this human centered leadership space. I reached out to every leadership blogger I could– talking with them about their approach, their challenges, and most importantly, what they were doing that led to success. Growth is fast.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Who most influenced your leadership? How are you going to celebrate your accomplishments? I want to ensure LGL continues to grow and improve to add value to your leadership journey. Who have you most influenced? What was your biggest contribution to the team? In the industry? What are you most proud of?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

My guess is you don’t need more ideas of what needs to be accomplished. Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice. Leadership Skills: 6 Competencies You Can’t Lead Without. If you want to empower your team to find more creative ways to get better results, start by defining success.

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Career Advancement

MAY 11, 2020

Fortunately, many key leadership principles that apply in any crisis are incredibly valuable here. Remind your team of what you’ve accomplished together in the past, and the hurdles you overcame along the way. Read on for nine key ways to steer your company to success amidst the great changes in progress. Spend time reflecting.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

In our leadership programs, we always recommend facing difficult conversations with confidence and humility. That idea would be really interesting if we were planning to expand our leadership training programs t o include training llamas. But for now, our focus is training humans on human-centered leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 20, 2015

Does my team truly understand what we’re trying to accomplish and why? 16 Authors from around the world met through Social Media and discovered a shared passion, leadership. Today we announce the launch of our collaborative book, Energize Your Leadership. Who needs more support? Am I CONNECTING with them? In other news.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

You are in the role to support your people and accomplish a mission. What to do: One of the most vital steps you can take as you start in a new leadership role is to clarify what success looks like. Additional reading: Check for Understanding: A Leadership Communication Best Practice (Video). Customer care is common sense.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Leadership Coach Julie Pierce of Empowered by Pierce helps you take notice and find your leadership passion. Follow Julie. Jesse Lyn Stoner of Seapoint Center shares that if you’re not clear about what you really want, you are likely to set goals that will not be truly satisfying once accomplished. What makes you come alive?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 8, 2016

Leadership development is not just for grown-ups. Leadership development should be no different. What does this tell us about the development of leadership qualities in our youth? Talent for leadership is a combination of nurture and nature. If you’ve been with me for a while you know how passionate I am about this.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Shortly after joining a new church, the council president enthusiastically revealed that I (Karin) was part of their “volunteer leadership succession plan.” How to Recruit Volunteer Leaders Leadership is leadership—whether you work in a volunteer organization or a corporation. Or no one asked them to serve. 2) How do I succeed?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 18, 2016

Mary Jo Asmus of Aspire Collaborative Services encourages that you are the instrument that makes your leadership work. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership advises that it doesn’t take much to stay interested, motivated, and growing, but it won’t happen by accident. She likens it to keeping a relationship fresh.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

A Research Paper By Marta Potulna, Leadership and Optimal Performance Coach, AUSTRALIA. There is room in the coaching profession for expanding the approach to using the concept of flow in life, transformation, career, or leadership coaching sessions. The Concept of Finding Flow and Its Applications in Coaching.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 7, 2014

Only you know if you’re accomplishing who you set out to be. I couldn’t resist: “You might really enjoy my e-book on developing leadership in kids… it’s free. Authenticity & Transparency Developing Leadership In Children career success shoulds success the problem with shoulds' We never can.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

I’ve spearheaded many such initiatives over the years, including the modeling of all the leadership jobs that were used in merger selection of the executive team. Which are vital toward accomplishing your goals for the future? Invests deeply in developing her leadership team. What’s missing? A Penchant For Process.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It’s owned by the founders, a husband and wife, with a long history in training, and leadership development, and both certified coaches. The coach partners with the client to identify or reconfirm what the client wants to accomplish in this session. Agreement at each periodic update and status call.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The paper aims to come up with a coaching framework that could be applied to facilitate structuring and conducting leadership coaching conversations in the multicultural, technology company context, as described above. Lou Gerstner Jr., But no enterprise […] will succeed over the long haul if those elements aren’t part of its DNA.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 16, 2015

On that page, you can also download my FREE ebook: Mentoring in the Age of the Millennial and sign up for my FREE 5 Day Leadership Challenge. David shares how to avoid this leadership mistake and keep your people energized with one simple practice. Key Question: How do we accomplish MORE? Follow David. Follow Chantal.

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Career Advancement

JANUARY 8, 2018

“In any organization, you’re going to run into challenges to expanding your leadership influence. Here are four roadblocks to overcome for effective leadership influence. The effectiveness of your leadership, and thus, your influence, will grow when you have a strong rapport with everyone. The company needs a shared vision.

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Career Advancement

JULY 22, 2019

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born—that there is a genetic factor to leadership. Randall, an HR executive, felt that he and many other company managers possessed excellent leadership skills. He learned how they would invest in training courses on business leadership for their top-performing employees.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The holiday season gives you a human-centered leadership map for navigating change Is your holiday season a time of celebration? A few times I enough leadership books for everyone, wrapped them, and then each person could pick a new one or “steal” one from someone else and they explained why that book was interesting to them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Clearly, it’s more than a “game” when potential employers and university leadership are involved. I spoke with several of the teams that made it to the final round– mostly curious about how the most successful teams accomplished so much so quickly. Quickly Identify Each Team Member Strengths (and challenges).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

“What’s the most important thing my team needs to accomplish to really impact the business this year?” ” “Imagine we’re sitting here this time next year, and you’re blown away by our team’s performance… what would we have accomplished?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Accomplishment (it’s always interesting to see which people choose– it’s a great indicator of what matters most to them). One fun way to do personal bests is to give your team a list of potential “best ofs” to choose from, and have each team member pick one or two personal bests to share.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Be sure you know the MITs (most important things) you need to accomplish at a strategic and tactical level. With the finish line in sight, you can innovate without fear, tossing out time-saving hacks like confetti. A few powerful phrases that can help. What’s most important?” Focus is the antidote to overwhelm.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2017

How is your team stronger (leadership, hiring, skills?). What accomplishments are you most proud of? How has the customer experience improved? What processes are more streamlined? What do you know now that you didn’t know then? How are you showing up as a better human being? Yes, yes, look up, and plan.

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