Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

If you’re a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. Today on Asking for a Friend I talk with Sara Canaday about tips from her new book “Coaching Essentials for Managers.” You set the expectations and give performance feedback.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (February 2021). If you knew your manager really cared about you, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. Read the article here.

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Career Advancement

JUNE 10, 2019

Joyce, a manager at a fast-growing IT firm, had been tasked with finding the perfect motivational speaker for her company’s training seminar. She needed someone truly capable of nurturing her high-performing employees’ growth. If, like Joyce, you’re wondering how to book the right motivational speaker, you’re not alone.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

In the world of music, composers and performers are influenced by each other every day. I was recently reminded of this tendency when I enjoyed a performance by pianist Richard Rubin. Maxwell’s excellent book The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth emphasizes the importance of growth. Books (Hint: Go Beyond The Business Section!).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 6, 2021

In this episode, you’ll discover a system used by world-class athletes, performers, and CEOs to build their confidence, achieve transformational results, and overcome their limiting mindsets. Performance mastery specialist Tina Greenbaum will give you practical tools to achieve mastery under pressure. Get Tina’s Book.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2023

Achieve Success Together: How Great Teamwork Turns Talent into Performance Are you ready to learn how great teamwork can propel your organization into high performance? David says, “Taking talent and turning it into performance comes down a lot more to the culture of the team.” or our book Courageous Cultures.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Find out how to enhance your personal energy when managing or collaborating with others to become more mentally agile and productive. 13:14 When you create a working environment without psychological safety, collaboration, performance, and innovation will not thrive as much as they can versus an environment with psychological safety.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

For Managers: Powerful Phrases for Supporting Your Overwhelmed or Overloaded Team First, if you’re a manager, here are a few frequently uttered unhelpful phrases. As a manager, you want to do what you can to prevent the snowball of overwhelm from picking up speed as it rolls downhill. Here’s what I need.” The boss says.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Whether you’re leading a team or looking to better manage your personal well-being, these tools will help you create lasting success without burning out. 01:21] – Meet Chaz Scott: Author and Resilience Coach Chazz Scott, author of Success Starts Within , shares his journey to helping leaders and high performers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 3, 2015

Why would a manager demean someone they’re trying to “motivate?” Address Issues Directly: Never use humor to deal with behavior or performance problems. David Dye and I write more on this topic in our book being published by AMACOM this February. ” I thought, “I know that guy.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The list of Winning Well best practices was strong… but I was most struck by this one… and it’s going in our next book. Employees were getting comfortable in their roles and afraid a lateral move would impact their performance rating or earning potential if they were not successful. The Power of Internal Internships.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 3, 2023

A Research Paper By Hélène Dumais, Human Performance Coach, CANADA Unlocking the Key to Peak Performance Peak performance is not confined to a restricted VIP area, accessible only by elites born with talent. Though you do need an entry code to gain access to the very specific information for you to perform.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Managers usually have a good grip on what their boss thinks, and at least an inkling of the pain points for their direct reports, but for some reason peer feedback tends to feel like stepping on a lego in the middle of the night– yikes, where did THAT come from? Correct poor performance using the INSPIRE accountability method.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 24, 2022

How to Coach the Individual to Use Available Tools and Resources to Become Developing Managers of People™. In business, Managers are most often promoted because they were super-duper employees making widgets, now they are the manager of a widget-making team. Many apply the lessons learned from managers they work(ed) for.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2023

Successful Working Managers Relentlessly Prioritize, Invest in People, and Delegate “I’m a working manager – not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work, besides having to lead my team. What is a working manager? To manage this overwhelm, Mind the M.I.T.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 11, 2023

Can you relate to the phrase, overwhelmed working manager? Recently we received a question from a manager and this manager writes, “I am a working manager. Not that all managers aren’t working, but I have an enormous pile of my work besides having to lead my team. What should I do?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur. Then in the sweet spot, you learn fast and your performance accelerates. 2:40 I share a story from Whitney’s book. This all makes real sense to me.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

And we look at the benefits to overall team performance and time management when you do it well. And we look at the benefits to overall team performance and time management when you do it well. Get Jennifer’s Book. It means responsibility and ensuring people are growing and have a development plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback. Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. This leadership post covers some of the most popular performance feedback tools and techniques that we teach in our leadership development programs.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2024

Episode 257: In this episode, you’ll learn how to handle a manager who gives lazy, frustrating, and vague feedback. Drawing from the insights in his recent book, David offers practical phrases to navigate various feedback scenarios. If you like what you hear today, consider grabbing a copy of the book.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 21, 2021

Just as parents who praise their kids for every little thing may create dysfunction, shallow praise over the small stuff can be a real turnoff for your serious performers. One manager I know instructed team leaders to say, “Thank you for coming to work today,” as a way of reducing absenteeism. I disagree. Celebrating with caveats.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 10, 2022

These might include team meetings, emails, project management software, and message threads. Have another leader recognize one of your team members or team for performance related to the topic. Send a book that emphasizes the message or has it written on the front cover . This is important.”. Internal wikis. Music video.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

In The Rational Manager, Charles Kepner and Benjamin Trego identify a problem as “a deviation from some standard of performance.” This is a critical step that most managers skip altogether. Managers who win well don’t leap in with solutions right away. What is different from what you expected? What has not changed?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 6, 2016

If you’re a people manager, you’re likely meeting with your team to establish performance agreements and developmental plans. If you manage people, this is a great conversation to have in one of your first meetings of the year. Most CEOs I know read (including me) read at least four books a month.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Episode 234: Leaders and managers face an ever-expanding level of complexity and demands on their time and skills. At the same time, there’s more of a need than ever before for managers to truly connect with their people – often across geography and time zones. 20:36 – Challenges confronting managers today.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

” “She’s smart BUT lacks the confidence to perform at that level.” ” When managing your leadership brand, the “buts” matter. Here’s a quick (90-second) excerpt from our interview with Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and author/editor of forty leadership books.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

For example, you might say something like: “There will be times when you or someone else in the company has a personal or performance issue that is confidential. For example: “I can’t discuss that, but I can tell you that if there were ever an issue with your performance, you would hear it directly from me right away.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Look at the research about high-performing teams and one universal characteristic jumps out. In high-performing teams, accountability isn’t just the manager’s job—the team holds one another accountable (and their manager too). ” Related Article: Get Your Team Back on Track: Leading Through Distractions 10.

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

How do I manage employees virtually? Some jobs require that and are much easier to perform or better for the customers or clients they serve. They go on to say, “Leaders need to ask if poor remote work performance or poor hybrid work performance is a location problem or a management problem. It’s not easy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Episode 234: Leaders and managers face an ever-expanding level of complexity and demands on their time and skills. At the same time, there’s more of a need than ever before for managers to truly connect with their people – often across geography and time zones. 20:36 – Challenges confronting managers today.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2023

In this episode, Wendy Swire, author of Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, gives us effective and impactful coaching skills to use at any time. Connect with Wendy Website LinkedIn Get the Book The post Anytime Coaching for Leaders with Wendy Swire appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A committee of abolition war managers waited upon the President and demanded the General’s removal on the false charge that he was a whiskey drinker and little better than a common drunker. It’s available through Barnes Noble, Amazon, IndieBound, and wherever you buy books. All right, so what are we talking about here?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2016

In fact I receive calls every week from managers reading Winning Well who are doing just that. AND, if you’re the guy hiring us to train Winning Well, please know we’re going to be very interested in your willingness to read the book and model the behaviors you’re hiring us to reinforce. Unclear Expectations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Episode 241: In this podcast episode, Dr. Jennifer Nash discusses the challenge to lead human and prioritize people, while also driving performance. 27:14:00 – Lead Human: The Evolution : The evolving roles of leaders and managers in the context of leading humans in today’s dynamic work environments.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 28, 2023

18:13 The number one key performance indicator for any leader’s future success is managing your time for strategy so you can invest in making your future better. Making Time for Strategy 08:32 Help people think differently about the opportunities available to them so that they can work on what matters.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2024

conflict management, listening skills) is essential, it’s not sufficient. 19:22) Challenges of Performance Evaluations Performance evaluations are criticized for their inefficacy. Advanced Leadership Strategies (12:49) Beyond Skill Training Lori argues that while skill training (e.g.,

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

In this sweet little children’s book, our little, plucky, red heroine stays focused on her MITs (most important things) and gives her barnyard friends plenty of chances to pitch in. Performance management conversations happen behind closed doors. Of course, I can’t assure you that your manager has this under control.

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