Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization. However, when you don’t pay attention to tactics and effective management, you create needless conflicts, frustrations and hurt feelings. But they are both vital to your success and don’t have to be complicated.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Impactful authentic leadership requires careful judgment and context. Authentic leadership matters even more during times of stress, uncertainty, and change. And yet, authenticity, like any other leadership competency can wreak havoc at the extremes. What is authentic leadership? They learn to do that well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. But, now your team is bigger and you need to scale your leadership. How do you scale your leadership, motivate your large team, and continue to get the results you need? How I Learned About Scaling Leadership the Hard Way. Here are a few tips that can help.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Blog Posts So Far This Year. One of the interesting parts of being regular leadership writers (we’ve been blogging here at Let’s Grow Leaders since 2012), is to see which of our leadership blog posts resonate the most with our readers and why. We would love to hear from you. Read more here.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 13, 2025

You can transform those tough conversations into opportunities for connection and understanding with one straightforward communication skill. Its called Reflect to Connect, and its one of the most powerful tools you can add to your leadership toolkit to build stronger relationships at work.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 10, 2022

What’s your most valuable leadership practice? At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. For more on the valuable communication tool: look at Check for Understanding ). But What’s the MOST Valuable Leadership Practice?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 29, 2023

Capture Attention Through Better Remote Team Communication With so many people working from anywhere, effective remote team communication has never been more critical. By understanding and leveraging these principles, you too can become a master in the art of remote team communication. I’d better pay attention.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Practical Advice for New Managers. (An Karin, I’m new to leadership. And, I really want to come off strong as a new manager. Stay focused on the MIT (the most important thing) , communicate consistently with 5×5 communication, and be sure to check for understanding. The post New Manager?

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The Secret to Transform Your Culture or Results is One Often-Ignored Leadership Skill “I’m so frustrated,” Martin, the Senior Vice President of a rapidly-growing communication hardware company serving the United States, leaned back in his chair and blew a heavy sigh past […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Overused assets can ruin a positive leadership presence. But somehow, your leadership presence isn’t working. Leadership Presence Mistake #1—Tunnel Vision. Focus is a useful leadership skill, but too much of a good thing becomes a liability. Leadership Presence Mistake #2—Emotional Splash. Process it.

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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. One Big Reason Managers Disempower Their Team. The most common mistakes that disempower teams often result from a manager’s insecurity. Keep Information to Yourself.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 28, 2021

If you are (or have been) a middle manager, you know how tough this role can be. In this episode, you’ll get practical steps you can take to master one transformational role the best middle managers do better than anyone else in an organization. Middle Manager Super Power. Middle Manager Super Power.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 11, 2019

It’s the night before you’re supposed to wrap up your assignment and brief the leadership team on what you’ve done. The post How to Manage the Most Difficult Stakeholders appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Difficult stakeholders are a chance to grow your influence You look at the phone and your heart sinks.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Are you leading in a way that taps into your team’s potential for innovation, engagement, and open communication, or are you inadvertently stifling it? In today’s episode, Drew Jones , PhD, discusses how traditional management techniques often shut down culture and engagement from the start.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Taking your management team out of the field for a leadership offsite or kick-off meeting can be an incredible way to provide clarity around your leadership message, to get everyone focused on what matters most, and to encourage the sharing of best practices. […].

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International Coach Academy

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A Research Paper By Kalliopi Koufopoulou, Life Coach, UNITED KINGDOM How Coaching Leadership Style Could Support Leaders? After working in the corporate environment for more than 22 years, I have met several management or leadership styles and approaches. The basic points to analyze are: What is leadership?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2021

The 12 Inch Rule of Leadership: Confidence, Humility, Influence, and Career Success. In this wisdom-packed interview, former Wallstreet executive Dr. Kaliym Islam shares the many leadership moments that transformed his career. The 12 Inch Rule of Leadership. The 12 Inch Rule of Leadership. The 12 Inch Rule of Leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 17, 2023

Practical Ways to Ensure Your Leadership Communication Has a Better and Broader Impact This question came in from a senior leader working to ensure their communication has a broad organization-wide impact: “Hi Karin, We have a lot of moving parts around here. I’m quite sure my senior team is with me. They get it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

” “How do I scale my leadership influence as my team size grows?” ” These are “ Asking for a Friend” questions I hear frequently in our leadership development programs. . Translate your leadership vision to tactical, measurable behaviors. Build a highly integrated communication plan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Episode 275: Have you ever felt that your communication skills were strong but still found your team misunderstood key points? Even the best leaders face communication challenges in today’s fast-moving work environment. Find out how to eliminate communication gaps that slow down progress and create stress.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 2, 2020

When it comes to critical messages, communicating once is never enough. In this episode, get practical (and creative) ways you can master 5×5 communication and ensure your team understands what matters most. The post How to Make Your Leadership Message Stick appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 14, 2021

Whether your team is heading back to the office, will continue working remotely, or somewhere between, silence and space are critical leadership gifts to give your team. ” Another person I spoke with said, “My manager was all about us working remotely until he realized that he’s an extrovert and now had no one to talk to.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2024

The Communication Channel You Choose Matters: It’s What You Say AND How You Say It If you’re managing a team, you know how crucial your choice of communication can be. Let’s start with a timeless piece of advice from Marshall McLuhan, the renowned communication researcher. What questions might they have?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Genuine gratitude transforms your leadership. An Inexhaustible Source of Leadership Gratitude. Even your direct reports don’t have to follow your leadership. Gratitude is missing when….

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 5, 2018

The post Employee Engagement – Avoid This Tremendous Leadership Mistake appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. I spoke with a company executive who was upset with his engagement scores. The numbers are horrible,” he said. Can […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 10, 2024

You’ll get solid advice on fostering trust and nailing communication with your manager. Building trust starts with open communication. 31:01-35:00 – Learn how to establish yourself as a new leader without stepping on toes or micro-managing. A must-hear for anyone in a leadership role!

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2024

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. One easy-to-use workplace communication tool will eliminate most of these frustrations, save you time, and improve performance and morale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. I’ve got a manager of managers on my team, let’s call her “Sue.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 26, 2023

Or as one manager told me when she is perceived as negative, “It’s not that I’m negative, it’s just that I care so F-ing much!” One of the big culprits that leads to a negative Eeyore leadership style, is HOW YOU RESPOND TO IDEAS. How do you help a team member who is perceived as negative?

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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. She didn’t realize how much her stress showed on the outside until a trusted manager on her team called her and said bluntly, “You’re changing.” A second manager followed up to say, “Your style works. It Happens. Stay the course. Remember your why.

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International Coach Academy

MAY 21, 2024

A Coaching Model By Anais Souton, Mindful Coach, QATAR MINDFUL Leadership: From doing to being Certainly! Here’s an original coaching model tailored for implementing mindful leadership. Help them identify their current leadership strengths, areas for improvement, and any challenges they face in incorporating mindfulness.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now. As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. Time management. So how do you master time management?

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 23, 2024

A Case Study By Henrieta Todorova, Situational Coach, AUSTRIA The Role of Executive Coaching in Facilitating Effective Change Management Change management is a systematic approach dealing with the transition or transformation of organizational goals, core values, processes, or technologies. This included: 1.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 4, 2020

Connection is key to help your team manage change When you have a clear picture of where you want to go but your team won’t come along as quickly as you want, it can feel like you’re trying to pull a car […]. The post How to Help Your Team Manage Change appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

Communicate. “Karl,” a CEO we spoke with that same day, related the story of a recent in-person meeting for his national leadership team, their first face-to-face meeting in two years. Growth and development don’t necessarily mean upward movement into management or leadership roles. Communicate–consistently.

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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. “I’ve always had trouble “selling” my (or our) job to higher management.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

In this episode, former Silicon Valley communications CEO Sabrina Horn gives you the tools to lead with integrity, navigate the challenges that compromise authenticity, and transform your influence by leading from the truth. 11:40 – The Make It Happen Box and how to use it to manage overwhelm and multiple leadership pressures.

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