Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Help your team turn data into action by teaching them how to present useful information Tired of sitting through endless PowerPoint presentations that never answer your question? Help your team provide more useful information and drive clear decision-making by asking yourself three questions. How will you use the information?

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Theyre flooded with information , juggling priorities, fighting fires, and moving fast. 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? The reason begins with how people build memories and retain information.

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The Creative Life

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We're all drowning in information. Building a second brain manages that, and frees your mind for creative thinking. The post Your Second Brain: the answer to information overload appeared first on The Creative Life.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2025

Your manager can be one of your most powerful career allies. But even the most well-intentioned manager cant read your mind. So the question becomes: How can you help your manager help you? Start with a Role You Aspire To Before you talk with your manager, take a few minutes on your own. Youre not locking yourself in.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 26, 2023

A Case Study By Wai Lan Kwan, Life Coach, HONG KONG How Coaching Supports Management Decision I was introduced by my human resources department to take a vocational coach program. Miss C only informed Miss T of the decision and her request without seeking her advice. One of my colleagues knows that I am studying to be a coach.

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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. Over-sharing confidential information. Ask yourself if this is really your information to share? Over-Sharing Personal Information.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

Use these communication techniques to keep even the most difficult stakeholders on your side Stakeholder management is an art most of us learn the hard way. If you’ve been involved in stakeholder management for more than a minute, you’ve probably met a few of these well-meaning, challenging stakeholders. Sound familiar?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 16, 2023

You got together to solve a problem, make a decision, or share information, and when the meeting ends, it’s time to do something. Teams require trust, and that’s built only through time spent together, solving problems, making decisions, and learning how everyone operates, sees the world, and shares information. Outcome: Relationships.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2024

Now, if they tell you “no, I don’t understand,” that is better in the sense that now you have new information. As you hear them summarize in their words, you’ll know what they know and where they are missing critical information. Whether you check for their understanding or your s, now everyone has the same information.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Tell me about a time that you strongly disagreed with your manager. Make information accessible. When a manager is struggling to think like an entrepreneur, it’s often that they don’t have access to the information they need to be resourceful. What’s the best idea you’ve ever had to improve the business?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As a leader, manager, and team member, you stand at a crossroads every time this question arises. You have information they need. By communicating effectively, you’re not just passing along information; you’re advocating for your team, your customer, and for the success of the project. The answer is “no, they don’t.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” “I just finished a big project, and my manager didn’t even acknowledge it before she dumped the next one in my lap.” Schedule time each week (or daily) for informal recognition. Informal recognition doesn’t need to take long. Schedule time each week (or daily) for informal recognition.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 24, 2022

They earned their reputation as a courageous manager one small daring moment at a time—small micro-moments of courage that led to better performance and deeper trust. Most definitions of managerial courage involve speaking with candor, being willing to act with incomplete information, timely decision making, and addressing performance issues.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 2, 2022

If your Sales SVP thinks your leadership development program is a distraction, your sales managers will show up late and multi-task. You might be thinking, “It’s hard enough to get my managers to attend a leadership development program. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. Wait, What? Who Has Time for That? ” We get it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 24, 2021

We’ve both heard these words and so has nearly every manager we’ve ever worked with. Start your conversation with two vital pieces of information. Managers get in trouble when they allow these discussions to get mixed up. Typically, this would be the manager or someone she appoints. Are we making a decision or what?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2022

“What I think you might do next is contact your manager (so they’re not blindsided). Managing Up: Keep Your Boss Informed About a Struggling Team Member. Managing Up With Grace: How to Give Your Boss Better Feedback. (Explain your plan and what you need next). Have a plan. What would you add? Related Articles.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

See Also: The Manager Squeeze: How the New Workplace is Testing Team Leaders Step 2: Help Them See Your Genius (Without a Neon Sign) Your work is valuable. The key is aligning your work with their worries. If you can position what you do as a solution to their biggest stressors, youll go from nice-to-have to critical asset.

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The Coaching Blog

MARCH 7, 2025

Were looking for a Volunteer Community Manager to help keep the conversation going on our learning platform but not only! The post Join us as a Community Manager! Would you like to stay actively engaged with the international Noble Manhattan Coaching (NMC) community while gaining access to exclusive development tools? How much time?

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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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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Work-Life Balance: well-being, time management, burnout, and stress, pressure. Emotional Intelligence: understanding and managing own emotions, conflict resolution, more organic interpersonal relationships. Research Objective : If not all the relevant information is provided, gather more from the client. Can you share more?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 9, 2021

5:14 – What does it mean to Lead from the Middle and why Scott avoids the label “middle manager.” 10:34 – The inherent role of conflict at the intersection of horizontal and vertical information flow. 12:42 – The research-based mindsets that the most effective middle managers embrace.

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International Coaching Federation

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It wasn’t until I completed trauma-informed coach training that I understood how much I was missing. While I’m grateful to better serve my coaching clients now, I recognize that my trauma-informed coaching experience puts me in the minority among coaches. This is where trauma-informed training for coaches becomes essential.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. When I stepped away, my managers did not have the experience, skills, or courage to step into that role (see also How to Be a More Courageous Manager).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

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. Something to remember the next time your manager is stressed and not leading the way you would hope. Stay the course.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2025

Clarity) Start by asking: What information am I holding that others need? Before moving ahead, you check with the program manager whos coordinating a related launch. The 4 Cs of Collaboration from our SynergyStack Team Development System: Connection, Clarity, Curiosity and Commitment. The Power of a Collaboration Checklist 1.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Later, talking with Declan’s manager, she was grateful for Declan’s work, but also confused. Declan was frustrated—and so was his manager. He expected that by fulfilling those parameters, he’d done good work and that his manager would acknowledge that work. But what’s happening with Declan’s manager?

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Work-Life Balance: well-being, time management, burnout, and stress, pressure. Emotional Intelligence: understanding and managing own emotions, conflict resolution, more organic interpersonal relationships. Research Objective : If not all the relevant information is provided, gather more from the client. Can you share more?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

What does that mean for your managers and front-line employees? I answered all their tough questions, as opposed to preparing my team managers to do so. When I stepped away, my managers did not have the experience, skills, or courage to step into that role (see also How to Be a More Courageous Manager).

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 19, 2023

” Typical passive-aggressive coworker behaviors include things like: Snarky comments Bitter, critical, or demeaning humor Withholding information Backhanded compliments Sabotaging your success by failing to meet a commitment Please, Don’t Say This to Your Passive-aggressive Coworker. “Is this a big deal?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 22, 2021

Today, on Asking For a Friend , I talk with Julie Winkle Giulioni , author of Help them Grow or Watch Them Go about how managers can support development when there is pitifully little time. More information on our development discussion planner here. You want to help your team with career development, but time is limited.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Start with Curiosity Whatever is happening, you don’t have all the information. Earlier in our careers, we both thrived with managers who challenged us with new projects or gave us a chance to invest in an exciting opportunity. It’s time to get curious and learn whats really going on.

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 8, 2025

It's one of those inevitable things that no company can avoid, yet it’s often one of the most difficult to manage. That's where a change management survey comes in, offering a crucial tool to understand exactly where your people stand, and where your strategies need adjustment. What Is a Change Management Survey?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 28, 2022

Have you heard this from your managers (or said it yourself)? 6:05 – When you’re wrong (it happens) and what to do to ensure people can still hear you, even when you make a mistake or don’t have all the information. 14:06 – Send in your leadership or management question.

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