Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 18, 2024

8 Ways to Deal with Team Conflict Hire for Conflict Communication Skills De-escalate Heated Conflict in the Moment Reflect to Connect Gather Information with Three Quick Questions Diagnose the Situation: Is this a vent or a problem that needs to be solved? Not every complaint needs a solution. And that’s normal.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Acting with incomplete information, adapting to change, working without complete direction, imagining what’s possible in an uncertain future… are no longer skills reserved for the executive floor. Then write down what you don’t know, and brainstorm ways to gather more information in that arena. Don’t Waffle.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2015

Encourage Wacky Solutions. Share what you can and help them to make informed decisions. They expect disruption and leverage chaos as an opportunity to engage creative solutions. Don’t change course. Instead ask, how do MAINTAIN OUR COMMITMENT to a great customer service with these new parameters? Stay excited.

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AUGUST 8, 2022

You have a vision, and you’re energized about your new solution, but they’re skeptical, critical, and keep bringing up problems. Solution: Build a habit of regular encouragement. Solution: Commit to consistent accountability and follow-through. When you have a negative team member, strive to understand what’s happening.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. 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. Give them a piece of the business to own.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

The learning that results helps improve the problem-solving process as well as the solutions the team develops. In addition, the learning acquired by working on complex, critical, and urgent problems that have no currently acceptable solutions can be applied by individual, teams, and organizations to other situations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 28, 2022

In today’s episode, you get seven reasons people ignore your feedback (and solutions to match). 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. Why People Ignore Feedback.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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. It means taking a stance, proposing solutions, and being the buffer that absorbs shockwaves from above, not merely a conduit for them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2022

Share your solution to fix the situation). Managing Up: Keep Your Boss Informed About a Struggling Team Member. You might say something like, “honestly, I should have been closer to this situation.” ” Or, “I know how important this is, and I want to do everything to make it right.” ” R- Response.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 30, 2014

A frantic response leads to crazy solutions that will immediately aggrevate the situation. Leaders stay calm amidst the urgency to make more informed decisions. It’s easy to panic fast when you’re 100 feet underwater, and can’t see your partner. The same thing happens in leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 4, 2024

What you’re really saying is, “I value the absence of conflict more than I value arriving at a shared solution.” For example: “I care about __ (you, this team, this project) and I’m confident we can find a solution that we can all work with.” You’re not solving anything. work great here too.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 11, 2022

Often, just the act of looking at a challenging situation through a different frame will re-energize you and reveal solutions. Do you have a solution they can use? Your information will never be perfect. But informed action builds momentum. Is there an alternative path to achieve success? Own the U.G.L.Y. Take Action.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

The learning that results helps improve the problem-solving process as well as the solutions the team develops. In addition, the learning acquired by working on complex, critical, and urgent problems that have no currently acceptable solutions can be applied by individual, teams, and organizations to other situations.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

First, Respond With Regard through gratitude, information, and an invitation to keep contributing. Here’s some additional information you might not be aware of. Have you considered _ (add additional information here). How to Convince Your Boss You Have a Great Solution . Thank you so much for your suggestion.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 24, 2023

Some workers prefer AI (think voice-assistant chatbots) to get information on topics like company policies, health insurance, and their remaining vacation days. These are areas where machines excel: providing accurate information quickly. Do your front-line employees feel encouraged to speak up and share solutions?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 22, 2024

Avoid making yourself a choke point for decisions by ensuring people have the information and criteria they need to make an effective decision. Provide Context for Decisions When you begin a discussion, empower your team by giving them the information that’s relevant to the decision. Other times, this question will provide clarity. “Oh,

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Here’s what such an informal competency could look like in the call center director world. Is an artful coach and works to draw out the best solutions from the team. Approaches problems in a systematic way and explores alternative solutions before making decisions. An Example. A Legacy Mindset.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2015

com relates that communication not only involves transmitting information but also involves being aware of the signals you receive in return. Teams will almost always develop better, more creative solutions than any one manager could and will be more likely to support the implementation of the solutions. Follow Dan.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

But here’s the challenge: asking intimidating questions can stifle creativity and problem-solving, leaving your people hesitant to share information, let alone ideas to fix the situation. They’re questions that help your team think critically, encourage them to explore new ideas, and ultimately guide them toward ownership of the solution.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

Give them all the information they need to understand the issue clearly. Describe what a successful solution will accomplish. If you get more information that changes your direction, that’s okay. Your team can help you solve the problem if you bring them in well. Give them the facts. What’s happening? What’s at stake?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2017

Omitting information that may trigger alarm. If meetings are more of a one-way information dump, it’s likely you’re not having the tough conversations that would up your game. If you want a diaper-genie free culture, encourage bad news and respond with supportive solutions, not anxiety-laced freak outs.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Say transparency is the issue—how can you boost communication and ensure information flows more freely? When leaders share more information—like company goals and financials—it turns the lights on, allowing employees to contribute better ideas and solutions. Once you’ve identified the gap, it’s time to take action.

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JULY 17, 2023

That you’ve deprived yourself of a simple solution because of your blind stubbornness? To show up with the humility and vulnerability to change your mind when faced with new information. And looking at them, I realized that my dislike for them was an assumption, not based on any experience. So, I bought a pair and tried them out.

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 29, 2023

When grandparents, well-meaning friends, and teachers start prescribing solutions to stop the tantrum or force a child to comply through discipline, rewards, or other tactics, parents can feel even more lost, often because those strategies were attempted and failed. .”

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International Coach Academy

MAY 8, 2024

The impending data collection necessity for financial years starting on January 1, 2024, has prompted the fund manager to seek coaching solutions. Facing the daunting task of preparing their portfolio for stringent ESG reporting requirements, the fund manager sought tailored coaching solutions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 29, 2024

More (and more effective) Solutions When you and your team can safely challenge one another’s assumptions, you open yourself to a much larger and meaningful source of answers to your problems. Your first solution is almost never as good as it could be with some exploration, revision, and poking holes.

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 13, 2023

Instead, the idea came to Dengler after his brain spontaneously connected the pieces of information. Connecting two totally different components of society, as Denger did, is an unusual way of finding solutions. In this way, we create the space to come up with truly innovative solutions that can sustainably impact our communities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2024

09:48] – Gathering Key Information Discover three essential questions to uncover the root of the issue and begin resolving conflict effectively. help leaders avoid assumptions and find real solutions. [11:16] Reflecting on what team members feel creates a foundation for productive conversations and mutual understanding. [09:48]

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 21, 2024

In a coaching context, stagnation is evident when someone has become stuck in a situation or state of mind, unable to move, unable to solve a problem, or see their way through to other solutions or remedies. It prevents the development of new and innovative solutions that are not fully developed or formed from taking shape and coming to life.

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Scott Barry Kaufman

APRIL 16, 2018

Stokes is author of the book Creativity from Constraints: The Psychology of Breakthrough , which was informed by her psychological research as well as her background in art and advertising. – How “the solution path defines the goal state”. – How “the solution path defines the goal state”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Finish gathering facts by asking them to talk about the consequences of the solutions they’ve already tried. Sometimes just the act of talking about it will help them figure out a new solution. You’re asking your team member to explore the potential consequences of their proposed solution. What happened? Bonus Question.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 27, 2023

How optimizing a daily commute with audio books led to unexpected solutions to work problems. 09:20 – The Weekly Coffee Chat: How informal weekly discussions about leadership led to an internal culture change in a law firm. 27:54 – Senior leaders’ struggles with dual roles and how mini-sabbaticals could be a solution.

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International Coach Academy

JUNE 6, 2023

Her main tasks are setting up complex information infrastructure at large corporations. She sees around her that the more technological solutions advance, the larger the technological divide in society. She likes managing projects and team members. Her energy was vital until she realized that she had in fact no idea where to start.

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International Coach Academy

JULY 15, 2024

Through this coaching process, David can break out of his divergent thinking rut and channel his creativity into focused design solutions for the residential project. Divergent Thinking Divergent thinking is the process of generating multiple, diverse, and creative ideas or solutions to a problem.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 11, 2024

If Distracted Donna is feeling stressed and slowing you down by asking for information you’ve already shared, then the way you’ve been communicating isn’t working. When you can understand why they act the way they do, you are in a better position to come up with constructive solutions. “Tell me more.”

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Career Advancement

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Automated tools can aggregate and structure the information, but humans give it context and meaning. The most successful leaders of the future will have a distinct propensity for problem-solving, because they have the courage to take risks and the creativity to come up with ingenious solutions that no one else has thought of.

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Career Advancement

MARCH 6, 2017

Solution: Before a project starts, Stacy will talk to the boss about the expected standards and the basic approach. Solution: Stacy decides to more closely align her goals with the company goals. Solution: Stacy decided to make sure she was the presenter on projects she had major input on. Talk about a demotivator!

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