Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As a leader, manager, and team member, you stand at a crossroads every time this question arises. Frustrated that they “just don’t get it?” ” You have a chance to lead and overcome a failure to communicate. Nearly every leader we’ve ever worked with feels it. ” (or sometimes not so silently).

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” Solution: Make change manageable. ” Solution: Listen. ” Solution: Follow your own standards. “My manager says I need to be more strategic. ” Solution: Be sure your feedback is specific and actionable. ” Solution: We all have to implement policies we may not agree with.

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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. Those phrases don’t empower people or lead to productive solutions. Sometimes, high-performing employees need their manager to tell them when to stop working. “Oh,

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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. It encourages deep exploration and results in specific, actionable solutions and measurable goals. The P.R.O.B.L.E.M.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

If you can position what you do as a solution to their biggest stressors, youll go from nice-to-have to critical asset. 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. Your Boss Doesn’t (Or So It Seems). But your boss?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2022

You’ve got to give your boss bad news. But the timing isn’t great–for you or for them. The restructure. The uncertainty. The promotion that’s right around the corner. Maybe it’s just not a great time to rock the boat. . How do you give your boss bad news well, while avoiding the proverbial shooting of the messenger?

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Dive into the blog below to learn about the importance of employee engagement, along with strategies and solutions for fostering retail employee engagement. When discussing employee engagement solutions, recognition programs should make it to the priority list. Explore various possibilities for keeping your employees engaged.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Today’s examples of workplace conflict can best be described as a complex cocktail of challenges: tired workers in an uncertain economy; a pandemic hangover of isolation and anxiety; rapid social and technological change; and exhausted managers doing the best they can– many of whom lack the training and resources to navigate this well.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 17, 2021

My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a junior manager. Because many managers lack the courage or know-how to give meaningful feedback and help their people grow, they default to useless negative feedback that isn’t just a waste of time—it’s painful and destructive. Many managers err on one side or the other.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 31, 2021

It’s the three managers who came before you who abused their trust, told them they weren’t hired to think, stole their idea, and then took credit for it. How to Include Your Reluctant Employees in Your Speak-Up Culture. Start by getting underneath their reluctance to speak up. People choose to hold back their ideas for a variety of reasons.

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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. It encourages deep exploration and results in specific, actionable solutions and measurable goals. The P.R.O.B.L.E.M.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Maximizing Impact, Minimizing Costs: A Strategic Approach to Coaching in Resource-Constrained Government Institutions Government institutions serve as the backbone of a nation, charged with upholding public trust, managing essential services, and advancing societal welfare (Sedgwick, 2016).

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 26, 2024

My manager says I need to be more strategic. If your performance coaching is not yielding results, get curious and involve them in finding solutions. Be curious, and invite them to come up with solutions. Then move the conversation to commitment by scheduling time to talk about how their solution is working.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 7, 2023

“As a young manager, having not done well at leading, my team approached me and addressed what they saw needed to change. We had a respectful and open conversation about our needs and agreed on what each party needed to change. From there on the collaboration changed completely – not to perfect – but to very good.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Perhaps your manager can’t or won’t address it right now. Take the initiative with confidence and humility to lead other leaders. This question came in from a member of the Let’s Grow Leaders community and it’s such a fantastic opportunity to lead that we wanted to share it with you. No big deal. Do you have any suggestions?”.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Work Harders Ill Just Work More People You believe the solution to too much work is more work. ” Taking Back Your Workday Distractions arent going away anytime soon, but you can get better at managing them. We All Have Our Favorite Workplace Distractions– How to Overcome Yours First, a confession. Someone needs a report?

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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! 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!” the team’s welfare.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 10, 2025

As a leader, youre not just responsible for managing tasksyoure guiding people through uncertainty. Be the Leader Youd Want Your Boss to Be If youre struggling with poor upper management, a disengaged board, or political decisions that have nothing to do with your actual work, dont let that define your leadership. And so do you.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 1, 2024

How to help your team challenge assumptions for better creativity and problem-solving In our Courageous Cultures research, 67% said their manager operates around the notion of “this is the way we’ve always done it.” This question encourages your team to think lean and imagine scrappy, cost-effective solutions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 8, 2024

The World Workplace Conflict and Collaboration results citing continued overwhelm, economic instability, lower levels of motivation, and poor management are symptoms of this upheaval. ” “I care about (you, this team, this project), and I’m confident we can find a solution we can all work with.”

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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. a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Progress is good. You need recognition. And courtesy is vital. It changes us.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 27, 2019

To build better ideas, point people toward solutions. You can’t possibly come up with the solution to every problem. You know you need your team’s input. And even when you’ve got a good idea, it can improve. Your team can help you […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 25, 2022

While the initial cost is lower, managing the contractor and bringing them up to speed will cost more time and money, plus any extension of the contract would cost more money than the current situation. The team needs you to help think through ideas and ensure the solutions you implement together are as sound as they can be.

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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? Why Do I Even Try?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Entrepreneurship is a chance to trade a solution to someone who has a problem that needs solving. Tell me about a time that you strongly disagreed with your manager. 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.

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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 28, 2022

Have you heard this from your managers (or said it yourself)? In today’s episode, you get seven reasons people ignore your feedback (and solutions to match). 14:06 – Send in your leadership or management question. “My people aren’t coachable. They’re defensive, it’s like they have a wall up.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 5, 2021

Recently we’ve had several clients ask us to help their managers get better at delegation. Clarity about how and when to innovate and creatively solve problems leads to more focus on established processes and more innovative solutions where they are most needed. RELATIONSHIPS. How to Do I Empower My Team By Delegating Well?

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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. It Happens. Stay the course.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If any of these issues sound familiar, you can readily overcome them with a few straightforward solutions. For many leaders, emotional splash comes from their intensity and drive-useful attributes, but ones that need to be managed. The staff in front cringed (along with all the customers) as their manager berated an employee.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

If you knew your manager really cared about you, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? This leadership blog takes on the challenge of three of the biggest issues that derail feedback and provides practical solutions for what to do instead. A Manager’s Guide to Better Decision Making (May 2021).

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Let's Grow Leaders

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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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once the situation is diagnosed, move to step four which is to choose an appropriate solution. ( After the solution is chosen, step five is to schedule the finish and determine what the next steps are for you and the people involved. ( Hey, I need to talk to you about a conflict, a disagreement, a clash of personalities.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 12, 2021

For Problems] Discuss and Choose an Appropriate Solution. Not every complaint needs a solution. For Problems] Discuss and Choose an Appropriate Solution. For problems, however, the solution will depend on the specific situation. Gather Information with Three Quick Questions. Schedule the Finish. How might I help here? –

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Focusing on another mindset shift that can make the conversations collaborative and help you lead your peers and other leaders when finding solutions to problems. It’s important to be a part of potential solutions. It’s important to be a part of potential solutions.

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