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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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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Instead, protect your integrity, steer the conversation toward thoughtful solutions, and focus on what matters most. Not only will you protect your reputation, but you’ll also foster a healthier, more collaborative team dynamic—and that’s a win for everyone. You don’t want to get caught in the blame spiral.

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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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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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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

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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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

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 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 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

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

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

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

DECEMBER 12, 2016

We’d designed a “speed-generation” problem solving session where groups rotated through stations to identify the ugly issues that needed to be addressed and worked on real solutions. The destruction that new manager is doing to our culture? Team’s admire managers who “own the ugly.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 5, 2015

Participants must manage through complex situations and team dynamics. The learning that results helps improve the problem-solving process as well as the solutions the team develops. Learning is contextual. It doesn’t feel like training. Terrific opportunity to showcase talent to the executive team. Lack of Project Sponsorship.

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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

JULY 1, 2015

Would you be up to offer a little free advice to beat down manager? Two years ago I took over as manager of the noted, “ really tough crowd” in our company. Vastly increase the odds of finding a solution. Sometimes you’ll realize that you don’t have the information you need in order to craft solutions. Let’s call him Guy.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2015

According to Dan McCarthy of About.com Management and Leadership , Many managers know how to “run” a meeting, but not all know how to “facilitate” a meeting. Melissa Lamson of Lamson Consulting admits there are still times when men have difficulty finding common ground with their female colleagues. Follow Alli.

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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

OCTOBER 5, 2015

I’ve seen this first hand, when I look back at the most creative times in my career and in how I’m approaching my business now, the best solutions came when we felt the most stretched. Whitney astutely pointed out, “the people who have the hardest time with this are middle managers. management. ”I agree.

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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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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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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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DECEMBER 11, 2024

Throughout my career working with various managers, one crucial insight has consistently emerged: The success of coaching programs relies on the involvement and commitment of senior management. Many organizations have a long-standing culture of instructing employees rather than engaging in a collaborative dialogue to explore solutions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 7, 2022

So I’m pulling into the stadium and I can hear the cadence of the marching band coming around the track … Actually, I think this story will be more fun if I tell it to you this way: Communicating Clear Expectations is Not Micro-Managing, It’s Empowering. Do you remember being really sensitive to all the “lasts?”

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 15, 2015

IT managers, Lori and Ann, were both shocked when they were given their latest projects. Acknowledge challenges and obstacles, and include the team in finding solutions. “Why don’t they ask us before making these impossible commitments?” ” “What are they smoking? Go ahead, admit that it’s tough.

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APRIL 24, 2023

AI is changing how workers trust and engage with their managers—and connection is at the heart of these changes. But people still turn to human managers who can understand how they feel, c oach them in their careers, and build culture. Do your front-line employees feel encouraged to speak up and share solutions?

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