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JUNE 11, 2021

It’s easy to take things personally and get upset when you need to lead a tough performance conversation. Leading a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool. 2:00 – Why leading a performance conversation without losing your cool is a vital leadership skill.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Invest One Hour a Month to Help Your Team Perform Even Better. Every truly high-performing team has one thing in common: They spend time in candid conversation talking about what’s working and consistently look for ways to improve. Here are ten important questions to start with when building a high-performing team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Everyone is watching how you respond when a high-performer quits. When a high-performer quits, it can feel like your world is imploding as you scramble to keep the work going AND find the right unicorn to fill that spot. Of course, there’s never a good time for a high-performer to quit. But, what you do next matters.

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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

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

AUGUST 2, 2021

5 Ways to Scale Your Leadership and Motivate Your Large Team. You have a solid track record of building high-performance teams. 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?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 13, 2021

Start Here to Make Your High-Performing Virtual Teams Even Better. In this week’s Asking For a Friend, I share best practices I see continually being performed by high-performing virtual teams. Highlights from the Building High-Performing Virtual Teams Conversation. Looking For More Team Building Resources?

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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

AUGUST 26, 2024

To be a better performance coach avoid these common mistakes. Have you ever had (what you thought was) a great performance coaching conversation—your employee commits to behavior change—but fifteen minutes later they’re back to their old habits? So why does so much performance coaching not work? But even so, nothing changes.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 5, 2019

One of the most important leadership skills you’ll ever need is the ability to hold tough conversations – and do it well. Most managers, however, never learn how to have tough conversations in […]. The post How Leaders Can Master Tough Performance Conversations appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 29, 2022

So how do you help your team’s performance stand out? How do you ensure that they not only get the recognition they crave, but their performance shines so strong it’s difficult to ignore? For Better Recognition: Start By Differentiating Your Team’s Performance and then Bring on the Spotlight. Keep them growing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 2, 2020

Don’t let useless performance feedback sap motivation My phone buzzed with a text message from Amena, a young manager. Just had annual eval – most useless performance feedback ever.” The post How to Make No-good, Useless Performance Feedback Helpful appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 25, 2019

It takes compassion and strength to fire a poor performer Have you ever been reluctant to fire a poor performer? She approached David as he finished delivering a leadership development program and introduced herself. “I You might identify with Mary. I was the […].

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Leadership development is one of the most important investments you can make in your organization’s success. In this episode, Jennifer Mackin, author of Leaders Deserve Better, gives you the roadmap to effective leadership development. Leadership Development that Works. You can’t outsource your leadership training.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year we take a really close look at our human-centered, practical leadership content that is resonating with you. These are your favorite leadership articles of 2021 based on views and shares. What leadership articles would you like us to write about more in the coming year?

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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. Unclear Definition of Success.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 3, 2015

I’m not sure why so many people in positions of power think sarcasm is a leadership competency. Why would a manager demean someone they’re trying to “motivate?” Address Issues Directly: Never use humor to deal with behavior or performance problems. ” I thought, “I know that guy.”

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 5, 2017

In the course of that work I’ve seen many managers who struggle to achieve business success; much less build meaningful professional relationships. The truth is that in companies, nonprofits, and government offices around the world it’s not hard to find stressed out, frustrated, (and often hopeless) managers. Not for you.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Recently, I received an incredibly strong message about retaining high performers. The message came from Jennifer, a former store manager at a national women’s clothing chain. The post One Obvious Secret to Retaining High Performers appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. The new year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. “But they SHOULD know better!”

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

But an effective performance conversation requires an even temper. We’d just finished a live online leadership […]. The post How to Lead a Performance Conversation without Losing Your Cool appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Keep these five principles in mind to help you keep your cool.

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MARCH 1, 2021

When You Coach Employees, Make Every Conversation Count You want to coach employees to improve performance, but there’s just so little time. The post How to Coach Employees to High Performance When Time is Limited appeared first on Let's Grow Leaders. Effective Coaching Techniques Coaching employees to […].

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MAY 8, 2015

The biggest mistake managers make when developing their people is that they don’t spend enough time doing it. Good managers spend at least 10-20% of their time developing their people. 5 Mistakes Managers Make When Developing Their People. There’s a weird imaginary threshold I see too many managers cross.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Overcoming an Outdated Leadership Brand. You’ve worked hard to build your leadership brand, but the negative perceptions linger. You can improve your reputation and your leadership brand with this proactive approach. What is a leadership brand? Imagine a meme or a billboard on the highway describing your leadership.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

You’ll help your leadership when you can embrace and recognize the strengths that people bring and invest in that. How People Are Like Trees and Why That Will Help Your Leadership. In 1863, the New York Herald published a story regarding President Lincoln’s response to criticism of General Grant.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Clearly, it’s more than a “game” when potential employers and university leadership are involved. How to Move a Team From Forming to High Performing in < 48 Hours. They kept the big picture in mind as they managed their interactions. Established Formal Norms.

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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. Courageous managers will tell you their truth , even if it’s hard to hear. We often include these DIY 360s in our leadership development programs.

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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

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When High Performers Have Problems, Look to Collaboration, Not Correction Youve got a team of high performers who know what theyre doing and have the results to match. Its normal for even your best people to experience periods of decreased performance. But lately, somethings off. Help them clarify whats most important right now.

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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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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Celebrating Your Reader’s Choice Content of 2024 As is our tradition, we share your reader’s choice content of the year from our Let’s Grow Leaders blog, Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, and Asking for a Friend Video series. Key takeaway: Trust is built not only by what you share but by what you safeguard.

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OCTOBER 21, 2023

AskingForaFriend This fantastic question came in during one of our recent leadership development programs. Not modeling the way I can’t tell you how often someone in our leadership programs raises their hand and says, “This is fantastic! Three Mistakes that Will Sabotage Growing Leaders 1. Have you taught my boss?

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Episode 234: Leaders and managers face an ever-expanding level of complexity and demands on their time and skills. At the same time, there’s more of a need than ever before for managers to truly connect with their people – often across geography and time zones. 20:36 – Challenges confronting managers today.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 2, 2024

Episode 265: In this episode of the Leadership Without Losing Your Soul Podcast, David Dye and Lori Mazan invite you to rethink the way you approach leadership. Skill training is just the beginning; true leadership goes beyond that. He sets the stage for discussing modern, effective leadership strategies. (01:12)

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 11, 2021

Building a High-Performing Team Takes Rhythm. A former marine, Virg is an absolute expert in creating an operating cadence to build a high-performing team. How to build a high-performing team through an effective operating cadence. Virg Palumbo on Building an Operating Cadence of a High-Performing Team.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Karin and I are no strangers to the stress and anxiety that come with leadership. A cocktail of challenges had affected her team’s normally high performance. 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.” It Happens.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2023

What does it take to fuel human centered performance? In this episode, Jeannie Diefenderfer gives you what she found after conducting the Higher Ambition Leadership Alliance 2022 Study on How Human-Centered CEOs Fuel Performance. Fueling Human Centered Performance 07:11 Using curiosity in leadership.

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