Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 27, 2015

Remembering you’re talking to another human being will go a long way in ensuring a productive solution. Involve Them In the Solution: You need as many brains as possible to fix this. What do you do next? Connecting gives your adrenaline time to chill. Acknowledge Reality. Don’t sugar coat. Inspire Confidence. Include them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Instead, protect your integrity, steer the conversation toward thoughtful solutions, and focus on what matters most. Walking through the facts together shows you’re not here to play the blame lottery; you’re here to find solutions and move forward. Instead, focus on facts and solutions. I’d like your help in addressing them.”

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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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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

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

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.” This G.O.A.T.

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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

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. To address this, start with the problem, not the solution. When you start with the solution, you deprive your team of the understanding and connection that drove you to action.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 15, 2022

Share your solution to fix the situation). “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. ” R- Response. Have a plan. Related Articles.

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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

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!” If you’re perceived as negative, try this… David Dye offers up some solutions in his article How to be Less Negative and Still be Yourself.

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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 29, 2021

Perhaps your manager can’t or won’t address it right now. As the conversation proceeds, you can suggest a solution. In these situations, it’s appropriate to invite them to talk together with your manager. You have different views of what your manager expects and need to resolve that difference. Escalate When Necessary.

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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

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. Meeting facilitation involves getting everyone involved in identifying and solving problems. Follow Robyn. Communicating Well in Challenging Situations.

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International Coaching Federation

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

AUGUST 21, 2020

Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking. Your team may have vital information, solutions, or ideas that would make a tremendous difference – if you only knew what they were thinking.

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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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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

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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

a middle manager, frustrated in his current role, overlooks his long career of exciting challenges and developmental experiences. Gratitude is missing when…. the team leader acknowledges the team’s steady progress, but fails to understand the deep personal sacrifices of her team.

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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

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. Heck, some are not even up to you. RELATIONSHIPS.

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International Coach Academy

AUGUST 15, 2022

A 5E Millennial/ Gen Z Managers Guide. More than 6 in 10 millennials say they moved into management because it was the only way to advance their career and earn more money. Millennial/ Gen Z managers are known as “always-on” and that could be easily burning them out. And they were struggling with delegating.

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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

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

JANUARY 7, 2022

If any of these issues sound familiar, you can readily overcome them with a few straightforward solutions you’ll get in this episode. Intensity is a strength, but one that we must manage. Committed, caring, hard-working leaders often find one or more of three overused strengths interfere with their influence.

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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 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

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. And that’s normal.

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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. ( Figure out if this is an event or is it a problem that needs to be solved.

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