Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The pandemic-inspired shift to remote work and hybrid teams left many people longing for deeper human connection. Managers are relearning how to lead and support their teams. Teams are figuring out how to build meaningful relationships and get work done. Is conflict wearing us all down? At what cost? We hate that feeling too.

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JUNE 13, 2022

Empowered teams will transform results, solve problems you didn’t know exist, and rapidly respond to change. 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. What is an Empowered Team? Fear new ideas.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 22, 2021

3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Influence and Impact. We once coached “Jane” a woman executive (she, her, hers), the only member of an all-male, executive team (he, him, his). 3 Communication Mistakes That Sabotage Your Leadership Influence at Work. Subtle word choice makes all the difference.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Your team yearns for a cadence of sincere “thank yous” more than grand gestures Every week we hear from hard-working, high-performing employees who long for more appreciation at work. Ironically some of these complaints come after some kind of big employee appreciation event. Why 7 days? Because frequency matters.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

” “My boss does great recognizing employees on the front line, but behind closed doors with his direct report team, it’s a whole other story. Why Gallup Question 4 Matters: “In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing good work.” I don’t need much. .” Why 7 days?

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 24, 2024

That is why we compiled this expanded 2024 edition outlining over 50 innovative employee engagement activities tailored to modern teams. Team Building Activities: Examples include escape rooms, volunteer projects, and virtual games. These activities encourage teamwork, communication, and trust among team members.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 20, 2023

You’re confident it’s game-changing. It’s quite possible your team is tired. ” Thanks 6 Steps to Communicate When a Co-worker Won’t Listen So here are a few tips to capture attention and strengthen your pitch when a co-worker won’t listen to your idea. Have you experienced this challenge too?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you have a negative team member, strive to understand what’s happening. Leading a negative team member can be frustrating. Or, you have to translate new strategic objectives to your team and one person just can’t seem to go there. Why You Have a Negative Team Member. Invite the team on the journey with you.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Need to Change: In my role as a Learning and Development Leader, I frequently heard HR Teams and business leaders engaging in ongoing conversations about ways to effectively attract new, retain, and enhance the skills of our current pool of talent. The learning and development team was brought in to contribute to finding solutions.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 28, 2023

Effective communication is the cornerstone of a successful workplace. Without a robust communication system, an organization’s effectiveness falters, hindering its long-term objectives. Key Takeaways Communication Games for teams are an effective way to improve and increase collaboration and decision-making within teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 4, 2014

Their team yearns for bold vision, challenging questions, and scaffolding support. Feeling powerless to change the game, they buckle down and support, but don’t inspire. Teams are empowered by power. Your team longs for a leader who’s in the game, and teaches them how to play it. Expect a lot.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Whether your team is just starting up, or has the battle scars of a team fighting for results, they need to find a way to talk about the behaviors getting in their way. I like to use this exercise early in a team’s formation to get folks talking about common experiences and appropriate remedies as early in the game as possible.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

The second week on campus, teams of first year MBA students would have 48 hours to research and make recommendations on a real business challenge for a large, high-profile company and package and communicate their recommendation to a high-profile audience. Every team was given the same challenge, information and resources.

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Vantage Circle

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Let us uncover how these retreats can breathe freshness into your employees and team dynamics. Additionally, it is driven by a broader purpose that includes- Strengthening team dynamics. It opens a realm of opportunities for employees to engage with the help of team-building activities. The strength of each member is the team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

I’m just advocating for a bit of focused effort on taking your relationship with your team (and with your boss) to the next level. If you think your team would love that opportunity, you better go all in and buy the book (for your team). Our community needs your insights. Just saying ;-).

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

But what do you do when a critical player on your team is doing “okay,” but not great? But they might not understand your expectation to spend 50% of their time riding along with their sales team helping them establish deeper, strategic relationships with key decision-makers. “But they SHOULD know better!”

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 25, 2023

To offer a broader definition from Andrew Bryant and Ana Lucia Kazan (2012) Self-leadership is having a developed sense of who you are, what you can do, where you are going coupled with the ability to influence your communication, emotions, and behavior on the way to getting there. Now I see that transformation is not about that.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

What matters most for your business, your team, and the results you need to achieve? Equip your team to solve problems on their own. Working from the why transforms “busy” into game-changing results. The connection to meaning and purpose energizes team members and inspires performance. MIT stands for Most Important Thing.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2014

But easy leadership doesn’t change the game. If you won’t bring every ounce of who you are and what you have to give to your leadership, your team will know. Your team will hold back who they are and what they have most to give. Your team needs you to be you. 6 Reasons Your Team Yearns for Authenticity.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One way to do this is through leadership games and activities. Games have always been an age-old method of finding the best from many for a particular skill set. These can for finding the ones most physically fit, mentally sharp, and an all-around team player. Leadership Games to spot your Future Leaders. Tallest Tower.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 23, 2014

But easy leadership doesn’t change the game. If you won’t bring every ounce of who you are and what you have to give to your leadership, your team will know. Your team will hold back who they are and what they have most to give. Your team needs you to be you. 6 Reasons Your Team Yearns for Authenticity.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 22, 2014

Great leaders help teams visualize a winning future. They arm their team with the courage and audacity to remove roadblocks and galvanize people toward “impossible” feats. But, if the leader lacks confidence, the team knows. It’s nearly impossible for a team to win when their leader loses faith.

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Let's Grow Leaders

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Be sure your team knows the number one mission so well they can say it in their sleep. Sure you’ve got competing goals, but be crystal clear on how they can change the game and what you need them to do to make that happen. Have lots of genuine connections to call when your team is need. Pay attention to your own game.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 1, 2023

If you have a cocktail of the above going on, chances are you’re dealing with some degree of workplace bullying, or at the very least toxic management or bad team culture. But his boss thought I had made a mistake, and left me a scathing voicemail copying six other people on the team. ” Sigh. We should all know better.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Party with great food, beverages, and some awesome team-building activities. After all, team-building and engaging activities like Christmas games for the office foster a network of healthy professional relationships and encourage rekindling the existing ones. So, why not plan some fun office games for this Christmas?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Auditoriums around the country would resound with a consistent message, “Last year is over… no time to spend there, we’ve got game-changing work to do.” In fact, I’m looking forward to the strategy work I’ll be doing with teams across a variety of industries this January. In the industry?

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 28, 2015

Be sure you’re helping your team outgrow their past. Don’t overlook the game changers who were once young, naive and a little overly (brash, politically inept, unconfident, overconfident). Most leaders mature (and yes, that’s me on the right). In fact, I’ve been that guy. Brilliant insights. Be an advocate.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 31, 2017

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. ” You spend more time crafting the communication than having the conversation. .” ” You spend more time crafting the communication than having the conversation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JANUARY 30, 2015

Your team is smarter than they look. Here are three ways to make your team 10% smarter. I recently met with the founder and CEO of a medium size company who had brought me in to do some leadership development work with the frontline team. Be sure if your team is busting with ideas they feel encouraged to share and try them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Unarticulated expectations frustrate… you…your boss, your team, your children, your lover. If you’re not clear on what you want, I guarantee you won’t be able to communicate it. Better to identify expectation disconnects as early in the game as possible. This works one-on-one and with teams.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 9, 2015

You fight for your team at all costs. Sometimes the best person for the special assignment is not the guy on your team, it’s the Bobby on Mark’s team. Sometimes your team screws up. Yes, advocate for your team. You under-communicate. It can feel like a rigged game. You hoard talent.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 17, 2015

My best advice for teams and new bosses? You know what works, and after all, they brought you here for a reason… this team needs help. Consider your next boss-team switch-a-roo like hopping into a jump rope game already in play. What’s the best way to communicate with you.” “How That’s good.

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Vector Solutions

JANUARY 26, 2024

Welcome to a game-changer in employee learning – Safety and Career Development Training Online Course Library. Empower your team with real-world skills and a heightened understanding of safety protocols. These two objectives are paramount in ensuring both employee well-being and organizational growth.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 14, 2015

In order to make this work, I need everyone staying true to our game plan.” Once your team is headed down a slippery slope, it’s darn impossible to get them moving uphill. Your team is yearning for leadership, parameters and consistency, with the occassional human exception. Explain Your Leadership Viewpoint.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 4, 2014

The stress I imposed on my family alone is enough to warrant seeing the silver lining earlier in the game: bad bosses; being turned down for a promotion; stupid decisions; office politics; projects that lost funding; insert your favorite tragedy here. Hire a diverse team of collaborative challengers. Not always.

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Communication Barriers A hybrid work setting is commonly faced with communication struggles arising from - Fragmented conversations across different mediums, A lack of consistent information sharing, and Fatigue from daily digital exchanges. For example, working 3 days from the office and 2 days remotely, or vice versa.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 18, 2021

The pandemic gave rise to the onset of the work from home culture which has compelled companies to explore diverse types of team-building approaches and virtual strategies. Virtual team-building is a great way to indulge remote employees but it has its drawbacks too. Here are the 6 types of Team-Building approaches.

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