Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 17, 2025

The Key to Alignment: Build a Team Agreement (AKA “Couth Code”) If your teams expectations arent clear, or people arent meeting them consistently, you dont just have a frustration problemyou have a clarity problem. One of the best ways to fix this is by creating a Team Agreementor, as we like to light-heartedly call it, a Couth Code. We started calling it a Couth Code after countless executives asked us the same exasperated question: How do we teach couth?

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 17, 2025

No matter what size organization youre a part of, it can be easy to get lulled into a social groove at work. If youre not careful, you can end up isolated or stuck in a silo, surrounded by the same small group of people day after day, far from other teams and departments. These kinds of organizational divides can cause tunnel vision and knowledge hoarding.

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The Creative Life

MARCH 17, 2025

Don't enjoy doing a particular job? Here's how you work out what to charge. The post How to price difficult freelance jobs appeared first on The Creative Life.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Positive Effects of Strategic Thinking: Operational Benefits for Your Business Effective leaders use strategic thinking to approach team building and operational action. This gives them an advantage over the competition and positions them to achieve their goals. While strategic thinking does not guarantee business success, it does put organizations in an advantageous position to gather information, solve problems, and make informed decisions.

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Speaker: Chandra McCormack, CPA, MBA, NACD.DC

Technical chops might open doors—but it’s the soft skills that keep them open. In the face of disruption, evolving workplace dynamics, and rising expectations of leadership, soft skills like communication, emotional intelligence, and presence have become core business essentials—not nice-to-haves. Join seasoned executive Chandra McCormack for a breakdown of how to lead with impact, connect with purpose, and cultivate a workplace culture that energizes rather than exhausts.

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She Owns Success

MARCH 17, 2025

When youre running a business, youll have good days and bad days. Some days, youll feel completely unstoppable, and others, youll wonder why you even started in the first place. And on those days, youll definitely need motivation and more to help you keep going. The thing with motivation is that is isnt something that magically sticks around – it comes and goes, so if youre relying on motivation alone, youre in trouble.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Organizations that leverage a strategic thinking framework position themselves to establish competitive differentiation and relevance in the marketplace. In recent survey, the vast majority of senior leaders97%pegged strategic thinking for leadership as the most important factor in success. This level of consensus is far from typical; anyone can clearly draw the conclusion that strategic thinking isnt just valuable, but essential.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Strategic thinkers can elevate a team, a department, and a company to another level. They personify valuable skills that make a difference in any industry or organization. Few would argue with this premise, but how do you know if someone is a strategic thinker? Identifying these unique assets is necessary to unlock their potential while determining who can benefit from having an improved strategic mindset instilled in them.

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SME Strategy

MARCH 17, 2025

OKRS and Performance Culture: A Conversation with Ben Lamorte of OKRs.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Understanding the 3 As of Strategic Thinking Every leader and team member desires the ability to think strategically; however, the process of building your own strategic thinking skills can be difficult, as can encouraging strategic thinking in your team members. Rich Horwath developed The three As of strategic thinking framework with a mission to improve the process of developing and utilizing strategic thinking.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Mintzberg’s 5 Ps of Strategy: A Lens to Understand Strategic Thinking Strategic thinking helps businesses analyze situations, make decisions, and solve problems. For those new to strategic thinking, this process can be difficult to master. Industry experts and academics like Henry Mintzberg have developed definitions and additional frameworks to make the topic more approachable.

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Workplace violence prevention laws are rapidly evolving, with California’s SB-553 and New York’s Retail Worker Safety Act (S-8358B) leading the way. Join WILL’s experts for a nationwide webinar covering compliance requirements, with a special focus on these key state mandates. We’ll guide you through developing and implementing effective prevention policies, building a compliant plan, and delivering the required annual interactive training.

Retail

CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Both team members and leaders are highly valued for their strategic thinking capabilities. The characteristics of a strategic thinker represent skills that can elevate a team or organization, to the point where identifying strategic thinkers is a priority for leaders across the organization. Strategic thinking characteristics come from a specific mindset.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

How to Think Strategically as Leaders and Build Stronger Teams Great leaders dont just react to challenges- they anticipate them. They navigate uncertainty with a clear vision, aligning their decisions with long-term goals while making the most of available resources. Without strategic thinking, leaders risk falling into short-term fixes that fail to drive long term sustainable success.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Why Is Strategy Important to Employees? Lack of engagement has cost the business world 8.8 trillion dollars in lost productivity. To further raise alarm: 77% of worldwide workforce members consider themselves disengaged. Disengaged team members make mistakes, refrain from volunteering for new opportunities, and detach from the entire organization. Disengagement can spread among other vulnerable team members, leading to a much larger problem for your organization.

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CMOE

MARCH 17, 2025

Embodying a strategic thinking mindset at work empowers individuals to anticipate challenges, seize opportunities, and drive innovation. In the fast-evolving business world of today, developing this mindset is crucial for both personal and organizational achievement. Take the time to explore key components of a strategic thinking mindset. Each subtopic below links to further detailed guides that offer additional insights and actionable advice.

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Speaker: Frank Taliano

Document-heavy workflows slow down productivity, bury institutional knowledge, and drain resources. But with the right AI implementation, these inefficiencies become opportunities for transformation. So how do you identify where to start and how to succeed? Learn how to develop a clear, practical roadmap for leveraging AI to streamline processes, automate knowledge work, and unlock real operational gains.

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