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Leading Your All-Star Team
Every day has the potential to be an All-Star Game for leaders in organizations. At any point in time you have a team of players – some you have inherited and some you have chosen.
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Your Executive Leadership Team Meetings Suck—Now What?
Call me an egomaniac but I have never attended a well-run executive leadership team meeting that I didn’t facilitate. And the reason is not because I am such a brilliant facilitator. No, the reason is because most CEOs and executive leadership teams are not even...
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Imagine Your Dream Team
Imagine that you had the best team ever. A team aligned around purpose, goals, roles and norms. A team with the right talent, who work collaboratively and cohesively, trusting one another. Now imagine where you could go with that team.
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Give That Stress A Rest
As leaders, it is often difficult to gauge the weight of our own stress. The longer we hang onto our stress, the heavier it becomes. Put the stress down, get support, and when you are refreshed, carry on.
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Satisfying the Authentic Self
Leaders who are driven by the need to impress or compete with others may find their work increasingly less meaningful. Conversely, leaders who are “inner directed” are able to set a direction for the organization based on their authentic values and experience. This “inner directedness” is where the courage to act in the face of criticism and self-doubt comes from.
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The Biology Behind Bias
According to the latest brain research, working through personality differences is a biological, not just a psychological, challenge. The unconscious part of our brain is evolutionarily wired to prefer people who are similar to us, regardless of whether or not our...
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Be Fearless; Commit to a Growth Mindset
When faced with a problem that seems too hard to solve, leading edge executives and coaching practitioners replace fear with the a “growth mindset”. It is not about how much you know. It is instead about how committed you are to learn and grow on a continual basis.
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Four Ways for Managing the Pressures That Come with a Leadership Role
PRESSURE: the stress or urgency of matters demanding attention (from Merriam-Webster Dictionary) How are you handling the pressure that comes with the role of CEO or executive leader these days? Are you one of those stoic types, stuffing your negative feelings—until...
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Team Issues Are Not Always What They Seem
One of the most challenging roles of CEOs is building a team that thrives and performs at its peak. Many factors that influence team performance. Faced with under performing teams, many CEO’s do nothing or take action on a symptom not the cause.
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6 Signs of Team Dysfunction. Leader’s Choice – to Diagnose or Deny.
When executive teams show symptoms of dysfunction, some leaders ignore them, hoping they will magically go away or get fixed on their own. The way to resolve these team challenges is to face them, identify the root causes, and work together as a team to fix whatever is wrong.
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