5 Ways to Prevent Leadership Achilles Heels
Posted in Best of Blogs SeriesSelf LeadershipHave you ever been in a situation where a titled leader appeared to be genuinely sincere and compassionate? And later you realized that throughout the...
View ArticleHow Noisy Is Your Leadership?
Posted in Light Your WorldSelf LeadershipPopular views of leaders focus primarily on positional leadership. Those of us in the Lead Change community prefer to focus on character-based leadership, which...
View ArticleA Challenge for Leaders
Posted in Leadership CoachingLeadership Development“Despite the economic recession, more employees are looking for opportunities outside of their organization than in 2008, suggesting that 2011 will be...
View ArticleStir Yourself Up . . .
Posted in Leadership Developmentto hear ideas from the Unusual Suspects in your organization Be relentless in your exploration of what you stand for as a leader Move on from peers who blindly build...
View ArticleDefining Moments In Leadership
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentThe Lead Change Group is a global, virtual community dedicated to instigating a Character-Based Leadership Revolution. This summer Lead Change Tulsa hosted a panel...
View ArticleA Time To Break Down & A Time To Build Up
Posted in Self LeadershipOn June 29th, my parents, sisters and their families were in route from North Dakota and Montana to Oklahoma for a long weekend together. As I was preparing for their visit I...
View ArticleTwo Leadership Models
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentIn leadership, there are two distinct organizational models. Since few things are quite so black-and-white, we might consider them to be two ends of a continuium, with a...
View ArticleServing as a Leader
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentServant Leadership is one the most effective ways to make a positive impact on your organization and the members within it. We have all heard the saying “Lead By...
View ArticleWhat great leaders know and do
Posted in Leadership Developmenthttp://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/11/15/what-great-leaders-know/The best leaders have a secret. It’s what enables them to outperform the rest. Do you know what it...
View ArticleCivility: The New Employee Attraction and Retention Strategy
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentLight Your WorldValue CreationWorkplace IssuesWorkplace attractiveness is an optimistic attitude or a positive emotion an individual has towards an organization...
View ArticleThe Leader and the Boss
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentAre you a leader? Or a boss? Do you know the difference between the leader and the boss? In this article, you will be able to differentiate between the two and...
View ArticleEverything I Learned About Servant Leadership
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentOn March 6 and 7, I attended the World Leaders Conference 2013 in West Palm Beach, Florida. This was my second time attending this dynamic conference focused on defining...
View ArticleEverything I Learned About Collaborative Leadership
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentPartnershipsOver the last few weeks, I have been working together with a team to prepare a proposal in response to The Children’s Trust (TCT) Invitation to Negotiate...
View ArticleTeaching is Leading
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentIn the Lead Change Google+ community, we host a Question of the Week. It is a time for people to stop, think, write, and exchange ideas and insights. It is an amazing...
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Leading a significant life
Posted in Leadership DevelopmentDeep within each one of us there is an inner desire to live a life of significance and contribution. Each one of us, is longing for a better future. We want to make a...
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1 Way to Define Your Leadership
I was recently asked to give a talk at a conference where the theme was “Define Yourself.” In preparation for outlining what I might talk about, I reflected on all the ways that one can define...
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Five Ways to Build Distrust
There are certain core leadership principles that run deep in leading well, and one is trust. Trust doesn’t just happen. Although trust should be second nature, the reality is trust takes effort. This...
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Crowdsourced from Our Instigators: What Are You Giving Away?
“We give energy, even life, to our world when we take the best of who we are and give it away.” ~Mike Henry, Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group. Inspired by this quote, I asked our instigators...
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What Keeps a Bounce in Your Step?
Age doesn’t matter. Experience doesn’t matter. What happens is time begins to wear on us. It isn’t time itself necessarily. What matters are the events and people that begin to wear us down. No offense...
View ArticleDo You Have What it Takes to be a Mature Leader?
Assertiveness and empowerment can cause real problems when overused or applied out of context. They become maladaptive responses — just like anything taken to its extreme. Does this influence the...
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