16

Jun

Are you spending enough time leading?

jeff

delegation, leadership, management, meetings, prioritization, responsibilities

Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Personal Development

As a leader, you have choices about how spend your time. If you don’t choose deliberately, you probably get sucked into producing, and managing, rather than leading. Here are some steps to put a little more leadership in your day, week, month, and year.

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19

May

Enough about Workload, the Problem is Thoughtload

jeff

collaboration, emotional labor, overwhelmed, overworked, priorities, prioritization, resilience, stress, workload

Contribute, Exercises, Horror Stories, Personal Development

We talk constantly about unmanageable workloads, but it’s actually the mental and emotional work that’s wearing us down. Learn how to reduce your thoughtload so you can get through your workload more efficiently and effectively.

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09

Dec

Passing on Feedback for Someone Else

jeff

backstabbing, complainer, constructive criticism, feedback, gossip, management

Be a better team leader, Communicate, conflict, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

Don’t get in the middle of feedback between your team. If someone comes to you, encourage them to share the feedback directly. Doing otherwise encourages passive-aggressiveness and reduces the value of feedback. Here are the steps to build that muscle in your team members.

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18

Nov

Facing Rejection

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jeff

change agent, change leader, change management, PMO, rejection, resistance, transformation

Be a better team member, Change, Communicate, How to fix teams, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

It’s incredibly frustrating to join a company as an agent of change only to be rejected by the people who need your help. Here are 8 strategies to use when resistance to change is directed at you.

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11

Nov

One word that will make change easier for you

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jeff

change, change management, coping, organizational change, resistance, stress, stress management, transformation

Be a better team member, Connect, Exercises, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

The difference between feeling in control of changes at work or feeling the victim is how you frame it. “I have to” or “I choose to.”

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04

Nov

Leading Through Change Part III: Resilience

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jeff

change, change management, resilience, sleep, stress, transformation

Be a better team leader, Exercises, Personal Development

Leading through change is incredibility difficult and requires significant energy, patience, self-control, and stamina. Use these techniques to build your resilience over the short-, medium-, and long-term.

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21

Oct

Leading Through Change Part I: Take Time to Reflect

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3coze

change management, leadership, leadership development, leading change, management, managing change, reflect, reflection, self-awareness, transformation

Be a better team leader, Exercises, Personal Development

Leading through change is a particularly difficult assignment. You’re expected to mobilize your team while you’re struggling to master yourself. This month, I’m conducting sessions with the leaders in a large multi-national company to help them cope with their own reactions to a major organizational transformation, to better position them to cascade the change to […]

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20

May

Should you pick your battles?

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3coze

argument, battles, colleagues, conflict, debates, fights, passive-aggressive, war metaphors

About teams, Be a better team member, Communicate, conflict, How to fix teams, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

“Do you agree that we should pick our battles?” This was a question I got during the Q&A session of a keynote speech I gave last week. I think I surprised the questioner with my response, which means I might surprise you too, so here goes. If you are “picking battles,” you’re getting conflict all […]

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22

Apr

Interpreting the Body Language on Your Team

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3coze

body language, communication, conflict, Mark Bowden, trust, Truth and Lies

About teams, Communicate, Interviews, Personal Development

Something a little different today. Rather than a post, I’m bringing you an interview with the marvelous Mark Bowden, a world-renowned body language expert. I had the opportunity to talk to Mark about his new book, Truth and Lies, What People are REALLY Thinking. The book is full of tips on how to interpret body […]

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01

Apr

How to (inadvertently) start a fight

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3coze

development, feedback, feelings, leadership, Mistakes, personality, potential, training

Bad Leaders, Be a better team leader, Communicate, conflict, Connect, Horror Stories, Personal Development, Right Words to Say

I’ve been flying across the country delivering a leadership development program about the mindset and skillset leaders require to unlock the potential of their people. As I watch them role play with one another, I notice the things they say that create a negative reaction. Most of the offending statements include one of these three […]

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