Mind Tools Leadership

MAY 24, 2022

“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued; when they can give and receive without judgment; and when they derive sustenance and strength from the relationship.” Essentially, this is when you sandwich any negative observations between two pieces of positive ones.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you haven’t voted yet – here is a quick link to the list of nominees and a ballot.) Once we select our nominees, we feature each blogger on my blog to promote the event, and more importantly as a way to share their great work with more people. I encourage you to join the conversation if you desire.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 25, 2021

And that is what we will talk about in this episode. Read our blog on: How Employee Satisfaction can lead to Customer Satisfaction. Connect with Scott on Linkedin. 02:00 ) Richard Branson said: “Clients do not come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients“.

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Walk Me

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But at its most basic, anyone can introduce elements of simulation into their training programs, through role play and serious games. What is simulation training? It can be delivered in a variety of ways: software, role-play, case study review – or a combination of all of these. There are many forms of simulation training.

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Walk Me

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

But at its most basic, anyone can introduce elements of simulation into their training programs, through role play and serious games. What is simulation training? It can be delivered in a variety of ways: software, role-play, case study review – or a combination of all of these. There are many forms of simulation training.

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Kotter Inc.

MARCH 30, 2022

Leaders who aspire to activate large -scale change in the interest of reaching strategic business outcomes can often name the characteristics they want to see demonstrated. One familiar example is the concept of the burning platform – spark ing change by highlighting threat s or crisis within the current situation.

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Mind Tools Leadership

OCTOBER 1, 2020

It’s how a leader behaves in the crucible of crisis, when emotions run high. But what happens when a leader is stressed out, has low energy, is depressed, or is feeling anxious in isolation? A boss’s mood is crucial at any time, and perhaps even more so during times of crisis. What Can You Do About Your Moods?

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Mind Tools Team Management

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A few months ago, I caught up with a couple of my colleagues about their experience of maternity leave and what happens when it ends. Confidence Crisis! I tried to approach it like starting a new job, but there are greater expectations on you because you're not actually new in the job. Mel Dowding. Be flexible.

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Alison Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Now these were small seedlings maybe 2 inches inside of a small cup used by dentists for mouthwash and what not. Two weeks later an email went out stating, ‘Please do not plant your trees at work, we do not own the property.’” You think, ‘No problem,’ right? ‘Do you have any Innovation?

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Walk Me

APRIL 27, 2023

This article will give you everything you need to know to plan your next business transformation. What is Workplace Cultural Transformation? It can also be called “organizational culture” or “corporate culture.” When do you need workplace cultural transformation?

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Vantage Circle

APRIL 9, 2021

Soft skills refer to how people connect, listen, participate in conversations, provide input, work as part of a team, solve problems, and resolve disputes. They are a collection of positive characteristics and abilities that can increase job performance and efficiency, improve relationships, and make a person more marketable in the workplace.

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LSA Global

DECEMBER 28, 2022

A More Compassionate Leader Of all the traits that you want to develop as a leader, where does compassion fit in? If you want to become a more compassionate leader: Be Self-Aware, Pause to Reflect, and Be Intentional Compassion is especially needed in times of stress and crisis. Compassion fuels positive change.

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Agile42

JULY 26, 2020

The agile42 Connect - A Series of Fortunate Events was a great success. We miss not being able to see each other in person, but what can we do? In this blog post, we will share the Panel discussion with you as well as the other 3 webinars we ran this week. you will feed 1 person for a month.

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Kevin Eikenberry

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

And of course, nominee for Best Leadership Blog of 2010. His nominated blog Lead By Example can be found here. Leaders Need To Involve Themselves In Crises by John Baldoni (posted 10/17/10) Failure to respond to a crisis is a failure of leadership. but you will want to read the rest here.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 31, 2019

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader. This blog, though, is not about them but about the good leadership qualities that help people make their company great, achieve greatness, and bring new transformations in the world. What is Leadership? John Quincy Adams.

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Walk Me

AUGUST 24, 2023

Poverty crisis. These factors can all feel remote from the work of HR teams. Keep an eye on these challenges, and you can get those rewards from HR. A recession can create an atmosphere of fear and uncertainty among employees who may worry about job security and the overall stability of the organization.

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LSA Global

JUNE 12, 2020

While we are still awaiting a vaccine, it is hard to tell what the new normal will look like. But we can be sure that there will be changes. What we do know is that now is the time to assess and rethink how we want our ways of thinking, behaving, living, and working to evolve and improve. Where are the trouble spots?

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Kotter Inc.

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

If you parse through headlines from the last several weeks, you’ll see titles including, “Over 90% of CEOs Expect a Recession and Only a Third of Those Expect it to be Mild,” or “WTO Sees Sharp Slowdown in Global Trade, Pointing to Possible Recession, Lower Inflation” or “’Worse damage than the financial crisis in 2008.’

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Mike Griffiths

OCTOBER 10, 2020

The recent article “ Can We Still be Agile? Do not just work on things assigned. Since all-remote organizations work largely asynchronously, part-time and odd-time work can also be accommodated. You may be wondering how project managers track the hours? They can also save on commuting costs and work clothes.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 26, 2020

So one question we should be asking ourselves is this: are you accessing—and sharpening—all of the arrows in your high-tech quiver to achieve your twin goals of remaining productive and competitive? Few things can ruin a remote worker’s day like a pokey internet connection—or worse, one that goes down at the most inopportune moment.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 1, 2010

He’s a busy guy – along with his blog – Leading Questions (which is a nominee for Best Leadership Blog of 2010 - Ed writes a weekly leadership column for Weekly Leader. As you know, I look at this challenge through the lens of the Circle of Impact. This is what is happening in many organizations.

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Get Lighthouse

JUNE 23, 2023

Why do we need managers? Buffer gave up on their flat structure as covered in cofounder Leo Widrich's post, "What we got wrong." Whether holacracy, or another form of #nomanagers, the pattern seems to be the same: the bigger you get, the harder it fails. Table of Contents: What is a Flat Organizational Structure?

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Mark Sandborn

APRIL 30, 2024

To change one’s mind requires re-examining old beliefs and determining what is now most important. How has leadership changed and what should you be doing now? Here are ten things you need to do and develop as essential skills: 1. First, it is done as an opportunity rather than a reaction to crisis.

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Get Lighthouse

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

"I'm pretty confident in my ability to be a good manager, but a lot of it is instinct.I'm not sure I can teach that to others.". The day you became a manager was the day you took up a new profession : leadership. Now, you have to think about. Intro: What is a senior leadership role? Sound like something you'd say?

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 11, 2023

As these organizations venture beyond borders, it becomes vital to forge effective connections and foster global team engagement, considering various time zones and cultural backgrounds. Among these challenges, the pressing need to cultivate robust connections and unwavering engagement within global teams is a pivotal factor for success.

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Get Lighthouse

JULY 6, 2023

Each year, Gallup releases new reports about the workplace that help us understand trends that can help us be better managers. They are one of their most comprehensive looks at what really motivates and engages employees. Since we've looked at these across multiple years, we'll also be showing you how they've changed over time.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 20, 2021

Building and managing a successful internal communications strategy can be a tall order for organizations, especially large enterprises with a widely distributed workforce. Every strong IC strategy should provide answers to the following questions: What is the goal of employee communications strategy? Improve crisis preparedness.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 9, 2020

Here in this blog, we discuss the future of work after Covid-19 and how organizations are going to redefine it. But after the covid crisis everyone understand the dynamics of remote working deeply. You might be wondering what I meant by Super Teams. But the Covid-19 crisis has given us a whole new perspective.

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Walk Me

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

A robust communication strategy template can be the key to success for any change management effort, as it tackles the reasons for resistance to change through effectively communicating the reasons change is essential. If this is you, it’s time to up your communication strategy template game.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 18, 2020

Ask anyone who wears a managerial hat, and they will tell what it takes to build a productive team. You may have skilled employees, but if you do not know how to nurture and empower them, you will lose them sooner or later. They say employees do not leave their companies but their managers. How do you do it?

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Kevin Eikenberry

JANUARY 31, 2011

You also know higher levels of commitment or engagement also increase job satisfaction, safety performance and focus while reducing on-the-job stress and turnover. You also know higher levels of commitment or engagement also increase job satisfaction, safety performance and focus while reducing on-the-job stress and turnover.

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Vantage Circle

JANUARY 17, 2024

In this blog, I'll dig into how technology changes expectations and highlights role models across various fields. Leaders must steer companies through regular disruption from innovations like artificial intelligence, expanded connectivity, data analytics, and more. Did You Know? What is Digital Leadership?

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AIHR

JANUARY 20, 2023

The process of creating a system in which people can work together to achieve common goals is highly complex, and there is no one way to do it right. Contents What is organizational design? What does an organizational design initiative deliver? Guiding principles : What are the principles that inform our design decisions?

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Vantage Circle

DECEMBER 17, 2022

So, we can say social recognition has gained significant traction in recent years. In this blog, we go over the fundamentals of social recognition in just about five minutes. What is social recognition? Social recognition can be a simple "thank you" in a team meeting to a callout in the weekly newsletter.

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Peter Winick

DECEMBER 7, 2023

When the time comes to hire someone new, how can you tell if you have the right candidate? Plenty of thought leaders can tell you that even the best programs often have knowledge gaps, between what is learned in school and what it takes to do a job from day to day. This is Peter Winick.

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Vantage Circle

MARCH 23, 2021

The second quarter of 2020 had the business leaders strategize and implement new policies that can help the company sustain amidst the pandemic. You can define your culture but may not sustain it if you do not make the right hiring choices. That is when you need to build your culture again.

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Vantage Circle

JUNE 25, 2021

But, in this article, we will drive you through the 25 best virtual pride month ideas to promote inclusion and appreciation for the LGBTQ+ community at the workplace during pride month. Before we take a look at the ideas, let’s understand: What is Pride Month? You can incorporate ideas like: Pride parade. Here we go!

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