Eric Jacobson

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. He says that being strategic is to possess insight that leads to advantage. The SQ evaluates a leader’s current mindset and behaviors using the “3A Framework” – acumen, allocation, action.

Strategic Planning 91

Strategic Planning Accounts Manager 91

Peter Winick

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Thought leaders come from a wide variety of backgrounds and skills. Each unique path leads to inspiration, solutions, and frameworks that can reach niche groups on a personal level. Ask for what you need. Let us help you so you can devote yourself to what you do best. Learning to value yourself and own your authority.

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Sales Sales Marketing Balance Sheet 301

Peter Winick

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

So how can leaders, teams, and organizations facilitate an environment where speaking up is celebrated and not ignored or punished? We examine what psychological safety and Speak-Up Culture mean to Shed and how he is bringing these elements to individual’s, teams, and organizations. And is it worth it? Contact us for more information.

Marketing 309

Marketing Accounts Scaling Human Resources 309

John Maxwell

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Research shows that resilient people think differently. In the midst of your current challenges, which of the five traits of resilient people is it time to lean on? Resilient people are at peace with their humanity. They don’t think failing makes them a failure. Resilient people don’t go it alone. They reach out.

Energy 195

Energy Manager 195

Lolly Daskal

JUNE 28, 2022

Every leader is different, with their own style and skills. In my work coaching leaders around the world, these leadership qualities are the ones I emphasize as most important: Focused energy. A leader is only a leader when others are following them toward something. It allows you to be mindful and decisive. Resilience.

Energy 145

Energy Accounts Leadership Development Manager 145

Lolly Daskal

AUGUST 15, 2023

However, leadership can also be a challenging role, and it’s not uncommon for leaders to struggle or even fail in their efforts. Here are some common leadership fails you need to stop to ensure that you succeed as a leader. However, there is a fine line between confidence and arrogance.

Employee Engagement 76

Employee Engagement Leadership Development Manager 76

Lolly Daskal

MARCH 4, 2024

Great leaders understand that developing leaders within their organization is essential for long-term success. Applies to All Levels of Leadership : Leaders recognize innovation can emerge from any level. They invest in their people, leading to better teamwork, improved collaboration, and enhanced decision-making.

Retention 82

Retention Diversity Manager Leadership Development 82

Lolly Daskal

MARCH 20, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I have firsthand seen the price that companies pay when their leaders become overwhelmed in the details or preoccupied with the specifics that they fail to see the bigger picture. If a leader doesn’t allow their employees to do their work or express their opinions, morale decreases.

Energy 136

Energy Marketing Leadership Development Manager 136

Lolly Daskal

APRIL 14, 2023

As an executive leadership coach, I’ve observed that some leaders struggle to connect with their employees and seem out of touch with their needs and concerns. This can lead to low morale, poor communication, and ultimately, a negative impact on the organization’s success.

Employee Engagement 135

Employee Engagement Leadership Development Manager 135

Get Lighthouse

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

What would you ask? At first glance, Gates doesn't seem like your stereotypical leader. These are not the traits you typically hear associated with a leader. When you hear "leader,” what kind of person do you envision? An outgoing, charismatic leader standing in front of a crowd? If so, you're not alone.

Manager 137

Manager Benefits Sales Sales 137

Lolly Daskal

MAY 10, 2022

Part of my job as an executive leadership coach is to help leaders identify and overcome the habits that are holding them back. Part of my job as an executive leadership coach is to help leaders identify and overcome the habits that are holding them back. Leading with projection. Leading with denial.

Leadership Development 145

Leadership Development Manager 145

Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 13, 2023

As a leader, you set the culture. Table of Contents What is Toxic Positivity in the Workplace? Source: Flaticon What is Toxic Positivity in the Workplace? Toxic positivity is a tricky problem that can sneak into work cultures focused on being upbeat no matter what. They want people to be happy at work, after all!

Energy 137

Energy Inclusion Manager Metrics 137

Tanveer Nasser

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s hard not to feel as though there’s a growing tide of divisiveness spreading across the world, splitting people into us vs. them camps on a variety of issues. So how can leaders ensure they’re closing the gap between those us and them groups within their workforce? Noteworthy links: Buy “The Business of WE” on Amazon.*Learn

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Diversity Inclusion 143

Peter Winick

OCTOBER 3, 2023

How do you get people to think about new ideas? Pete is the Founder and CEO of FibroBiologics, a leading biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and commercializing fibroblast cell-based therapies. Working on such new and cutting-edge ideas often means having to convert people from no, to yes.

Marketing 298

Marketing Rollout Revenue Recruitment 298

Lolly Daskal

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

How you look when you say something is often as important as what you’re say and how you’re saying it. Here are seven of the most cringeworthy body language problems I see in leaders: Unengaged posture. We have all seen people who slouch through meetings, head off to one side, sometimes looking half asleep. Lack of eye contact.

Leadership Development 145

Leadership Development Manager 145

LSA Global

MAY 16, 2024

The data on successful organizational change management is pretty bleak – by most accounts 70% of all organizational change efforts fail to deliver expected results. We know from change management simulation data that most leaders do not have the skills needed to successfully lead change. That is a shame.

Organizational Change 36

Organizational Change Change Management Strategic Planning Benchmarking 36

Chief Executive

JUNE 27, 2023

Even though it was proffered over 50 years ago and its main proponent admitted that it was intended as satire, the “Peter Principle” has managed to endure, proliferate and become dogma for many companies and their leaders. Most mistakes around promoting employees are avoidable.

Compensation 98

Compensation Manager Sales Sales 98

Michael McKinney

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Kim - (August 2023) When our trust is broken, and when our own trustworthiness is called into question, many of us are left wondering what to do. They lead you in the direction of terrible mistakes. Decisions about Decisions explores how people do, and should, make decisions about decisions. Time to turn the page.

Travel 71

Travel Manager 71

Association Now Leadership

AUGUST 21, 2022

Bahcall, the cofounder and former CEO of the public biotech firm Synta Pharmaceuticals and author of the book Loonshots , spoke about how organizations can structure successful experiments—and what happens to organizations when they fail to do so. First, celebrate “good fails.” Don’t be afraid to run experiments. Safi Bahcall.

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Biotech Insurance Engineering Government 124

Ed Batista

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A theme in my practice is the leader who's struggling to repair a damaged working relationship with an employee. This obviously involves a great deal of time and energy, and I'm not suggesting that leaders should always follow these steps or that they should try to fix every broken relationship. Emotions.

Deliverables 143

Deliverables Performance Review Accounts Energy 143

Eric Jacobson

MAY 6, 2024

“Walk past any airport bookstore and you’ll find countless books about what it means to be a leader or a CEO, or how to nail your first 90 days as a general executive,” says author Ty Wiggins. These 10 components inform the chapters within the book. Define priorities and strike the right balance between patience and action.

Energy 67

Energy Onboarding Education Manager 67

Chief Executive

JUNE 13, 2022

Ordering people to stay in the office is an option, but I don’t think it’s a realistic one. Last week, at two of the companies where I am on leadership teams, we addressed real-time examples of when remote work fails. Our first issue was discovered on Linkedin.

Manager 98

Manager Accounts Assets 98

Chief Executive

MARCH 2, 2023

People who master their own fields generally rely on a combination of natural talents, training experiences and acquired skills; successful leadership requires a totally different set of qualities. What’s more, it requires humility: Leaders must retain the same will to learn and fail that they had as entry-level employees.

Manager 98

Manager Leadership Development 98

Lolly Daskal

JUNE 27, 2023

Self-doubt can be a major barrier to success and confidence, especially for leaders. Cancel out the feeling you’re not good enough: This can be a common source of self-doubt for many people. Focus on your strengths and what you have to offer, and don’t compare yourself to others. Be willing to learn something new.

Leadership Development 127

Leadership Development Manager 127

Get Lighthouse

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They can even lead to company destroying scandals. And thinking as a leader, there's few things as impactful as understanding the big picture of how your culture is either helping or hurting you. Lead by example from the start. Make sure what you're choosing is worth the requisite effort.

Culture Change 137

Culture Change Manager Assets Scaling 137

Get Lighthouse

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As your team grows, there's increasing pressure to develop good leaders within your team. They know and fit in your culture, are familiar with your people and processes, and demonstrate qualities of a good leader. Look for these qualities of a good leader. 5 Qualities of a Good Leader You Should Look for.

Manager 132

Manager Accounts Energy Assets 132

Get Lighthouse

JUNE 14, 2022

Boss: "You don't mind if we go ahead and put a few more people on your team, right?" You must learn how to develop leaders. Why it's important to learn how to develop leaders. Developing leaders will not only make your life easier, but also help your company. Training leaders is done through coaching and preparation.

Manager 139

Manager ROI Benefits Scaling 139

Mark Sandborn

MAY 10, 2022

Jean-Jacques Rousseau said, “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” How successful are you at leading change? What are the causes? We’ve all seen attempts at change bomb.

Organizational Change 120

Organizational Change Implementation Compensation Manager 120

Chief Executive

JANUARY 30, 2023

In working with some of world’s most successful organizations, here are five steps I’ve found to be the most crucial in building a world-class structure: Step 1: Define Your Culture If you ask a group of people who appear to work for the same company while you’re out and about on the street, “What is the culture of your company?”

Advertising 97

Advertising Culture Change Scaling Manager 97

Ed Batista

MAY 15, 2024

I don't care what the people outside say. Starbucks CEO Laxman Narasimhan at a company forum [1] Pointed questions like these, when posed by a leader to employees, are a type of loyalty oath. Now, what does negative KITA accomplish? Negative KITA does not lead to motivation, but to movement. [2]

Compliance 43

Compliance Energy Media Manager 43

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. He says that being strategic is to possess insight that leads to advantage. The SQ evaluates a leader’s current mindset and behaviors using the “3A Framework” – acumen, allocation, action.

Strategic Planning 58

Strategic Planning Accounts Manager 58

Eric Jacobson

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Those who lead with heart consistently have discussions with their teams about their unexpressed needs, fears, desires, gifts, and sense of purpose , explain the authors of the timely and compelling book, Leading With Heart. That’s why companies with the best retention, morale, and productivity are led by leaders with heart.

Compliance 57

Compliance Retention Accounts Manager 57

Get Lighthouse

JULY 8, 2022

What's the difference between a good leader vs. bad leader? What do good leaders do differently? It's an essential question every leader must ask themselves. What separates a good leader vs. bad leader is how they handle the challenges they face every day. Or you could go another way.

Manager 140

Manager Accounts Assets Recruitment 140

Association Now Leadership

OCTOBER 29, 2023

During the pandemic, associations learned a lot about how quickly they can change what they do. Many of those narratives will likely resonate with the association world: “We can do it later” (a slight variation of that old association chestnut, “we’ve always done it that way”), “going fast is reckless,” “our people are stretched too thin.”

Benefits 105

Benefits Manager 105

Get Lighthouse

JANUARY 5, 2024

Wondering how to advance past your team of individual contributors to leading a group of managers? If you're reading this, chances are you've thought about the next big step in your leadership journey: becoming a senior leader. This, above all other things, shows that you're a leader. But first, you need to get the job.

Manager 97

Manager Onboarding Engineering Culture Change 97

Association Now Leadership

AUGUST 21, 2022

Managing people hasn’t been the same since COVID-19. In advance of their session at the ASAE Annual Meeting & Expo, two experts share what skills leaders need now. The session will feature some practical guidance for leaders on how to understand and manage through their biases. Who is not? Is that intentional?”.

Inclusion 115

Inclusion Manager Marketing 115

Lolly Daskal

JULY 17, 2023

However, even the most talented leaders can fall into bad habits that can hinder their success and impact their team in a negative way. Here are the top ten leadership habits to avoid at all costs: Blaming people: One of the worst leadership habits is to constantly blame others for mistakes or failures.

Inclusion 91

Inclusion Employee Engagement Manager Leadership Development 91