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Webinar Replay – “The Behavioral Management Game Show”

In this latest interactive webinar series, “The Behavioral Management Game Show – How to Manage Yourself and Others”, we hosted another fun gameshow format while learning to adapt your behavioral management style to manage yourself and others.

Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie helped us sharpen our skills with their advice and experience. Please watch and take advantage of the special offer below the video window –

Managing Differences Suddenly Became More Clear

Every human is unique — and the best leaders know why this might be an advantage. Learn how embracing different talents and abilities, both our own and those of others, can lead to more effective leadership and success.

Grounded in statistical research and supported by data from millions of clients and more than 45 years of workplace experience, Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie reveal their personal stories and experience on how they’ve successfully helped organizations achieve their goals by applying practical insights on human design.

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“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” – Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change

“This is the book that I have longed for during my decades in managing talent. Having seen the positive impact of DNA Behavior on my teams, this is a must-read for leaders who desire to build strong teams by accelerating natural talents in an authentic and lasting way.” – Belva White, CPA, MBA, Vice President for Finance & Treasury, Emory University

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Coaching Article – Which Leadership Behaviors Bounce Back Better?

by Lee Ellis

Going through tough times that seem impossible. Pushing through a challenge with unrelenting determination. Simply not giving up when you want to call it quits. Doing things that you don’t feel like doing in order to achieve your goal. What personally comes to mind when you think about resilience? What’s your frame of reference?

POW Resilience

Resilience was a matter of life and death for the Vietnam POWs. For our families back home, resilience was the only way they could have a life.

There were numerous reasons we POWs were able to resist, endure torture, and bounce back. First of all, we were a competitive and optimistic group. But much of what enabled us to hang in there for 5, 6, 7, or 8 years related to our sense of duty. Duty, the indispensable attribute taught in virtually every leadership training program, is built on a foundation of faithfulness, character, responsibility, and commitment.

We were resilient because we were faithfully committed to each other and to our country.

The Fuel of Resilience at Work

“Resilience empowered by duty is vital to all organizational success.” [Tweet This]

In our leadership and team training work every day, we use the insight of natural behavior to help people understand themselves and others better. When using an assessment report like Leadership Behavior DNA and its related Style Groups, leaders can quickly assess that a Strategist style may be well-equipped to bounce back but they must soften their interpersonal skills to keep from alienating others; and the Reflective Thinker style needs to be heard and affirmed that their unique insight and expertise could help the entire organization bounce back from a challenge.

Think of a few scenarios where resilience is needed. In the face of an economic slump or competitive challenge, a business leader may have to struggle tenaciously for profitability, and even survival. An organizational layoff may force the remaining employees to persevere under a heavier workload. A manager with an unprofessional boss may have to shield other employees from irrational decisions and hostile behaviors, while still remaining loyal.

A Story of Resilience

One COO with whom I worked had to navigate through a professional minefield. She wanted to remain completely loyal to her boss, but she found herself regularly challenging him about questionable decisions that were undermining the foundation of the organization and draining energy from the leadership team. Eventually, however, the CEO’s poor judgment crossed the line in several areas, resulting in his removal.

Because this COO had exhibited such a strong sense of duty and loyalty throughout this period, the organization continued to perform at a high level during a very stressful time. As is often the case, the resilience of this one person was crucial to the resilience of the organization.

3 Insights About Resilience

Overall though, what are the critical points of resilience that are needed during challenging times to emerge with victory?

Life is a battle, and we all get knocked down. The challenge is to stay in the battle and fight to get back on your feet. It’s hard to defeat someone who won’t quit. You must believe in yourself. There are cycles and seasons, and we all go through ups and downs. You must believe that you can work through the challenges that come your way. You can’t fight this battle alone. POWs learned that isolation is a powerful weapon of the enemy. Have people around you who will encourage you—speaking truth into your life about who you are and how valuable you are.

Authentic leaders know that life is difficult. They expect to get knocked down, and they have the proper attitude and outlook to persevere. You have a choice about how you will respond to difficulties. Confront the brutal realities of your situation, but never give up hope. Develop your plan, connect with your support team, and bounce back. Please share your stories and experience below.

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Free Resilience Checklist Infographic

We’ve created the free “Resilience Checklist” infographic to help pinpoint some of the 12 areas that you can strengthen in your personal development.

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The Complete Leadership Behavior Package – Save 20%

This package combines the latest book, Leadership Behavior DNA, along with the personalized report that forms the basis for the book! Read step-by-step as the book help you understand and interpret the results from your personal report – The Behavioral Leadership Package includes:

The Leadership Behavior DNA book – Along with training the reader on the most important tenants of leadership, it also goes deep into the explaining the 8 Factors and 16 Traits that form the bedrock for helping manage the differences in yourself and others.The Leadership Behavior DNA AssessmentPurchase your Package in the Leading with Honor Online Store

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Lincoln Leadership Attributes – A Case Study

Free Case Study – after surveying hundreds of leaders about President Abraham Lincoln’s leadership ability to achieve great results amidst unbearably difficult circumstances, there were some tangible leadership attributes that rose to the top in Lee’s research.

Leading with Honor’s “Leadership Balance Case Study” examines the unique results vs. relationships balance of this famous presidential leaders in U.S. history.

Please download your copy and post your comments below on this topic – thank you!

 

 

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Join us tomorrow! “The Behavioral Management Game Show”

Join us tomorrow! Free Online event – “The Behavioral Management Game Show” – Join us on Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11:00 AM ET

Here’s your opportunity to participate in a fun setting while learning to adapt your behavioral management style. Take a trip with us in this game show style format on how to better manage yourself and others through specific work scenarios.

It will sharpen your skills as you hear advice and guidance from Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie.

Please join us for this special event and win prizes!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Leadership History Lesson for April 18th

On this day in leadership history in 1923, Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa’s band played the National Anthem.

What’s the leadership lesson? What can you build today that will have lasting value in the future? Honorable leaders keep a lasting legacy in mind to make a great impact.

Yankee Stadium (now the site is called Macombs Dam Park) – Wikipedia

 

 

 

 

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, April 16, 2021

“No one is stronger than the person who knows who and what he is.” – Jonathan Sacks

 

 

 

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HR Leadership Excellence Cover Article for April 2021

Lee Ellis is featured in the April 2021 issue of HR.com’s Leadership Excellence magazine on the topic of “Leadership Inertia and Entropy”. Everyone is talking about the need to increase performance via new processes and/or raising employee engagement. Great ideas, but change and growth must start with leaders first, and that’s a nasty proposition for many leaders who have done the same thing for most of their careers.

How can leaders break through Newton’s natural laws of inertia and entropy? Here are 7 practical ways to immediately begin to grow –

Read the Article on the HR.com website, and then post your comments below.

 

 

 

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Watch Lee’s Interview on American History TV

Lee’s Veterans History Project Interview was broadcast last weekend on the American History TV network on intimate details of his POW experience as well as military and business careers.

Watch it on the American History TV network by clicking on the video image below –

 

 

 

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4 Quick Steps to Connecting Better with Others

While many companies are already planning to reduce the demand for people to come to the office, Gallup’s research shows a disturbing abnormal outcome between employee engagement and well-being:

Based on normal historical data when engagement goes up, wellbeing also increases—the two seem to feed off each other.However, the new Gallup survey data shows while engagement went up in 2020, wellbeing decreased.

The other shoe fell and brought us a new potential problem—Burnout. The Gallup Wellbeing survey focuses mainly on stress and worry, and as those increased, wellbeing went down.

Whether you’re naturally a results-focused leader or a relationship-focused leader, it’s a good time to use of the 4C’s of the Courageous Accountability Model to guide your discovery process:

1. Clarify. Pause to think it through and then do you own clarifying analysis of the wellbeing of your team. Is their performance high? And conversely, how is their level of stress and worry?

2. Connect. We always talk about two kinds of connecting –

Connect based on unique, natural DNA (talents and personality). Great leaders communicate and manage people based on their uniqueness.Then connect with their hearts. Every person wants to feel valued, worthy, and significant.

3. Collaborate. The stresses of quarantine and working at home are new territory. Consider having some good discussions with your team on the key stressors and ask them to share their ideas and experience. What are they doing to cope? What’s working?

4. Closeout. Closing out this process by formulating a plan of action should result in one or both of the following –

Celebrate. Don’t ignore the great success your team and individuals have had.Confront. Often, it’s good to confront yourself about your own work life balance.

Please post your experience and wisdom below, too – thank you

And, read the entire article on this topic, too – “The Dangers of Increased Performance and Team Burnout”

 

 

 

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Leadership History Lesson for April 11th

On this day in leadership history in 1945, during World War II, American soldiers liberated the Nazi concentration camp of Buchenwald in Germany.

What’s the leadership lesson? How can you, the honorable leader, give more freedom to those in your care? Think of ways to increase freedom, not decrease it.

Buchenwald Concentration Camp – Wikipedia

 

 

 

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