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Leadership History Lesson for January 12th

On this day in leadership history in 1957, Elvis Presley recorded “All Shook Up” and all the material from his forthcoming movie “Loving You.” What���s the leadership lesson? What new ideas or strategies do you have that would connect with the people that you serve? Leaders help answer the questions that people are asking.

 

 

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, January 10, 2025

Lee Ellis��� Coaching on Giving Input during Team Discussions ��� ���I don���t need to have my way, but I want to have my say.���

 

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Follow the 4Cs to build a positive accountability culture as a leader

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How to Press In and Press Through as Leaders

Free Infographic – You can do it! We all have those moments where we have to ���press in and press through��� a situation and emerge on the other side with honor — smarter, stronger, and more grateful. We���ve created the free ���Resilience Checklist��� infographic to help pinpoint some of the 12 areas that you can strengthen in your personal development ���

Check out the Resilience Checklist in our blog.

 

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Coaching Blog – How to Engage and Align Your Team in the New Year

During the kickoff of a new year, leaders are focused on getting back to business, re-energized to get results and increase performance of their teams. So many leaders though, don���t know how to motivate their team members in an authentic, honorable way that produces the results they want. What���s a leader to do?

 

Engage and Align

In 2024 in the Leading with Honor Blog, we spent several months talking about the Courageous Accountability Model and some of those ���C steps��� were Clarify, Communicate, and Collaborate. I love visual models because a picture really is ���worth a thousand words,��� and I use them every day with clients to help break barriers in their leadership and team development.

Now, I���m sharing the Engage and Align Model which relies heavily on those three Cs. As you may recognize below, a leader must be both confident and humble to do this process well���confident to manage the discussions and get everyone���s input and humble to listen to the input of others.

Pause for a moment and study the different parts of the Engage and Align Model from left to right:

 

 

Understanding your People

As you see on the far right of the model, each team member has unique talents, knowledge, perspectives, and experience that are tremendously valuable. But there are still many leaders that don���t really know how to foundationally use them for team success.

Great leaders have the confidence to engage in discussions and listen to others, but many leaders just aren���t comfortable with the idea. Perhaps their ego gets in the way. They assume that they know everything and don���t want to waste time listening to others; or perhaps they are insecure and will pretend that they know it all; and some just don���t know how to manage discussions.

 

“Discussions are important for good decisions. To have them, the team leader, manager, or leader must believe in themselves so they can listen to others.” [Tweet This]

 

This coaching clip expands on this idea. Please watch, and then continue reading the blog below ���

 

When you listen to all your team members, they feel more valued, and they will perform better and be more loyal to your team. Ensure that everyone has an opportunity to share their perspective.

 

Mission/Visions/Values/Strategy Filter

Make sure that the focus of the discussion is clearly filtered through your established Mission, Vision, Values, and typically Strategies. This removes much of the potential ambiguity in conversations that could cause you to get off track. See my book, Engage with Honor, on how to create a set of mission, vision, values, and strategy if you don���t have one. You���ll want to remind them of these items regularly in discussions.

 

Rigorous Yet Healthy Debate

Once you���ve established the previous steps above, this sets the stage for healthy, rigorous debate. Typically, an argument done right needs to be heard from all sides so that the team can see the issues from different perspectives clearly.

Realistically, it���s hard to have healthy team discussions because people are unique. Here are the five types of people on a team:

 

People who want to talk a lot.People who don���t speak up much.People who think they are always right and don���t listen to others.People who like to argue.People who avoid arguments.

 

In addition to personally managing your own tendencies, you also have the special responsibility to help others adapt, allowing everyone���s voice to be heard. Some will need to speak up and some will need to listen up. One of my favorite phrases as a team participant is that ���I don���t need to have my way, but I want to have my say.���

 

“A well-managed, vigorous team debate usually brings the best decision, and the leader is usually responsible for the final decision.” [Tweet This]

 

You Make the Final Decision

After you���ve made the final decisions, then clarify the execution steps. Delegate and make it clear for all who are responsible for the various steps and actions that come out of the decision.

When you study this model, I think you will see that it���s a wonderful vision of how teams and organizations should Engage and Align to have discussions before they make decisions. But also keep in mind you may be the rare yet honorable leader that embraces rigorous debate. It���s the healthy way to lead a team, and you���ll be giving others the gift of believing in themselves and their role on the team.

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Engage and Align Your Team in the New Year

Thousands of leaders and teams are already using Courageous Accountability Model to manage team communication and decisions:

Begin using it immediately in your day-to-day decision-making and witness the results of better team performance and results. We offer three options–choose the one that best fits your objectives and goals:

 

Personal Study

Read the award-winning book, Engage with Honor: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability, to learn and apply this model.

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Group Self-Study Program

The Engage with Honor Training Guide provides 10 self-guided lessons that you and your team can study together.

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Group Online Study Course

Many leaders don���t feel qualified to conduct training, and it���s expensive. The Courageous Accountability Development Course, is an online platform using the latest, real-time collaborative learning technology to ensure the best learning environment possible.

Learn More and watch a sample interview

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Leadership History Lesson for January 5th

On this day in leadership history in 1925, Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross was sworn in as the governor of Wyoming She was the first female governor in the U.S.

What���s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders come in all genders, races, ages, and experience levels, and they���re some of the most valuable people on teams today. Nurture and support them.

Mrs. Nellie Taylor Ross – Wikipedia

 

 

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, January 2, 2025

���More often than I care to admit, I realize that I have to let go of an old mindset that really does not work so well in order to adopt a new one that works better.��� ��� Lee Ellis

 

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year from Lee Ellis and the Leading with Honor Team!

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Leadership History Lesson for December 29th

Leadership Spotlight – This 3-minute clip shares how Theodore Roosevelt used his personal energy and charisma to bring unprecedented power to the presidency. On January 6, 1919, Theodore Roosevelt passed away.

 

 

 

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, December 27, 2024

���If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.��� ��� John Rohn

 

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