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December 20, 2021
Are You Becoming a Leadership Dinosaur?
Leadership is a skill that requires constant practice. The world changes and brings new challenges every day. How can you ensure you’re staying fresh as a leader and not going the way of the dinosaur?
Leadership abilities can grow stale and out of date. While most leaders have good intentions, and want to do a great job, the early excitement for the position can quickly turn into frustration from the demands.
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Leadership abilities can grow stale and out of date. While most leaders have good intentions, and want to do a great job, the early excitement for the position can quickly turn into frustration from the demands.
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December 16, 2021
Which best describes your organization?
Our reader poll today asks: Which best describes your organization?
We are meticulous planners, and things always run smoothly 4.41%
We plan well but have an occasional crisis 48.74%
We try to plan, but crises tend to run our lives 34.59%
There’s no planning, and we’re in perpetual crisis 12.26%
Crisis of the day.
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We are meticulous planners, and things always run smoothly 4.41%
We plan well but have an occasional crisis 48.74%
We try to plan, but crises tend to run our lives 34.59%
There’s no planning, and we’re in perpetual crisis 12.26%
Crisis of the day.
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December 15, 2021
Choosing a Decision-Making Style
Learn the four decision-making styles and the factors that influence which style will be best for your situation.
When you make decisions, there are four decision-making styles that you can use. There’s an autocratic style, a participatory one, a democratic style, and a consensus-based decision-making style. Your choice of which of those four styles to use is driven by two factors.
The first factor is the urgency of making the decision.
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When you make decisions, there are four decision-making styles that you can use. There’s an autocratic style, a participatory one, a democratic style, and a consensus-based decision-making style. Your choice of which of those four styles to use is driven by two factors.
The first factor is the urgency of making the decision.
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December 14, 2021
The Three R’s of Conflict Resolution
Conflict is an ever-present part of life. The more comfortable you are with dealing with it, the more effectively you can resolve it. Conflict resolution requires you to know the three R’s – recognize conflict, respond to conflict, and resolve the conflict.
Today’s post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS principal and author of Hijacked by Your Brain.
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Today’s post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS principal and author of Hijacked by Your Brain.
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December 9, 2021
How do you handle making decisions during times of uncertainty?
Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle making decisions during times of uncertainty?
I wait until the uncertainty is resolved, then make my decision 0.80%
I proceed cautiously and gather as much info as I can before deciding 40.96%
I make a decision based on the best info I have, then adjust and react later 58.24%
A caution on caution.
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I wait until the uncertainty is resolved, then make my decision 0.80%
I proceed cautiously and gather as much info as I can before deciding 40.96%
I make a decision based on the best info I have, then adjust and react later 58.24%
A caution on caution.
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December 8, 2021
Overcoming Obstacles to Creating a High-Performing Culture
Learn about four of the most common obstacles to creating a high-performance culture and how to overcome them.
You’ll face many common obstacles on your path to building a high-performance culture. Legacy culture issues, associates who resist the new culture, and processes or behaviors that don’t yet exist are going to slow you down. You need to work through these counter-culture moments and issues if you’re looking to change the overall culture of the organization.
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You’ll face many common obstacles on your path to building a high-performance culture. Legacy culture issues, associates who resist the new culture, and processes or behaviors that don’t yet exist are going to slow you down. You need to work through these counter-culture moments and issues if you’re looking to change the overall culture of the organization.
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December 6, 2021
How Smart Leaders Spot Ideas No-One Else Does
Most disruptive ideas arise outside an industry. Leaders need a more open mindset to see early signals of change and respond to disruption.
Today’s post is by Kurt Matzler, co-author of Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
In 1938, MIT student Claude Shannon solved one of the most complex problems of circuit design.
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Today’s post is by Kurt Matzler, co-author of Open Strategy: Mastering Disruption from Outside the C-Suite (CLICK HERE to get your copy).
In 1938, MIT student Claude Shannon solved one of the most complex problems of circuit design.
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December 2, 2021
What is your biggest obstacle to delegating more of what you do?
Our reader poll today asks: What is your biggest obstacle to delegating more of what you do?
No issues — I’m great at delegating 21.98%
I’m afraid they won’t do the task correctly 15.48%
I don’t have the resources to delegate to 34.52%
I don’t have time to teach them the task. It’s faster if I do it 19.28%
I enjoy my work and don’t want others to take it from me 4.48%
Something else prevents me from delegating 4.26%
Delegation challenges.
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No issues — I’m great at delegating 21.98%
I’m afraid they won’t do the task correctly 15.48%
I don’t have the resources to delegate to 34.52%
I don’t have time to teach them the task. It’s faster if I do it 19.28%
I enjoy my work and don’t want others to take it from me 4.48%
Something else prevents me from delegating 4.26%
Delegation challenges.
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Your Brain on Work: How Stress Hijacks Your Health and Happiness
Stress is part of our everyday lives. We can either control it or let it control us. The difference between those two situations is how we manage our “alarm” and our reactions to the daily stressors we face.
Today’s post is by Jon Wortmann, thoughtLEADERS instructor and author of Hijacked by Your Brain.
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November 25, 2021
How do you handle things when someone refuses to compromise and they harden their stance?
Our reader poll today asks: How do you handle things when someone refuses to compromise and they harden their stance?
I work around them. They’re not changing, and I need to get things done 36.87%
I offer more concessions to see if I can get them to move 4.58%
I get other people to pressure them to change their stance 5.30%
I accept their position and go work on more fruitful work 10.36%
I try to empathize and understand their concerns so I can soften their stance 42.89%
Avoid or Empathize?
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I work around them. They’re not changing, and I need to get things done 36.87%
I offer more concessions to see if I can get them to move 4.58%
I get other people to pressure them to change their stance 5.30%
I accept their position and go work on more fruitful work 10.36%
I try to empathize and understand their concerns so I can soften their stance 42.89%
Avoid or Empathize?
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