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Leadership engagement: Do you withdraw, engage, or dominate?

2/7/2019

 
Stressful situations in business, at work and at home tend to show our true colors as leaders. Who we really are comes through in the heat of the moment. Our struggles and insecurities often make life's challenges more rather than less stressful. Long-time friend and business associate, retired USAF Colonel Lee Ellis, shares leadership lessons learned from his five years as a POW in Vietnam in his latest book, Leading with Honor (2012). His "leadership engagement model" helps us understand how our underlying emotions cause us to lead and respond to stress in three different ways: withdrawal, engagement, and domination.
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what to start-stop-continue doing?

1/11/2019

 
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This simple exercise is a great way to pause, be mindful, reflect, and take action. It can be easily applied to your business, work or personal life. Read more

Artificial harmony, personal attacks and healthy conflict

10/12/2018

 
Patrick Lencioni provides great insight into the value of healthy conflict in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Leaders must lead and facilitate healthy, productive conflict so that relationships, teams and organizations will grow, mature and become the best they can be. This is essential for working together to find the best solutions, build the best relationships and teams, and for the greater good of our families, workplace and communities. This simple yet powerful model helps us understand and improve relationships, families, teams, companies, communities, governments and even countries.
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Leadership and self-deception: How do we see ourselves and others?

8/15/2018

 
Self-deception is like this. It blinds us to the true causes of problems, and once we’re blind, all the ‘solutions’ we can think of will actually make matters worse. Whether at work or at home, self-deception, obscures the truth about ourselves, corrupts our view of others and our circumstances, and inhibits our ability to make wise and helpful decisions. To the extent that we are self-deceived, both our happiness and our leadership are undermined at every turn…

Members of every culture participate to one degree or another in their own individual and cultural self-deceptions. The discovery of a way out of those self-deceptions is the discovery of hope and the birth of new possibilities and lasting solutions. (Leadership and Self-Deception, preface, page xii)

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CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS: TALKING WHEN THE STAKES ARE HIGH

6/15/2018

 
Tools for strengthening your relationships and teams at work and home.

HBR: The Problem with Saying “Don’t Bring Me Problems, Bring Me Solutions”

2/9/2018

 
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 It’s time to retire the saying “Don’t bring me problems, bring me solutions.” Even though advocates of this approach believe it reduces whining, increases empowerment, helps employees manage up, and boosts careers, it’s fraught with challenges. Read more 

Why jobs of the future won't feel like work

10/25/2017

 
We've all heard that robots are going to take our jobs -- but what can we do about it? Innovation expert David Lee says that we should start designing jobs that unlock our hidden talents and passions -- the things we spend our weekends doing -- to keep us relevant in the age of robotics. "Start asking people what problems they're inspired to solve and what talents they want to bring to work," Lee says. "When you invite people to be more, they can amaze us with how much more they can be."

inc.:  Every Great Boss Says These 4 Simple Words, Each and Every Day

8/2/2017

 
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Not only are they extremely powerful words, they pay huge dividends for your employees -- and for you. These four words will make a real difference. Read more

New Ways to teach Skills

6/2/2017

 
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Dassault Systèmes partners with Wichita State University to open an advanced manufacturing center that could further develop how colleges teach engineering. … You can share a classroom with NASA engineers. … Robot orders, shipments get a big bump in North America. … Automation M&A trending upward, too. Read more

shrm: How To Create a Culture of Civility

4/1/2017

 
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The raw emotions of a polarized electorate are taking a toll on employee relations. How can leaders promote peace, love and understanding? Business owners, executives and HR leaders can help ease workplace tensions that are negatively impacting collaboration, engagement and organizational performance.  Read more
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