Posts Tagged ‘teams’
CNLP 430: Amy Edmondson on How to Create a Psychologically-Safe Workplace and What to Do if You Don’t Work in One
Harvard Business School Professor and renowned business expert, Amy Edmondson, talks about the growing link between psychological safety at work and the results that high-performing teams accomplish. She details what psychological safety is, how to create a psychologically-safe workplace, and what to do if you don’t have one. Welcome to Episode 430 of the podcast. Listen…
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CNLP 391: Patrick Lencioni on How to Discover Your Working Genius, Uncovering Why Some Aspects of Leadership Drain You and Others Energize You, and How to Get the Best Out of Your Team
Patrick Lencioni noticed that no matter how long or how well a leader leads, some things continue to frustrate almost every leader. Pat and his team came up with a new assessment called Working Genius designed to help every leader figure out what energizes and what drains them, and where their best contribution comes from.…
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5 Predictions About the Future Church While Everything’s Still Unknown
By now you’ve realized that the Coronavirus pandemic is not an interruption nearly as much as it’s a disruption. And as you move more deeply through this crisis, the question of what kind of world will emerge beyond the crisis is probably also starting to occupy your mind. Mine too. It’s pretty clear by now…
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My Top 7 Rules For Leading A Digital Team
And all of a sudden, you’re leading a digital team. For most leaders, that’s a massive change…a change no one prepared them for. In our new era of border closures, social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine, pandemics and lockdowns, how do you lead a team you can’t see or talk to in person? That’s a question thousands…
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How to Lead Through Rapid, Unexpected Change (Responding to COVID-19)
No surprise here, but you are leading through unprecedented global change. Just stop for a minute. Re-read that first line. Unprecedented global change. If it feels challenging, it’s only because it is challenging. The question becomes how do you do it? How do you lead through change when you’ve never been down this road before,…
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5 Keys to Attracting Leaders Who Are Better Than You Are
So you probably wish you had some better leaders on your team. Want to know what the very best leaders do? They figure out how to construct a team with leaders who are not just better leaders, they assemble a team with leaders who are better than they are. That’s a big deal. If you truly…
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7 Signs Your Team Thinks You’re a Bad Boss
So you lead. And you’re doing your best. But the real question is—what does your team think of your leadership? How do you know that you’re not the boss everyone goes home complaining about at the end of the day? I hold three university degrees and am trained as both a lawyer and a pastor.…
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3 Secrets That Help Young Leaders Soar At Work
We’ve had a lot of young leaders join our team over the last few years, some straight out of college. Despite all the stereotypes about young leaders, I actually love working with young leaders and have seen them do amazing work. But as their boss, one of the key challenges I’ve faced is helping them…
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5 Things A Leader Worth Following Always Gets Right
The longer I lead and the more I see, the more I’m convinced that character ultimately determines a leader’s true success. Moral failure takes out more leaders than it should. But real success is deeper than just avoiding the ditch. So where does the deepest level of leadership success come from? Ultimately it doesn’t come from a…
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How to Stop Throwing Your Team Under the Bus (Even If They Keep Messing Up)
My guess is that as a leader you hate it when your team messes up. Who doesn’t? The real test of your leadership and character comes not when your team gets it right, but when you or they screw up. Your team will absolutely make mistakes. And so will you. All the time, I hear…
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