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🎙️ The Key to Unlocking Your Team's Full Potential I'm thrilled to present the latest episode of "Get Unstuck & On Target", where I sit down with Gary Hall, Senior Director of Human Resources at Tencate Grass. Together, we explore the profound impact of servant leadership, challenging common myths and uncovering its true essence. 🎯 Challenge Accepted: We tackle misconceptions that servant leadership means being submissive. Instead, we highlight how it's really about valuing your team, making decisive choices, and embracing full leadership responsibility. 🎯 Expert Insights: Gary's extensive experience across finance, healthcare, manufacturing, and banking provides unique perspectives that will shift your understanding of what it means to lead. 🎯 Practical Wisdom: Learn through real-life examples the actionable principles of servant leadership. Discover the "3 Simple Rules" by legendary coach Don Meyer and hear how Gary used these to transform his organization's worst-performing unit into the best. 🎯 Leadership Transformation: This episode is a must for any leader seeking to elevate their approach and unlock the potential within their team. 🎧 Dive into the full episode by clicking the link in the comments 🎧 I’d love to hear your thoughts and stories. What resonated with you? Share your takeaways and let's discuss how these insights can be applied in your own leadership journey! #ServantLeadership #LeadershipDevelopment #HRProfessionals

EP43: Building a Top Down Culture w/ Lyndsay Dowd by David Kitchen After spending 25 years leading high performing teams at companies like IBM, Lyndsay Dowd created her company, Heartbeat for Hire, and has devoted her career to transforming leadership through building irresistible culture and modern leadership practices to get the best results from their teams. As a Speaker, Founder, Author, Coach, Podcast Host and a Disruptor, […] #boomers #babyboomers

Do you ever wonder what sets great leaders apart from good ones? Have you noticed that some teams seem to collaborate effortlessly, while others struggle to work together effectively? Tune into this week’s episode of Helping organisations thrive podcast where we are joined by Anni Townend as we explore collaborative leadership. Anni breaks down the essential components of the equation to reaching collaborative leadership and begins by highlighting the importance of curiosity in this equation. Anni shares how curiosity is what distinguishes good leaders from great leaders as it encourages collaboration in the first instance. Anni continues by sharing first hand examples of trialled and tested strategies that leaders can implement to create and encourage an environment where leaders and the team have time to be curious, to be present and to think, better and collaboratively, together. Continuing to stem from curiosity, Anni emphasises another vital part of the equation to finding your collaborative edge: encouraging diversity of thought and feelings. In doing so, a foundation of trust and confidence is built; both essential components to boosting team collaboration. Link to the full episode in the comments below. #collaborativeleadership #collaboration #curiosity #leadership

What’s your 'big why'? ⏸️ Pause for a moment and reflect on the vision that inspired your journey to leadership. While profit is a universal aim, Byron Low, a renowned The Predictive Index partner and coach, advocates for a deeper mission in aligning personal purpose with organizational values. He sat down with Traci Austin on the People Strategy Podcast to delve into the 'Big Why' in business and its transformative power on company culture and community impact. 🎙️ Key Takeaways for Visionary Leaders: 💡Mission-Driven Strategy: Let your company's core values and vision drive your people strategy, resonating through your employee value proposition. 💡Community Impact: Your business plays a crucial role in its community, and recognizing this can improve not only societal contributions but your bottom line. 💡Toolset Commitment: Embrace tools like the Predictive Index and the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) to foster a common language and achieve consistent long-term success. Don't overlook this discussion if you're eager to uncover how clarity in your 'Big Why' can inspire, the role of coaching in leadership development, and the importance of respecting every individual in your workspace. Listen to the episode ▶️ https://lnkd.in/erWN8jwX ‎ #bigwhy #leadershipdevelopment #companyculture

Episode #011: LEADERSHIP & AUTHORITY STRUCTURES IN TEAMS: WHERE DOES GREAT TEAM LEADERSHIP COME FROM? Key Questions: Where does great team leadership come from? What kinds of things should team leaders do and what things are better for the team to do? In this episode, Ruth Wageman & Krister Lowe explore: Where does great team leadership come from? 1. Leadership as a "function" of a team 2. Team leaders as coaches 3. Four Critical Leadership Functions in Teams: 1) Executing the team task; 2) Monitoring and managing work processes; 3) Designing the team and member roles; 4) Setting overall direction 4. Authority Matrix - 4 Authority Structures: 1) Manager-Led; 2) Self-Managing; 3) Self-Designing; 4) Self-Governing 5. Distributing authority in teams 6. Surfacing authority dynamics in teams 7. When leadership most matters in teams: putting in place the 6 TEAM CONDITIONS Conditions 8. Team leadership norms 9. Supplemental measures around leadership and authority structures in Team Diagnostic Survey reports 10. Supporting and developing team leaders #6teamconditions #teameffectiveness Listen to our podcast to learn more. 🎧https://hubs.la/Q02xpzr90

🎙️ A transformative leadership discussion with Lori Massey Brissette in our (Frederic and I) latest podcast episode focused on successful leadership dynamics in a transformational age! From courtroom to boardroom, her leadership style driving teams towards success. Grounded in listening and respect, Lori’s approach focuses on aligning individuals with roles that maximize their potential. She challenges leaders to enable employee success from the get-go, emphasizing a "waking up" rather than "shaking up" approach to organizational change. Lori's coaching philosophy, which embraces failure as a steppingstone to growth and fosters a supportive environment for employee development. By prioritizing collaboration and a "we before me" mentality, she breaks down silos and promotes teamwork to achieve shared goals. https://lnkd.in/gXWTtd-s Get ready for some practical strategies on empowering teams to fail forward, recognizing individual value, and driving organizational change with resilience and confidence. #TransformativeLeadership #ServiceTransformation #PodcastEpisode

In the last episode of the Practice of Business, I encouraged leaders to move away from the traditional “I’m the boss”, “top-down” style of leadership. I received many responses, all echoing a similar theme: “I’d love to follow that model, but how do I get my team to do the things that need to be done, and do them consistently well, without micromanaging them?” The answer is to create a Culture of Accountability, where team members hold themselves and their teammates accountable. Today’s episode is the first in a three-part series describing the process for creating this culture of accountability in your business. In this episode, we’ll focus on the creation and implementation of your core values, and their role in accountability. Many organizations have core values, but too often they’re only used for marketing purposes or buried deep in an employee manual no one reads. In contrast, we’ll discuss a process for bringing your core values to life, where they become “the default way of thinking for the organization”; establishing clear guidelines for “how we do things around here”, and creating a powerful driver of accountability. Check it out at the link below https://lnkd.in/eE-n6usF #leadership #teamculture #accountability

5 Common challenges that people leaders face. Leading people can be hard, often because you’re not set up for success to do it well. I want that to change. Enough of gate keeping, instead, I'm sharing it all with you. In this week’s episode of Lead with Less, I dive into the 5 common challenges that leaders face and I share how you can start overcoming them. I talk about: 1. Transitioning from individual contributor to people leader 2. Building and maintaining trust and connection 3. Effective communication and influence 4. Having difficult conversations 5. Emotional intelligence and regulation After advising in HR for over 13 years and since coaching new professionals and very experienced people leaders - I’ve come to see 5 common challenges that come up. Challenges are part of your experience as a leader, it’s not something to avoid, but look at how they can help you grow. I hope this episode gives you insights into how you can overcome these challenges so you can make leading people a little simpler and easier. Want to hear more about these challenges and how to move through them, listen to the full episode. You can grab the links to the episode in the comments or by clicking “Visit my website” at the top of this post. #leadership #leadershipdevelopment #peopleleaders #leadwithless

EP43: Building a Top Down Culture w/ Lyndsay Dowd by David Kitchen After spending 25 years leading high performing teams at companies like IBM, Lyndsay Dowd created her company, Heartbeat for Hire, and has devoted her career to transforming leadership through building irresistible culture and modern leadership practices to get the best results from their teams. As a Speaker, Founder, Author, Coach, Podcast Host and a Disruptor, […] #boomers #babyboomers