CIO

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hot: Transparency Many tech leaders struggle with creating a culture of genuine transparency, even as project stakeholders now demand more of an open-book approach, DeVry’s Campbell says. We need to coach in the moment not once a year. Gartner estimates AI could account for 3.5% Careers, IT Leadership

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CIO

DECEMBER 20, 2023

After leaving Equinix in 2019, he hiked the Camino de Santiago in Spain, became a life coach through UC Davis Extension, and in 2020, took a Stanford philosophy course on the meaning of life. Looking back, Lillie realized that as a father of four and 20 years spent coaching youth sports, this purpose statement has been central from early on.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

There’s a foundation to successful business execution that is undeniably critical – the workplace culture. Bad cultures can’t execute very well. I’ve found that there are 12 ways to build a winning culture while still pushing the ball down the field. How can we make this juggling act work? Show the way!

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Xebia

MARCH 19, 2024

A Product Owner who feels like they’re being sucked dry by an overbearing Agile coach? Or maybe a manager, leader, or coach who wants to understand how to support their team better? Exercise increases your energy level, and meditation can help you ground yourself—whatever works for you!

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 19, 2019

Last week we shared reasons employees might resist your coaching. Ground Yourself Here Before Giving Feedback Steve had thrown every ounce of energy into launching his most important strategic initiative. There’s one other vital factor to ensure your feedback is heard. Everyone […].

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Steve Farber

MAY 17, 2012

Coach Scott Morrison’s journey as an educator serves as a great lesson for all of us–no matter our profession or path. I’m deeply gratified to hear that my work has served as a confirmation of Coach Morrison’s natural impulses and instincts. I couldn’t stand the school culture compared the elementary.

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Agile42

JUNE 24, 2020

How do you rapidly adapt from being a culture of working shoulder-to-shoulder in an open space, sharing computers and being in conversation all day long to a 100% remote culture? Why couldn't a workplace be filled with camaraderie, human energy, creativity, and productivity? But what happens next? Do you feel ready for it?

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Agile42

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Q: How did you first start your agile path and end up coaching with agile42? When I moved to Canada from the UK in 2012, this truly accelerated my learning; the culture was focused more on being a leader over a manager. Instead, teams need to be coached in order to attain sustainable performance.

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Steve Farber

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If your organization’s culture sits on either end of two extremes, you don’t need an engagement survey or a high-priced consultant to confirm your reality. You can feel the energy when things are amazing, and you can smell the stench when things are rotting away in your business. But what if things are somewhere in between?

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CO2 Business Leadership

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Are you wavering a bit now, in terms of your confidence in your company’s thriving culture? However, if things start to drift and your employees find themselves doing things unrelated to their job description and their core talents, their energy diminishes, and they start focusing on “not failing” vs. “playing to win”.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 12, 2019

As a coach, my goal is always to see my client succeed. I want them to have experiences that will lead them to achieve their goals: increased sales, better performance, healthy growth, stronger culture and ultimately a better organization. It is imperative to build a corporate culture that feels like a team. 2 by their side.

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OverOps

APRIL 7, 2019

Most of the development and operational energy is spent on creating positive customer perception and innovating in their market segment. Developers receive peer coaching during development to create better architecture. Coaching frequently is more effective, but it takes significant time investment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 21, 2021

6:06 How to coach someone to tap into and to nurture their own confidence. Developing a sound culture. Keep culture a top priority. Resiliency – inner confidence and humility to hang in there a little longer. Get into their hearts. That will lead to getting into their heads. Build trust. Delay gratification. Your turn.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

If you’re looking to set clearer performance expectations and hold better accountability or coach conversations, this article will help. How to Give Your Team the Energy They Need (January 2021). Read more here. The Blight of Soul-Crushing Useless Negative Feedback (May 2021). Sometimes, it’s easy to get stuck in a rut.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Once a culture has turned sour, it’s hard to generate the goodwill and energy necessary to right the organization.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Every ounce of energy they spend on a project is a gift. There are times when it makes sense to start a coaching conversation with gratitude. Gratitude at Work: How to Cultivate a Grateful Culture (with video). Every action from every person on your team becomes a gift. 3) Mix Up Silence and Growth.

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CIO

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Low team morale Alan Clark, senior vice president of strategy at staffing agency Randstad USA, says a low-energy team that’s missing deadlines is a sign that an IT manager isn’t clearly communicating to their team or to management. It’s also crucial to foster a culture of open communication. Here are some of the red flags.

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CloudSphere

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Feedback mechanisms powered by AI algorithms are fostering a culture of continuous improvement, while tools for monitoring employee wellbeing are promoting a holistic approach to workforce management. In addition to detecting early signs of stress, these systems could offer tailored interventions.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 21, 2023

” (A great example of this is in our book, Courageous Cultures, chapter 6). 2) Empathetic Customer Service The small contact center supporting customers for a regional energy company was having trouble. Begin the day with energy and fun; make it feel like a holiday. The best part comes in the after-glow discussion.

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Xebia

APRIL 20, 2022

If you add a culture in which we continuously help each other by focusing on what we can still improve, that sometimes can become a bit scary. ‘Out of our Xpirit-sight’ I started coaching computer science students from a university on Agile and Growth Mindset. And, you will probably learn something new in return.

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thoughtLEADERS, LLC

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Resilience is a source of energy to move forward and make an impact. The merger resulted in an unusual circumstance for me—coaching fifteen leaders in the same organization as they transitioned to a different culture and new systems. Resilience is key to success for leaders. Five strategies can develop your resilience.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The consequences of micromanagement include frustrated and disempowered employees who feel a lack of autonomy and consequently don’t approach their work with energy, creativity, or initiative. Does your work ethic match the organization’s culture? Do you implement the coaching you receive? Look for Patterns.

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Modus Create

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I love the statement fail fast, and I think that a culture that embraces failure is where you learn to succeed. You can’t leave it to interpretation because that can undo the culture of safe failure. . There should be a culture where one department can easily engage with another without disrupting them.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

“An agile process allows time for listening, connecting, coaching, and advising. This personalized approach allows boutique firms to place candidates who are technically, academically, and culturally additive to the organization. A boutique firm will invest in learning your culture and talent needs.

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CO2 Business Leadership

JANUARY 15, 2017

Corporate Culture. ‘The single greatest tool in any leader’s toolkit is culture,” Mike Harper, former chairman and CEO of ConAgra, explained to me during an interview at his home. Once a culture has turned sour, it’s hard to generate the goodwill and energy necessary to right the organization.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

You’re building a culture by default and not by design. This is harder than you think because it requires discipline on your part to make time to be intentional about the culture you want to scale and to put policies and procedures into place that create that sustainable organization. Their organizational culture happens by default.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 23, 2021

Those folks had deeper issues going on and probably needed a therapist more than an executive coach. In Courageous Cultures , I share a story of a well-intentioned manager who was coming across as a bully. This article is not for them, but for you, the well-intentioned, human-centered leader looking to gain the respect of their team.

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Experience to Lead

MAY 30, 2023

They can make a job exhausting and confusing, eating up energy that could be better spent enjoying life beyond the nine-to-five. Learn resiliency with elite athletes and coaches, psychological safety with GRAMMY-Award winning songwriters and more inspiring lessons. This can include coaching, mentoring, or additional training programs.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 27, 2014

These in-game communications focus on monitoring and modulating three important team competencies—knowledge, energy and emotion. A Culture of Leadership: Successful teams obsess over leadership. Basketball is a sport where the most talented teams don’t always win but those that create a culture of leadership almost always do.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Intimidation has become the norm in some cultures. I remember being coached shortly after my promotion to the executive ranks that it was time “to smile less.” Communication Energy & Engagement fear and intimidation fear-based leadership servant leadership' ” My theories: Someone Intimidated Them.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Include future time and emotional energy for edits). For example, if you’re an ace at coaching and accountability conversations, and you tend to see everything through that lens, you will miss opportunities to help a low-confidence team build their belief in their own ability. Be a Chokepoint. Your competition is changing.

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J.D. Meier's Blog

JANUARY 14, 2019

According to Comparably, a compensation, culture, and career website, Satya Nadella is ranked as the #1 CEO in the US. I was “head coach” of Satya’s Innovation team and I met him in person. He lives his passion, inspires with purpose, and creates clarity and energy with skill. I get why he’s ranked number one.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 15, 2015

We often plough so much energy into the big picture, we forget the pixels. Chery Gegelman of Simply Understanding posits that leadership is all about connections, and connections create energy –and that those connections are especially meaningful when they happen in unlikely places and with complete strangers… Follow Chery.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 11, 2014

There are no easy trade-offs in this “ AND culture” (we need this AND that) most of live in. Encourage them to pilot their ideas before spending significant energy on large scale implementation. Customize Your Coaching. What if they really don’t get to it? Work Harders. Cick on the image to enlarge.

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Honeycomb

AUGUST 19, 2022

These cultural changes that have led us to shift our expectations for managers have traveled from the bottom up. Our organizations will build a culture of respect for both management and IC work. Many people stepping into these roles will also have never had a manager in their own past successfully model how to do any of this.

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Capgemini

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

A new Capgemini Research Institute report surveyed 1,000 traditional maker organizations across sectors including auto, consumer products, med tech, industrial, high tech, and energy with annual revenues ranging from $1 billion to $50 billion, to understand the benefits and challenges of implementing intelligent services.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 12, 2015

6) Keep Promises – Nothing poisons a culture more than a lack of integrity at the highest levels. 8) Less Thinking, More Doing – We’ve all heard the expression “ Hurry Up and Wait “; decision paralysis is a culture killer. 12) Relentless Positive Energy – A leader sets the tone; and must bring positive energy to every interaction.

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