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RapidStart Leadership Podcast Ken Downer
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The RapidStart Leadership Podcast brings you short, interesting stories, revealing research, and practical tools to help make you a more effective leader. Whether you are a new leader, a seasoned manager, or mentoring someone else who is learning to lead, these podcasts will arm you with actionable takeaways you can apply, whatever the leadership situation you find yourself in. Host Ken Downer is the founder of RapidStartLeadership.com where his blog posts, videos, podcasts, and online courses equip leaders and mangers of all experience levels to become more skilled at getting things done through people. Through his 26 years of active duty as a U.S. Army Infantryman, he has lead people in a wide variety of circumstances, from the jungles of Panama to the cubical jungles of the office environment. Using those and other life experiences, he regularly shares practical tips and techniques that help leaders master the art of leadership, whether it is self-improvement, setting a vision, team-building, problem-solving, planning and organizing, communicating, or simply figuring out the first steps to take as a new leader. Becoming a great leader is hard work. The goal of RapidStart Leadership is to make climbing the leadership learning curve a little easier for you. Lead On!
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Culture Course Correction: 11 Ways to Avoid Going Over the Cliff
When it comes to getting things done, culture can have a huge impact not only on how well the team performs, but how likely it is that our teammates will stick around to do it again. So, what do we do when we sense that our team’s culture is heading straight for the edge of a cliff? Here are eleven ideas for how we can make a culture course correction with our teams.Notes and Resources:Prefer to read? Here’s the full post: Culture Course Correction: 11 Ways to Av...
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Increasing Engagement - How to Get People to Open Up
If we hope to develop high-performing teams, increasing engagement is always at the top of our to-do list. But sometimes in our efforts to lead, we can get in our own way, and hinder the very thing we are trying to encourage. Two brief interactions that went very differently illustrate how this can happen, and what we can do if we are serious about increasing engagement on our teams.Notes and Resources:Prefer to read? Here’s the full post: Increasing Engagement – How to Get ...
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The 18th Mile: It’s Not the Finish Line Leaders Should Focus On
Most people know that a marathon is 26.2 miles long. Successful runners also know that it’s a mistake to focus solely on that distance. Smart leaders can benefit from similar thinking. Whatever marathon we are running with our teams, to get to that distant goal, it’s not the finish line we should focus on, it’s the 18th mile. Here’s why. Notes and Resources: Prefer to read? Here’s the full post:The 18th Mile: It’s Not the Finish Line Leaders Shoul...
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Leading Winning Teams: 5 Leadership Lessons from Mushers
On a recent sub-zero day on a frozen lake in central Minnesota, I got a chance to witness great team leadership in action. It was a crash course in what leading winning teams is all about. Here’s what the experience was like, and five key lessons from the leaders themselves that we can all use in leading our own teams.Notes and Resources:Prefer to read? Here’s the full post:Leading Winning Teams: 5 Leadership Lessons from MushersA great article posted on LinkedIn by Aaron Ph...
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The Blemishing Effect: Why Selling Perfection Can be Self-Defeating
When we’re trying to influence people to choose an option we favor, we can be tempted to only talk about the reasons why they should. But according to something called the Blemishing Effect, it may actually be in our best interests to point out why they shouldn’t, too. Here’s why.Notes and Resources:Prefer to read? Here’s the full postThe Blemishing Effect: Why Selling Perfection Can be Self-DefeatingDan Pink’s To Sell is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others is fu...
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Do You Have Leadership Double-Vision? Should You?
One of the many challenges we face as leaders is where to spend our time and energy. Recently I came across an insightful analogy that can help us approach this problem. It has to do with having a kind of leadership double-vision. Notes and Resources:Prefer to read? Here’s the full pos tDo You Have Leadership Double-Vision? Should You?The Essential Wooden by John Wooden and Steve Jamison is a great read full of insightful, practical leadership wisdom.Another great leade...