From ‘Great Man’ Leadership to Alignment

Imagine casting a vision for and leading a team who’s members change constantly due to injury or offseason moves. Imagine your job performance being evaluated and scrutinized not at a quarterly or annual review–but every week, by multiple coaches, profession pundits, and thousands of fans.

That’s the context for Rodger Price’s interview with veteran NFL quarterback Kirk Cousins.

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Pandemic Projection

Dave and I were teaching a cohort in person a few weeks ago, after months of teaching LEAD 24/7 over webinars. We were both happy to be back with people. I was overly excited to be face-to-face again, and I knew I’d have to work to stay focused on our material and not get distracted…

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Leaning Into Healthy Conflict, Part Two

Last week’s post was meant to remind you why leaning into healthy conflict is so important. Today’s post is meant to remind you of the model itself. The First Step: Begin the Conversation In the Leaning into Healthy Conflict model, there are two ways to begin a healthy conflict conversation. The first is when someone…

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Leaning Into Healthy Conflict, Part One

LEAD 24/7 alums, do you recall the number one thing we wish leaders in West Michigan would do better? Yes, it’s being willing and able to lean into potential disagreements, or what we call leaning into healthy conflict. Today’s post is the first of two on the subject. This one is to remind you why…

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Leadership Toolbox: Feedback and the 5-to-1 Ratio

In the last post in this series we explored how to apply the leadership tool of listening. This week, we’re focusing on feedback and the results you can get when you use this tool wisely. Once again, this post isn’t about HOW to give feedback (for that, go here and here). It’s about the results you…

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Vulnerability and the Johari Window

Remember the Johari Window?  Many of us were introduced to the Johari Window in the chapter on Feedback.  If you went back to your slides, you would notice that there are 4 quadrants.  In the upper right is the “I know, You know” box.  In the lower right is the “I know, You don’t know”…

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LEAD 365 Alumni Mirror

Fellow Leaders, Reunions are great. We get to enjoy them with you at alumni events as well as one-on-one as many of you have stopped in to say hello (keep doing that!). What I really enjoy is seeing the growth and transformation that has taken place. I’ve seen this so often that recently I decided I had to spend…

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Take Another Look

This is a busy season for many of you, so today we’re offering something fun to illustrate how powerful perspective really is, and to share some awesome creativity, planning, and dedication from the team that pulled this off.

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Who’s Your BFF?

In one of my former work positions, I received an annual review from our executive board. I dreaded it every year. Part of the reason I dreaded it was because I knew that this group saved up everything I did wrong or right from the last 12 months and then dumped it on me in that meeting. While…

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