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Three Steps to Flexible Leadership

By Ron Price

From The Complete Leader Podcast Episode #64

When I think about flexibility, I often think about trees. Trees show off their flexibility in the way they endure storms or handle wind, ice, and snow. For many trees, their flexibility is a combination of strength and their ability to bend but not break—their deep root systems offer leverage, balance, and a great capacity for holding on in the midst of challenging circumstances.

Sometimes as a leader, you need to be like a tree. Flexibility is one of the most important skills you can have, especially during times of constant change and disruption.

Design Celebration Practices for You and Your Team

By Jalene Case

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to skip celebrating you or team’s accomplishments? Too often we quickly check-off the “done” box and race on to the next thing. However, if you do that, you’re missing out on a chance to fuel future accomplishments and feel good.

A coaching client recently shared a scenario with me in which she did a great job handling a difficult situation with a long-term employee. She finished the story and then immediately started talking about the next topic. I said, “Wait, let’s celebrate what you accomplished and what you learned!” I asked her to share reflections on these three questions: “What went well? What didn’t go so well? What will you do differently next time?” This process is valuable for three reasons.

How to Strategize for Disruption

What we can learn from Peloton about creating a resilient strategy

By Dr. Evans Baiya

The idea of creating a resilient strategy seems to come up in conversation again and again these days. It’s certainly a sign of the times that Optimizing Strategy for Results, my latest book co-authored with Ron Price and Professor Timothy Waema, is launching two years after COVID-19 lockdowns began in the U.S. People and organizations are now looking for ways to move forward and prepare for the next disruption.

Aspirational vs Desperational Leadership

By Ron Price

From Episode 63 of the Complete Leader Podcast

After decades in leadership, I’ve noticed that often what you become most passionate about are the things you realize you didn’t do quite right yourself.

Thinking back on the first couple of decades of my leadership career, I was always trying to fix myself. I had trouble with time management, so I’d take every course and read every book on the skill that I came across. I was always focused on those things that I thought were keeping me from becoming the complete leader.

But eventually I realized I was doing it all wrong.

Step Back and Let Others Lead

By Dr. Francis Eberle

When I talk to groups I often tell them that leaders should step back more. The biggest concern I hear in response is that if they step back, they won’t be able to help their employees do the task right.

I will probe and ask what “do the task right” means. Usually, they describe steps to do the task, and then launch into outcomes they don’t want, such as embarrassing the company, insulting a client, a grammatical error, inadequate research, and so on. These outcomes feel like they could be the result of a fully hands-off approach. That is an incorrect assumption about what stepping back as a leader means.

Seven Ways to Remove Obstacles

By Jalene Case

You can have well-planned, daring, or exciting goals and still get knocked off track. In fact, I can pretty much guarantee it. When obstacles sneak in, you might feel confused, frustrated, deflated, or mad. Fear not! Pulling together a mixture of tools, strategies, and awareness can help you get past those obstacles so you can do what matters most.

In my experience as an executive coach, stumbling blocks show up primarily in three different ways:

Four Ways to Intentionally Develop Your Leadership Abilities

By Ron Price, President TTI

From Episode 59 of The Complete Leader Podcast

After all of the years that I’ve worked in leadership, there is one question that resurfaces again and again: Are leaders born or made?

While you can’t ignore that everyone is born with certain traits that will affect leadership abilities, this is not the end of the journey. Part of the challenge as leaders is to understand what those traits are and how to further develop them.

This is why I truly believe that leaders are both born and made.

Delivering Innovation Results via POST

By Tanja Yardley

A wise innovation mentor recently said something that stirred reflection for me. He said, “The American Industrial Revolution has done a great disservice to us. It shifted the context of the hiring process to considering humans as units of production, where people feel as if they are just a number, easily replaced by someone more productive or less expensive. Simply a cog in the production wheel. Some elements of this thinking still persist today.” He went on to talk about how powerful it is to replace that thinking pattern with the idea that people are instead “contributors to success.” In that more powerful mindset, we recognize ourselves as owners of results, owners of the problems that get in the way of results and owners of the innovations that hurdle those obstacles.

Reflections to Prepare for a Successful 2022

By Ron Price, TCL Founder

As you begin the New Year and consider the possibility that a new year offers, this is a great opportunity to take some time to reflect on your influence in both your career and your personal life. Reflection can be a powerful tool in guiding your direction and intention for the year. Here are a few aspects to consider and questions to ask yourself:

Your influence grows (or decreases) based on three dimensions: character, expertise, position.

Your character is what others observe about how you govern yourself and what they experience or notice in how you relate to others.

Persuasion: How Leaders Can Inspire Commitment in Their Teams

By Ron Price

From Episode 72 of The Complete Leader Podcast

Of all the skills in the Complete Leader skillset library, persuasion is one that never elicits a neutral response. People either love the idea of it or are repulsed by it, often because of the negative connotation of the word. While it is sometimes used interchangeably with “manipulation,” the motive behind persuasion makes all the difference, and it is actually a critical skill to develop while on the journey to becoming a Complete Leader. Ultimately, one of the most important roles of a leader is to inspire or persuade people to make commitments that they wouldn’t otherwise make.

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