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Eric Douglas is the senior partner and founder of Leading Resources Inc., a consulting firm that focuses on developing high-performing organizations. For more than 20 years, Eric has successfully helped a wide array of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporations achieve breakthroughs in performance. His new book The Leadership Equation helps leaders achieve strategic clarity, manage change effectively, and build a leadership culture.
Communication

Six Competencies of Agile Leaders

Leading and managing an organization through times of uncertainty and unpredictability requires a variety of leadership competencies and skills. Here are six important ones: Situational Awareness Situational awareness is understanding how external and internal trends, such as changes in consumer demand, economic shifts, or new government policies, can impact the organization. For example, leaders with …

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Team Building

The 4 Stages of Team Development

Does your job require you to serve as a team leader? Do you know how to develop a highly effective team? High-performing teams go through four defined stages to reach their potential. This is true whether your team works remotely or works in person. Keep reading to learn more about this process. Don’t have time …

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Team Building

New Manager Coaching Dilemma: How To Manage Your Former Peers

When people are elevated into management roles from within, it often results in them overseeing former peers and taking on bigger responsibilities. In this blog, we explore strategies to navigate this transition successfully. The first rule of thumb is that once you become a supervisor, staff will view you differently. Trying to maintain the same …

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Organizational Culture

How To Build a Positive Workplace Organizational Culture

How do you build a productive, positive culture? What are the important things that a leader can do to influence an organization’s culture? What levers can you use? Organizational Culture Levers Let’s start by looking at some of the ways cultures are described. Here are some largely positive descriptors: Mission-driven Supportive Creative Aligned Innovative Empowered …

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Communication

How Leaders Communicate and Manage Decisions

As you rise to higher levels of leadership, your orientation toward the work you do needs to change. For people used to serving in a technical role or a role as an individual contributor, this can be a challenging transformation – because it requires you to change the very model you have in your mind …

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Communication

Productive Ground Rules for Collaboration

The ground rules being used by a cooperative housing community in Connecticut caught our attention recently. We are big proponents of using ground rules to facilitate productive discussions. These ones were especially good because they were thoughtful, detailed, and well-organized. They were also handwritten, which gave them a deeply personal quality (similar to how a …

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How Strategic Planning Is Evolving

At LRI, we have always thought about strategic planning from the perspective of change. The strategic planning process is important because it aligns people’s understanding of what the organization is trying to accomplish and what its priorities are. It’s the starting point for real, meaningful change to occur. The other value of a strategic planning …

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How Effective Leaders Accelerate the Pace of Change

Every leader of a company today lives in fear of disruptive innovation: the new technology, new service, or new government policy that enables customers to bypass your industry completely and get the same service or product from another source. It happened in the newspaper business when online services stripped away its near monopoly on classified …

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Organizational Culture

Taking Responsibility for Your Organization’s Culture

An article by David Brooks in the New York Times on February 11 struck me as prescient in the way it informs how leaders influence their organization’s cultures, often in unintended ways. Brooks begins his article talking about The Beatles and what made them successful. He points out that it was not simply their talent. …

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Six Skills for Leading and Managing a Flexible Workplace

A massive change is taking place as people shift to a flexible workplace model. We call this seismic shift the “Third Wave” in how people work. Many organizations have responded in innovative ways. For example, leaders are learning how to manage by outcomes, investing in leadership coaching, and reimagining their organization’s purpose and vision. In …

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