Banishing Fear and Feeding Innovation
As a leader you have tremendous influence in ensuring innovation happens on your team says innovation expert Britney Cole.
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How Leaders Create and Sustain Inclusivity within Teams
Inclusive leadership depends on seeing events, situations and most of all people objectively. Dr. Nicole Johnson share two common biases and how to address.
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Overcoming Unconscious Biases
Inclusive leadership depends on seeing events, situations and most of all people objectively. Dr. Nicole Johnson share two common biases and how to address.
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Embracing Diversity
Multiple generations with diverse backgrounds, perspective, experiences make up workforces in today's global economy. Ken Blanchard shares how to appreciate people from all walks of life.
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5 Concerns People Have When Being Asked to Change
For senior leading addressing business disruptions, author Judd Hoekstra share the importance of surfacing and addressing the 5 predictable stages of concern.
Banishing Fear and Feeding Innovation
As a leader you have tremendous influence in assuring that innovation happens on your team.
Seven Ways to Detoxify the Workplace
Detoxifying a toxic workplace is difficult, but an effective leader can create a sanctuary of decency and engagement in even the most troubling environment.
Women in Leadership: Creating Inclusive Environments
An interview with Jennifer Brown a globally recognised DEI thought leader, best selling author of the book, "How to be an Inclusive leader".
Addressing Today’s Top Learning Challenges
Designing for today’s modern learner can be a challenge. There are a lot of different factors for instructional designers to keep in mind. In preparation for presentations at the 2024 Blanchard Leadership Summit, leaders and solutions architects from Blanchard’s Design Studio and Innovation Lab have identified some of the top challenges they face—and how to solve them.
3 Skills for Becoming a Best Boss
When you learn how to adjust your leadership style to match the needs of your people, you will become a trusted leader they will remember as one of their best bosses say Randy Conley.
A Modern Approach to Inclusiveness and Belonging
What can we do to make employees feel like they belong? High-impact organisations inspire and engage employees around inclusion and belonging holistically from three different dimensions. In terms of talent: it’s about how an organisation retains and grows talent (internal), how an organisation attracts talent (external) and how an organisation attracts and retains raving fans of their brand (marketplace).
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Coaching Senior Leadership Teams
Conflict. A lack of clarity. Unclear process for decision making. Even though senior leaders are highly experienced, they often operate as a group of individuals rather than a team of people working toward a common purpose.
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The Proactive Manager: Matching Your Leadership Style to People's Needs
Do managers need to be more proactive when it comes to providing direction and support to their team members? Lately, managers have been leaning toward a more hands-off approach.
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A Head and Heart Approach to Next-Generation Leadership
Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard are leaders from different generations bound by a common goal—infusing today’s leadership development practices with a head and heart approach. It’s something Ken Blanchard has championed for over 50 years—and it’s something Scott Blanchard is reshaping for the next-generation workplace.
We recently sat down with both men to learn what’s changed and what’s stayed the same when it comes to focusing people’s energy and efforts toward a shared goal.
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Making Progress with DEI Initiatives
“In some ways, we’ve made progress with DEI initiatives, but in other ways, we’ve actually slid backward,” says Blanchard DEI practice leader, April Hennessey.
“There's a great deal more visibility. More conversations are happening around diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Organisations are investing in courses—and that’s important. But we've started to see another trend with organisations that have had to downsize: some of the first jobs to go are DEI or HR-related.
“It’s coming from a business perspective,” says Hennessey. “Initiatives that are not immediately revenue producing, or tied to client work, are seen as expendable.
“When it comes time to make cuts, those cuts are often made somewhat indiscriminately using a ‘last hired, first fired’ way of thinking. On the surface it seems fair, but if all recent hiring has been done with diversity initiatives in mind, guess who is the first to be fired?”
That’s short-sighted, says Hennessey. She recommends that organisations look at integrating DEI initiatives more fully into the fabric of the company.
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Improving Employee Experience: The Leader’s Role
There’s a lot to unpack in the 2023 HR/L&D Trends Survey, says Scott Blanchard, president of The Ken Blanchard Companies.
“We asked over 700 leadership, learning, and talent development professionals to share their biggest challenges and how they are planning to address them in the coming year.
“Retaining people and reducing turnover, improving employee experience and engagement, and developing a close-knit culture despite shifts to hybrid work arrangements were all cited,” says Blanchard. To address these challenges, survey respondents indicated they will be focusing on increased spending for leadership development initiatives—with a majority of respondents indicating a 10-30% increase.
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It’s a Challenging Time to be a Manager
What are the biggest stress challengers leaders are facing? Researchers at The Ken Blanchard Companies® surveyed more than 800 leaders, and asked this question. In addition, they asked what would help them to be more effective. More than 70,000 data points were analysed, yielding an in-depth look into the lives of today’s managers. Learn more about the results of the 2022 Manager Challenges Survey.
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How Leaders Create and Sustain Inclusivity within Teams
Our workplaces have reshaped appreciably. We have created an exponentially large talent pool with employees working in a significantly more diverse context. How do we ensure team members feel they belong and are included? There are four major components for creating an inclusive team environment. Here is a closer look at each of them.
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3 Ways to Help People Decide to Stay, Not Stay
In order to feel comfortable staying with an organisation, people must have a manager they can trust—someone who cares about them, recognises their efforts, and wants to help them grow and succeed. If that sounds like the type of leader you’d like to be, here are three ways to get started.
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Confronting Workplace Ostracism
According to social scientists, workplace ostracism is a widespread phenomenon. Workplace ostracism is rarely overt; it is subtle and insidious. Over time, those who are ostracised may feel invisible and unable to have positive social interactions and may suffer negative impacts to their mental and physical health. Let’s take a look at confronting workplace ostracism.
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Take a Quite Approach to Reengaging Your People
Are you able to recognise the symptoms of physical and emotional withdrawal associated with quiet quitting, and proactively address them? What can you, an individual manager, do to make some progress on engagement without it turning into a major event? Here’s a 3-step “quiet” approach to reengaging your people.
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The Self-Aware Leader: Take an Inside-Outside Approach
Being self-aware brings tremendous freedom. And that makes you a better human and a better leader. Its is foundational to inspiring leadership and comprises of two parts. The first is being able to observe your own feelings and thoughts and their relationship. The second part is being aware of how you affect others and how they perceive you. If you want to be an inspiring leader, you must have some degree of mastery over both parts of self-awareness. In this blog we discuss this key requirement of leadership.
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Quiet Quitting: A Step Down the Path Toward Complete Burnout?
Burnout is a response to chronic job stressors people deal with on a regular basis. It’s a constant grinding that wears people away a little bit each day until they find themselves in a state of exhaustion, cynicism, and discouragement that is deep and pervasive. One widely discussed technique people are using to ward off burnout is called “quiet quitting.” Quiet quitting begs the question: What's wrong with the work in the first place? Let’s take a look.
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Make Career Conversations a Regular Agenda Item in One-on-ones
Why would anyone want to be a career builder when they risk losing the people they develop? Because it energises, makes people feel good about who they are and what they contribute.
Career development is about the employee experience. It’s about the leader learning what’s important to the individual on a very personal level and discovering their strengths. It’s about understanding that people are happiest when they are growing and when they are respected for their skills and strengths.
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Are You Taking the Time to Connect? A Coach’s Story
Do you build relationships as part of your job or do you spend your time focused on executing—getting work done and marking tasks off your ist? Would you act differently if you knew that in most cases the most successful leaders are the ones who are all about building connections? In this blog we provide three ways for you to get started to get a little more connection in your life.
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Measuring the Impact of Coaching: 3 Key Steps
Effective coaching can be the best experience leaders have ever had in terms of supporting their own development and growth, but measuring the impact of leader growth can be tough. Can the true impact of coaching be measured? In this blog we look at three key steps organisations can take to simplify the measurement process.
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