Enhanced Strategic Thinking: A Guide for Leaders

Strategic thinking is a vital skill for managers and supervisors, enabling them to shape the future with purpose and clarity. It’s about thinking ahead, designing a plan, and setting goals today to control tomorrow. For leaders, this means driving success by building a team of strategic navigators—c...

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Strategic Growth: The Key to Enhanced Adaptability

In today’s fast-paced world, adaptability is an essential trait for effective leadership. Leaders who prioritize strategic growth tend to embrace change rather than cling to outdated practices, better positioning themselves to navigate the complexities of modern challenges.

Leadership growth is a s...

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Laying a Foundation on Values: Simple Practices

We started this look at how values serve as the foundation for every organization and how things can go wrong when that foundation isn’t in place. From there, we worked through the importance of clearly defining our organizational values, and how doing so can truly rally our team members, earn buy-i...

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Strategic Growth Eliminates Overconfidence

A lack of strategic growth and self-awareness can manifest as overconfidence in one's abilities and decision-making. A leader who is overly confident may underestimate risks, ignore warning signs, and fail to seek input from others, potentially leading to poor decision-making.

How does strategicall...

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Strong Values Earn Passionate Support

Someone at any level of an organization can deteriorate our relationships with long term clients as well the community around them through behavior that isn’t congruent with their core values. And regardless of their primary focus being on the people involved or the task at hand, those clients and c...

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Who Else Cares About Your Values?

A great team will definitely care about the core values we exemplify as we build the foundation for our organization, but that’s not where the importance of those values stops. How leaders, as well as each team member in an organization, live out those values will impact business relationships with ...

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Leadership Insight: The Power of Reflection

As I (Cindy) write this, I'm thinking of every leader who wants to be better tomorrow than they are today. That takes reflection. In the fast-paced world of leadership, it's easy to get caught up in the immediate demands of decision-making, managing teams, and driving results. However, reflection st...

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Great Values Show Up in Everything We Do

Throughout Leading With A Clear Purpose, I emphasized how important it is for everyone in a leadership role to understand exactly why they do what they do, to share a message with our teams detailing why our organization exists, and to help each team member understand their own purpose while connect...

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Great Teams Are Built On Great Values

For the casual observer, it could appear as though the results each of the businesses Craig and Kim have acquired are the primary reasons so many solid candidates have applied to join their team. After all, who doesn’t want to be part of a winning team? Where I’d challenge that casual observer, thou...

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Great Results Come From Great Teams

Having looked at how much folks within our organizations need us to exemplify what we’re holding up as core values and detailing how unlikely we are to build a great team without those values being a legitimate part of what we’re doing on a daily basis, let’s dig into some practical steps each of us...

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The Best Talent Doesn’t Equal the Best Team

Whether it’s because we’ve compromised our values, losing credibility with some of the best folks who had previously carried our team, or we simply didn’t put enough intentional effort into rallying everyone around a clearly articulated set of core values, the highest performers in our organizations...

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No Good Reason for Compromising Our Values

I’ll say it again: even the most talented individuals rarely form a great team without clear values serving as the foundation. For more than two decades, I’ve heard John Maxwell emphasize how “everything rises and falls on leadership.” When it comes to building a foundation on those values, those of...

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