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From Servant Leadership to Shared Leadership

Leading Answers

We will examine what leadership entails and how it applies to agile teams. Then discuss the transition from servant leadership to shared leadership.   EQ as a Foundation for Leadership.   Leadership is a Huge Topic.   What Leadership Is Not.

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3 Key Exercises To Build Trust In Agile Among Project Teams

The Digital Project Manager

The post 3 Key Exercises To Build Trust In Agile Among Project Teams appeared first on The Digital Project Manager. Agile Leadership & Team ManagementYou see it all the time: business leaders emphasizing the critical need for their organization to become agile.

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers – Part 2

International Institute for Learning

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part two of this four-part series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. Be sure to see article one that explains leadership for project managers and outlines the five leadership components covered in the series.

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Understanding Leadership

Rebel’s Guide to PM

If management is doing the right thing, then leadership is doing things right. You can demonstrate leadership skills at any level, from project coordinator to project director. Making leadership work for you. Leadership is truly a very practical skill.

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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

The IIL Blog

Five exercises to get you started with mentalization. There are many tools and exercises that enable the development of mentalization. Below, I will walk you through five exercises you can use in your own workplace. Exercise 1: Coaching or supervision. By Mario Ebro.

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Extending Servant Leadership with Host Leadership

Leading Answers

 However, let’s start by examining what servant leadership already contains.     Servant leadership was popularized by Robert Greenleaf and described as a mindset and set of practices.  Celebrations and recognition are momentum-building exercises.

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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

International Institute for Learning

Five exercises to get you started with mentalization. There are many tools and exercises that enable the development of mentalization. Below, I will walk you through five exercises you can use in your own workplace. Exercise 1: Coaching or supervision. By Mario Ebro.

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Why Great Leaders Mentalize and Five Exercises to Help You Do So

International Institute for Learning

Working with psychological safety and trust in companies has been a fluffy topic of trust exercises and experimentation over the past decades. Already, massive amounts of training, courses and exercises exist within the space of mentalization – just not aimed at the corporate leader.

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Leadership Building Activities

ProjectManager.com

Leadership is a combination of innate and learned traits. Jennifer Bridges, PMP, shows you three key leadership building activities that will help you become a better leader. In Review – Leadership Building Activities. Before offering her leadership building activities, Jennifer defined what leadership is. These are the building blocks of true leadership. Well, leadership building activities can help you be the best leader you can be.

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Leadership Tips for Project Managers – Part 1

International Institute for Learning

By Mike Griffiths Welcome to part one of a four-part series introducing basic leadership ideas that any project manager or Scrum master can employ. This first article explains how leadership differs from management and outlines five core leadership attributes for managing projects.

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The Power of Project Leadership [Book review]

Rebel’s Guide to PM

In the past I have interviewed Susanne Madsen on the topic of project leadership and her book, The Power of Project Leadership. The book takes you from understanding why leadership is important for project managers to uncovering your own motivations and leadership style.

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Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management

LiquidPlanner

Based on the classroom exercises, you’re excited to try new concepts and apply the magic cure-all that will solve all waterfall-based project problems. Adopting Agile is an Exercise in Change Management. Adopting agile is an exercise in change management for a number of reasons: Software isn’t an order by number model. I presented at a few executive leadership meetings and started to socialize the concepts with other directors and managers.

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5 Key Goal Setting Exercises for High-Performing Engineering Teams (from Google, LinkedIn, DropBox, and more)

Planio

Goal-setting exercise 1: Effective goal-setting starts at the top and cascades down. Goal-setting exercise 2: Get clear about your culture of goal-setting. Goal setting exercise 3: Use OKRs to choose the right goals for your engineering team. As a general rule, Weiner and the leadership at Google suggest setting 3–5 personal OKRs for any given quarter. Goal setting exercise 4: Use MMOM metrics to measure your goal progress.

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10 Reasons Why Sleep Is Important for Performance and Leadership

Project Bliss

You likely don’t know all the reasons why sleep is important for productivity, leadership, and health! I’m sluggish, not getting enough exercise, and there are a cascade of other impacts. Emotional intelligence is a critical leadership trait.

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Managing Risk from Every Level of Your Organization

LiquidPlanner

Risk management is of limited worth if treated as a checkbox exercise. Blog Featured Post Leadership Project Management

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Leadership, Leadership Levels, and Leadership Styles for Project Managers

MPUG

Leadership, Leadership Levels, and Leadership Styles for Project Managers. She taught the young, down, and dejected Peter (Spiderman) the basics of leadership. But every manager doesn’t have leadership capability. Leadership Vs. Management. Leadership.

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Book Review: The Power of Project Leadership

LiquidPlanner

I just finished the last chapter of Susanne Madsen’s piece on The Power of Project Leadership (2nd edition). I’ve been a longtime student of both Project Management and of researchers like Brené Brown , who explore emotional intelligence with leadership. For me, The Power of Project Leadership is where these two worlds combine in the most impactful of ways! . Susanne asserts that we must do this through the expansion of our project leadership skills.

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6 Ways to Minimize Workplace Uncertainty During Uncertain Times

LiquidPlanner

Another way is to encourage employee health via good habits like eating well, getting enough sleep, and exercising. Blog Featured Post Leadership OtherUncertainty is a fact of life, especially in the workplace. The COVID-19 pandemic continues to leave its mark on the labor market.

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Spark by John Ratey [Book Review] and How Exercise Makes You Smarter

Project Bliss

?. Book Review for Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain. Ratey goes in-depth with research and the science behind how exercise makes you smarter. . You might be wondering why I’m reviewing a book about exercise for a project management and leadership blog. Even better, there are tons of benefits to exercise – many you already know, but many will surprise you. As it turns out, exercise makes you smarter.

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How Emotional Intelligence Is Important In Leadership?

Project-Management.pm

Emotional Intelligence and Leadership. Possessing emotional intelligence is significant towards successful team relationships because—let’s face it—do you think a manager that gives an earful to his or her subordinates epitomizes great leadership ? Emotional intelligence has five key domains and is crucial in leadership , as well as they help a person grow and develop as an effective leader. . Cet article How Emotional Intelligence Is Important In Leadership?

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Project Leadership In Uncertain Environments with Carole Osterweil

Rebel’s Guide to PM

What’s the difference between project management and project leadership? A recent APM report, Project Leadership; skills, behaviours, knowledge and values , explored this question. . The authors concluded project leadership is future-focused. Repeat the exercise often and review your project management approach accordingly. She believes that project success cannot be separated from leadership – what we say, what we do and how we conduct ourselves on a daily basis. .

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Professional Agile Leadership Certification Course - An Audio Experience Report

Scrum.org

after he has participated in one of my recent Professional Agile Leadership (PAL-E) certification courses in Munich Germany. In this episode we spoke about the value of the exercises in the course and the facilitated group work. More importantly we connected the facilitation techniques to the leadership role. Cool and compact overview of agile methods, agile mindset and agile leadership. One of the regular listeners, Daniel Lachmann-Nishibane, appeared on www.agile.fm

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Project Management Vs. Leadership – How nTask evolved From an Early Start up to a Robust Industry Competitor

nTask

Eventually, it comes down to the following approach: Strategic Leadership. Although leadership and management are arguably switchable roles, the usual chain of command goes from top to bottom. Leadership and Project Management Is a Two Faced Coin: When I say it is a two-faced coin, the emphasis is on the correlation factor. Arguably, project managers are responsible for doing both: i.e. leadership and management.

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The 9 Best Leadership Games for Skill Development

ProjectManager.com

Leadership is not an academic pursuit. By all means, read about what makes a great leader, but temper that cerebral exercise with something you can really sink your teeth into. We’re talking leadership games. The following leadership games can both make you a better leader, and improve the leadership qualities of your team members. The object of this leadership game is to guide the blindfolded person through the minefield without incident.

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Leadership and motivation: 3 exercises to bring out your best

Runrun.it

Joanna Barsh and Johanne Lavoie, who both work with the consultancy McKinsey, have released a book called Centered Leadership: Leading with […]. The post Leadership and motivation: 3 exercises to bring out your best appeared first on For Managers | Personal Development Hacks. LeadershipThere are some foolproof tips for people who want to become good leaders (and since you’re reading this…), but others aren’t quite so clear.

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How to Manage Stakeholder Conflict

Project Risk Coach

Turn Conflict into a Problem-Solving Exercise You can help stakeholders resolve the conflict by reframing the conflict as a problem-solving exercise. Project managers must use their leadership skills to influence the stakeholders. Leadership

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Leadership in times of Corona

Scrum.org

Use meditation techniques and don’t forget to exercise, that’s helpful for serenity. A couple of weeks ago we were happily following our daily routines. We grabbed our coffee mugs, slowly walked over to our teams and chatted with them.

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Leadership during times of disruption

PM for the Masses

Today I chat with the excellent "Leadership Freak" Dan Rockwell on how to exercise leadership during times such as these. Today I chat with the excellent "Leadership Freak" Dan Rockwell on how to exercise leadership during times such as these.

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12 Sure-Fire Ways to Improve Project Risk Management

Project Risk Coach

They facilitate risk identification exercises that result in a boatload of risks. Some project managers wait until things are out of control before they exercise risk management. 2=Planning 4=Control Leadership Productivity Project Risk Management

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How to Translate Leadership Stress into Performance Improvement

LiquidPlanner

Stress and leadership go together hand-in-hand. From difficult decisions about people to vexing choices on direction and investment, every individual who serves in a leadership capacity has effectively signed on to own the issues no one else will touch. Leadership Other

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Root Cause Analysis: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

This exercise a deeper dive into the problem and its causes, rather than accepting the first answer, and brings you closer to what is actually causing the problem. Entrepreneurship Leadership Project Management The Project Manager BlogIssues arise in almost every project.

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Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Strong Leadership for Project Success

MPUG

One person’s definition of what helps make a project successful may differ from another’s, but there is no disputing that good project leadership is a critical factor to project success. What it really takes is effective leadership! Articles Lead leadership project management

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Communications Planning: A Quick Guide

ProjectManager.com

For example, a communication plan for an entire organization might be created by someone in HR or leadership. This can be a challenging exercise, but it improves the salience of the message. Leadership Planning The Project Manager Blog

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Project Management and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

International Institute for Learning

Self-driving cars use AI concepts as do military simulation exercises and content delivery networks. 2022 Volume 1 Number 19 Thought LeadershipBy Harold Kerzner, Ph.D. Recently, I conducted a webinar on PM 2.0/3.0: The Future of Project Management.

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25 Fun Icebreaker Games for Meetings

ProjectManager.com

Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. You’ll find at the end of the team-building exercise that everyone is laughing and happily working together. Leadership The Project Manager BlogMeetings. Am I Right?

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Managing Virtual Teams Successfully

The IIL Blog

Tuckman model of forming-storming-norming-performing), they can benefit from a Simple Interactive Meaningful Practical Learning Exercise (SMILE). Evolution of Learning Exercises for Collaboration. No one author or source can take credit for the evolution of learning exercises for virtual teams. These McGraw-Hill publications refer to Experiential Learning Exercises, group mixers, warm-ups, energizers and playful activities. Types of Interactive Exercises.

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How Leaders Can – and Must – Make the Long-term not a Plan, but a Mindset

International Institute for Learning

By Larry Robertson In Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times, author Larry Robertson writes about a new kind of leadership, one that matches these uncertain times and enables organizations to thrive: Rebel leadership. Thought Leadership

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Choosing the right leadership models for your team and your organization

Runrun.it

Let’s get this out of the way this early on: There is NO one correct leadership style. A lot of factors affect the kind of leadership model that works for a particular individual, team, and / or organization. Some leadership models that work with others won’t always work with the next team or company. True and effective leadership is never about what title one holds, or what awards or accolades one receives. Autocratic Leadership. Laissez-Faire Leadership.

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Transform the Way Your PMO Operates

International Institute for Learning

Optimism abounds as people write down their goals: “Lose 20 pounds by the summer”, “No more junk food”, or “Exercise at least 4 days a week”. Browse IIL’s Leadership & Interpersonal Skills here! Thought Leadership

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25 Fun Icebreaker Games for Meetings

ProjectManager.com

Icebreaker activities are also a great team building exercise for traditional and remote teams. You’ll find at the end of the team-building exercise that everyone is laughing and happily working together. Leadership The Project Manager BlogMeetings. Am I Right?

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