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False Assumptions About Being a Compassionate Leader

Many challenges leaders face in being compassionate stem from their false assumptions about unwanted outcomes. Here are some examples . If I’m compassionate, they will think I agree with them. Some...

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High Performance Meetings: Four Questions To Ask Before Scheduling Your Next...

Do you often think “this meeting is an unproductive use of my time”? If you do, try asking yourself these four questions. The answers will help you and your team increase meeting productivity. 1. Is...

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Bumper Stickers For Leaders

I like bumper stickers. They’re brief, to the point, and often clever. Here are a few of my favorites along with how they relate to Mutual Learning leadership. Minds are like parachutes; they function...

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Moving From Either/Or to Both/And Thinking

Try this quick experiment. Place your hand above your head as if you’re going to trace a circle on the ceiling with your index finger. Now, trace an imaginary circle in a clockwise direction. While...

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What The Mutual Learning Approach Is Not

When leaders first hear about the Mutual Learning approach, they often misunderstand what it is. Sometimes the easiest way to understand something is to contrast it with what it is not. So, here are...

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Giving Up the “One Leader in a Room” Mindset

Do you head up a leadership team in which you feel like you’re doing most of the heavy lifting? If so, you may be suffering from the “one leader in a room” mindset. As the name implies, when you...

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Don’t Bury the Lead

Here’s the lead: In challenging situations, you’re probably taking too long to get to your point — and it’s creating unnecessary anxiety for you and the people you’re talking to. In journalism, the...

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Are You Performing Heart Bypass Surgery on Your Team?

When surgeons perform heart bypass surgery, they know they’re treating symptoms and not getting at the root cause of the problem. The surgery reduces the pain from blocked arteries, but it doesn’t get...

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Why There Needs To Be an “I” in Team

There is no “I” in team. That common sports slogan often adopted by the business world is clever, memorable — and misleading. The idea behind the “no I in team” slogan is that teams must focus on...

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How Unilateral Control Undermines Team Results and Relationships

If your leadership team isn’t getting the results it needs, the cause may be your (and your team’s) mindset. Mindset is the set of core values and assumptions from which you operate. It is your way of...

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Dealing with Team Members who are “Off-Track”

Remember the last time you were in a team meeting and someone said something that seemed completely off-track? What happened next? If your team is like most, someone said something like, “Dan, that’s...

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What Stops Leaders from Showing Compassion

Most good people want to act compassionately at work. And recent research suggests that compassion also creates positive outcomes in organizations: People who experience compassion feel more committed...

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What the Research Tells Us About Team Creativity and Innovation

There are areas in the research on teams where the findings are all very clear, as are the prescriptions for leaders. Creativity and innovation are not among them. We know how some factors affect...

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5 Ways Meetings Get Off Track, and How to Prevent Each One

We’ve all been in frustrating meetings where one person keeps going off on tangents. If the team can’t get the person back on track, important decisions get delayed and/or the meeting drags on past the...

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