Communication Coach Alex Lyon
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Transitions Statements for Public Speaking
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
Barriers to Effective Listening Skills Top 6
These are the Top 6 barriers to Effective Listening Skills that often cause difficulties. This video breaks down the top 6 barriers and gives tips to overcome them. This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on Active Listening Skills.
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The Leadership Skill Set: What Every Leader Needs to be Able to Do
In this video, I look at the leadership skills a leader needs to acquire in a workplace setting. It’s a long list, so buckle up.
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Leadership Attitudes: How to Approach Things Like a Leader
Leadership is largely a matter of character. Yes, there are some skills you’ll need, some roles to discharge, and a choice of how you do it. But, first and foremost, what matters are your attitudes to leadership and the people you lead.
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10-Step Leadership Process: A Simple Model for How to Lead
In this video, I offer you a ten-step Leadership Process.
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Leadership Traits, Roles, and Styles: Three Types of Leadership Model
There are many conflicting models of leadership. How can you reconcile them all – they cannot all be right. Can they? In fact, they approach leadership in different ways.
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Traits Models of Leadership
There are many approaches to modeling leadership. But, perhaps the oldest assumes that leaders are people born with a specific set of qualities, or traits. Today, we still recognize that there are some traits that can make us better...
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Leadership Behaviors: Task and Relationship Focus
In the middle of the 20th Century, researchers turned their attention from how leaders are, to what to what they do. With a suitable behavioral theory of leadership, we can more easily train leaders. They found the key concepts are task...
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Action Centered Leadership - A Roles-based or Functional Leadership Model
Roles-based approaches to leadership focus not on the leader’s traits nor their behavior. Instead, they focus on their functions: what they need to do, to lead. And none is better, nor more accessible, than John Adair’s Action Centered...
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What is Transformational Leadership?
Transformational leadership is a story in three parts. But those parts are closely integrated, so buckle up for a longer video than usual.
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What is Servant Leadership?
Servant Leadership is one of my favorite concepts. For me it’s a no brainer. So, let me explain why.
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Tannenbaum & Schmidt: The Leadership Continuum
Tannenbaum and Schmidt’s Leadership Continuum is a situational leadership model, offering a range of styles and ways to select among them. 🧭 This video is part of course module number 3.11.3 🏢 Program 3: Managing and Leading Individuals...
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What is Transactional Leadership?
Transactional Leadership is the everyday leadership between a manager and colleague, officer and soldier, or any leader and their followers. It is the process of passing on a request or requirement and winning a commitment to meet it.
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Teamwork: Facilitating Effective Team Working
Your job is not ‘to do’. It’s to ‘help your team to do’. And facilitating effective team working means making it easy for your team to do.
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Team Leadership and the Tuckman Group Development Stages
In an earlier video, we looked at the Tuckman Model of Group Development. Now, we'll tie the different stages to the style of team leadership that will work best in each stage.
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Servant Leadership: Leading Your Team in the Tuckman Performing Stage
In the Tuckman Performing Stage, teams don’t need guidance (they know their roles) nor supportive team leadership (they can manage their own care, collaboration, and conflict management). What they most need is to be allowed to succeed...
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Team Leadership: What is John Adair's Action Centered Leadership?
John Adair's Action Centered Leadership model (sometimes known as the three circles model) is one of the best models for Team Leadership. Every manager should know it.
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LEAD Your Team: 4 Team Leadership Priorities
Here is a very simple model of four team leadership priorities - which spell out LEAD. Can you guess what they are?
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Four Quadrants of Team Leadership
A team can focus on two things: task and relationship. And, for each, there are 2 elements: the content and the process. This gives us 4 quadrants of team leadership.
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What is the Team Leadership Continuum? [Tannenbaum & Schmidt]
Robert Tannenbaum and Warren H Schmidt set out a range of leadership behaviours. This model gives us a powerful team leadership continuum.
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Daniel Goleman's 6 Leadership Styles for Team Leaders
In his book, The New Leaders, Daniel Goleman and his co-authors set out 6 leadership styles for team leaders.
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Team Leadership: Handling Team Problems
Team working is not always smooth and easy. So, an essential part of team leadership is handling team problems. Here we look at the basics of how to handle 8 common team problems.
Communication Coach Alex Lyon
7 Public Speaking Tips for Beginners
Here are 7 Public Speaking Tips for Beginners that will make your look, sound, and feel more confident immiately.
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What are leadership skills: are leaders trendsetters or managers?
What are leadership skills: are leaders trendsetters or managers?