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“I’m noticing an understanding for our co-workers which leads to grace for behaviors that would have frustrated us in the past.  I think processing with our co-workers helps create that understanding, it allows for enlightenment and bonding through relating.” - Appello client Walking alongside leaders and teams of leaders through their leadership development journeys is such a blessing and one that we proudly show up for each day. Thank you for the feedback and for allowing us to partner with you.   #impact #leadershipdevelopment #appellopartners

During this season of giving and gratitude, we want to express our appreciation for you. Your loyalty and faith in our business, partnership, and process means everything. We have accomplished so much together this year, and we can’t wait to see all that 2025 has to offer. Happy holidays to you and your families. May the season be one of joy, peace, celebration, prosperity, and warmth. We hope the year to come is filled with health and new blessings. #HappyHolidays #AppelloPartners

Leadership is influence. Building trust and strong relationships is crucial for thriving both personally and professionally.  Gaining influence and creating impact takes time, work, understanding, and intentionality. If you missed our December toolkit session, check out this snippet featuring The Influence Model Tool, a model built, established, and centered on trust.    #toolkitsession #buildthebridge #leadershiptool  #appellopartners

Join us on Thursday, January 9th at 12 pm MDT for our free monthly Leadership Toolkit Session! During this lunch-and-learn style webinar, you will learn a practical leadership tool you can immediately apply to your work and your life. The goal is to equip each of us with a power tool or two that helps us do the heavy lifting in leading ourselves well and in leading others well too. January's Toolkit Session will be facilitated by Thane Ringler and LV Hanson, an Appello Partners Associate and will feature Creating Healthy Culture - a tool and set of ideas that help us think about how we can build a thriving culture on-purpose, creating environments where our people can be their best selves. Register at https://lnkd.in/grqpXbrp #leadershiptools #freewebinar #appellopartners

In our recent edition of Scintilla, we highlighted the importance of intentionally creating and maintaining an environment that promotes our people's highest good and our company's best performance. In doing so it’s helpful to “revisit what it is our organization is aiming to accomplish (vision), how we plan to get there (both at a high-level - mission, and on a smaller scale - tactics), and then what types of behaviors or norms will help foster those goals (values). In making sure that these are mutually agreed upon by all in the organization, and then intentionally reinforced by leadership at every level, we can begin to form a culture that is in alignment with what we all are opting-in to as a group. As we live this out in daily experience and practice, the primary work becomes holding ourselves and others to the standard we have set, being courageous enough to own the times when we are falling short, and being bold enough to call others up when their actions begin to be out of alignment." Take action each day to move our people and our organization in the direction of health and empowerment. #creatinghealthyculture #leadershipdevelopment #appellopartners

“Whether we like it or not, our company has a culture, and for leaders the task lies in looking honestly and courageously at what our people are experiencing and how we have contributed to that reality.” Don’t miss our December Scintilla article where we talk about the importance of creating and maintaining a healthy culture and some actions you can take to do so. Subscribe to Scintilla today to receive relevant business articles, content, and leadership tools, including our upcoming article “How Much Are You Really Thinking About Culture?” https://lnkd.in/gpXuZ9E9 #subscribe #Scintilla #appellopartners

Why does leadership development matter?  It enhances organizational adaptability and innovation. The future is uncertain, and that uncertainty is not going anywhere. For a business to weather the storms of change, it must be able to adapt to the market, consumer needs, technological improvements, and a host of other factors. This means the people within the organization need to have the skills, emotional intelligence, and relational intelligence necessary to do this as one larger ecosystem moving together towards the vision set in place by leadership. To do this well requires each person to understand how to lead themselves effectively and to have tools and a pathway for developing the skills to lead others well too. #leadershipdevelopmentmatters #appellopartners

For some of us, hearing a vision can be compelling, but we may still be reluctant unless we know how we are going to get there. If you missed our October toolkit session, check out this snippet featuring the Build The Bridge Tool, an extension of communicating vision that helps us see where we are going.   #toolkitsession #buildthebridge #leadershiptool  #appellopartners

An essential job of every leader is being able to give clear and effective feedback to our people. The urgency for this feedback is heightened whenever results aren’t what we had hoped for or expected from those we lead. Yet the way we give that feedback plays a major role in how it is received by the person on the other side of us. Calling Up, Not Out is a tool that helps us reframe that feedback in a way that helps the other person feel like we are for them and not against them. For instance: say, one of your direct reports was supposed to email a customer about an issue, and a week later they still haven’t sent it out and the customer reached out to you asking for clarity. The most common response would be: “Why didn’t you send that email out like you were supposed to?” This makes the other person feel like it is you vs. them and will often lead to them shutting down and operating out of fear. In order to lead through influence we must go into those conversations with the posture and mindset of “fighting for the highest good of the other.” When we do this, we engage the conversation from a place of support and camaraderie, even if the content is difficult to receive. This might resemble something like: “Hey, I wanted to check in on the email that was supposed to go out to client x. I know you were really trying to support our customers well and had some goals to do that, and this doesn’t match up with those goals, just wanted to understand what happened and see what we can learn from it.” The next time you’re needing to give some difficult feedback, recall this tool and choose to call up instead of calling out. #leadership #communication #AppelloPartners

It’s not too late to register for our free Leadership Toolkit Session coming up tomorrow. Join Justin Almas, an Appello Partners Associate and I to unpack The Influence Model tool and learn how to lead through influence instead of reverting to leading by mere authority. Register at https://lnkd.in/gYWd5QGV. #leadershiptools #freewebinar #appellopartners