What is your reason for the season? If you work and lead in retail, it can often be just to survive this busy season. For those in education, it is to just get to winter break. For some industries, they look forward to the manufacturing shut-down at the end of the year. For many not-for-profit […]
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Nancy is a high performing leader. She is known for getting results, and she knows how to win. Her performance review was going well, until her team member’s ratings of her were reviewed. The bottom-line feedback from others was that they did not like working with Nancy. Nancy realized that if she wanted to be
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Would you become a patient at a hospital where the mortality rate was one in ten? You might think that this hospital was dealing with a deadly disease and doing the best they could with a tragic illness. However, this is the statistic that women who were giving birth faced when they came to Vienna’s
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Imagine this scenario with me. A colleague brings to you a report where they have made a mistake. Previously you had suggested they do the report a different way, but they chose to try a new method that didn’t work out. They admit the mistake to you and show how they are going to correct
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In my last series of articles, there has been a theme of developing presence of being an at-rest transformational leader. Below is a list of elements that contribute to developing presence. Know Who You Are You cannot develop presence of transformational leadership until you know who you are. Otherwise you get distracted trying to be
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Do you want to create true change and innovation? When we have a question, often the first place people go is to the New York Times Best Seller list. Or we search through social media to find the top blogs. We have an overwhelming amount of information at our fingertips. But searching this information only
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Who is a person in your life that has had a transformational effect on you? Picture that person in your mind. Would you like to be more like them? In my last article I discussed the process of being an at-rest transformational leader through internal awareness. There are three areas within us of the mind,
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At work and in life, we get bombarded by circumstances that we are not expecting. A supervisee sends you a harsh email. You get a strong letter of reprimand from your supervisor for a simple mistake. A customer gives you a negative rating that leads to the loss of your position. Work efforts with a
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As a leader we can recognize that a change needs to happen in order for the team to more effectively reach its vision. However, often as we try to push the team towards change, this can results in striving and becomes like trying to push a boulder up a hill. Have you ever felt like
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“The purposes of a person’s heart are deep waters, but one who has insight draws them out.” – Proverbs 20:5 Do you ever feel frustrated with motivating another person to do something? An important aspect of leadership is moving a team forward with a common mission. But, what do you do when people seem to
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