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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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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“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives … not looking for flaws, but for potential.” – Ellen Goodman At the beginning
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“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will
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Time Management and Leadership “I’ve come to believe that seeking happiness is not a frivolous pursuit. It’s honorable and necessary. And most people forget even to think about it.” – Goldie Hawn I was picking my daughter up after a sport practice. Another friend was there getting her daughter also. She was obviously in a
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Being a relational leader is vital to success. The more you lead, the more you depend on relationship skills rather than technical skills. However, many leaders can be lured into focusing on tasks instead of people. One of my clients knows that the busier she gets, the more task focused she gets. She has to
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What is a top trait that moves organizations and teams to excellence? If we look at the typical actions of organizations and teams, the answer would be in gaining knowledge. Often we think that the greatest, cutting-edge, performing teams have the best knowledge (including strategy, talent or data). However, knowledge would not be the answer
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We seem to constantly hear about leaders who lose their way by committing ethical failures that ruin their career and organization. Hewlett-Packard CEO, Mark Hurd, submitted false expense reports and had to resign. U.S. Senator John Ensign used monetary payoffs to cover up an extramarital affair. The list could go on. It is easy to
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3 Steps to Life Balance When we lack life balance, we can often experience pain that impacts us in multiple areas of our lives. Often there is low mental energy, which leads to loss of productivity and money. We can have low emotional energy, which leads to unfulfilled relationships, strain in marriages, friendships and not
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You Can Be an Influencer – Part III “If you can’t find a way to change a person’s intrinsic response to a behavior – if you can’t make the right behaviors pleasurable and the wrong behaviors painful – you’ll have to make up for the motivational shortfall by relying on external incentives or possibly even
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