Yesterday’s blog was focused on what can hold you back from being motivated. Today’s focus is on a great article by Royale Scuderi on the 6 Motivation Types: She defined motivation as “the force that compels us to action. It drives us to work hard and pushes us to succeed. Motivation influences our behavior and
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Motivation
I went to meet a friend for lunch the other day. She was sharing that there are days where she is just not feeling very motivated to get things done. I told her that this happens to everyone once in awhile. You may be dealing with a stressful event or you are overwhelmed and
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Motivation
Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! Each week I will share some great articles that I have found as well as the links to my own Creating Leadership Connections blog for the week. This week’s summary includes: Quotes on Kindness, Leadership and Teamwork, Tips to Boost Accountability, Qualities of Authentic People and my articles
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Coaching
How do you know if a leader has integrity? A simple way of defining integrity is that they “consistently act with an internal moral compass that guides them and they do the right thing even if no one else is around.” What are the main characteristics that come to mind when you think about leaders
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Blog, Integrity, LeadershipCan you proactively deal with ethical code of conduct issues? Each employee at my company used to get a code of conduct book and we had to sign that we had reviewed and understood it. It talked about the acceptable behavior that each employee was expected to follow. We then moved to a computerized training
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Blog, Coaching, IntegrityIntegrity is one of the most important qualities that I respect in a leader. It is defined as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles.” Why is it important? To me it comes down to knowing that the person who is making decisions is doing it for the right reasons and you
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Blog, Integrity, Leadership
When you become a leader you will feel exactly the same way as you did before, but those around you will begin to see you differently. One of the things that you need to know is that your words and actions have more power than you realize. People will watch you and take their cues
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Blog, influence
Every week I find articles, quotes, etc that I save and share on Facebook or re-tweet on Twitter about leadership. I also have a theme day in my Facebook Group for leaders called Fantastic Resource Friday. I thought it would be helpful to share these articles, links to Ted Talks, Quotes and my Creating Leadership
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Blog, Coaching, Leadership, Resources
When there is a lot going on, communication is one of the things that may slip through the cracks. You have meetings all day long and sharing the updates you learned may slip your mind. This is why email has become such a major form of communication. No one has time to talk to each
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Blog, communicationsCommunication is generally thought of as the words that are said to another person. In reality, there is another type that is used much more often called non-verbal communication. Albert Mehrabian did a study of verbal vs non-verbal communication in 1960. His work showed that non-verbal communication is broken up into two types and is
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Blog, communicationsHow many times have you had a conversation with someone and you walked away feeling like everything was understood? Then you find out later, that you and the other person came away with two completely different understandings. It seems so impossible, but it happens every single day. This recently happened to me. I had to
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Blog, communications, ListeningCommunication is something that we do every day. New decisions are made or some new request is brought up and you do your best to get the information out to your team. When you are in so many meetings, leading a project and a team it becomes a challenge every single day. How can you
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Blog, communicationsWhen I started working many years ago, I showed initiative, solved problems and got things done. I was rewarded for it, so I continued to work a lot of hours and do those same things throughout my career. When I started to lead a team, I should
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Blog, delegation, Leadership, Team Building
It is a huge challenge to juggle everything that needs to be completed between work and home. Our to-do lists continue to grow, no matter how many things are crossed off. This creates that feeling of being overwhelmed. Being able to create boundaries in your life can help reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed and
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Blog, Boundaries, delegation, focus, Priorities
I was thinking about stress, balance and how sleep impacts your life. Thanks to the world of electronics, you can track your sleep now. I started using an app on my iPhone called Sleep Cycle to track my sleep. (you can try the free trial version.)
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Be Present, Blog, self-care, stress