I attended a Leadership Conference this past summer and one of the speakers was Marcus Lemonis. I had not heard of him before, but he took the time to share a lot about his personal story which has really driven the purpose in his life. He is now a self-made multi-millionaire who is the CEO of Camping World, Good Sam Enterprises and Gander Outdoors to name just a few. He also has his own TV show on CNBC called “The…
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Today’s guest contributor post is by Mona Reiser. Mona is a former Customer Service and Supply Chain Executive who resides in Atlanta. She now helps other businesses to be set up for success and will be getting her real estate license soon. Though it’s not wise to measure your progress by someone else’s standards, it’s also the way the world works, more or less, in the practical order of things. Think about what they’ll be judging, and gear up for…
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Client question: “I feel like my management wants me to be just like them. Their style is very different compared to mine. Can I still be effective and not have to change?” The style that you have is naturally who you are and you should be confident in that. Leadership is about having a diversity of styles to complement each other which makes for a stronger team. You may approach things from different perspectives and styles of communication. You may…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Take your leadership to the next level, how to think differently for success, leader’s challenge others to be great, leveraging emotional intelligence and vulnerability, engaging your team, resources, examples and approaches to self-promotion for you and your team Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: 10 Seconds to Take Your Leadership from Good to Great by Lolly Daskal Don’t you have 10 seconds to try these ways to take you leadership to the next level? …
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Two of my most recent posts talked about how to promote yourself and your team. If you haven’t read them yet, then you can catch up on them now! As promised in those posts, I wanted to share some tried and true approaches to do self-promotion for you and your team in ways that do not come across as bragging. Even though you are doing great work, you boss may not see everything since they are busy doing their own…
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Yesterday’s post on Self-Promotion drove some interesting feedback. Some people shared their ideas on what they are doing or have done for self-promotion. I will be sharing some of those additional ideas on how you can self-promote in tomorrow’s blog. Others said they they don’t self-promote at all unless it is for their team. I would like to address this situation in today’s blog because this happened to me. At one point in my career, I was given the feedback…
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A topic that comes up with my clients time and time again is self-promotion. Both men and women struggle with it. They see it as bragging, so they hesitate to do it. If this sounds like you, then you need to shift your mindset when it comes to self-promotion. To set yourself apart and get noticed you need to do things that are different. You are doing great things and have good ideas, but no one will ever know that…
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Client question: “My team is completely disengaged. What can I do to engage them more?” The leader of the team is really the first place that engagement starts. If the leader isn’t engaging them then it probably isn’t happening. This is a tough message to hear as a leader. How can I make people be engaged? Isn’t it up to them? Yes, they do need to be willing participants, but if you are not doing what is needed to engage…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: beating self-doubt, building your LinkedIn profile, joining a community, reinventing your career, give better performance reviews, being a better influencer, communicate intentionally, learning about yourself and your leadership, the changing future of work Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: How to Beat Self-Doubt in 5 Seconds by Mel Robbins Mel’s Strategy to elimination of self doubt is easy to implement and see results 5 Tips to Build a LinkedIn Profile That’ll…
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Today is my BIRTHDAY!! I have always felt that it is the one day of the year that you get to celebrate yourself, so I am doing that today. Receiving so many great birthday wishes on Facebook, text and email really makes you feel special. Google even put a fun little birthday thing on my search page today. This past year I have been making sure that I focused on self-care, connecting with people that I haven’t seen for awhile and spending…
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