How Can I Be Intentional About Networking?

Yesterday’s post was about visibility and being able to promote yourself.   One of the ways of doing that is through networking and connecting with others.  The word networking can sometimes bring up anxiety for people who are more introverted.  Walking into a room of people that they don’t know and having a conversation with any of them sounds worse than having a root canal.   Having a plan and knowing what to say may help to eliminate some of that anxiety….
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 3/6/17

Monday Morning Leadership

  ​Today’s Question:   “My manager told me that I need to be more visible in our organization.  I don’t like to brag about myself, so how do I change that perception?” In your mind, you are doing your job every day and your manager knows what you are doing, so why do you need more visibility?   Unfortunately, you may be doing great things, but not everyone else in the organization knows about them.  Being visible means that your leadership is…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary 3/3/17

​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:  Get out of your office and connect with your team, be a leader who coaches, The 3 C’s of good leadership for teams, 10 ways to transform a team, setting a vision, being honest with feedback, show your team that you…
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How Much Do You Really Care?

One of the people that used to report to me was remembering her Mother who had passed away in a really heartfelt post on Facebook. She was reporting to me at the time when her Mom was sick and as you can imagine have a difficult time with it. I had been in a similar position with my own Mom about 10 years before that so I could completely empathize with what she was going through. We used to meet…
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What Will It Take For You To Be Honest?

Are you honest when you are asked for feedback about a person or their service?    This happened to me today when a sales manager called me about using a service that they had offered to me.   Realistically, I will never probably see this person again and I could have just said no I am not interested in your service anymore.  But I thought about it and gave him the honest feedback about why I am saying no.  What if…
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Do You Have a Vision?

A vision is a high level outcome that you want to attain.  Companies use visions to help motivate their employees, shareholders and consumers about what they want to look like in the future.   Amazon’s vision is:”to be earth’s most customer-centric company; to build a place where people can come to find and discover anything they might want to buy online.”  You also have examples from charity organizations such as The Alzheimer’s Association whose vision is “a world without Alzheimer’s disease.”  …
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 2/27/17

Monday Morning Leadership

​Today’s question:  “The team that I took over has had little to no exposure in front of senior management.   I know I need to help them get visibility.  Where do I start?” This type of situation has happened to me.  I took over a team that had been given no opportunities in front of senior management  and they were only allowed to interact with people on the phone. They were doing a lot of good work but no one knew…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 2/24/17

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: How smart managers motivate teams, be strategic with your career, how to keep learning, remote leadership, comparisons and celebrating accomplishments  Feel free to send me or comment with any articles that you have found as well!  They may show up in the…
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Are You Ready? It’s Time to Celebrate!

​One of the things that I encourage my clients to do is to celebrate their big accomplishments!  When you are in the middle of a big project for example, you can get mired in all the details.  You don’t always pick your head up to look back and see what has been completed.  These are the opportunities to provide some perspective about what you have done and it gives you motivation to get to the finish line! I have mentioned…
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Will You Be The One To Help Someone Today?

My Dad was a big Buck knife collector.  For those who don’t know about these knives, they are collectibles that in many cases are custom made and produced in very small amounts.  The knives may only have a production run of 25 so they become more valuable.  Some of them have etched scenes in gold, signatures by the people who made them on the blade and beautiful handles.  My Dad would shop on eBay and buy the knives that he liked.  It…
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