How Can We Stop Comparing Ourselves All The Time?

Comparing ourselves to others is something that everyone has done.  We all grew up being compared to each other in school, in sports and at home.  Statistics were tracked about grades, sports achievements and you may have felt like your parents were keeping track of what you had done vs your siblings.   Fast forward to becoming an adult and the comparison continues.  People are rated in companies on their performance and potential.  Employees are rated in comparison to their peers? …
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 2/20/17

Monday Morning Leadership

​I am going to start using the Monday blog to share questions that I have received or case studies.   My intent is to be able to help others who may be facing similar challenges.   Feel free to send me questions or situations that you are facing and I will include them in future blogs. Today’s question:  “My team works in various locations and in multiple time zones.  What is the best way to stay connected with them and provide the…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 02/17/17

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: Quotes on Kindness, Leadership and Teamwork, Tips to Boost Accountability, Qualities of Authentic People and my articles focused on the Importance of Integrity in Leaders. Feel free to send me or comment with any articles that you have found as well!  They…
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Need Some Motivation? How About This?

We have all watched inspiring stories of people who accomplished great things, but their lives started out very differently.  All of those people had a dream and a story about the journey that helped them get there.  They sacrificed a lot in their lives, because they were so motivated to accomplish their dream.   For many people, this journey will never happen.  When they think about doing something different, the voice inside their head tries to talk them out of it. …
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How Are You Motivating Your Team to Deliver Big Things?

​I was reading an article about Walt Disney the other day.  He wanted to find a way to start making movies but wasn’t able to get the money to do it initially.  He had already opened Walt Disneyland and thought if he could generate more money through the park, he could make his movies.  He had a big vision and he was very motivated. Walt asked for help and a group of people was pulled together to generate ideas.  They…
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Do You Know What Is Motivating You?

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 our ability to accomplish goals.”  I have always found motivation to be such an interesting topic.  What drives one person to do things and doesn’t…
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What Happened To All Of My 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 it can paralyze you from doing anything.  You look around for something that will be less taxing to your brain like social media, a favorite…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 2/10/17

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: Quotes on Kindness, Leadership and Teamwork, Tips to Boost Accountability, Qualities of Authentic People and my articles focused on the Importance of Integrity in Leaders. Feel free to send me or comment with any articles that you have found as well!  They…
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What Does Integrity Look Like to You?

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 that you have worked for who demonstrated integrity? Although this is not an exhaustive list, these are the 5 ways that leaders demonstrate integrity to…
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Do You Have an Ethical Dilemma?

​Can 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 that we could complete where different examples were reviewed and then we were quizzed on the right way to ethically handle the situation.  This training…
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