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Friday Focus Video 5/4/2018 – Make Yourself a Priority

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Developing Yourself Needs to be Your Priority

What have you done for yourself in the last few months or over the last year?  This week’s posts have been focused on how you are spending your time and if you are spending any of it investing in yourself.  Today will be focused on how you can do that from a professional standpoint. Work will always be busy.  There will always be more meetings to attend than you have time for and people pulling at you to get more done. …
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What is More Important to You?

Continuing on the theme of yesterday’s post of investing in yourself, have you thought about how much you actually do it?  My mastermind group is always good about asking me what am I doing for me in the midst of everything else I am involved in.  It is something that I need to be intentional about so that I ensure it is happening. Investing in yourself needs to be a primary focus.  It is about giving yourself some time away from working…
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Aren’t YOU Worth the Investment?

Part of my role as a coach is to help people see themselves in a new way.  To ask them questions and help them think about what is possible.  Allow them to imagine how they would be if they had already reached the goals that they have.  They may only think about the reasons why they can’t achieve those goals because they have blind spots, self-limiting beliefs or behaviors that are holding them back.  My role is to help them see that these things…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 4/30/2018

Client Question: “I have to deliver some difficult feedback to one of my direct reports and I am avoiding it.  I don’t like conflict and this is something that they are going to have a tough time hearing.” Delivering negative feedback is not easy to do and avoiding it doesn’t make it any easier.  If you had done something wrong wouldn’t you want your manager to tell you the truth?  Part of your role as a leader is being honest with the person…
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Friday Focus Video 4/27/2018 – Leaders Don’t Know Everything

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Are You Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable?

Trying out something new can be exciting, but it may also push you out of your comfort zone.  It is hard because you are learning all kinds of new things and it can make you feel insecure.  Everyone goes through this feeling, but it passes as you learn more and get more comfortable. When you are a leader, this insecure feeling is magnified.  There are expectations from your team, peers and management that you have answers and know what you are…
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It’s Time to Share Your Story!

Have you heard the advice that you should share your messaging as a story before?  There is a lot of research behind this that says people remember stories far longer than they remember anything else.  This is an approach that can be used not only during presentations, but also in one on one conversations. Starting out a presentation with a story immediately gets the attention of the audience because they want to hear what happens.  It is a great way to…
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What If You Looked At Things Differently?

How many times have you witnessed a situation or heard part of a conversation and felt you knew exactly what it was all about?   You may be right most of the time, but what happens in those situations where you are wrong?  You have now made assumptions about the situation that are completely incorrect. I will use a simple example to illustrate this point:  One of your friends said that they would pick you up at your house at 2:00 in…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 4/23/18

Client Question: “There are some big organizational changes happening at my work soon.  I am not good at handling change.  I dread it and don’t even want to go through it.  How can I get past this?” Managing the change process for yourself or your team is never easy.  Everyone processes the change at a different pace. For the people who have never been through this type of change, it creates fear and anxiety for them.  Others who have been through it…
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