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 […]
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Blog, feedbackToday’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
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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
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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
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accomplishments, CoachingMy 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
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Blog, Building Relationships, CoachingComparing 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
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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
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Blog, Leadership, remote leadershipHow 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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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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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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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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