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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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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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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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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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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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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 02/03/17

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 Connections blogs with you each week in an easy to read summary format. Each Friday, I will create this summary including the links and a…
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