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Are You Curious to Learn More About Yourself?

​I recently became certified in the DISC, Motivators and Hogan Assessments.  I have always liked doing assessments and have done many different ones throughout my career.  There are some slight variations that you may see if you take an assessment multiple times which can happen when you are at different career stages.  For the most part it has just helped me really get to know my natural tendencies even more.  These can be helpful as you are looking at how…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 7/17/17

  Client Question: “I keep sharing new ideas with my boss.  He listens to me, but always tells me why they won’t work.  What should I do differently?” Everyone wants to be heard and acknowledged for their ideas.  It is important as a leader to truly have an interactive conversation with your team members when they share their ideas.  They are putting themselves out there to share something and as a leader  you need to acknowledge and have a discussion. …
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 6/23/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: ways to be a respected leader, signs that you are doing better than you think, self-aware leaders, optimizing your communication, stop being a boss and be a leader, being a leader not a doer, don’t focus only on results, know who you are as a leader, building a strong executive team Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 6 Key Ways to Become a Highly Respected Leader http://buff.ly/2kO4lGB By Andy Margison Master these skills…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 6/2/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!      This week’s summary includes:  the power of your purpose, using open ended questions, holding people accountable, getting a raise, managerial courage, thinking outside the box to create new possibilities, using 4 simple questions to reflect on your day, improving your connector skills   Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes Ground Yourself in the Power Of Your Purpose @LollyDaskal http://bit.ly/1Q899xR  When it comes to living your purpose and leading with meaning, commitment and effectiveness are your foundation….
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 3/31/17

​Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!      This week’s summary includes:  becoming a great leader, building your legacy, managing remote workers, dealing with an indecisive boss, 10 mistakes new managers make, making a presentation with errors, career plan, culture of a team, and making assumptions Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 5 Simple Ways Good Leaders Become Great @LollyDaskalhttp://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/be-the-leader-that-goes-from-good-to-great-in-few-minutes.html … Nobody aspires to be just a good leader. Greatness is the goal, and these simple strategies can help you achieve it. How to…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q & A – 3/27/17

Monday Morning Leadership

  Today’s Question: “I made a presentation today to a new group.  My boss came up afterwards and said that my slides had some errors.  Is it really a big deal when you have a few errors on your presentation slides?” The short answer is yes.  Here is the longer answer as to why it is important.  When you are presenting information, people want to know that what you are saying is credible and they can believe you.  When you…
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Quick ways to get the word out

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 other, so they send out a quick email and now they feel that they have communicated. What if the person didn’t read it? What if…
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Are you sending the right messages?

Communication 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 shown to drive 93% of the messages that people receive when you are communicating. I was surprised to see that the percentage was so high,…
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Are you ready to improve your communication?

How 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 re-analyze the conversation to figure out what may have caused this misunderstanding.   Think about the number of conversations that you are having every single day…
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Have you forgotten something important today?

Communication is something that we do every day. New decisions are made or some new request is brought up and you do your best to get the information out to your team. When you are in so many meetings, leading a project and a team it becomes a challenge every single day. How can you get the information out the fastest? It may be in the form of an email, text, instant message, voicemail or if you are lucky, a…
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