One of my coach friends posted this article How Managers Drive Results and Employee Engagement at the Same Time in her Facebook Group. The authors Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman looked at the results of 360 assessments for 60,000 leaders. The article highlights the top 6 skills of leaders who were good at managing […]
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Blog, engagement, Leadership, resultsClient Question: “I have been a leader of a team for about 6 months. I feel like I am doing okay at it, but I know I am still acting like a doer instead of a leader. What should I be doing differently?” You are not alone in struggling with this transition. It happened
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: New behaviors to bring new results, boosting your creativity, failure can help your listening, ways leaders become great, motivational quotes, habits of resilient people, changing roles, improving confidence, illuminating new trends, being open to seeing things differently Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 8 Habits of
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Have you had someone present a new idea or a change that they want to make to you? Before they even finish, are you ready to tell them why it won’t work? We all use our experience and our beliefs as a filter of judgment to things that are new. Do they fit into what
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Blog, LeadershipThis is the second of a two part blog from Guest Contributor, Mona Reiser. You can read the first one in the link below: In a previous blog, I mentioned that I would return with a follow-up on an Atlanta Journal Constitution (AJC) article on Matt Arnett’s “A Curated Life” article. The second sentence that
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LeadershipDo you find that your days, weeks and months are running together so much that you barely can keep up? I used to compare it to being on a merry-go-round that never seemed to stop. With this pace, it becomes a challenge to make sure that you are focusing on the right things. Some people
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Leadership, preparing, PrioritiesThere are many motivational speeches given at college graduation ceremonies this time of year. I recently read Theo Epstein’s Yale Graduation Speech that he gave at the commencement ceremony. For those of you who don’t know him he is the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs. (I know not everyone may be a
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Blog, Coaching, empowerment, Leadership, Team BuildingWelcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Being an inclusive leader, does your leadership add or subtract value, how can you be persuasive, building a cohesive team, defining leadership, asking for what you want, focus on what could go right, how can your leadership continue to impact others Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes
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Blog, focus, influence, Leadership, Resources, Team BuildingI saw this great quote by Sheryl Sandberg: “Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.” You can see the impacts that you have on people during the course of the day. But have you ever thought about how much you continue
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LeadershipWith a daughter in college now, I have seen shifts in how things work from when I went to school. Colleges have far more focus on “field experiences and internships” now. My college roommate had an internship, but she was one of very few that had one. Now there are many more opportunities to get
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Blog, Confidence, Leadership, risksClient Question: How do you define leadership? This is a question that I get a lot from clients. The formal definition of leadership from Business Dictionary.com is: establishing a clear vision, sharing that vision with others so that they will follow willingly, providing the information, knowledge and methods to realize that vision, and coordinating
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LeadershipWelcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: the story of your life, creating your leadership legacy, an easy process to follow for a one on one, what is more important than money, do you talk about solutions or problems, growing self-confidence, can you admit that you are wrong, are you
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Blog, Leadership, ResourcesOne of my favorite thought leaders on leadership is Lilly Daskal. She posted a blog recently that was focused on the fact that “you are the leadership message.” Here are 3 of the 9 different messages highlighted in the article that stand out for me: You get the best out of others when you give
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authenticity, Blog, LeadershipI was reading this article today called If Your Employees Act Like They Don’t Care, You Might Be Doing These 11 Things Wrong by Sunny Bonnell. The first quote in the article is: “People come for great vision and leave for poor leadership.” This is such a true statement. I have seen people make decisions
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Blog, Building Relationships, Leadership, Team BuildingWelcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: building trust with employees, what do you do when life leadership and busyness collide, how has leadership changed you, what are you doing as a leader to continue to grow and develop, finding time to prioritize, motivational advice and a review of the top
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