Resources

Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 2/2/18

Resources to inspire you in your leadership journey! Ted Talks spread ideas through powerful talks on areas from science to business to global issues – all in less than 18 minutes! Video Playlist Topic: Ted Talks on The Benefits of Failure (click on this link to watch all the videos or the links below to pick out just one) Failure isn’t fun, but it is an opportunity to learn, reflect and regroup. These insightful talks can help you pick yourself up after a setback…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 2/2/18

Resources to inspire you in your leadership journey! Video Playlist Topic: Ted Talks on How to Love Work Again (click on this link to watch all the videos) The Happy Secret to Better Work by Shawn Achor How to Find Work You Love by Scott Dinsmore A Kinder Gentler Philosophy of Success by Alain de Botton Grit: The Power of Passion and Performance by Angela Duckworth Why It’s Time to Forget the Pecking Order at Work by Margaret Heffernan How to Make Work…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 1/26/18

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! Share your feedback, ideas and suggestions here: take this quick survey This week’s summary includes: leadership trends, what predicts how long you will live, values of great leadership, making employees feel valued, finding a business mentor, career advice, skills of the future, asking for feedback Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: Don’t Let This Year’s ‘Leadership Trend’ Hurt Your Overall Professional Growth by Nathalie Salles No one leadership tool is the holy grail, one-size-fits-all solution The…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 1/19/18

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: leading virtual teams, social media skills for leaders, bad employee engagement, dealing with and accepting rejection, become a leader worth following, avoiding failure, celebrate successes, getting what you want in your career, building connections with your team Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: 4 Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams by Leslie Brokaw Many employees expect work-from-home to be an option. A handful of practices can help an organization succeed at its remote…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 1/12/18

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: how to appreciate your employees, handling difficult people, restoring your confidence, what not to say to millennials, building teams for the future, speaking up in a group, how can coaching benefit your leadership mistakes to avoid when coaching, steps to take when you want to be a coaching leader Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: If you Treat Employees like they don’t make a difference, they won’t! by Brigette Hyacinth “If you…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 1/5/18

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! Happy New Year! This week’s summary includes: Passing on leadership skills to others, succeeding as a new leader, making 2018 your best year by asking 4 questions, changing your career, developing soft skills to make you indispensable, what will you do in 2018, striving for excellence, changing the way you look at resolutions, how to succeed with resolutions when you start to consider dropping them Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: Kids Who Become Exceptional Leaders Have Parents…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 12/29/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: a simple test to figure out who is a true leader, looking at performance reviews n a more in depth way, leadership quotes to reflect on at the end of the year, Christmas message, sleep and energy patterns, reflect on your assumptions, making the hard choices as a leader Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos’ mentor used a simple test to figure out who is a true leader by…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 12/8/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Take your leadership to the next level, how to think differently for success, leader’s challenge others to be great, leveraging emotional intelligence and vulnerability, engaging your team, resources, examples and approaches to self-promotion for you and your team Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: 10 Seconds to Take Your Leadership from Good to Great by Lolly Daskal Don’t you have 10 seconds to try these ways to take you leadership to the next level? …
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 11/24/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: recognizing blind spots, gauging performance by interview questions, defining leadership, bottom-up leadership, growing your professional network, moving forward on difficult issues, creating more time in your life, focusing on the future, being present Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: How to Recognize Blind Spots Before They Derail Your Career by CarterandDavid, Stephanie Vozza Learn the 5 most common blind spots and how you can manage around them Flip the Script: Interview Questions that Candidates…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 11/10/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Finding more time in your day, leadership presence, building trust, succession planning, would you choose a better boss or more money, who are you spending your time with, changing perceptions, making big decisions, learning leadership lessons every day, don’t put off what you want to accomplish Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes: 7 Simple Techniques to Cut Your Workday in Half by Lolly Daskal Learn how to thrive with a demanding schedule and make…
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Your Imperfections Are What Make You Perfect

We have all grown up with programming and messages from our families, teachers, media, society, culture, etc. that tell us what we are “supposed” to do in our lives. Some of these messages may include: get good grades, go to a good school, get a good job, get married, have children, save for retirement, follow the rules, don’t talk back, respect your elders, etc. You get the gist of the messages that we have all heard and internalized over many years. Those messages…
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Are You Ready For a Transformation?

I was watching a video by Dr. Benjamin Hardy, who is the author of many books including the one that I am reading now called 10x is Easier Than 2x. His book, that he co-authored with Dan Sullivan, is focused on ways to achieve more by doing less. In the video, he discussed some of the concepts from the book, he shared that, “courage is the starting point of all transformation.” If I look back on my own transformations throughout my career, that…
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How to Master Project and Program Visibility

If you have been following me for any of amount of time, you know that getting visibility for you and your team is important. However, there is also an opportunity for you to consider creating visibility for projects and programs too. Let me share an example: A client of mine shared the details of a discussion that he had with an executive leader about a project that would be kicking off soon. My client intended to walk through the proposed…
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