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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 6/9/17

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 Happy, Healthy, and Successful People http://crwd.fr/2rT1Ubq By Benjamin P. Hardy Simple behaviors that are committed to over time can yield enormous results   Boost Your Creativity…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 6/5/17

Monday Morning Leadership

Client Question: “I am interested in moving to a different area of my organization. What are some steps that I should do to make this happen? The first step is to connect with some of the people who already work in that area. This is more of a knowledge exchange to find out about the area and share information about yourself. You can say that you are exploring multiple areas of the company to learn more about them. • Identify…
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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 – 5/26/17

​Welcome 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 “Portrait of an Inclusive Leader” http://ht.ly/GIFe30bYeML by @benjaminclusion The inclusive leader creates an environment where dissent isn’t viewed as negativity, or being difficult; but an…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 5/19/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!   This week’s summary includes: Motivating your team, differences between feedback and criticism, steps to better decision making, ways to stop sabotaging yourself, building a strong team is a good investment, what truths would you share with your younger self, focus on the essential things in your life, how do you spend your time, and are you a humble leader   Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes:   5 Step Process to Making Sure Your Employees are…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 5/5/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!      This week’s summary includes:  building influence, building relationships, connecting with remote workers, building self-esteem, achieving extraordinary success, what is influence, how can you build relationships with influencers, how can you build your influencing skills and preparing for your own influencing conversations.   Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes     How to Build Influence and Land That Leadership Role by Gordon Tredgold Leadership is all about influence, the more influence we have, the better the leader we…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 4/24/17

Monday Morning Leadership

Today’s Client Question: “My company is going to go through a major acquisition. I don’t know if my job will be impacted at this point. How do I move past my fear of this change?” Change is something that everyone deals with at one time or another. There are minor things that happen and you can generally get through those changes with no issue. When something major happens at your job though, it can completely unsettle you and cause you…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 4/21/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary!      This week’s summary includes:  do you have blind spots, making employee engagement simple, leadership drives company culture, shifting to the mindset of a leader, are you creating more leaders or followers, focus on your vision, do you have tolerations that you are putting up with in your life, reviewing the types of tolerations: physical space, financial, relationships and wellness.   Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes How to Watch Out for Blind Spots in Your Leadership…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 4/17/17

Monday Morning Leadership

​​​Today’s Question:  How can I eliminate the tolerations that I have in my life? What is a toleration?  These are the things that stress you out every day, but they haven’t caused you enough “pain” to make a change to them yet.  Here is an easy example of a toleration.  You have a messy closet that you need to clean out.  There are things in there that you aren’t wearing anymore that you should donate or throw out.  However, you…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 4/14/17

Welcome 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 demonstrating good leadership and who are being as a leader Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes “When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the…
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