Resources

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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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 3/24/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: motivation, goals, getting to know your employees personally, fix your leadership pipeline, personal brand, setting a leadership example, mentoring others, focus on excellence over perfection Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 5 Ways To Nurture Extraordinary Performance https://twitter.com/SusanMBarber/status/844313422560985089 Extraordinary performance is driving by motivation Goals Are Not the Issue, It’s the Way You Think About Them by Jan J. Osburn https://twitter.com/SusanMBarber/status/844043775437668352 Change the Way You Think About Your Goals Want More from…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 3/17/17

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Develop your leadership point of view, building relationships with your team, increasing trust, can you see things differently, dealing with a micromanager, strengths of a team, succession planning Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 7 Questions to Help You Develop Your Leadership Point of View by Paul Sohn. http://paulsohn.org/7-questions-to-help-you-develop-your-leadership-point-of-view/ Do you have a defined leadership view to share with your team? If not, these questions can…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 3/10/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Resiliency for Leaders, demonstrating consistent leadership, asking the right questions, motivating people, creating plans, conversations and online presence for networking Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 4 Ways to Increase Your Resiliency as a Leader http://bit.ly/2mNaJBy via @ccldotorg A common myth is that the way to deal with the pressures of middle and senior management is working harder. We like to think that extending work hours and multi-tasking are ways to be more effective…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary 3/3/17

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: Get out of your office and connect with your team, be a leader who coaches, The 3 C’s of good leadership for teams, 10 ways to transform a team, setting a vision, being honest with feedback, show your team that you…
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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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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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How to Create Visibility Through Influence!

Are You a Good Influencer ? Influencing is a subtle way of getting someone to do what you want vs. forcing them to do it. It isn’t a bad thing. It can be a very effective tool to use. Influencing people helps you proactively move things forward that may be stuck. However, it is important to build relationships with people who can help you in advance, not just when you need them to support you. Characteristics of a Good Influencer…
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Are You Focused on the Right Things?

What value do you bring? What was your first thought when you read that question? Most likely something to the effect of…I know I add value, but I need some time to think about it. I am asking you to come up with this answer and know it without hesitation. Why? If you don’t know your value then how can you own your value, talk about it and show it to others? The truth is you can’t…at least in a…
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The Risks of Assumptions

Let’s not assume anything … Many clients will state something that they believe to be true when it is really an assumption. It happens to everyone. We believe something that we have been told and react to that information as the truth. Here is an example: Someone is applying for a new role. They came from a similar role at another company and assume that the new company will operate in the exact same way. My role as their coach…
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