Mindless vs. Mindful Generosity
Generosity is certainly an admirable quality. To be generous means to give freely and liberally.
Personal Leadership
Explore the realm of personal leadership in our insightful blog post. Elevate your skills and lead with purpose.
Got Rhythm?
Today’s guest post is from Beth Armknecht Miller, author of the recently released book, Are You Talent Obsessed? Unlocking the secrets to a workplace team of raving high performers. She offers some great advice and a terrific process here for becoming a high performer.
The Missing Link in Performance Improvement
What drives your performance? When we ask this question many offer answers such as will power, determination, tenacity, and grit. Other responses included things like talent, skills, and intelligence.
Nothing is Wrong
It’s easy to see what’s not working and what could work better, especially to the outside observer.
3 Steps to Transform Your To-Do List
Change one year to one day and ten years to one year and the same applies. We tend to overestimate what we can do in a day and underestimate what we can do in a year.
The Path to High Performance
If you want to get on a path to high performance, there is one thing you must first accept:
Whatever your current level of performance may be at this moment, if you aspire to something greater or to be better you have a performance gap.
What Skills and Abilities are You Over-relying On?
There are probably a lot of things we all just take for granted. Perhaps it’s because we naturally assume there are just some people (or things) that will always be there.
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How Will You Show Up Today?
One of my favorite aspects of my job as an online influence building consultant is meeting and interacting with the authors and thought leaders we serve.
Be Your Own Brand of Leader
In some professions and organizational cultures there is a disdain for the positional leader. In some circles, rising up the hierarchy means selling out on your craft. Others observe the behavior of positional leaders and don’t like what they see in terms of personality or behavior. To become “that kind of leader” would be akin
Reflect for Success
In The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth, John Maxwell illuminates the importance of learning to “pause to allow growth to catch up with you”. He refers to this as the Law of Reflection. There is another habit, however, often masquerading as reflection, that can undermine your success. That habit is processing. What I mean by
Set Boundaries for Your Success
In a recent article on Halogen Software’s Talent Space Blog, Sean Conrad asks the question: “Is Working Less the Secret to Employee Productivity?” His question triggered my thinking about the power of setting boundaries to improve performance and fuel our success. While it may seem counter-intuitive at first to think that setting limits has anything
Take Off the Cuffs
“Golden handcuffs” is a phrase used to describe a system of financial incentives designed to keep key employees from leaving a company. If you are wearing them, however, they likely feel a lot more like a safety and security net, than like restraints. Of course, if you love what you do and where you work it could
From Idea to Action: 7 Steps to Getting Unstuck
Have you ever had a really great idea, something you just knew you should do, yet somehow you did not act on it? Perhaps you even wrote it down while sincerely thinking to yourself, “I am going to do this.” It may have been sparked while you were in a meeting, attending a seminar, reading
What is a Leader?
Leading is simple. That is the premise of Random Acts of Leadership. One way to remind us of this is to talk to children about what leadership means and what a leader is. Kids don’t tend to complicate things the way we adults do. In reading one of my favorite blogs Break the Frame, by
A Positive Perspective on Breakdowns
When breakdowns happen consider it is NOT a sign that something is wrong, but rather that you have simply bumped up against the limits of your current ways of working or thinking. Nothing is wrong. No one is at fault. It’s just that even though something was working, doesn’t mean it will work forever. This includes