How You Can Work Smarter to Make Your Hard Work Pay Off
Learning to work smarter, not just harder is a surefire way to accelerate and even amplify your success.
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Leadership in Action
Leadership in Action™ explores the simple, practical, everyday actions that elevate your leadership — helping you show up with clarity, courage, and authenticity in the moments that matter.
How To Ensure You Make Others Feel Appreciated
There are people who just seem to have the knack for making others feel truly appreciated. However, I’d like you to consider that this isn’t a personality thing – it is something anyone can learn to do.
Have You Ever Felt Like a Fraud?
As a professional, have you ever felt like a fraud – like somehow you were less than who and what you portray to the world?
How Can Having Fun Make You a Better Leader?
Employees, whether they know it or not, tend to play “follow the leader”. They may admire your ingenuity or just want a little more spending money. Whatever it is, they mimic your behavior because they think it will make them successful.
The Best Strategy for Increasing Your Focus
When you are feeling scattered or overwhelmed in any domain of your work or life, below are 3 questions that can help you to get focused. But before you ask them make sure you choose a specific domain.
Do Leaders and Entrepreneurs Need the Same Skills?
Are there skills that effective leaders and entrepreneurs have in common? I think so!
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What is the Storyline for Your Leadership?
A video titled “THE LAB: Decoy – A portrait session with a twist” demonstrates how a story can shape our reality.
How to Listen in an Age of INTERNAL Distractions
Listening well is hard work. To do it effectively, you must be both focused and present. Yet, in our age of attention deficit, it can be difficult to create the mental space necessary to really listen to another human being.
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Are You Leading While Distracted?
The perils of driving while distracted are well known. Yet, consider there are also perils to leading while distracted. While those perils do not typically involve loss of life or limb, leading while distracted is dangerous to morale, progress, and ultimately your success.
Are You Exercising Your Freedom?
Perhaps one dimension of freedom is simply the belief that anything is possible. For if we believe our past is the ultimate predictor of our future, then aren’t we trapped by what has been, rather than free to explore and create what could be?
The Secret to Getting What You Want
The secret to getting what you want begins with getting clear about what you actually want.
A Simple Way to Rise to Your Next Level of Leadership
We all have a next level of leadership we can aspire to. For some, what that next level actually looks like is crystal clear; but for most, it’s more of a concept than a clearly defined end state.
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3 Ingredients of a Great Meeting
Despite the rampant complaints about meetings that waste time and squander resources, the problem of too many poorly-designed and poorly-run meetings persists.
How to Build Respect in a Team: Dealing with Difficult Team Members
As founder of Beyond the Boardroom, a team-building company, Luke Talbot-Male has seen firsthand how important it is to have a super-team to achieve a goal. But sometimes that’s challenging — especially when it involves leading “difficult” team members.
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9 Ways A Leader Can Earn Trust
The conditions for trusting someone are very personal. In fact, despite how logical your assessments regarding trustworthiness may seem to you, it’s important to remember that not everyone takes the same approach.