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Workplace Engagement Through Continual Learning
Maximizing your investment in today’s economy should be a no-brainer. However, when it comes to the selection of higher education, there seems to be way too much emphasis on which university to attend...
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How ENTJs Can Become Better Leaders
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is often used to improve overall performance in organizations. This tool can help workers gain self-awareness, improve emotional intelligence, and better...
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Is Your Personality Impacting Your Career?
How much is your personality contributing to or detracting from success in your career? One’s personality can directly impact their career because it can attract or repel other people. This matters in...
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Resilience: A Recipe for Success
We all face adversity in life and, like the proverbial hand we’re dealt, the most important thing is what we do next. Effectively bouncing back (or forward) from a failure, tragedy or loss determines...
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Higher Engagement by Meeting Employee Needs
Employee engagement is a vital component of successful organizations. Nothing helps spur innovation and raise productivity like a highly engaged group of people who are passionately involved in what...
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Appreciation for a Job Well Done
Employee engagement is by far the single most important HR challenge for organizations because it impacts recruitment, retention, absenteeism and productivity. In fact, according to a 2011 Gallup poll,...
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Your Side of Successful Communication
It’s back to school time and a reminder that we should all stop working so hard and start working smarter. Stop sawing and sharpen the saw. When it comes to challenges in the workplace, communication...
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Work Friends & Social Recognition
All of us want to feel valued for our contribution in the workplace. But there may be a disconnect between what employers think drive this feeling of being valued and what employees actually want and...
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Effective Teams Begin with Trust
Dysfunctional teams can produce results, but not consistently and not over the long term. An effective team that produces results consistently requires many attributes, but they all must begin with...
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Profiling Leaders: Tall, White & Male
When you think of a leader, how often do you conjure up the image of a woman or person of color? Today there are a number of famous women and minorities in positions of power: Mary Barra of General...
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Effective Leadership: The Theory & Practice
Are leaders born or made? That appears to be an on-going question, but if you simply search for “leadership” on Amazon, you’ll find 124,676 titles currently available. There are, obviously, things to...
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The Value of a Mentor
In my work as a leadership coach I often request that my clients recruit colleagues to assist them in achieving their goals. That’s because leadership is a team effort and every leader needs others to...
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Leadership Out of Balance
Leadership is often described as the act of leading a group of people or an organization. Leading well requires knowledge, skill, and an ability to balance the immediate gratification of the near term...
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Narcissism in Leadership
Can a narcissist be a good leader? This is the question that comes up for me when I contemplate the possibility of a President Trump. The Mayo Clinic defines narcissistic personality disorder as “a...
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Millennials as Managers
Millennials now represent the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. These digital natives are often described as confident and tolerant as well as entitled and narcissistic. What does this mean in...
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Managing Millennials
The largest generation in the U.S. workforce today is composed of people born after 1980, and they represent Generation Y or Millennials. These 54 million workers are often called digital natives...
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Employee Appreciation & Gratitude
Happy Employee Appreciation Day! It’s now the third month of the new year and if you have not yet recognized the impact and value of your employees, do something about it today. This annual...
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Leaders Who Ask For Help
In my work as a leadership coach I regularly encounter senior managers and directors who desire to become leaders, but many fail to understand that the leap is much more than a title, salary and corner...
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The Compassionate Leader
The current tenor of the Republican presidential campaign has got me thinking about the lack of compassion expressed by our so-called leaders. It wasn’t that long ago when George W. Bush campaigned...
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