Leadership Coaching: Why Great Leaders Ask for Permission to Mentor? 0
Leadership mentoring or coaching is the itch that needs scratching to wake up our potential. A great mentor has the sole purpose of bringing out the best in people - to inspire them to ignite the sleeping potential that resides in all of us. Mentoring is not problem solving. It is uncovering and directing and
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Executive Leadership Coaching: Top 10 Contagious Leadership Tasks 0
Get your attitude right! Yes, the last couple of years have been rugged! They have been rugged for everyone. So, get over it and start thinking like a leader. Concentrate on what is possible rather than why you can’t accomplish your goals. Get your team’s attitude right! Identify everyone on your team with an attitude
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Executive Leadership Coaching Tip: Practice Spotlighting to Build Engagement 0
Many employees are feeling ignored, under valued and under appreciated. There is no big surprise here. Over the past three years many executives have systematically pulled in the reins, focused on survival and left themselves precious little time for engaging with our most important asset -- our people. At the end of the day that
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Strong Words Build Confidence 0
Here’s a passage from Today We Are Rich just released by author Tim Sanders on how to use words that will project confidence – a key to leading others. "Stop using tentative words; they hedge conversation to the point of being meaningless. The unconfident person talks with qualifiers and commits to very little. Tentative words
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Executive Leadership Coaching: Build Strength, Not Weakness 0
The greatest breakthroughs happen after major breakdowns. Leadership bench strength will be a huge factor in the coming recovery. Those organizations that build strong benches will win. Every other organization will either lose of barely hold on. Allowing your leaders to take risks, try, and even fail on occasion will build strength from real experience.
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Executive Leadership Coaching: Do Not presume to know 0
I witnessed something remarkable recently. After delivering the opening keynote speech for First American Equipment Leasing's annual sales kick-off meeting, the Chairman and co-founder, delivered his state of the company address. I have seen and heard these hundreds of times. The Chairman/CEO runs through the results from the previous year, acknowledges a few folks, talks
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Executive Leadership Coaching: 3 Leadership Lessons from Hawaii 0
We often find leadership lessons in very unlikely places; like a yoga class on Waikiki Beach.
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5 Tips to Sell More to Current Clients 2
A good leader knows how difficult, in terms of money and time, it is to revive a dead customer or to get a new one out of a cold list, and a good leadership speaker and coach will tell you the value of a lifetime customer in terms of cash and referrals. A true leader
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How to Stop Promoting a Fire Extinguishing Culture 1
In the beginning, it is common and even necessary, for the head of a company or department head to be involved in everything, from project development down to each project’s fulfillment; however, at some point, this person will realize that there is only so much he can do himself. Steve Brewer owns a technology development
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This Week's Contagious Leader in Action: Franco Graceffa 1
Each week, we will be highlighting someone we think demonstrates the actions, thoughts and mindset of a Contagious Leader. Franco Graceffa is our contagious leader this week. Those who have heard us speak probably know about our friend and his restaurant, Dolce Vita, in the North End of Boston, Ma. Franco is our hero for
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