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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Leadership Lessons from a Watermelon Seed 0
Have you ever thought about the power of the watermelon seed? This tiny little seed has the power of creating a fruit that is 200,000 times its weight. It draws whatever nutrients it needs from the dirt and sun and colors a unique spherical, almost psychedelic rind by smearing various tones of green, and then
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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: Great Leaders Catch People Doing Great Things 0
Too many so-called leaders spend their days looking for mistakes. How much fun can that be? Try catching people doing great things and then recognize them. It's more fun and will help you create an organization of hi-performance contagious leaders. Practice catching your folks doing great things for 21 days and let us know the
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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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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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The Secret to Cope With a Lousy Boss 1
It is amazing how much energy we spend in criticizing and whining about our bosses. So much so that by judging by the large percentage of posts on the web, one would bet that every boss out there is an idiot, a dysfunctional jerk, an out-of-touch loser, or simply craps. Of course we understand that
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