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Workplace Empowerment: 5 Practices to Create an Empowering Environment
Recognizing that there are practices to empowering both ourselves and others is sometimes surprising. You mean there’s a strategy to it? Most managers say they want to empower others, but do we in practice? Do you...
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4 Ways to Improve Workplace Collaboration
Most if not all the organizations I’ve ever worked with or for, want collaboration. It’s a no brainer. And then it gets hard. And frustrating. Seemingly endless. Collaboration, easy to desire, difficult to...
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Time Management as a Leader: A Question of Priority
A common, recurring problem I hear from leaders is that they are too busy. And for so long, I completely agreed. Until I didn’t. Until I realized that being overwhelmed is an emotion, and a choice. Based on my...
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The Power of Assertive Communication: Mean what you say without being mean.
Have you ever dropped a hint that someone you worked with just didn’t get? Soft peddled feedback that wasn’t received? Or lashed out in frustration because you were just so irritated with someone’s behavior?
Yes,...
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Lean into Political Savvy: 4 Key Foundations
This month in our Intentionaleaders membership, we're tacking political savvy. Here's a sneak peek...Art Petty described 5 Unavoidable Facts of Organizational Life:
Everywhere humans gather, a political environment...
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Got Triggers? Things that Bug You at Work
Leaders who have the ability to lead under pressure garner more respect and followership. This is not to imply that a display of emotions is not valuable—it absolutely is. This is the difference between responding...
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Know Your Leadership Values: The Need for Transparency
Last year in Madison as in other communities there was great social unrest. On a main street downtown, store fronts were boarded and then eventually literally covered in murals representing individual and collective...
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Examine Confidence in Leadership: It's a Choice
In leadership classes we talk a lot about leadership presence. Do you have presence or not, or even what does that mean to you? With this discussion, inevitably, the conversation turns to confidence and the...
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Leader or Manager: Who do you want to be?
The definition of a manager that I’ve used in business classes is that a manager is responsible for 4 primary functions: to plan, organize, lead and control in an efficient and effective manner.
So, if you do those...
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Are you motivational?
Can you motivate? Yes or no? Do you consider this part of your role as a manager?
Question 2: Why don’t employees perform?
Many times I hear….lack of training, tools, knowledge, lack of engagement, , unclear...
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Choosing Growth: Do You Have a Growth Mindset?
Review the following statements. Indicate if you AGREE or DISAGREE.
1. Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can’t change very much.
2. You can learn new things, but you can’t really...
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Embracing Failure: The Value of Risk and Mistakes in Leading Others
Despite the many stories of famous people who triumphed over failure, many of us fear it. When did we learn that? What if failure was part of the curriculum to becoming who we are meant to be? That all those...
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