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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Ryan Festerling, Pres QPS Employment Group
Meet Ryan Festerling, President of QPS Employment Group.Hear his lessons and leadership insights. He went from being a VP in a very large organization (Kohls) to being the President of a (relatively smaller) one, QPS...
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Overcoming Team Conflict and Unlocking Collaborative Potential
In the last episode, I explored Tuckman’s team development model. A way to consider how effectively a team is functioning and it’s stage of development (with the aspiration of becoming high performing).
In working...
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Unlocking Team Success with Bruce Tuckman's 4 Stages of Team Development
Bruce Tuckman's Model:
Most of us realize that a common goal is foundation to differentiating a group and a team. Not all groups are teams, and that is okay.
1. Form: the group is immature; shared goal,...
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Leading with Compassion: How Empathy Enhances Leadership Impact
I sometimes wonder if a day goes by that we don’t encounter someone who is hurting (and in this context, I’ll talk about emotional hurt). And we’ll never really know because our encounters are so varied, work and...
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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Dr. Shenita Brokenburr
Lessons Learned by Shenita Brokenburr, Ph.D.https://www.linkedin.com/in/shenita-brokenburr-phd/Bridge Braintrust is a human resources advisory, coaching and consulting firm that helps individuals and organizations...
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Leveraging Expert Power and Personal Influence for Leadership Success
If you are a leader, you have power. If you are an aspiring leader, or informal leader, you will need it. Power is about influence. It is about achieving results.
Expert power is a lifelong commitment to knowledge or...
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Harnessing the Power of Influence to Achieve Leadership Goals
If you are a leader, you have power. If you are an aspiring leader, or informal leader, you will need it.
Power is about influence. It is about achieving results.
Sometimes it difficult to consider power without...
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The Dangers of Micromanagement and How It Damages Teams
LinkedIn reported that 79% of employees have been micromanaged at least once in their career. Micromanaging is controlling every part, however small, of (an enterprise or activity).It typically indicates lack of...
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How to Gracefully Receive Feedback and Turn It Into Growth
It’s said that feedback is a gift, right? That we should receive it as such, as a kindness and opportunity to learn.
It’s helpful to know how to react, and that your reactions do matter. Not just for the person that...
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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Chad Melnick, SVP Kohls
Chad Melnick, SVP Marketing Strategy and PromotionsVisionary senior executive with expertise in driving strategy and innovation across marketing, branding, merchandising, and digital transformation for a...
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Breaking the Urgency Addiction and Prioritizing What Truly Matters
I vividly remember one of the first I’ll call it self help books I read, Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People and then his subsequent work, First Things First.
This was all pretty groundbreaking for me,...
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The Power of Assertiveness and Setting Boundaries in the Workplace
Last week after a training session, I had an interesting conversation with a couple of participants. The class was about negotiating work assignments, difficult for most of us—saying no or even entering into a...
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