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Conflict in the Workplace: Understanding the 6 Types and How to Navigate Them Effectively
I know this sounds weird, but I love teaching classes on conflict. Because it’s so freakin’ stressful and most of us don’t like dealing with it. So, we avoid it. (See EP 54 Conflict Sucks ). And there are some darn...
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Revitalize Your Meetings with the 6 Thinking Hats Strategy for Better Collaboration
How often do you have the same old meeting, the same old discussion? You know the one, negative Nelly is well, as brooding as always, because we’re still virtual half of our attendees are multitasking, you are pulling...
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Leadership Lessons: An Interview with Andy Platz, Pres/CEO Mead&Hunt
I'm excited to launch my inaugural Leadership Lessons episode, featuring Andy Platz, CEO and President of Mead & Hunt.Mead & Hunt is a national, full-service architectural and engineering firm that has been...
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Effective Leadership: Overcoming Power Confusion, Communication Gaps, and Delegation Issues
Moving from contributing to getting work done through others is a painful experience for many of us. In my work with managers over the years, here are 3 manager pitfalls that I frequently see:
Power...
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How to Find Peace at Work by Letting Go of Grudges and Embracing Forgiveness
I read some recent statistics that around 77% of employees experience physical effects of stress and 63% of employees are ready to quit their jobs due to stress. But this episode is not about those external factors...
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The Critical Role of Soft Skills in Building Strong Leadership and Teams
I have been working with organizations, employee development and leadership for over 30 years. And you know what? I have very rarely faced performance issues that have to do with pure lack of technical knowledge, or...
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Managing Workplace Drama: Causes, Impact, and Solutions
Let’s talk drama. For most of us, we’ve experienced it, we tend to know what it is…and I hear about it quite frequently from managers I work with. We’ll focus on some of the reasons why it happens, and most...
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Are You Leading with Intention? How to Make Better Leadership Decisions
The leader gets to decide how to decide. Think about that a little. I’d also encourage you to consider how leaders you’ve worked with have decided. There are a lot of options. Some of which are more inclusive than...
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The Cost of Avoiding Conflict in the Workplace and How to Face It Head-On
Look up the definition of conflict and here are some of the words you’ll see: serious disagreement or argument, protracted one, dispute, quarrel,incompatible, variance, clash, irreconcilable
So who jumps out of bed...
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How to Strengthen Empathy and Build Trust as a Leader
Some of us are wired naturally to express empathy, to be aware of and in tune with others’ feelings. Some of us, not so much. If you want to be effective as a leader, and well, as a human being, you need to...
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Leadership Lessons Learned from 52 Weeks of Embracing Discomfort
When was the last time you consciously chose discomfort? You made a deliberate decision to do/say/behave in a way that you knew would make you feel awkward, afraid, frustrated, or vulnerable? And how did you get the...
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The Leadership Truth: Hard Moments Are Where Growth Happens
Do you notice how stressful it is when you expect something to be relatively easy and then it’s hard? Whether it’s a physical challenge (golf comes to mind) or a mental challenge, that feeling of frustration or...
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