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People Are Always Listening (and Learning)

What if the people you lead could only grow based on what they heard you say to others? What if people adopted the mood and outlook of your Facebook...
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Giving Respect… When It’s Not Due

We live in a peculiar society that seems to waiver back and forth between what we feel we’re entitled to and what we believe others must earn.
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Confidence Busters and Builders

Confidence and competence: both are essential to our success as leaders. A person can be really good at what they do in part because they are so confident in...
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Why I Can’t Be Vulnerable with You

Have you ever felt like you put yourself out there with someone by being open and honest and vulnerable, only to get nothing in return?
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9 Symptoms of Leadership Groupies

Just about everyone has an inner circle. Hopefully your circle is made up of people with whom you are safe discussing topics and getting feedback. The people in your...
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12 Rules for Building a Thriving Virtual Team

As I noted in 5 Actions for Leading a Virtual Team, the Impacting Leaders team is comprised of mostly virtual employees. I asked my team to think about the...
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Want Trust? 5 Things to Stop Doing

Trust… it’s difficult to define and impossible to force. Building trust with others is the foundation of success. Trust glues marriages together, bonds friends for life, builds partnerships and...
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Be More Than Mediocre

One of the things I enjoy most about my job is meeting face-to-face with the people that we serve. I spend a lot of time in the field with...
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7 Tips for Defending Your Teammate

Leaders eventually find themselves in the position where they must defend someone on their team. Stepping up to bat for our teammates is an expectation of the position. Even...
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3 Ways Your Words Matter

Train says it best in the lyrics of the song, “Words:” Words, they’ll try to shake you, don’t let them break you or stop your world from turning. When...
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