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7 Ways to Make Positivity a Habit

For some reason, positivity often gets a bad rap. In television and film, overly positive people are portrayed as airheads who are clueless as to what’s really going on. A great story...
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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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Toddler Rules for Negotiating with Your Leader

Sometimes our efforts to negotiate with our leader lead us feeling about as fruitless and frustrated as the adorable toddler in this viral video.
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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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Four Myths of Self-Accountability

M y work with leaders inside all sorts of different companies has taught me that regardless of the company’s size or industry or age, most face the same few...
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Performance Review Mishaps

Like many of you, I’ve been conducting performance reviews these past few months, while many leaders dislike this process, I have to admit it is extremely fulfilling for me....
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Performance Reviews: Character vs. Skill Set Issues

It’s the most wonderful time of the year – performance review time! The company l lead is conducting employee reviews for all employees over the next two months. Many...
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When to Shut the Door

We’re all familiar with the idea of the open door policy, an over-used but still popular term we use to communicate that our teammates can approach us with their...
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Don’t Confuse Loyalty with Love

Often times you’ll hear a company owner or leader say of a non-performing, long-time employee, “He’s so loyal. I’m loyal to him, and he’s loyal to me. I’m not...
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Own It: Holding Your People Accountable

Holding people accountable. It’s a challenge that isn’t isolated to middle management or new leaders. Executives at the highest levels also fall into the lull of hoping someone’s non-performance...
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