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Why a Leader Needs a Sense of Purpose
What is your purpose – in life, at work, and most importantly as a leader? These are questions that many of us never think about but having a clear
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Think Different, Work Together – Collaboration Strategies for Diverse Teams
The Harvard Business Review finds that teams solve problems faster when they are more cognitively diverse. That is just a fancy way of saying that
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Persuade Me
The art of persuasion is a key leadership skill, but persuasion sometimes gets a bad rap. Persuasion is a specific communication process where the
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Let Me Tell You a Story
“Bad leaders like to ‘shake the pan’. You see this a lot on TV cooking shows. The producer tells the chef to keeping shuffling the risotto around the
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Virtual Communication – It’s More than Meetings
A large percentage of the business population is now using video conferencing tools for meetings. But there is much more to virtual communication than
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Chameleon Leadership
I frequently get asked how to differentiate between leading, managing, and facilitating. These are roles that many people in leadership or managerial
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Leading Virtual Teams – The People
(Part 2 of 2) Many of you may be in a position where you are suddenly leading virtual teams. While some of you have some experience with leading
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Leading Virtual Teams – The Process
(Part 1 of 2 on leading virtual meetings) Many of you may be in a position where you have to lead all your meetings virtually. While some of you
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The Shifting Role of Team Leadership
We all know that being a leader means sometimes you have to shift or alter your approach for various situations. You may also be aware that there is a
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Glitter Glue
When was the last time that you played with glue? Yes, I am talking about that white sticky substance that you can shape into all sorts of things
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Can You Let Go?
The day you just had ranks up there as one of the worst. So, here’s my question. What do you do next? Holding On I can’t count the number of
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