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  • Oct 18, 2022

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    What to Do to Gain AND Retain Employees

    In the pre-COVID world, job candidates would apply for a job, hopefully, land an interview, then sweat, wish, hope, and pray that they would be selected for the position. With today’s tight labor market, job applicants and employees are firmly in the driver’s seat. No longer are they merely hoping to be picked or settling for […]

  • Oct 5, 2022

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    How to Get Your Boss to Listen to Your Ideas

    Got a Great Idea But You Boss Isn’t Listening? In a recent corporate leadership development session, I was asked the following question.  “How do I present an idea that I think has great benefit for my organization to my leader who doesn’t typically invite my input?” Whether you are an emerging leader trying to create influence for yourself […]

  • Oct 19, 2021

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    In Conflict, Is Your Focus Wrong?

    Do you hate the idea of handling conflict and confrontation with those you work with? Most of us do, and most of us are unprepared for managing it because most of us are focused on the wrong thing. Let me explain. When Things Go Sideways Fast One of the things I truly cherish as a […]

  • Oct 20, 2020

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    3 Leadership Skills to Bring Out the Best

    Leaders in most every industry want to know what they can do to bring out the best in their people. Here are three distinct leadership skills to help any leader, at any time create an environment where people and performance flourish.

  • Oct 13, 2020

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    Dirty Dishes, 16-Year Olds & Communicating to Connect

    It’s no joke. In the best of circumstances, communicating to connect and build engagement with your team is hard enough. But our socially distanced, work from home reality has added a whole new layer of difficulty to this part of a leader’s job. So how do you overcome this hurdle? Here are 6 tips for […]

  • Oct 2, 2020

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    Performance Evaluations: Cut or Keep During the Pandemic?

    For many companies, when times get tough, things get lean. Regardless of what difficult cuts leadership has made during this pandemic season of life, one thing is for sure – performance evaluations must be kept, not cut. Let’s talk about why…

  • Oct 29, 2019

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    When to Address Performance Issues

    Leaders can’t always pick the perfect time to address critical performance issues with an employee, so sometimes sensitivity and timeliness are at odds. So when is the right time to address performance issues? Good question. Let’s talk about it.

  • Oct 25, 2019

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    Grey’s Anatomy Leadership Lesson

    Grey’s Anatomy has been my guilty pleasure since it first aired in 2005. I have always loved Grey…and McDreamy…and now even DeLuca, but today I want to take a look at Jo. I am a keynote speaker, trainer, and (soon to be) author on leadership and in Season 16  Jo perfectly played out leadership principles […]

  • Oct 22, 2019

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    One Compelling Reason to Act

    There’s a sobering truth about change that all leaders need to know. It’s one the really great leaders will act on. When other leaders are prone to vacillate, it could be your compelling reason to act. Read on.

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