Category Archives: Productivity

Do This One Simple Thing and You Will Empower, Engage, and Energize Your Team!

One of the most important concepts I have tried to impress upon the thousands of managers, supervisors, and team leaders I have trained and coached over the years is this one: You have WAY more power and influence than you … Continue reading

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How to Master Your #1 Priority as a New Leader

A new leadership role presents new opportunities as well as fresh challenges—whether it’s a promotion, shifting into a new department, taking on an existing team as their new boss, or even moving to a completely different organization.  In the modern, fast-paced workplace, … Continue reading

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The 3 Selves—The Secret to Handling Stress, Challenges, Threats, and Growth

The volatility of our times is increasingly confronting the modern workforce with unprecedented challenges, change, and stress.  Workers today are faced with the difficulty of performing adequately in their jobs while also forced to deal with added emotional pressures from … Continue reading

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Treat the Company’s Money Like Your Own

More Great Advice from Top Executives and CEO’s.  Executive coach Cynthia Shapiro puts this under the heading, Your company’s real motivations: Motivation 2: Money – Their money, not yours.  If they feel you value your money more than theirs, you … Continue reading

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Why Smaller Goals Work

In the previous edition we taught you about the power of small goals and how they can really help when your team is feeling overwhelmed.  As it happens, there is real, solid neuroscience behind this concept.  In his thought-provoking book, … Continue reading

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Set Smaller Goals

This is one of my favorite “Great Ideas You Can Use RIGHT NOW to Become a More Effective Leader.”  It comes from authors Chip and Dan Heath, who presented the principle in a column in FastCompany magazine a while ago.  … Continue reading

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Do Something!

More Great Success Advice from Top CEO’s One of the most important things I’ve learned during my long career in organizational life and as an independent management and leadership development consultant: Higher-ups have a keen appreciation for people who can … Continue reading

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DOER / MANAGER / LEADER – 3 Roles, 3 LEVELS, 3 Stages – Part 2

In the last installment, we explored these three elements as roles and discovered that we are likely to function in any of them, depending on the circumstances and demands of the situation. The key is to be aware of what … Continue reading

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Doer / Manager / Leader – 3 ROLES, 3 Levels, 3 Stages – Part 1.

Which one of these are YOU?  How you answer the question depends on how you are using or understanding these terms.  Each of these three designations can describe… A role you fill in the organization where you work A position … Continue reading

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Mastering the Push and Pull of Effective Leadership – Part 2

In the last installment, I introduced a study done by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman that explored two key approaches to performance management—pulling and pushing.  Here’s how they introduced the concepts: When you see a task that needs to be … Continue reading

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