Executive Coaching, Leadership
Taking Control of Your Reputation
Building a great reputation as a leader is crucial to earning respect and trust from colleagues and fulfilling your career goals. Many leaders who have newly entered their role don’t know how to navigate the…
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Executive Coaching, Leadership
How Do You Handle a Brilliant Jerk?
I’ve worked on several executive coaching projects where one team member is a royal jerk. What makes someone a jerk? Here’s our definition: someone who is rude, abrasive, condescending, undermines or puts others down, is…
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Executive Coaching, Leadership
Belonging vs. Inclusion: What’s the difference, and why is it important?
An executive we coach shared with us his frustration that one of his highest performing direct reports submitted her resignation. The executive said what bothered him the most was the direct report’s reason for leaving….
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Communication, Executive Coaching, Leadership
Why Leaders Need to Ignore the Golden Rule
Most of us grew up with parents and teachers who taught us the Golden Rule; treat others the way you want to be treated. That is an awesome rule of thumb for most aspects of…
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Executive Coaching, Leadership
9 Steps to Effective Problem Solving
Every day, we are each faced with problems to solve: the large problems can be intimidating and the small problems can be mind-numbing. Either way, there is no avoiding problems. You are in your leadership…
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Communication, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Leading Change, Productivity
Tips to De-Stress your life in 2022
The start of a new year is always an exciting time for a leader to reflect on the past year’s successes, review your leadership vision or strategic plan, do some goal setting, and generally get…
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Communication, Executive Coaching, Leadership
10 Keys of Highly Successful Leaders
Throughout our careers as consultants, we’ve coached many leaders who’ve struggled to build followership with either bosses, direct reports, or peers who don’t have a high level of respect for their contributions to the organization as a…
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Communication, Executive Coaching
The Line Between Confidence and Arrogance
Is there a line between being a highly skilled, confident, and knowledgeable leader, and an arrogant leader? Most definitely. The question is where is that point where leaders cross over. The problem with arrogant leaders…
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Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Leadership
Why Do Managers Lead with Fear?
I am currently working with a manager who told his team, “If this campaign isn’t perfect when we launch, some of you will be looking for a new job.” Yikes. That’s almost as inspiring as…
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Communication, Executive Coaching, Leading Change
Are you in jeopardy of losing your job?
We have spent the last 25 years identifying the traits that make leaders successful. This has led us to strongly believe that there is a significant difference between leaders and managers. Managers always have a…
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