I want you to be a little reflective today while you’re watching the video and think about a time when you were at your most confident. We can learn a lot by reflecting on a particularly successfully time or moment in our lives – we can learn a lot by what we did as well

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As a leader, you are pulled in many directions. Priorities change in a heartbeat. And you never know what question or challenge one of your team members will bring to you at any moment. Nearly every leader I know wants to and needs to be more productive. As important as developing leadership productivity is for

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A quick search on Amazon.com on the word “productivity” yields over 70,000 results. When you search for “leadership productivity,” the total drops to 5,000. And upon further review, you find that many of those results are related to very specific pieces of the leader’s work (like meetings) or are really about leadership in general, but

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We all know that it’s important to have a balanced diet – because what you put in impacts your health. But have you thought about your reading diet? Because similarly, what you put in impacts your thinking. In today’s video, I’m asking a few questions to help you discern how your reading “diet” is going

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More than ever before, you can find strategies, tactics, and hacks meant to help you learn, grow, and achieve greater professional success. You can find them in books and blogs, on YouTube, podcasts, Instagram and more. While there’s so much available, too often it is so specific that it is hard to connect to your

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Learning and growing to become a more effective leader and professional isn’t easy. There are plenty of things that distract us, get in our way, and keep us from focusing on our growth. That’s why daily inspiration for leaders is so important, and that is why we offer that to you for free. Want to

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Regardless of our role – customer facing or not – as leaders, it is extremely important that we think about customer service. In the video below, I’m sharing a simple exercise that you can use individually or with your team to leverage lessons from a customer service disaster. Tweet it out: Use lessons from the

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You work in the real world, a messy place filled with exceptions, complications and people. When you are making decisions in real-world organizations, you must factor the following into your decision-making process, if you want to make the best decisions: The relative urgency of the decision. How fast must it be made? When the urgency level

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Most people talk about having goals, even if they haven’t set any. And while most would agree that goals are important, many haven’t been very successful in achieving them after setting them. There are a variety of reasons for that. One common shortcoming in our goal achievement process is not having learning goals. Let’s talk

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I’m confident you’d like to worry less. And I know you would like to get better results for your team and organization. And since both things I am recommending to you today will both reduce your worry and increase your results, you will want to read on. Oh, and did I mention both resources are

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