It’s Friday, and you may be starting to wrap up your week and may even be planning to make it a long weekend heading into the 4th of July. Whether you make it back into the office on Monday or Wednesday or some day thereafter, vow to spend less time on email. You already know

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If your organization’s performance management processes are working great, you can save some time and skip this post. But if you are like most organizations, leaders, and individuals you have at least some pain or frustration with this process (and maybe a whole lot, you are still reading.) Good – stay with me. There are

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Coaching is one of your most important roles. When you do it well, it can also be one of the most gratifying parts of being a leader. While I have long shared insights and helped others learn to be better coaches, I wanted to see if I could summarize the essence of coaching success into

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If you’re a leader, best-selling author Jon Gordon wants you to take this message to heart: Spreading negative energy solves nothing. In fact, it causes people to shut down. Morale suffers, employees disengage, productivity takes a hit, and profits fall. “It’s easy to get upset and derailed by anger when things go wrong, but then

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Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. I won’t tell you which one it is, but like all the rest of them, it is worth celebrating. As I’ve been thinking about Mom’s upcoming birthday, I’ve been reflecting on what she’s taught me – it’s a long list. To celebrate her birthday, I’ve identified some of the most

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Ken Blanchard calls feedback the breakfast of champions, and he is right. For any of us to be successful, we need feedback. For us to coach and develop our team members successfully, we must be able to give feedback to them. I have spoken and trained on giving feedback for years. I’ve written here extensively

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By Wayne Turmel Coaching is a critical part of our job as leaders. It’s also (if we’re really honest with ourselves) part of the job that too often gets ignored amid just trying to get the darned work done. As with so much, the fact that we aren’t co-located shouldn’t make our job harder (after

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As a leader, you have a myriad of things that vie for your attention; many things that you feel, or others suggest, you need to focus on. Here is a short list: Budgets Projects Process improvements New product/service development Sales Customer Service Margins I bet at least part of this list resonates with you, and

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There is a disconnect between what senior executives want from learning and development, and what they actually see. In fact, 96 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs want to see a business connection, yet only 8 percent see it. And 74 percent want to see ROI, yet only 4 percent see it, according to Patti and Jack Phillips

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