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The Mentees Guide: Making Mentoring Work For You

By Lois J. Zachary with Lory A. Fischler Many people who are dedicated to their own development recognize the power of finding and working with a mentor to speed their progress and skill growth. Many organizations have built formal and informal approaches to urge and support mentoring within their organizations. All of this is wise

Where the Best Coaches Focus Their Efforts

I have the good fortune of working with lots of leaders, and often have the chance to talk with, teach or consult with them on a variety of issues including their role as a coach. The vast majority of those I work with truly want to be more effective and make a difference for their

Remarkable TV: Let’s Keep the Drama on the TV

A good drama on the TV or at the movies? Awesome. Drama at the workplace … not so much. Watch this short video to learn tips for reducing the drama in your workplace. Reducing workplace drama starts with trying to understand the motivation and perspectives of the “actors.” @KevinEikenberry (Tweet It) You can learn more

10 Questions to Make You a Better Listener

Listening is a skill we’d all like to get better at – I can’t think of a time when I asked someone or a group if they wanted to be a better listener and someone said, “no.” It is a life skill that impacts our ability to communicate, build relationships and get things done. It

Your Success Depends on This Skill

My hope is that this headline makes you wonder. Perhaps you are guessing what the skill is. Perhaps you are thinking I am pretty presumptuous to suggest I know the most important skill you need, after all, I don’t know you, your experience or what you do for a living. This skill is so ubiquitous

Five Thoughts on Persuasion

Persuasion. I’ve written about it recently, and yesterday I posted a Remarkable TV episode on the same topic. When I start teleseminars (like the ones at RemarkableLearning.com), I often start with quotations from others to give greater perspective. Today, I’ve decided to do what I sometimes do at the start of our teleseminars, by sharing some

Remarkable TV: Want to Be More Persuasive?

Persuasion cannot happen until we understand one thing. Watch this video for tips on influencing your audience and having more effective persuasive communications. The art of persuasion starts with understanding your audience. Until you do you can’t persuade anyone. @KevinEikenberry (Tweet It) You can learn more about the Communicating for Results workshop here. If you

Why Leaders Must Consider Fun as Part of Their Job

Work and fun. Maybe you haven’t ever thought about those two words in the same sentence. There are certainly people who don’t equate those two ideas together, or while they wish it could be true to have fun at work, they’ve never really experienced it. My premise is that work can be fun, at least

Persuading the Person Who Won’t Budge

I thought today I would give a short answer to a question I get asked regularly. It gets asked in a variety of forms, but it all comes down to something like this . . . I have a person on my team that won’t budge. They don’t seem to care – about anything –

Five Ways Leaders Can Declare Their Independence

238 years ago this week, a group of men, a group of leaders, risked their lives and livelihoods to declare their (nonexistent) country’s independence from England. If you are from the United States, I wish you a Happy Independence Day! But actually I am wishing that all of you (regardless of the country that issued

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