While Valentine’s Day is past, it is still the month of love, so I’m staying with that theme. Couple that with the post I wrote last week about a dialogue disaster, and this week I want to talk more about dialogue and connect it to romance.  Strange? I think when you are done reading you

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Giving feedback can be difficult, especially when it’s to a friend who you’re now managing, or to an older colleague, or even a colleague that you’ve never had this sort of relationship with before. So in this episode of Remarkable TV, I’m sharing the biggest secret to giving better feedback. Check it out here. When

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Valentine’s Day is the day everyone is thinking about love. So I’ll go with that thought and encourage you to think about love today – but from more than one perspective. Questions to Ponder – How can I help those I love win? – What does winning at love look like? – How does this

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It happens everywhere I go – and it does to you too – if you notice (and aren’t doing it yourself). Last winter, I was at my daughter’s first Middle School swim meet, and I was appalled. Not by the contestants, actually I was inspired by their performances, support for each other, and more, but that is

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We all spend lots of time trying to get better at communicating. We practice writing better emails, we take public speaking courses, we try to tell stories to make our point, and lots more. And as important as all of that is (and it is), great communication isn’t just about sending a message, it is about assuring

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The role that firefighters play in our society is secure. The way that we honor their service is appropriate. I have close friends who are and have been firefighters, and so I personally hold them in high regard. Great firefighters are leaders of their teams in situations far beyond what most of us could imagine.

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Because you are reading these words, I am confident you are a believer in ongoing learning and development for yourself and those you lead. Precisely because this is your bias, you may find it hard to understand why your team members aren’t anxiously looking forward to attending the training you offer them or is in

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Feedback must be heard and valued in order for it to be used. And to have a better chance of all of these things happening, you must remember that it’s not about you, it’s about them. Check out the video below for tips on ensuring that your feedback is heard, valued, and USED. If you

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Change is all around us – all the time. And this is truer now than ever before. This fact is important to us as leaders, because we need to be in front of the changes facing our organizations and teams. You are nodding as you read, because you already know this, and yet there is

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Today’s quotation comes from this past year’s Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year and perhaps a person everyone will think about or hear about at some point in the next week. Peyton Manning is one of the greatest quarterbacks ever, and perhaps this quotation gives us a small insight as to why that is. While

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