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Your Black Friday/Cyber Monday Learning Sale

It’s becoming as big a tradition as the Thanksgiving holiday itself – the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. And this year, many stores have started or will start earlier than Friday morning with their sales. I’m not a fan of waiting in long lines, and not everything I want or want to give can

What’s Missing in Project Management Training

The truth is there is probably as much training available on project management as there is on any leadership topic or skill I could ever write about here. Don’t believe me? Google it. There is plenty of training available, plenty of experience with it, plenty of knowledge available. Of course, that doesn’t guarantee that we are all

Using The Big Ears Approach to Listen Better Naturally!

Everyone has heard it – the old saying we have two ears and one mouth, and we should use them in that proportion . . . We’ve heard it, but we seldom take action on the idea. It isn’t really because we don’t know how to listen or even that we don’t understand the value

Two Keys to Leadership Confidence

Everyone is about to move from the reception to the big business dinner. You are walking with some friends and colleagues, following the crowd as you pass the restrooms. Just ahead of you is one of the executives walking as confidently as they normally do, because they can’t see what you see – that they

Three Unique, Effective (and Free) Ways to Get Better Results

One way to become more effective at anything is to reflect on your progress, your results and your approaches. Another key to building your skills (but also your confidence and awareness), is to see how your results and experiences compare to others. Organizations do it all the time and call it “benchmarking”, yet as individuals,

Leadership Hubris – What it is and How To Overcome it

Two very different television viewing experiences nearly forty years apart led to this post. One happened 39 summers ago when I, along with 60 other campers at Camp Brethren Heights in central Michigan, were ushered into a room with a small black and white television to watch history – President Richard Nixon was going to

How Do You Win?

It’s about the middle of the pro football season, and last week the NFL lost a long-time, colorful, and beloved coach – Bum Phillips. Phillips was known for wearing his cowboy hat on the sidelines and for being very quotable. Today’s quotation may be his best – and it applies to all leaders. Read it,

Once You Master Delegation . . .

Last week, I wrote about some of the challenges that keep us from delegating important work to others – and why John Wayne was part of the problem (if you haven’t read it, I encourage you to – it created a flurry of opinions and comments worth reading as well!). Once you get past these

You Can’t Coach Attitude

I wish I had a dime for every time I have experienced this story . . . I’ve just finished giving a workshop or a keynote, and someone walks up to me with a question. It is seldom a question asked in front of the group, but rather separately on the side, alone. “I’ve got

Let Me Tell You a Story

As human beings we love stories. It starts at a young age and continues throughout life. Why are stories so compelling? Because our lives themselves are a series of stories. Yet storytelling itself is a bit of a paradox. Some people say they can’t tell a story, and yet we tell them all day long.

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