Around the world today there will be plenty of people sitting in some sort of supervisor training workshop. And while those sessions will be well designed and led by skilled and well meaning trainers and facilitators, the vast majority of these sessions will leave out skills that will be critical to both the supervisor’s and

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Want to improve your leadership skills?  Want to increase the effectiveness of any leadership development training? Then you must start at the source. Belief. We must believe are are and can be Remarkable leaders. We must believe others can be Remarkable leaders. Hopefully this video reminds you that good leadership skills start with your belief.

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During a great sales and marketing conference last weekend – hosted by the wicked smart and always entertaining Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer – I attended a session given by a woman named Ali Brown. Ali is someone I admire and learn from regularly, but on Friday afternoon she said something that has stuck with

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Each month members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System (you can get your sample on the right, or learn more here) focus on one skill.  This month’s skill is Developing Customer Partnerships. And members at the Silver level and above get the opportunity to participate in a guest call each month.  These calls are with

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Last week I had the chance to hear Ivanka Trump speak, and meet her after wards. (As you can see she is happy to now have her copy of Remarkable Leadership). As Wharton-educated daughter of Donald Trump, Vice President of Trump International, regular on his television show, Celebrity Apprentice, and owner of her own jewelry

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This may seem like a strange subject for a post from a guy who writes, speaks and talks about leadership development.  But there are definitely problems with the approach that many take to leadership development programs and training of all types. Wayne Turmel, famous as the Cranky Middle Manager, got me talking about some of my

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Each Friday I present something inspirational here and try to connect the dots to our leadership role – and aid in our personal or even our organizational leadership development. Today that takes the form of a simple couplet that I first read in David Schwartz’s classic The Magic of Thinking Big. What kind of world

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Several days while passing through the Denver airport (with at least two books in my bag), I stopped in a bookstore to browse. I left with two books, including, How the States Got Their Shapes by Mark Stein. Because I like American history (thanks to my Grandma) and geography (thanks to my Dad), I was sure

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As has been reported widely in the past couple of days, President Obama has been in office for 100 days.  If he is in office for one term (all that can be guaranteed at this time), his total time in office (depending on how you count the two Inauguration Days) will be 1460 days. In other

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Your Friday leadership inspiration comes from Susan Boyle. You may not know her name, but you’ve heard the story (and well over 60 million views of various versions of the video prove it that you likely have) of the nondescript, 47 year old woman who sang recently on the television show “Britain’s Got Talent” If you haven’t

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