There are plenty of problems with procrastination. When you procrastinate, you could be falling behind. You could be missing deadlines. You could be losing opportunities because you’re not getting around to taking advantage of them. And for any or all of those reasons, you might be reducing the trust that you have with other people. Now,

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There are reasons why practices get started things – the origin stories usually make sense. But for some things, we’ve lost the original purpose – or that purpose is no longer being served – yet the practice remains, because “we’ve always done it that way.” This is especially true in organizational life. Let’s look at

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Virtual LeaderCon is a virtual leadership conference we created in 2020 in response to the realities of the pandemic. Virtual LeaderCon is now in its third year of providing leaders and learners around the world the chance to learn with and from top thought leaders and best-selling authors and interact with them live. If you

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Leadership is always hard. Always has been. But it’s certainly easier when things are going well, right? But when times are tough, when there are challenges that you’re facing, when you look forward and see a difficult situation, it’s harder to lead. Chances are you’re here because the title of this video intrigued you and it

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Time Magazine famously names a Person of the Year in December. I’m naming uncertainty as the Word of Year now. We don’t even have to wait. I know, the future is always uncertain – the only time we have 20/20 vision is looking backwards. Yet, due to a list of factors as long as your

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Much training has occurred virtually over the past two and half years – both as a practical and a preferred manner. And while we have been delivering learning experiences virtually for many years, most would agree there is something about an in-person learning experience. That’s why I’m pleased to announce that we are bringing our

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In today’s episode, I’m asking you a question, and that question is, can great leaders be gentle? If you make a list of adjectives to describe great leaders, gentle probably isn’t on that list. I mean, when you think of the word gentle, what do you think of? Do you think of things like soft or

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Micromanagement. Leaders tell me all the time that they’re not doing it, but if I talk to their teams, I often hear something different. And here’s the thing, the other person decides if you’re micromanaging. It’s wonderful to think that you’re not. But the reality is, if the person you’re leading or managing thinks you are, then you are. Because

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Perhaps the biggest challenge facing many organizations today relates to the return to office. There are a ton of emotions, opinions, and anxiety about these plans. Whether you have made decisions and implemented them or not, the uncertainty surrounding the Return to Office is justified and understandable. Would you like a new perspective, a non-biased

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Micromanagement. We’ve all experienced it. No one likes it. But why is it such a problem?Micromanagement promotes compliance.Micromanagement scrunches initiativeMicromanagement reduces trustMicromanagement dampens innovation.Any of these reasons is enough for us to stop micromanaging. But let’s think now about us as the leader. How does it hurt us beyond all those other things? Follow The

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