Next month I am delivering a brand new program that I extremely excited about! Coaching Training Camp is designed for any leader who wants to be a more effective coach or mentor. Coaching and developing others is one of the most important roles of a leader. While that may seem pretty obvious, for many leaders

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Leaders sometimes have to deal with complacent people – those people who are seemingly happy with their current position or status or job performance. Gather leaders and coaches for any length of time and this challenge is likely to come up. Inherent in the challenge and the questions they ask about those behaviors is a

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Military recruits go to boot camp for a crash course in preparing them for their future success. I created the Remarkable Leadership Boot Camp Series with the same intent for leaders at all levels. I’ve never been to a military boot camp. I’m the intents are the same, but the realities are very different. At

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It isn’t always easy to hold two seemingly conflicting ideas in your mind at the same time.  I believe this is why too often too many people live in a But World.  When they mention two different ideas or opinions to link them together with ” but” which linguistically implies and telegraphs that the latter one

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This week’s Resource Recommendation:  Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best and Learn From the Worst by Robert Sutton. This is a brand new book. (It actually publishes on Sept 7, but it’s available now.) I was lucky enough to get an uncorrected proof copy to read. And when I say lucky, I

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We are all on a walk. It is the journey we take each day as a leader. We move through our day, going from one task to the next, one meeting to the next, one problem to the next. We have conversations and interactions; some small, seemingly inconsequential others lengthy and potentially memorable. Each of

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In The U.S. and Canada we are about to begin a three day holiday weekend.  In the U.S. we will celebrate Labor Day, and in Canada they add a “u” – it’s Labour Day.  The ideas that follow apply to any three day weekend, in any country during any part of the year.  These ideas

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Every leader I talk with, coach or train tell me the same thing.  They all tell me they have lots to do – more than they did six months or a year ago, with no end in sight.  I could write a post about the factors that lead that to be true, but that isn’t this post.

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This week’s Resource Recommendation: Bury My Heart at Conference Room B: The Unbeatable Impact of Truly Committed Managersby Stan Slap. This is fast becoming one of the most talked about business books of the year, and for some very good reasons. It discusses in a new way a very important topic – what are the

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We all meet new people, in all phases of our lives. In some of those situations we may not be consciously thinking about the importance of making a good first impression; however, conscious or not, we are always making an impression. Sometimes – be it the person we are meeting, the situation we are in

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