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5 Tips for Better Teamwork
 Which of the 4 graphs above best represents your team trajectory?Â
Is it A? Holding steady- not improving but not decliningÂ
Is it B? Sometimes up, sometimes down… but rather unpredictableÂ
Is i...
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Plan, Delegate, DEPART
Seems like there's never a "good time" to go on vacation, right?Â
The end of the year is full of holidays, and the summer is full of tourists.Â
The spring might be your "busy season" and the fall ca...
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Gift + Skill = Genius
(The photo above was taken from a video clip... A screenshot of the end of a race. Please forgive the poor quality! My son is the one in blue.)
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It was a windy Saturday at the league track meet. Th...
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The Secret to a Better Life
The other day was a tough one. I was grumpy, overwhelmed, and generally negative.
When exercising, I was down about the fact that I couldn’t run farther or faster.
When I finished a project, I got...
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Confessions of a Poor Performer
I was a poor performer.Â
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Yep, it’s true.Â
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I cringe at how difficult I must have been to manage when I was a “young professional.” (I use the word professional loosely.)
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The gruesome detail...
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5 Tools for Building Your Team
It's Monday.
I'm relaxed and at ease– excited for the week ahead and ready to roll!
It's not always like this.
Most Mondays I feel overwhelmed and a little sick to my stomach about how I am going t...
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Ask and You Shall Receive
For years, my clients have asked me to teach courses to their leaders about how to give feedback.Â
They want to know how to deliver the bad news, and how to talk about disappointing performance, and ...
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Will You Lead the Change?
Change can be hard, but it can also be exhilarating.Â
If you lead anyone toward anything, then you fundamentally ARE leading change,Â
So, it behooves you to understand a little bit about the psychol...
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3 Tips for Building a Feedback Rich Environment
Does hearing the words, “I’ve got some feedback for you” make you nervous?Â
If so, you’re not alone.Â
The mere mention of the word makes most people cringe, because we associate feedback with critic...
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Not "Most Likely to Succeed"
When I was in my first quarter at college, I made a lot of friends in my dorm. We were there for the summer quarter, and we became a tight-knit bunch.Â
At the end of the quarter, we had this dorm par...
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