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Employee Engagement: Ask & Listen

It’s all about values! Not the forced, PR / Company values but the true values of the Senior Management and the people of the organization. If you really want to reach your people, find out who they are and what is really important to them. These values overtly or...

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Leading By Not Being Perfect

The most amazing leaders understand that they don’t know everything. They are comfortable being open, transparent, getting out there and yes, being real. This leader appears as someone who is down to earth and yet still confident in who they are and what they provide...

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Charge Up Your Team

Working as a team is hard. The dynamics are ever changing. It really doesn’t matter what you are doing - if your team isn’t connected, they will not be performing as well as they could, nor will they be fulfilled in their work. Here is what you can do to help increase...

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Building Trust: Check Your Perception

Sometimes we are unsure what someone’s intent is or what is going on for them. We don’t trust them because we don’t know what is going on. This reminds me of a time when I was working with a woman we will call Tabitha. Tabitha just seemed to resist anything I...

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Building Trust

I recently had an opportunity to work with a new coach on a project. It was such a smooth launch into a working relationship that it’s worth thinking about what made it so easy. As I look back, it seems that a lot of it had to do with how we both approached each...

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Increasing Communication by Being Honest

Feelings of resentment build up in many relationships because one side feels disrespected, slighted or unappreciated. This is human and normal. The problems begin when the one that feels slighted, does not express what is going on for them. They let the resentment...

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Using Forgiveness to Increase Communication

Sometimes you just have to let it go. If you can look at the situation and determine the person or group in question had no bad intentions and you have expressed how you feel, you have to ask yourself how important it is to hold on to the resentment? Some people are...

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Using Values to Resolve Conflict

Values are neither right nor wrong; they are simply things we believe in strongly. Values can include things like freedom, power, exploration, determination, loyalty, creativity, stability, wealth or acceptance. We often unknowingly step on other people’s values...

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