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9 Steps to Recharge Yourself and Avoid Holiday Burnout
- Set your boundaries and honor them.
Boundaries are a way to protect yourself from the actions of others and limit your exposure to stressful people or situations. It’s practicing good self-care to say no to unreasonable requests of your time at work, and to limit the length of family visits with those who cause undue irritation or spread ( Read more... )
- Set your boundaries and honor them.
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Holding the Space
Holding the Space - Creating a safe place from which to encourage others to look into the mirror.
How do you let the emperor know he’s not wearing any clothes, or tell the skunk he smells?
Having a conversation with a member of your management team about his or her counterproductive style of relating to direct reports can be difficult. That this ( Read more... ) -
TEN TIPS FOR EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP IN TOUGH TIMES
As financial uncertainty gives rise to fear in people around the globe, leaders have a unique opportunity to infuse their organizations with a sense of security, stability, and the ability to weather the storm.
What are the characteristics of exemplary leadership in times of crisis? Here are ten tips :
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This Week's DEBate-able: Follow the Leader
What makes a leader? What are those ethereal qualities one person possesses that can cause others to form a cohesive, smoothly functioning group? Here are some of the skills most great leaders possess:
1. The ability to communicate your vision clearly and in a manner easily understood by each member of your team. Everyone needs to understand the ( Read more... ) -
Great Leaders Manage Energy, Not Just Production
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Celebrate what you want to see more of. -- Thomas J. Peters
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. -- John Quincy Adams
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Six Great Coaching Questions
Looking for answers? It helps to ask the right questions, the ones that bring you to the core of any issue and help propel you toward a solution.
In coaching I've discovered that the right question at the right time uncovers a world of possibility for the client. I'd like to share some with you.
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Weathering the Storm
Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it. -- Virgil
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. -- Epictetus
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Who Are You?
Who Are You?
Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself. -- James Allen
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You Can't Teach A Pig To Sing
We've all heard the expression "You can't teach a pig to sing." Perhaps you never gave it much thought before, but let's look at one possible interpretation. Pigs are intelligent animals but they lack the fundamental physical attributes that would enable them to sing. They can grunt, squeal, and they excel at sniffing out truffles, but you can't ( Read more... ) -
DON’T BE AFRAID TO FOLLOW YOUR FEAR
We commonly look at fear as an obstacle that prevents us from actualizing the life of our dreams. We’ve been told that fear is the opposite of love, and living fearlessly is an ideal that we are encouraged to embrace. In over twenty-five years in law enforcement, however, I have learned the value of fear. More often than not, I've witnessed ( Read more... )