How to Be Your Team’s Chief Marketing Officer
If you’re not telling your team’s story who is? Here’s why you should be your team’s chief marketing officer and how to play the role.
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Networking for People Who Are Too Busy to Network
Most leaders think it’s important to have a strong network but hardly any think they’re doing a good job of building one. Here’s how to network when you’re too busy to do it.
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Three Ways to Tailor Your Communications to Your Audience
Effective and powerful communications depends on tailoring your message to the needs of the audience. Here are three simple ways to do that.
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If You’re Only Transmitting You’re Not Influencing
Effective leadership communications involves two distinct activities – transmitting and receiving. To be inspirational and influential, you need to do both. Here’s how.
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Beat the Churn with Context
Are you unintentionally creating a lot of churn and needless work in your organization with your leadership communications? If so, here are some ideas on how to stop doing that.
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Three Reasons Your Change Initiative Will Fail
Why will your change initiative likely fail? Here are three reasons and what you can do to increase your odds of success.
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How to Get Your Micromanager Boss to Back Off
Most every leader is going to work for a micromanager at least once in their career. The question that everyone asks, “How do I get my micromanager boss to back off?” Here’s one thing you need to know and three steps you need to take.
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How to Speak for Your Work
If you’re a leader in a busy organization, your work won’t speak for itself – you have to speak for the work. Here are seven steps to help you do that.
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Five Principles for Designing Great Leadership Development Programs
Based on 20 years of working as a leadership educator, speaker and executive coach, here are five principles that I’m convinced are essential to designing great leadership development programs.
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How to Stop Being “Them” and Start Being “Us”
If you want to be an effective leader, you’ve got to work hard to demonstrate that you’re not one of “them” but are, instead, one of “us.” Here are three actionable ideas to get started.
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Your Checklist for Leading with an “Us” Mindset
As you grow as a leader, your mindset needs to shift from “me” to “us.” Unfortunately, some leaders never make the shift. How are you doing? Here’s a checklist you can use for a self-assessment.
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Are You Working With People or Through People?
As a leader, are you working with people and through people? And what’s the difference between the two? Only one leads to the influence you need to accomplish meaningful things as a leader.
