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The Role of Performance Coach

As a leader one of your most important roles is Performance Coach. And by far, behaviour change is THE most challenging aspect of performance coaching for team members. To adequately acknowledge the need to change your behaviour, you must be

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The Secret to Leadership Development

If you are a senior leader, you have to ask yourself, how committed am I to real change in my organization and what am I doing to create that change? Senior leaders create strategic vision and objectives for the organization.

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The Three Reasons Leadership Development Fails

Go online, stroll through a bookstore, attend another training workshop or seminar and you will see that the topic of leadership is everywhere. We talk about it in political terms, business, sports, and tax-exempt organizations. People are captivated and confused

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A Culture Built For Performance

People do not quit their jobs. They quit their leader – the boss. Ineffective leaders breed ineffective followers, and performance and productivity suffer as a result. With a positive, emotional connection with your people you send a clear message that

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How Leaders Create Culture

The ancient Greek aphorism, “Know Thyself,” can be attributed most notably to the philosopher Socrates, however, for the more modern generation of folks you are probably familiar with its Latin version that hung above the Oracle’s door in the Matrix

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Crossing the Age-Gap

An analysis of 20 studies with nearly 20,000 people revealed slight and inconsistent differences in job attitudes when comparing generational groups. While many love to point out that younger and older people are more different than alike, research refutes this

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The Way to a Culture of Engagement

It has been said many times in a variety of ways and deserves repeating here: people never connect to the organization’s mission and vision until they first connect with their leader. Influential leaders are leaders (with or without a formal

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We Get What We Create

Sigmund Freud, so the story goes, went to his grave perplexed by the question “What do women want?” I wonder if it ever occurred to Freud to simply ask a woman. In business, puzzled leaders do ask their employees what

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Taking Advantage of Conflict and Confrontation

All great relationships require constructive conflict and confrontation to grow and thrive. Influential leaders orchestrate the culture in which people can be energized, engaged, and fully aware of their meaningful contributions to the enterprise. Much of the personal and organizational

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Why Coaching Fails

Coaching and having a coach has become a huge buzz in today’s corporate world. As leaders in the fast-paced, ever-changing work environment, having that third-party support to manage the chaos and complexity can be invaluable. On the other hand, bringing

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