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Six Ways To Make Your Words More Meaningful

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Posted in Leadership Development JoAnn Auger, MSBCoach Executive Coach & Trainer This weekend I watched the movie, “Anonymous,” a primarily fictionalized theory about the authenticity of William Shakespeare’s work. I’m not writing a review nor a recommendation for the movie. I’m writing because of a couple of lines that caught my attention.

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The Remarkable Power of Lists

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Posted in Change Management Self Leadership Workplace Issues I have a confession to make. I’m a list person. I can’t resist the subtle seduction of bullet points and numbered priorities. There’s something satisfying about charting a course one step at a time and tracking progress with check marks and scribbles. I’ve tried project management software and organizational apps.

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Stop greasing these 3 squeaky wheels

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Posted in Career Development Leadership Development “A ‘squeaky wheel’ isn’t the highest priority project. It’s the loudest or most noticed. In many organizations, it gets the grease, while projects with greatest potential to bring about business results get delayed or set aside.” This quote, from the book Everything’s A Project, is playing like a mantra in my thoughts.

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Leading Can be Simple

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Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development The following post is adapted from a post on the Random Acts of Leadership Blog in December, 2008. It’s time to demystify leadership. Opportunities abound for leading in any given moment. Yet all too often we don’t even see the opportunities let alone take them. Perhaps we have set our sights on the grand gestures [.].

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Choices That Matter

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Posted in Leadership Coaching Leadership Development Resources Self Leadership Every day is filled with choices. Some choices are simple in the moment. To Wear The Red Shoe or The Cute Boot? To Eat Vegetables or Chocolate? To Shop or to Save? To Sit or to Dance? To Work or to Play? Some choices require a little more risk. To Laugh or Cry? To [.].

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Reasons to Embrace Business Process Management

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Posted in Leadership Development There is no question that in today’s volatile economy, extreme business-cycle fluctuations can occur often. With proper business process management implementation, you’ll have the ability to manage an array of business changes that constantly transpire. Without proper BPM training, understanding the key components that make workflow management successful can be daunting.

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Step Back to Lead Forward

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Posted in Leadership Development [link] Over at the Leadership Freak blog, Dan Rockwell (@Leadershipfreak) posted an interesting article yesterday about the importance of both stepping forward and stepping back. There are times when we must step back to allow others to take the lead. He asks leaders to consider finding those individuals who embrace organizational values and then clarifying for [.].