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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”. The great news is that if you are dedicated to it, and spend the time it takes there are some wonderful long term benefits for you and your employees. All Rights Reserved.

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LeadershipNow 140: March 2011 Compilation

Leading Blog

Here are a selection of tweets from March 2011: To lead by example is difficult when you're a follower of fear. - Jack Myers Curated List of Recommended TED Talks from TED 2011. donhornsby: Good leadership never forgets that its long-term goal is not to create follower but more leaders. NYT: A Changed Starbucks.

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Adventure Team Challenge 2011

CO2

Sue, who has no short-term memory, is one of the most positive people I have ever met. She didn’t have much short-term memory, so I considered ways to access her long-term memory, which she had in abundance. Our goal, we reminder ourselves, was to finish the race, not to win. She is one terrific athlete, too.

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The Five Reasons We Give Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Yet many of the roadblocks that prevent us from getting to the gym often are the same ones that thwart us in achieving any goal.Five of the most common reasons for giving up on our goals are listed below. I had no idea that this process would take so long. The optimism bias of goal setters applies to difficulty as well as time.

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10 August 2011 - New York City, NY - Mastering Workplace Performance

Jason Womack

You set a goal, see an email, get invited to a meeting, buy a book.the list goes on. Just having this to look back on at the end of the month/year will go a long way in helping you Identify (back to step one!) Some people think in terms of nouns and verbs, and we all work according to our Auditory/Visual/Kinesthetic preferences.

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Making True Leadership Shine

Persuasive Powerhouse

What is it about the term “public relations” that brings the pot of social ire to a boil? Both know that deception never works, at least not for long, and that truth is the only mortar that binds the bricks of trust, commitment and shared success. Mary Jo Asmus : January 12, 2011 at 9:40 pm Thanks Lisa. Excellent message.

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Four Steps for Making Better Decisions

Next Level Blog

Main | What Leaders Can Learn About Speaking from Martin Luther King » January 17, 2011 Four Steps for Making Better Decisions A friend recently gave me a copy of a new book that’s out now, The Price of Everything by Eduardo Porter.    What impact do these facts have on our goal? What might we be missing here? 

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