Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Most people can handle just about any amount and type of work that comes their way. It’s not the work that puts them over the edge – its conflict with coworkers! Conflict in the workplace – or anywhere - is inevitable. Conflict is part of being human. Some people are more comfortable with it than others, and some people tend to be “conflict carriers”.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Guest post from Shawn Hunter: “Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?” – Carol Dweck Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can change our brain. There is a scene in the new movie Dr. Strange in which a character describes how he healed an impossible injury through the strength of his own thinking.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Guest post from T.J. Jones : Does happiness at work matter? Is there value in a fun workplace? YES. In a twenty-year career, I had eighteen different bosses. Do that math, please. I experienced eight acquisitions (and thus, culture) changes in that timeframe. Cheerleading each time for the “new reality” through all the uncertainty, when I too had fears and uncertainties, was exhausting—like lost sleep you never catch up on.

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Great Leadership By Dan

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

The most popular post on this blog continues to be one of my first posts written in 2008 called How to Write a Great Individual Development Plan (IDP). In one of the earlier versions of that post I had offered to send readers an IDP template. With the growth of my blog, the volume of requests got to be unmanageable so those requests now get an auto-response directing them to my eBook , which includes a copy of the template, along with a 9-Box Performance and Potential Grid.

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