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False Positives

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Guest post by David Small : I’ve been coaching elite athletes and soldiers for the more than a decade now, and recently I learned a lesson about false positives. Here are four tips to build up your team without giving them false positives. Make your positive feedback positive, and make your negative feedback constructive.

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5 Tips for Inspiring Leadership

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They are leaders who practice confidence in our ability to create a positive outcome no matter what the circumstance. Regular daily practices keep us grounded, focused, positive, and healthy. Inspiring leaders are those who practice ‘alignment’. They are the ones who will get us there.

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Are You a Culture Change Skeptic?

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Numerous studies have proven the positive impact of culture on performance and how fulfilling employees see their work. How do you know the Positive Impact was due to culture change? Often senior leaders who embrace the positive power of culture find themselves in organizations that don’t support this world view.

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The Three Keys to Being a Great Leader

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Think about what got you into a leadership position: drive, persistence, vision, goals. My early career was as a sales manager for Southwestern Company, which involved recruiting college students to sell educational books door-to-door. After that he started, developed, and eventually sold, his own book company.

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Leaders: Choose Your Own Reality

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She could have focused entirely on Jane’s weaknesses and frustrated all of her attempts to undertake positive work. The ability to reframe or reinterpret a given situation enables leaders to see that positive consequences can be built from even the direst circumstances. Notice the word choice here—Joan chose. P.S. Jane flourished.

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Hiring in the World of HyperGrowth

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Guest post from Beth Armknecht Miller: Recently, I was working with an executive who shared a job description for a new IT position. He leads a rapidly growing company so there were going to be multiple hires for the same position in a short period of time. A very costly mistake, when the salary for position was $120K.

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When Going Gets Tough, Action and Attitude Carry the Day

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Are you positive, upbeat and smiling when you try to succeed at anything, or are you down on the world and predisposed to think in skeptical terms about what is possible? Believe it or not, no matter how hard or angry, ditching the negative and accenting the positive just might feel good.

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