Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 20, 2014

I held a few consultations, where we explored what they were most afraid of. Not just in a hammer and nail sort of way. Authenticity & Transparency Career & Learning Energy & Engagement Everything Else encouraging your team helping your team get unstuck' ” A few took a walk. Others paired up. Encourage them.

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Your Voice of Encouragement

APRIL 8, 2014

Several years ago we retained the services of a marketing consultant who gave us some terrific ideas for growing our business. And then he used a phrase to describe me that I cherish to this day: VELVET HAMMER I pride myself on speaking the truth to people, but I try to do it gently, to maintain the other person’s dignity and self-esteem.

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CoachStation

MARCH 7, 2016

CoachStation provides consulting and business advisory, coaching / mentoring and human resource related offerings. I have been a leader throughout my whole career which started in late teens when I was fortunate enough to be provided with an opportunity to participate in a two-year supervisor traineeship with a large retailer in Adelaide.

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Women on Business

AUGUST 1, 2012

So if you want to have a successful career, don’t focus all your efforts on yourself. Don’t just build a career. Along with her partner and father Al Ries, the legendary Positioning pioneer, Ries & Ries consults with companies around the world on brand strategy. Life is like that. Think about other people.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2017

For example, when participants in one of the studies were presented with a season’s worth of statistics for a star athlete who had logged worse numbers than usual, the participants were quick to conclude that the player’s career had begun an irreversible downward spiral. I am just as guilty of this omission as everyone else.

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Tanveer Naseer

AUGUST 6, 2013

One of the ways that a good leader can help bring about personal transformation is by being a Velvet Hammer. It can become a real drag on your career unless you deal with it. Ten years after receiving the hard-to-hear feedback, the middle manager considers it the single most important conversation he had in his entire career.

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You're Not the Boss of Me

JULY 6, 2009

Shifting to experiment/learn perspective would most certainly take the ‘hammer’ out of the equation. If we can shift to an experiment/learn model for many of the things we try, we can eliminate the idea of a “failure&# for many activities. Reply Gwyn Teatro July 7, 2009 at 3:50 pm Wouldn’t that be great?

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