Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

If being more systematic is for you, can use a list of values, go to an interactive workshop that will help you to get clear about them, take an electronic assessment, or use a “card sort”. I have another packet of value cards which I received in a leadership training workshop held at my organization a few months ago.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The text that follows is not going to sit well with a number of those in my profession, but hey, that’s never stopped me before. Coaching is about delivering what the client needs - it is not about a cute set of questions you picked-up during a certification class. It’s not about the process, it’s about results.

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Next Level Blog

JUNE 28, 2010

Senate following six years in the House of Representatives. I grew up in West Virginia, worked for one of its governors and am a student of politics so I watched Senator Byrd in action for most of my life. He became a consistent supporter of civil rights legislation only in the last half of his career. 

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2010

While individual leadership approaches will be as different as night and day, and some will clearly be more effective than others, there is something to be learned from them all…There are leaders that we look up to by virtue of their street-smarts, wisdom, and experience; or by virtue of their expertise and contribution to a given field.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The experience Recently I spent three days in an Integral Coaching workshop meant for experienced coaches. It doesn’t often come in a moment or even as a three day workshop. Participating in this workshop was one of the hardest experiences I’ve ever had – and one of the best. Be patient and kind with yourself.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 18, 2010

Consider ways to become more aware of your practice of the leadership foundations: Thoughts: When your thoughts are focused on what is right for you, those who follow you, and your organization, the right actions will ultimately be expressed. Make sure that your intentions are pure and that your actions follow your words before you act.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 11, 2010

Every time someone walks in her door, he ends up with something added to his “to do” list. Yet there is a fair amount of discord amongst them, and they don’t seem to be stepping up to the plate in terms of learning and accepting responsibility on their own. Yet he has started to dread these meetings. What rewards motivate you?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Up to this point in my career, I have never been honest to this type question at work. When you consistently ask for and follow through on feedback, the people around you will come to understand that you take feedback seriously (and that they will not be shunned for giving honest feedback)!

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Marshall Goldsmith

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

It was from this fantastic program that I came up with the idea to teach 15 people everything I know at no charge. It ended up becoming the most widely viewed video in the history of LinkedIn. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Bill began his career with Hyatt Hotels Corporation.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2013

Imagine crafting a sustainable career for yourself. Economic stagnation and unequal access to opportunity keep a sustainable career out of reach of many. Even among the socioeconomically privileged, investment in education, hard work, and commitment to a company is no guarantee of career success and fulfillment.

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

In fact, let me take it up even another notch…diversity should be a non-issue altogether. In the text that follows I’ll make my case for resting on your qualifications and performance not your ethnicity, gender, age, sexual preference, etc. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

I can sum-up my feeling on this in one word… ridiculous. If you are a CEO or entrepreneur and don’t see team building as a priority, then the text the follows is written for you. I have been directing high-performance team workshops for nearly 15 years and I am in complete agreement with you Mike.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2010

He had a successful career in ministry and was in good churches, but he felt God calling him to this assignment. I have attached, below a link to a two minute video of his interview that sums up who this man is. Curious and concerned, she decided to follow the stream of children and discover their source.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

He’s a National Guardsman from South Carolina and was two months into his first tour in Afghanistan when an IED blew up the vehicle he was riding in.    When I met her, she walked into the room on crutches and stood and talked with me for 20 minutes about her career with the Army and her plans for the future.

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Next Level Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

  It was picked up by a bunch of Redskins fan sites and led to my five minutes of fame in an interview with DC’s Fox TV affiliate.   He publicly owned up to accountability for the team’s lackluster performance at the end of last year. That post, which mainly focused on team owner Dan Snyder, went a little viral. 

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

But what happens as people’s career trajectories progress? Over time, those talented women with their PhD in STEM start to drop out of technical and industrial careers. By the time careers reach leadership levels, as few as 15% of those talented women remain, according to some estimates. Set up women for success early on.

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Metrics Career Mentor Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2018

Of the 300,000 nonprofits in the United States, two-thirds have an annual budget of $500,000 or below, which does not allow them to expand their operations or scale their solutions. In the period leading up to that point, they test a range of fundraising approaches, not following preconceived formulas.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Yet, we find, individuals with disabilities frequently encounter workplace discrimination, bias, exclusion, and career plateaus—meaning their employers lose out on enormous innovation and talent potential. ” But there are ways to remove the challenges faced by people with disabilities and open up innovative opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

Real diversity efforts require organizations to address the social patterns that stifle women’s careers, not just the symptoms that result from them. Despite standard operating procedures and global norms, people create local patterns everywhere they work, and these local patterns define work more strongly than centralized initiatives.

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Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 2, 2011

One can wake up, realize their energy has been zapped and experience setbacks in their business because he-she was spending disproportionate time on networking. Some commercial programs cater to this market but are usually populated by entrepreneurs on the way up. Lesson Learned: Set boundaries up front. You Once Did _.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

And it confuses young, promising managers about what skills and behaviors they need to develop to advance their careers. These aren’t one-off initiatives or stand-alone workshops without follow-up. This puts you at risk of missing out on true top talent and promoting the wrong people. For example, when a U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. When artisans have no understanding of their cash flows, they fail prey to spending a big percentage of their working capital, without meaning to, on non-business issues that usually cripple their operations.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

It's easy to point to the problems with social media: lost productivity from employees checking Facebook at work, new "personal branding" responsibilities to tend online, and a general deluge of information that's impossible to keep up with. In my previous career, I was a journalist. Any tool is only as good as the person operating it.

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