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7 Steps to Develop Young Leaders

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Whether it’s progressing in your career or being the head of a family, leadership skills are very important. Sports are a great way to teach confidence. Skateboarding, golfing, skiing, baseball, and basketball are all great examples of sports that will help kids get the confidence that they need.

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How leaders seek the best in others?

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How you view people would have the greatest leadership impact on your careers as a leader. But leadership is a team sport. Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership When you are a leader, you are working with people. How you interact and motivate is an ongoing challenge. We all need one another to create great teams.

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Make Work Fun Again

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During the first week of baseball season in April, young superstar and reigning MVP Bryce Harper sported a ballcap with the following saying: MAKE BASEBALL FUN AGAIN. Harper’s youthful zeal and love for a game that is diminishing in popularity may seem like a trite attitude for playing a sport. Can smiling and fun be a core value?

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Two Keys to Leading Healthy Teams

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I was exposed to sports teams in my youth. One sports team – my college volleyball team – was a very effective team. You might well have seen the same dynamics in teams you’ve served on in your youth and in your career. Doing team work right, every time, requires clarity and discipline from leaders and team members.

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3 Ways To Harness The Power Of Differences

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Other elements come into play as well in shaping how we approach situations and people, things as simple as what sports teams we root for or which political party we support. If ignored or met with intolerance or indifference, these dissimilarities can be divisive, even lethal for career or business success.

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Embrace your Wilderness

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He believed that all his peers and bosses conspired against him and prevented his career growth. A coaching client once asked me if there is any way he can stop people being negative towards him. According to him ,the world around him needed to change but not him. There were others who blamed it on Karma.

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Opportunity – Which Flag Are You Flying?

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Living 13 miles away from Loudon, New Hampshire, places me next door to New England’s largest sporting venue, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Or it can be taking your people aside to encourage them to pursue projects and goals that will enable them to zoom ahead in their career and not feel like they are being left in the dust.

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