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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

As I looked back, I realized that most, if not all, of the 45 Performance-based Skills are utilized in some way during visionary thinking. A powerful vision creates the will to make change happen and harnesses the energy that will be needed. This is why social interaction skills and boldness are so important to visionaries.

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Intrinsic Motivation: How to Be Motivated by Doing What You Do

Leading Blog

N O MATTER WHAT you are doing, you can be motivated by the work you do. Performance coach Stefan Falk has written Intrinsic Motivation: Learn to Love Your Work and Succeed as Never Before to help you do just that. That, of course, requires that we overcome our reluctance to expend energy on deliberate thinking.

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Master Your Motivation

Lead Change Blog

Motivation is at the heart of everything you do and everything you want to do but don’t. Unfortunately, the ways we typically motivate ourselves don’t work. Traditional “motivators” such as fear, guilt, or the promise of a reward provide low-quality, short-term energy. Learn more and register here.

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3 of the Most Important Leadership Skills Your Leaders Hope You Have

Let's Grow Leaders

Senior leaders share the most important leadership skills to master now. As we work with senior leaders to build their leadership development programs, the conversation always turns to the most important leadership skills their frontline and middle-level leaders need. The 3 Most Important Leaders Skills.

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Why You Shouldn’t Neglect Leadership Development

Lead from Within

As a leadership executive coach, one of the most common mistakes I see leaders make is neglecting their own leadership development. They become so focused on their day-to-day responsibilities and the needs of their team that they fail to invest time and energy into growing their own leadership skills.

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Leadership: Leveraging Your Soft Skills

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post by Lisa Sasso : Soft skills can make or break you as a leader; they are clearly more important to a leader than any hard skill. This is a basic truth I learned early on in my business career, and it has sustained me throughout a succession of leadership roles — right up to my present work as an executive coach.

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Help Your Employees Be Successful By Building This One Skill This Year

Lead from Within

And what the best leaders have learned, is that leadership development brings value at every level. And right from the start, both the team and organization benefit from their new ideas and energy. Here are some of the great things that leadership development can bring: The ability to weather change and challenges.

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