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Refuse to be Offended (Justin Maust)

Let's Grow Leaders

One simple tactic to give your team an edge. Sometimes a leader needs to be the hammer. Allow the hammer to strike you so that you can effectively support the structure. It’s impossible for the hammer to hold the structure together alone…the nail is his only hope. Bad hammers ruin good nails.

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Why Every Leader Should Use the DiSC Assessment with Their Team

Lead by Adventure

Our church hosted a workshop and one of the speakers led us in this personality assessment. Since then, I have used it multiple times and with multiple teams to help me discover more about who I’m working with and how to lead and/or worth with others best. They are the organizers and effective members of your team.

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Innovation Begins (and remains) at the Top

Great Leadership By Dan

The maxim “everything looks like a nail to a hammer” is an excellent reminder that every successful innovation effort relies on the people—and all their fears, emotions, and humanness—who must fuel it. John Sweeney is the co-owner and executive producer of the Brave New Workshop, America’s oldest satirical comedy theatre.

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Know Your History, Purpose and Direction

CoachStation

Any member of my team and frankly, my friends, share these values. CoachStation is currently in a significant growth phase with a team of business partners joining us recently to extend our reach and influence. We have created most of our own original workshop material; coaching models; assessment tools etc.

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Give Them Reason

Steve Farber

And it often develops like this: A group of senior executives–now known as the “Executive Team&# –goes away on an off-site, sits down together, and has a poetry contest. They try to hammer out just the right words and phrases, and they argue for hours–days, sometimes–over the word choices.

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Change Choices: Creating Our Own Reality

The Practical Leader

The short video clip Lost Generation continues to be a big hit with keynote and workshop audiences as we discuss our choices to Lead, Follow, or Wallow when faced with challenging changes or setbacks. In less than two minutes, Lost Generation hammers home how we create our own reality. The message is brimming with optimism and hope.

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The Rainmaker Fab Five Blog Picks of the Week

Sales Wolf Blog

 Sadly, as the old saying goes, when a hammer is the only tool in your arsenal, you start to see every problem as a nail. motivate) the team members within your organization or are you trying to fix the systems that manage their work? Department of Labor Employment Standards Administration (ESA) - U.S.

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