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Leadership Is An Endurance Sport

Joseph Lalonde

People regularly ask me why I continue to participate in endurance sports. These endurance sports range from half marathons, to biking, and more. Endurance sports push my body and mind to the limits. Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Leadership Is An Endurance Sport Leadership isn’t easy. mile full marathon.

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From Fiasco to Opportunity: How to Reframe a Team Setback With Better Words

Let's Grow Leaders

How Can We Pivot?” ” Missing the mark sucks, but if basketball players quit after every missed shot, we’d never have any sports highlights. How can we slam dunk it next time?” “Is there a specific area where my skills can plug a gap or lend a hand?” “We Missed Our Objectives.

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How to Win with Pattern Recognition

Next Level Blog

To be an effective coach, I use pattern recognition skills to quickly get up to speed on the context my clients work in and then to help them determine what they need to focus on to be better and better. The hook of a hit song by Matchbox Twenty year ago was the lyric, “Let’s see how far we’ve come.”

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Guest post from Derek Lidow: Entrepreneurs can come into their livelihood already possessing some vital skills, but no one shows up being the total package. Skills are learned over years of embracing self-improvement and education. No one method for gaining skills is used and being good at absolutely everything is futile.

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Why You Want to Lead a Team with Transferable Skills and How to Build One

Lead Change Blog

By developing a workforce this way, companies create employees with overlapping skill sets, skills that may be applied intra-departmentally or inter-departmentally. So why is it that when it comes to the hiring process, too many companies seem to overlook the value of transferable skills?

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Turn Your Managers Into Leaders — Teach Them To Coach.

Rich Gee Group

Listen here: Ever played a sport in school? They taught you how to be effective in that sport. They didn’t run the course, execute the play, or swing the club — they showed you how to do it better. No time to read? You had a coach — what were they like? They pushed you out of your comfort zone.

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How to Achieve the Impossible

Let's Grow Leaders

How to Galvanize Your Team to Achieve the Impossible. To galvanize your team toward achieving the possible… Make winning feel like a sport. In sports, nothings more fun than winning when the odds are stacked against you. Tap into the sporting side of human nature. Don’t get me wrong. ” mindset.

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