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AUGUST 9, 2016

Here’s how to do it. How do you want them to feel and how does that feeling support the result you’re trying to create? I’ve been teaching leaders how to use this visualization technique in peer or self-coaching scenarios for years now and the hit rate is around 100%. Try it today.

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APRIL 20, 2021

The normal roles were reversed a couple of weeks ago, though, when a senior executive client asked me the thought-provoking question, “How do you combine patience and urgency?”. As the world comes back online, smart leaders are considering how to strike the right balance between patience and urgency.

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MARCH 18, 2024

If you look at the pictures from back then, you can tell how much fun and adventure they had in Charleston with their Navy buddies forming experiences they talked about for the rest of their lives. If you liked what you read here, subscribe here to get my latest ideas on how to lead and live at your best.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Obvious systems to look at include performance management, internal communications (especially executive communications), recruiting, rewards and recognition, work processes and design, and training and development. If you liked what you read here, subscribe here to get my latest ideas on how to lead and live at your best.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A good portion of the time that they haven’t been spending in planes, trains and automobiles has been going to their life partners, kids and friends. If you liked what you read here, subscribe here to get my latest ideas on how to lead and live at your best.

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APRIL 24, 2019

Having gone to school at Northwestern (Mom trained as a dental hygienist there), Chicago was an option. Mom and Dad were avid supporters of Marshall University in Huntington where they did their undergraduate training. If you liked what you read here, subscribe here to get my latest ideas on how to lead and live at your best.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Don’t create information vacuums:   In the run up to the body scan and pat down changes,  the TSA declined to comment on what is different about the pat down procedure or how agents were trained to conduct them. Train and support your people to do the same.   If anything, it was faster. Most of us get that.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

So, with the benefit of five years of yoga and meditation-infused perspective since I wrote the Business Travel Diva post, here are eight suggestions for how to stay sane during the holiday travel season. Let go of attachment to outcomes : The holidays are the ultimate opportunity to learn how to let go of what you can’t control.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Since then, I figure I’ve taken well over 1,000 classes, have completed 200 hours of teacher training and learned how to do a lot of things like headstands and handstands that I never expected to do even when I didn’t have MS.

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AUGUST 9, 2010

Brad is the second driver my wife and I have trained after teaching his older brother a few years ago. Anyway, Brad and I were practicing in the empty parking lots of a large government office center  It’s a great place for driver training because the lots are connected by marked two lane roads with stop signs at intersections.

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JANUARY 25, 2016

And then, last week, Diane and I proved to ourselves how well eliminating added sugar from our diets was actually working by driving the train off the rails. I stand by that, but if I were to rewrite the book today, I would focus more on what you eat and how important it is to reduce the amount of sugar in your diet.

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JULY 31, 2019

My most popular post on managing yourself so far this year has been How to Keep Your Poker Face. And, this year’s number one post to date on engaging your colleagues is How to Get Your Micromanager Boss to Back Off. If you liked what you read here, subscribe here to get my latest ideas on how to lead and live at your best.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Today, for now, I know much more about how to take care of myself. We’ve just certified and licensed 30 great coaches to lead workshops on using the Life GPS®, the self-management tool I unpack in Overworked and Overwhelmed , and are getting ready to train more coaches this summer. Now, I live in Santa Monica, California.

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

.  On a trip to see a client in 2005, I flew into Newark and took the trains to Lower Manhattan.    As the PATH train emerged from underneath the Hudson, I realized that we were coming up through the foundation of what used to be the World Trade Center.    My first view of Ground Zero was from within it. 

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JANUARY 17, 2011

specialist field is improving onjob employee performance without training courses. Posted by: Scott Eblin | January 17, 2011 at 05:02 PM G'Day Scott, I work with owners and managers in small-medium business.My Your post really struck a chord with me.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

He knew how to conduct a conversation with millions of viewers and listeners. ‘I would rather be doing this, what I trained to do and what I do best.'” He was an astute observer of the game who knew when to explain and when to let the moment speak for itself. He knew when it was time to mix a story into the play by play.

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JULY 29, 2010

Everyone else will be on pins and needles about how to act around you until you spring the mood of the day on them. be sure to do it before anyone actually completely understand their new rle, however, or they'll start to think you're doing some useful cross-training.   Benevolent dictator or ruthless tyrant?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

  From there, I caught a taxi to the train station, hopped on TrenItalia to Florence and was at my hotel maybe an hour later than originally planned. .  It didn't feel like a big deal and it really wasn't.  With a six hour time change and 18 hours of travel, it had been a long day but not a stressful one. 

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JULY 21, 2010

I think they'll be teaching this as a "what not to do" in HR training for years to come. Posted by: Scott Eblin | July 23, 2010 at 02:39 PM Scott, Reminds me of the old Ready, Fire, Aim approach that is all to common in lots of companies and/or individuals. Dave Posted by: Dave Opton | July 27, 2010 at 04:31 PM Totally, Dave.

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JULY 23, 2010

Teasing can easily become sniping - often, I hear it excused as "we are a family so it's OK," but often, the people receiving it are privately trained to be more defensive, and are less likely to show vulnerability. Very sad and destructive. (3) 3) Related, watch the use of humor. That hurts - the people, and the organization.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The complete success of the rescue effort bears out how important it was for the miners to lead themselves and each other to survive so well underground for 70 days. And, as was the case with the astronauts, the miners could not have made it safely home without the efforts, talents and leadership of thousands of others.

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DECEMBER 15, 2010

They’re very well trained around the approach to yoga that the owner of the studio believes in. They each exhibit their own personality and lead the classes in their own way but there is a consistent framework that they all follow and a common language and approach that they’ve all been trained in.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

  Yonny Barrios has taken the lead on ensuring the physical health of the crew by drawing on six months of nursing training he took 15 years ago. He is consulting with psychologists on the surface to monitor the psychic health of his comrades. 

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AUGUST 11, 2010

Not sure in the instant case what Jet Blue, as a company, or Mr. Slater's supervisors could really have done to protect his back other than provide him and his colleagues with more training to deal with circumstances like the one in which he found himself.

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DECEMBER 8, 2010

support a learning activity (training, coaching, mentoring, journaling, etc.) Posted by: Scott Eblin | December 08, 2010 at 10:04 PM From another Boy Scout: Help someone on your team develop a new competency: a. have a goal-setting conversation; link goal to business results b. create an individualized learning plan together c.

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AUGUST 21, 2019

I’ve organized what I’ve learned and do by the four domains of routines that I share with readers and clients when I teach them how to create and use their own Life GPS®. Keep Breathing – In 2013, I did a 200 hour yoga teacher training program with a wonderful, highly experienced instructor named Birgitte Kristen.

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