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Are You Fit to Lead?

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Carol Himmelhoch is a professor of leadership at Siena Heights University and she’s recently published a monograph titled "Transformational Leadership and High-Intensity Interval Training". If you’re familiar with CrossFit, you know what High Intensity Interval Training (HITT) is.

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How to Get Your Micromanager Boss to Back Off

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Train – Who’s going to train your boss how to not micromanage? If you’re consistent in following your operating rhythm and get ahead of unpleasant surprises, then you’ll likely train your boss into asking for less and less that’s outside the rhythm. Make sure your work is clearly supportive of their success. Anticipate.

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Five Ways for Leaders to Get Out of Chronic Fight or Flight

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In this short video , I draw on my training as a registered yoga teacher to teach you how to do that. As little as three rounds of breathing in and out can make a big difference in moving the up and down arrows of chronic fight or flight in the opposite directions. It’s important, though, that you know the right way to breathe.

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Remembering a Loyal and Loving Leader

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Like Jack’s training cruises to support what he jokingly called the War for Bermuda or the time a hurricane hit Charleston and a pregnant Judy sheltered in the bathroom while her husband was at sea on the Everglades experiencing 45-degree rolls in the storm.

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Ken Blanchard and Chick-fil-A’s Mark Miller, on What It Takes to Grow as a Leader

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Ken Blanchard is the co-founder and chief spiritual officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies, an international management training and consulting firm. ” Mark Miller is vice president of training and development for Chick-fil-A. . Click headline to continue.

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How to Push Your Mental Reset Button

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Seven years ago this summer, I spent around 15 weeks in a yoga teacher training course with an amazing instructor named Birgitte. Yes, you already do that but you’re probably doing it wrong. Here’s the back story on why I think that. She’s been teaching yoga for over 30 years and has seen and learned a lot during that time.

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How Do You Combine Patience and Urgency?

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Have the patience to develop a new playbook and train your team with it before you send them into the urgency of the game. You can’t just keep urgently running the old pre-pandemic plays and expect them to work in a late stage and post-pandemic world. The game has changed; the plays need to change as well.