Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 10, 2010

If you, as the leader, can take the initiative to recognize when someone needs some compassion and express it appropriately, it may go a long way toward making your workplace a better place to be. People want to know that you have a heart, and expressing compassion is one way to do so. Sounds soft? Think you’ll be seen as weak?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 15, 2010

She made sure her staff knew her expectations in terms of the work outcomes. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

They take responsibility for their own development. They aren’t waiting for anyone to hand them leadership development on a silver platter. These organizations create the kind of environment that supports leadership development. They hire talented people, they develop talented people, and they promote talented people.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I have now been detoxed and am on the road to long-term healing, so I would like to share some tips with you about this highly popular disorder. Tracking progress rather than perfection seems wise and beneficial for people in the long run. The phrase, “It’s not about being perfect. Thanks for the great blog!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 10, 2010

Allow them to work as long as it makes sense to do so: So often I hear of someone putting in their advance notice of resignation and the manager immediately shows them to the door. Let them work as long as they can, when possible. As a leader, your job is to see and treat people with humanity, even as they are walking out the door.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 10, 2011

You can’t expect your manager to know what you want for your career over the long or short haul. Here are some ways to begin to think about and communicate what you want: Take full responsibility for your career: You must take primary responsibility for your development and your career. Act on the action plan.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 22, 2010

If the foundation is cracked or compromised in some way, the building cannot stand over the long haul; its integrity is in doubt. It’s their way of being that allows those they are coaching to make giant leaps; to transform and develop, to become the best at what they do. Don’t get me wrong.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Here are some that come to mind: Passion and Practicality: Sustaining great leadership over the long haul requires passion. Relationship Oriented and Goal Oriented: Developing and sustaining high-quality workplace relationships is becoming more important. Some people learn strong values of respect in their development and some don’t.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 2, 2011

Living as long as I have, and having been poked, prodded, assessed and provided with feedback all of my life – this recently-revealed blind spot hit me like a ton of bricks. Changing ingrained behavior is a long term investment. This started me thinking once again about one of my own blind spots.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 8, 2010

Sorry about the long comment. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. There is never really a right answer to that. Everything is situational but just some thoughts to consider. Good post, Mary Jo.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JULY 21, 2010

Our organizations are no long hierarchical. Developing staff is as important as the bottom line. Their organizations don’t balk at allocating resources to develop a pipeline of leaders. The idea that “you should be grateful that you have a job” is long gone. Every workplace is a “best” one.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

As you reflect and practice new and better ways of interaction with others, what you’ve learned can be applied to developing healthier relationships. The rewards are not always immediate, but the effort that you invest in reflection will pay off over the long run. What do you think? In that I agree with you.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Not sure what you mean by “part time&# , but I know of several leaders (one of whom is a CEO in a very large organization) in several organizations I work in who participate in long term mentoring relationships with regular meetings.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 30, 2010

Work-life synergy is a term I like better. And I’m about to embark into uncharted territory… We should all be so lucky to pay attention to the synchronistic road signs that help guide us to where we long to be. Or maybe it’s just that we only see what we want to see to be where we long to be. I can do this.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 14, 2010

As long as the actions following the words match- then you know it was genuine. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. I’m wondering if you also provide specific praise? And how do you do so?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JANUARY 19, 2011

He has been a tank platoon leader, a McKinsey consultant, a senior executive, and now runs thoughtLEADERS – a leadership development and training firm. But what I have noticed is, if you do not have other people who can do your job then you may be doing that job for a very long time. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

After getting checked in (an hour into the visit), I settled in for a long wait. His response buffered the negative of the long wait. However, as long as I provide “honest&# optimism to everyone, we all seem to make it through the turmoil. All in all, this was not a pleasant place to spend time.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

As long as I give respect to others, I can sleep easy at night even if they don’t reciprocate. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Better to develop and enable others to think for themselves. This is the easy way out that doesn’t help others to think on their own over the long haul. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

JUNE 20, 2010

When he had asked why she had done this for so long, she replied, “It’s a gift I’ve been given. The Gifts You Can Give Let’s explore some of the gifts you may have been given or that you have developed in your time on earth. I must give it away to others”. These will be the traits that come easily to you.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Is this what we call chemistry in common terms? My other point was that a person works in a place for a long time whole heartedly. That employee would think that he/she dedicated himself/herself for this organization for a long time but the organization didn’t care them.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 13, 2010

All of the above statements came from clients and readers recently. .&# “I didn’t know that developing as a leader would be so personal.&# “The things you write about leadership apply to our personal lives as well as our work lives.&# All of the above statements came from clients and readers recently. Either way great post.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

DECEMBER 14, 2010

The message for me is, Making Mistakes is Good as long as you communicate appropriately, learn from them and get better. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. Again, your post spoke to me!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 27, 2010

With the best of intentions, I recently used the term “mentally disabled&# on my blog to write about a group of women I had been working with. I think it’s so important to not only understand what impact our words are having right now, but also realize the long-term implications of our words.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

AUGUST 25, 2010

He took care of the stray cats that seem to make their way to our area, and walked another neighbor’s dogs when that neighbor worked long hours. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Acting in harmony with your personal values won’t necessarily assure “right action”, but being mindful of them as you go about your day can go a long way toward pointing you in the direction of making an impact for the greater good. This blog is for leaders and those who help them to be more intentional about relationships at work.

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Next Level Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

It’s an example of what Abraham Maslow called unconscious competence and it’s the last of four stages of learning he based on different levels of competence.  We’ve been doing them so long that they’ve just become automatic. If everything is going smoothly on the road, I just kind of drive without thinking about it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Thanks, Sachin Davor Milicevic: October 11, 2010 at 8:07 pm A nice word goes a long way. Taking an extra minute to find a positive in your employee’s work and praising them for it can go a long way. I think they best philosophy is: If its good news to someone close to me then it’s good news to me! Thanks Mary!

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 22, 2010

They over focus on short term results and under focus on relationships. Executives with this profile are long on “me&# and short on “we.&# For example, my peers understand that I welcome challenging debate and discussions, but I dislike long sessions of “small talk.” What’s the recovery plan?

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

As long as it comes into my head, the content will come out onto this site! We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. Thanks for the great site and content.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The way to develop and grow is to let go of what you think you know and be open to what is new. Doing things a certain way for so long that it no longer takes effort. In the State of Nevada we, Professional Engineers, have to have 30 professional development hours of learning to renew our licenses every two years.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Would you like a longer term “partner&# , mentor, or MasterMind group with regular meetings to provide support over the long haul? I read a lot of Leadership development articles and blogs, and I think this is one the first ones I’ve read that i’ve actually said to myself “Hey! I already do that!&#

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Discover areas you can unite with others on – agreement on similar interests or like mindedness on a topic will help develop connections. We partner with great leaders to help them become even greater at developing, improving, and sustaining relationships with the people who are essential to their success. Good stuff.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

Abraham Maslow’s oft-quoted “hierarchy of needs” — first published in 1943 — provides a good start. Maslow sought to map the psychological needs of humans and their motivations. To become this kind of living business, with a new understanding of customer needs, we need a new definition of relevance.

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

She had made a mean face often and for a long time. Predictably, however, these experts can't come to an agreement on just what comprises happiness and what produces it over the long term. One theory posits that happiness is like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. I have such a long way to go. Great reminder.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We found that boards tend to progress from good-to-great along a four-phase continuum: 1) foundational, 2) developed, 3) advanced, and 4) strategic. The continuum essentially represents a corporate hierarchy of needs, akin to the famous personal-development hierarchy created by psychologist Abraham Maslow.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It was Abraham Maslow who gave us that famous observation — “when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Put simply, what’s good for increasing GDP may not be good for the long-term betterment of society. The path to prosperity for nations is complex. Economy Global business Sustainability'

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