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Coaching Others: Short Term Pain for Long Term Gain

Persuasive Powerhouse

Let’s call using coaching skills “short term pain for long term gain”. The great news is that if you are dedicated to it, and spend the time it takes there are some wonderful long term benefits for you and your employees. All Rights Reserved.

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Taking Risks: How to Make it Feel Safer (and Less Lonely) For Your Team to Try New Things

Let's Grow Leaders

Make Taking Risks a Team Sport Taking risks at work can feel remarkably lonely. This week on #AskingforaFriend I share practical approaches to making taking risks a team sport. These ideas and approaches came from teams in one of our long-term Courageous Cultures programs.

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A Sports Analogy for Understanding Different Ways to Use AI

Harvard Business Review

The authors have come to think about this issue as points on a spectrum and have created a sports analogy to help think about it: AI tools can range from steroids, to sneakers, to a coach, each representing a different relationship between human users and the technology.

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An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford

Leading Blog

Curated below are some notes from An Ordinary Man : ☙ “The strongest weapon in a political campaign is the good credited you by word of mouth”—this Ford credo goes a long way toward explaining him and the congressional mindset he personifies. JFK had long since taken the measure of his onetime House colleague.

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5 Leadership Lessons for Every Entrepreneur

Strategy Driven

Accomplished entrepreneur Kenny Smith , a former NBA player who won two consecutive championships with Houston Rockets, has been given the National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award for his services, including teaching the use of sports to develop valuable leadership skills.

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Cultivating a Culture of Connection at Home

Michael Lee Stallard

The principles are relevant for individuals, community groups, sports teams, nations and even families. Child psychology research describes love in a family in terms of forming “secure attachments,” a synonym for human connections. Are all the sports uniforms clean, permission slips signed, birthday gifts purchased, etc.?

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Be Where Your Feet Are

Leading Blog

The solution is not balance, says sports executive Scott O’Neil in Be Where Your Feet Are. We need reinforcement in terms of what we stand for, what matters, and what we prioritize, and through those things we can be where our feet are when it counts.”. #2 The problem is our experiences tend to be shallow. 2 Change The Race.

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