Exchanging Ideas

How Are You Creating Your Own Environment of Support?

September 6, 2011
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You might remember from last week how I found “grace in my coffee shop” when I was concerned about a writing project submission.  Today I found support at a “fork in the road” with a few poets sprinkled in for good measure (a sentence I never expected to write in this lifetime).
I’ve been working on [...]

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Panel Discussion: “Where Have All the Leaders Gone?”

March 4, 2011
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On March 9, 2011, contributing members of the Lead Change Group discussed,
“Character-Based Leadership: Where Did it Go and How do We Get it Back?” on a BlogTalkRadio broadcast.

Hear panelists, Tara Alemany, Shawn Murphy and John Ikeda and I discuss questions such as:

What is your observation in leaders – aware and desiring to be character-based [...]

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Managers: Is it Worth it to Deal With the “Petty Drama”?

August 6, 2010
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Hello Friends and Colleagues. I know I haven’t written in a while.
The good news is that I have had a busy and productive summer coaching new managers on their exciting new role and training managers to develop the skills to effectively coach their employees. I also took time for some much-needed R&R in [...]

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Managers: What Do You Know Now That You Wish You Knew Then?

March 15, 2010
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“As a manager/leader of people, what do know now, that you wish you knew when you started?”
I recently posted this question in a number of groups on LinkedIn to get a discussion going on management development.  I’m getting lots of great answers, like this one from Steve Ibanez of NY (used with his [...]

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Mary’s Seven Ways to Be a New Leader to Your Employees

February 24, 2010
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My buddy, Joe Gerstandt, and I are plunging headlong into the new year with yet more Q&A posts. Here’s our latest installment.
JOE: We both talk about new ways of leadership in our work…for you, what are some examples of what that actually looks like?
MARY:  Great question.  I’m into lists this week, so what I’ve crafted [...]

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Congratulations, You’ve Got People! Parts 1 & 2

January 25, 2010
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OR, The Road to Heck is Paved with Good Intentions
Jump to Part 2 here
Part 1 – From January 25: You’ve worked hard. You’ve been looking forward to actually leading your own team. You’ve had supervisors you look up to, who inspired you.  Or maybe you had supervisors who made  you think, “Surely [...]

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Hear the Clip! Do You Think There are Some Employees You Just Can’t Motivate?

January 24, 2010
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…Don’t Make This Common Manager Mistake
As a former HR Manager, and long-time coach, I’ve found 5 common mistakes I see managers of people make over and over that create a rut of overwhelm, confusion, and frustration.  These mistakes practically guarantee you’ll keep struggling against yourself and your employees. By avoiding these mistakes you’ll allow yourself [...]

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Q&A Continues – 2010 – Best Year Ever??

January 7, 2010
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My good buddy and fellow freak flag flier, Joe Gerstandt, and I occasionally exchange Q and A posts.  We embarked on this as an experiment and I will claim this as one of the most successful for 2009.
Joe has a list on his site titled: Big Brains, Fat Hearts and Warm Souls – and [...]

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What The World Needs Now: Leadership 2.0

October 6, 2009
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Joe Gerstandt and I have been tossing some questions back and forth, and this time we  decided to both answer the same question, which is this:  We both focus largely on the intangible assets in an organization or community…the things that cannot be easily counted or weighed…things like difference, trust, relationships, culture, etc.  [...]

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What if They Ain’t Buyin’ What I’m Sellin’?

September 15, 2009
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Here we are again, Joe Gerstandt and I, exchanging questions and answers.
Joe: We both focus largely on the intangible assets in an organization or community…the things that cannot be easily counted or weighed…things like difference, trust, relationships, culture, etc.  What can we do so that more business leaders come to value these incredibly powerful (but [...]

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The Most, Bestest Book (on Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace)

August 11, 2009
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Joe Gerstandt and I have an ongoing Q&A exchange that we are posting on both of our blogs.  This week I have this question for Joe.

Q: For an organization leader who sincerely wants to better understand what it is going to take to make her/his organization more innovative, by way of diversity and inclusion, what [...]

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Social Media: It’s *Relating,* People

July 28, 2009
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One of my new favorite blogs I follow is by Liz Strauss, a social media role model.  She gets this relationship thing.  She launched a challenge today to put 25 words of Social Media advice or wisdom into a blog post.
My pet peeve right now is people(?) talking at me, and not with me.  Relating [...]

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