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“Love” Post Made it to #NetDE Daily

February 20, 2011
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Thanks to Rodney Jordan’s hashtag #netDe, my “Leadership is Love” post made it to the Networking Delaware Daily today.  (Once you get there, you’ll have to scroll down to see the post.)

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Leadership is Love

February 14, 2011
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I had an experience recently that inspired me to connect leadership and love, and with Valentine’s Day approaching, I decided the time was perfect to go public.  (I know, I know, strange coming from the woman who doesn’t want to call employees, “family.”)
[You can also listen to me talking about this topic here. It will [...]

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Proudly a Regular Contributor at the Lead Change Group Website

December 28, 2010
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First, let me tell you about the Lead Change community.
From founder, Mike Henry Sr: “We join together to apply character-based leadership to help one another make a positive difference.”
One reason I love this group is that, from my experience, they are a group of people who are truly humble, collaborative and serious about making a [...]

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Time to Check in: 30 Speeches in 30 Days Challenge

November 16, 2010
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Just taking the time to report in.  I’m so pleased with the momentum that’s building around the “30 Speeches in 30 Days Challenge.”  I had no idea how things were going to start to happen.  Here’s how they are unfolding.
1-10: Audios recorded at Audioboo with powerful tips and insights for you, as a manager of [...]

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Part 1: Relate More Humanly at Work – the Role of Leaders and HR

November 8, 2010
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[Adapted from original post, July 14, 2009]
What I want to say first is that there are a number of Human Resources professionals out there who are committed to carrying out their jobs in an expert, efficient, human and caring manner. These are people, who, when faced with a seeming conflict in what is right for [...]

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Managers: How to Ask Better Questions of Your Employees

October 29, 2010
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Had a long talk with a manager client today about asking good questions.  He sincerely wanted to have helpful one-on-one discussions with his employees, but he said, “I ask too many ‘yes/no’ questions. When they give me one-word answers, I get stuck.”  His excellent question was, “How do I transform my questions to get more [...]

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At Work: We Are Family?

October 27, 2010
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I was reminded again today about me being a stick-in-the-mud about describing the model work environment as “like family.”   I already went over my aversion to this last year, so to be fair, I would like to focus on what’s good about this notion.
Let’s get underneath this.  When managers say that want their workgroup to [...]

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Managers: Do You Know the One Question that Can Improve Your Communications with Your Employees?

October 26, 2010
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Yesterday one of my manager clients was telling me about an interaction with an employee that did not go as expected.
He was assigning a project to Brenda — one he thought she would be interested in, and would be a real boost for her development.  He was enthused to be able to give this to [...]

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Managers: What Are You Putting Up With?

October 17, 2010
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? George Eliot
I was on one of my typical rants a few weeks ago with a colleague. I was trying to convey how employees today are depleted by the increasing rate of requests that seem to be 1) the [...]

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Common Sense. Quarterly Revenue. Human Dignity. Pick 2.

October 16, 2010
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Is This the Reality of Business Today?
It feels that way most days, doesn’t it? Having to make a trade-off among some very compelling priorities. I’m afraid of where we are going if we don’t do something different.
[Scroll to the bottom or click here to the Audioboo player to listen to this post instead.]
In the mid-90′s [...]

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Are You Ready to Be a Leader in Your Own Communication?

October 14, 2010
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When I ask “are you ready to be a leader in your own communication,” I’m serious about the “leader” part.
Early in my development as a manager, I wanted to be good at communication, with others.  I hated it when I came away from an interaction frustrated, not having the right words, wondering what in [...]

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Want to Start a Small Business? Don’t Read this Book

October 9, 2010
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My colleague, Shannon Bradford, contacted me recently to inquire about how I started my own business, what I’ve learned, and what advice I could share.  She also asked me if she could share my responses in an e-book she was compiling, called Gems: Real-World Advice from Real Women in Small Business. I was honored.
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