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Featured Post on Lead Change Leadership Blog: Don’t Let Your To-Do List Override Your Good Sense

December 8, 2011

By this time you’ve heard story after story of Black Friday gone wrong.  Shoppers with a laser focus on “making the season bright” allowed themselves to be willing to hurt another to achieve their prized purchase.  What a way to start off the holiday season wrong on so many levels… read remainder of post at [...]

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Humans: Are You Getting More Respect Than You Need?

September 13, 2011
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Many years ago a colleague leading a training class asked us this as we started, “Who here can say they are getting more respect than they need?”  Can you imagine a world where that was the case – getting more respect than you need?  Is that possible?
And in my singularly focused way, can you imagine [...]

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Treating People at Work Humanly – part 57 (She Just Won’t Get Off the Subject…)

August 23, 2011
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Yes, I said “humanly,” not humanely.  Humane treatment to me means the minimum standard, such as providing breaks, water and bathrooms.
No, I’m challenging you to take it a step further and go beyond biological needs, to higher-level human needs, such as the need to be seen, to know somebody has your back, to know there [...]

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The Truth Will Set You Free (But First it Might P*ss You Off)

August 2, 2011
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You might be familiar with this, when suggesting to your peer leaders that, as a collective, you should  acknowledge the truth of a difficult message, what you hear is: “We don’t want to be negative.”  As if employees won’t notice this is bad news…
If it’s employees’ emotional reactions you are trying to minimize, I’ve got to [...]

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What Farm Kids Know About Leadership

July 5, 2011
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I grew up on a farm.  Yep, that’s me at the left, at 5-years old, working with my father.  Notice the stripe-on-stripe outfit.  I dressed myself that day.  And that’s not the only thing I did that day…
Farm kids learn responsibility early.
I would say I “added value” as early as age 5.  I knew this [...]

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Today’s Financial Woman features “Seven Ways to Be a New Leader to Your Employees” Post

June 28, 2011
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Today’s Financial Woman online newsletter picked up this fave post.  Yay!

Make decisions as if people matter. Business doesn’t exist in a vacuum. How do you think all this stuff happens…?

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New Era Leadership Daily featured “Leaders: Stop Being So Responsible”

June 28, 2011
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“I find this in so many issues that managers bring to our coaching. It is perfectly understandable to feel responsible for “making them feel bad,” when you are delivering a message that may upset someone. Yes, you are delivering the message, but in most cases the facts of the situation exist [...]

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As a Leader, Can We Count on You?

June 1, 2011
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Featuring poem, “For a Leader” by John O’Donohue
I wasn’t much of a leader yesterday. It totally got by me that I missed my weekly post and email distribution.
It might not be a big deal to you, but continuity, reliability and people knowing how they can count on me is a big deal — and in [...]

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Your Employees: “You’d Think” They’d Know Better, Wouldn’t You?

March 22, 2011
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Managers: Immediately Improve Your Communications with Employees with this One Easy Tip
I was having a conversation with a group of managers last week. We were bemoaning how employees can be so disconcerting sometimes. I heard things like:

Why do I have to point out everything to them?
Don’t they know this (example) is one of [...]

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Leadership: There is No Substitute for Human Connection

March 1, 2011
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Or, “Don’t expect email to build trust”

One of my clients had recently started experimenting with how he responded to customer requests. His customers were co-workers —people internal to the company. He had been finding himself increasingly annoyed and impatient at their requests, and he wanted to change that.
To his credit, he knew most of the [...]

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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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“Respect Must Be Earned” – Leaders, Are You Comfortable Being Held to a Higher Standard?

February 9, 2011
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Bosses, no, I really don’t intend on making you a target of disrespect.
Last week I expounded on how much this phrase, “respect must be earned,” bugs me, in the context of a manager to employee relationship — mainly because it can be misinterpreted and give license to immature or unscrupulous managers to treat people without [...]

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