leadership

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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Communication is a Two-Way Street. Which Way Are You Going?

November 29, 2011
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“Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them. -John Maxwell
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I’ve heard one too many stories here lately of ineffective or oblivious communication on the part of people who can’t afford to be bad communicators, i.e. leaders.  It shows up by them delivering a message and thinking that [...]

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Featured Lead Change post at “SmartBrief for Leadership” Blog

October 4, 2011
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I’m honored to be representing the Lead Change Group at the SmartBrief for Leadership blog today.  There, you can see my updated post, “Why True leadership involves less talking and more listening.”
Image credit: ia_64 via iStockPhoto.com
 

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Leaders: Have You Found Your Tribe?

September 28, 2011
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This week my colleague, Mike Henry Sr., Chief Instigator of the Lead Change Group, interviewed me.
The Lead Change Group is a global, virtual community dedicated to instigating and mobilizing a revolution of character-based leaders.  Mike wants to allow readers to get to know contributing members like me by sharing their thoughts on the Lead Change [...]

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Leaders: Are You Showing Up for Your Employees?

September 19, 2011
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Recently a colleague told me about a national sales meeting she attended.  They brought in a well-known speaker for a few hours for the entire group of 200.  Later in the day he was scheduled to speak to just the leadership team —about 20.
During the day the leadership team decided there was no reason to [...]

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Post Featured in National Association of Women Executives (NAFE) Newsletter

August 17, 2011
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“Do you simply manage the people who work for you – or do you truly lead?
Mary Schaefer is a speaker, coach, trainer and consultant. Her company, Artemis Path, strives to create breakthroughs in manager-employee communications to produce functional, positive work cultures.”
See “5 Tips to be a Leader to Your Employees” and the Aug. 15 NAFE [...]

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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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Leaders: What Severus Snape Can Teach You About Your Employees

July 26, 2011
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[Spoiler Alert!!!  Caution, this post refers to secrets revealed in the last book and movie of the Harry Potter series.]
Given the final installment of Harry Potter (HP) is out on film, you might have noticed all these posts about what we can learn from HP about anything from leadership to personal finance to travel.
But, having [...]

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What We Can Learn about Leadership from Celeb Fashion Choices – Part 2

July 19, 2011
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What can we learn, you might ask?  If you missed Part 1, you can find it here.  Otherwise, check below for more choices  celebrities make that connect us to some do’s and don’ts relevant to leadership.

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6. Play with options, but in the end, don’t abandon your own common sense.
Don’t find yourself making a decision, presentation [...]

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What We Can Learn about Leadership from Celebrity Fashion Choices – Part 1

July 12, 2011
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One of my friends said my blog posts are most interesting to her when I mention clothes (see “She Had Me At, ‘I Got Rid of All My Business Suits“), so I took that as a challenge and came up with a connection between fashion and leadership.
Making use of some of the best-known style choices [...]

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“Farm Kids” Post Featured at “Leadership Thoughts for the Day”

July 6, 2011
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See @DanaTheus Daily here.  From Farm Kids post…
“Isn’t that what leadership is, creating an environment where people want to give their all and their best? Ask any farm kid.”

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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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