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How to Build Creativity and Innovation Muscles
Do you encourage creativity in yourself, your team and your organization? Or do you tend to squash it? If you want to strengthen your innovation …
Posted in Leadership
Tagged brainstorm, constructive criticism, creative, creativity, fun, growing leaders, Innovation, leadership, Out of the Box, productive, risk taking, sarcastic, stress, stressed out
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Four Tips for Managing Up
Sometimes it’s more difficult to ‘manage up’ than it is to ‘manage down.’ No matter where you are on the food chain in your organization, …
Do You Really Want Honest Feedback?
Most of us want constructive feedback like we want a punch in the stomach. We know that to be most effective we need others to …
What to Do About Apathy?
I recently had a perfect Parent’s Weekend at my son’s university. We attended some great activities, including a parent event for a campus organization that my …
Don’t Blow Off My Performance Review
To: My Supervisor Even though you’ve rescheduled my performance review to next week, I do appreciate you making time for this. I know you’re swamped. …
What are your words saying about you?
“Sticks & stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” I say poppycock - or for my more candid readers, bullsh*! to that …
Posted in Communications, Insights, Leadership
Tagged coaching, communication, constructive criticism, feedback, leadership, people skills, words with impact
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Six Situations for Engaging an Executive Coach
Great coaches are hard to find … period. But ask anyone who has found that perfect match with a coach who won’t let them get …
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Tagged career development, coaching, constructive criticism, executive leadership development
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A Serving of Feedback? Make Mine a Double!
Admit it! When someone says, “I have some feedback to give you,” or, “We need to talk,” you get that feeling in the pit of …
Posted in Insights
Tagged career development, coaching, communication, constructive criticism, feedback, talent development
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Superstition: Alive & Well in Baseball
Well, the Texas Rangers did it again for the second year in a row — a trip to the World Series! I grew up in …
Are you playing a game called stupid?
I’ve just returned from an adventure vacation backpacking in the Enchantments Lakes area of Wenatchee National Forest, outside Levenworth, WA. The Enchantment Lakes area is …