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  • Find Your Swagger

    Resilience is crucial for dealing with change. So is confidence. As an aspiring leader, you will face many situations that will require you to lead change. In those times, you will be looking to your team members to show resilience and confidence. So how can you help prepare them for those situations. What can you

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  • Optimism

    “It will get better.” We hear this advice all the time. Sometimes, it’s unsolicited and poorly timed so it’s not always well-received. You’re trying something new. Doing something for the first time. Dealing with something unexpected. Managing your way through a challenging situation. Stress is normal when we’re under pressure. Starting can be scary. We

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  • What’s the point?

    These days, I see so much that talks about how frameworks are insufficient, ineffective, incomplete, or out of date. I hear so much about how complex humans are and that we can never know everything, or even enough, about them to customize our efforts to support them. I read so much about how the data

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  • Standing on Shoulders

    We often hear the phrase “standing on the shoulders of giants,” which generally refers to using the understanding gained by those who have come before us. A popular example of the phrase is said to have appeared in a 1675 letter by Sir Isaac Newton: “If I have seen further [than others], it is by

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  • Help them help you

    I’ve written before about my belief that everyone is doing and trying their best. You can see those here and here. Today on LinkedIn, I came across a response to the following question… A team member keeps missing crucial deadlines. How should you offer constructive feedback? Among the valuable pieces of advice from Edwina Pike,

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  • Do you care?

    Good morning. I’m enjoying my first cup of the new week, and after making a comment on a LinkedIn post about the importance of leaders who care, I find myself here, writing this, for you. If you are a leader, would you describe yourself as someone who cares? If you are not a leader but

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  • Eliminate Uncertainty

    I saw this quote this morning and had to share it. I think it’s so true. Too often, project teams miss this altogether and go instead to “fixing the resistance” they’re seeing as their initiative rounds its final corner. Is that relatable to you? As projects near their end (I.e., launch, implementation, go live, whatever

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  • Oh, you’re busy?

    Weird, I thought it was just me. This is the opening line of Chapter 7 of Hal Elrod’s The Miracle Morning. If you’re not familiar with it, check it out here. It goes on to say: “One of the most common concerns I hear from people is the idea of adding anything new to their

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  • Why change is so hard

    I recently came across the following from famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson: “In science, when human behaviour enters the equation, things go non-linear. That’s why physics is easy and sociology is hard,”. I’m not a scientist but I’ve seen how true this is throughout my career in a business setting. According to Chip and Dan

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  • Four Options

    Jim Kwik spoke at a conference I attended recently and something he said stuck with me… “There are only four choices we have if we want to make a change: That seems pretty simple. Which one are you trying to do? Have a great weekend!

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