Category: Personal Connections
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The power of forgiveness is strong. The power of asking forgiveness is even stronger
Demonstrate the behavior you expect of others and be seen as a sincere, accountable leader.
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Which tone do you tend to use most often in your communications?
Establish the right tone to develop relationships with your associates.
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Engage your audience through stories
Help your audience remember your message. Tell a story. People can remember stories, not facts, figures, and charts.
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Make your presentations more interesting by being interesting
Draw people to your message by grabbing their attention and engaging their minds.
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Are you a nervous presenter?
Consider a few techniques for reducing stress and nervousness so your audience can better receive your message.
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Be a better presenter. Don’t present.
Generally speaking, presentations are boring. But yours can be different.
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Cut confusion with consistent communication
Leverage your vision and strategy as a baseline for consistent communication, reducing confusion and frustration.
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Words Matter
Through every communication, leaders have an opportunity to build trust and loyalty, motivating and energizing team members to achieve remarkable results.
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Are you leading or managing?
Successful leaders understand the difference between managing and leading. They know how they work with their teams can be tremendously empowering or devastatingly demoralizing.
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Strengthen personal connections by being a team member first and leader second
Exceptional leaders do two things extremely well: they connect personally with associates and emotionally connect associates to their company. In this post, I focus on personal connections, and an important approach for nurturing them.
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What does it mean to be an empathetic leader? What techniques can we practice to become more empathetic?
Thank you for our first subscriber submission! Mike’s response: Outstanding question! You are out ahead. I comment on this in one of my blog posts coming next week, but here’s the gist… Empathy is the ability to understand another person and feel what they feel – the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes.…
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Your leadership legacy is largely determined by how you make people feel
Exceptional leadership is more than the absence of bad behavior. It requires emotional connections with associates and between associates and the company.
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Practical advice for leaders
Being a leader is difficult. All of us can use some help to become the best we can be. In my first post, I explain why I am establishing this community and the benefits of participating.
