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Leadership

22 Ways to Become a More Effective Leader

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It takes effort, time, and a lot of practice to learn how to become a better leader in the workplace. To honor the fresh start and kick off a new calendar year, here are 22 ways to become a better and more effective leader. How to Become a More Effective Leader 1. Understand the Responsibility…

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Key Characteristic of a Transformational Leader

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Not only is the characteristic of a transformational leader what inspires them, but it also distinguishes them in their capacity to inspire and effect enduring change. When considering what are key behaviors for transformational leaders, it becomes clear that their ability to inspire and create lasting change is unparalleled. One of my favorite things in…

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How to Become an Inspirational Leader

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There is one common question that continually pops up during my travels across the country, speaking to and working with leadership teams and organizations of all sizes. The question that I am referring to is, “What is the biggest difference between athletic coaches and leaders in the business world?” My response is always the same….

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How Leaders Can Strengthen and Drive Trust

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I recently received an urgent phone call from a leader at a medium-size pharmaceutical company. He wasted no time. The leader blurted out, “Matt, I am starting to believe we placed too big of an emphasis on performance and a business as usual mentality during the pandemic. We have been productive and efficient, but I…

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Priorities as Employees Return to the Office

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Leadership teams face many challenging decisions and complex issues as government restrictions continue to ease in the coming months, but none are more important than those involving their employees. As some employees may be ecstatic to come back to the office and experience some normalcy in their life, there will also be a fairly high…

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Leading Employees Through Hardships

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How do you continue to lead employees effectively in an upside-down world? How do you coach and encourage others to reach for an extraordinary destiny when our ordinary world is suffering from extreme hardships? Remember 2019? Our world was humming along with its everyday challenges. Sure, it grappled with economic unrest, climate change, governments, and…

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Agile Leadership and Its Importance

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Courageous and agile leadership can change everything. What is agility? In the simplest of terms, it is a rapid whole-body movement with a change of velocity or direction in response to a stimulus. Leaders who want to exemplify agile leadership have to be serious about making the transition from old protocols that have been rooted…

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The New Normal in Leadership

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new normal in leadership

There is a popular adage by the Greek philosopher, Heraclitus, stating that, “The only constant in life is change.” This has never been experienced in quite the same way as in our world today as we adjust to the new normal in leadership brought upon by the global pandemic. Governments, organizations, institutions, teachers, small businesses,…

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How to Turn Crisis into Clarity and Ignite Growth

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One of the most challenging and daunting tasks any leader will face is learning how to successfully lead through change and not only survive extreme adversity but still create massive growth. In life as well as business, there will be times when negative, perhaps unthinkable, situations arise, and we are forced to think fast and…

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How 1 Executive Became a Transformational Leader

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In every organization, regardless of size or industry, success rises and falls with leadership. Sure, an organization with average leadership can experience some success, but the longevity of that success and growth will be drastically shortened compared to that of an organization with a transformational leader. So, what exactly is a transformational leader? In my own view,…

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Pat Summitt: Powerful Leadership Lessons

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Pat Summitt, the legendary basketball coach helped bring the University of Tennessee’s Lady Volunteers to becoming a powerful force on the basketball court and who became the winningest coach in college basketball history, died on June 28 of complications from Alzheimer’s Disease. Coach Pat Summitt, known as an extraordinary basketball coach, not only dominated on the…

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What True Leadership Is All About

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what is leadership

Here is a fact about leadership that no one really wants to talk about — it’s a lot bigger than just yourself. Sure, leadership can bring bigger paychecks and a whole lot more notoriety in most cases, but that’s not even remotely close to defining what true leadership is really all about. True leadership is much…

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Why Every Company Needs a Dream Manager

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Increasing employee engagement, creating a healthier culture and building a world-class organization that sees exceptional growth every year is what all leaders in any industry wants for their organization. If that is the goal for most leaders, then why do so few organizations succeed at the above three? There are a ton of reasons that may be…

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When Leading Through Change

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lead your team through change

The two guarantees in life are taxes and death. No matter how much we hate both, they will be there. There is no way around them. In business, the one guarantee is change. Organizations of all sizes will experience a great deal of change at some point and it’s up to the leader to create an atmosphere…

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