Category: Highly Engaged Leader

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  • Blind Spots
  • Books and Resources
  • Burn Out
  • Career Change
  • Confidence
  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Feedback
  • Goal Setting
  • Highly Engaged Leader
  • Hiring/Promoting Without Bias
  • How to Make Your One-to-Ones More Powerful
  • Leadership Advice
  • Meeting Madness
  • Networking
  • Obstacles to Delegation
  • Painless Onboarding
  • Procrastination
  • Speaking up and Finding Your Voice
  • Team building
  • Team Retention Strategies
  • Time Management
  • Time Management to Relieve Anxiety
  • Work Stress
  • Working Remotely
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Blind Spots

The Road To Leadership HELL Is Paved With Good Intentions [Infographic]

So, let’s talk about leadership blind spots… even though you don’t really have one, of course—or so you think. But that is why they call ...
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Books and Resources

How to Get Yourself to Read More

Count yourself among the rare if you have even read a portion of a book in the last year. I know that non-fiction reading is ...
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Team building

3 Mistakes Great Leaders Make

Leaders deal with more volume than ever. The sheer number of initiatives, issues, projects, and strategies–not to mention meetings is staggering. And leaders of prior ...
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Brenda's 2019 Reading List
Books and Resources

Do This if You Want to Live 23 Months Longer Than People Who Don’t

Yale University published the results of a 12 year study about people who read and found that people who read over 3.5 hours a week ...
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Books and Resources

Readers are Leaders – 3 Books I Recommend Reading

As some wise person once said, “Readers are Leaders.” That is so true. Part of the reason I am an avid reader is that I ...
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Team building

You may be annoying your coworkers with this email etiquette faux pas

Today’s 24/7 business culture has given rise to some annoying little “side-effects.” Today’s Coaching Minute is focused on an important way to be responsive in ...
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Increase Your Productivity
Leadership Advice

Increase Your Productivity As A Leader

I have a ton of empathy of leaders of today’s workforce who deal with a level of complexity and information-overload like nothing in the past. ...
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Highly Engaged Leader

Let me speak! Tips For The Intense Communicator

Last time we talked about the passive communicator and I am glad so many of you found it helpful. This week it is time to ...
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Confidence

How To Be More Assertive In Your Communication

In a culture of hyper-aggressive communication and people talking over each other its hard to get a word in edge-wise. A side-effect of this cultural ...
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Do you speak CEO
Highly Engaged Leader

How to Speak to Your CEO With Confidence

It amazes me how often I end up inadvertently “translating” on behalf of the heads of companies and divisions or at least offering some additional ...
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Career Change

Irritated or Unhappy? Try this quick fix

Do you ever just feel crummy or irritated about something? Like your job, or personal relationship or an account? Something that usually does not bother ...
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Burn Out

Five tips to doing a 180 with your career

As a career coach I am often asked the question—how do I go about making a total and complete change in my career? This is ...
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