Category: Highly Engaged Leader

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  • Highly Engaged Leader
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  • 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
Confidence

3 Tips To Find A Career Mentor

Everyone agrees that getting a mentor is a great idea–but how does one go about doing it? Should you be shopping for a mentor at ...
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Confidence

What To Do If Life Is Not Going Your Way

If life has hit you with some unpleasantness like getting released from your third job in two years or you are going through a divorce ...
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Career Change

Develop A Sense Of Agency Before You Try Something New In Your Life

Getting ready to try something new in your life or work? Maybe you are starting a new business, applying for a promotion at work, putting ...
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Confidence

How To Deal With A Coworker Or Boss Who Is Out To Get You

Some of you are starting out the year with a bang and much optimism. But others are miserable because a boss or coworker is out ...
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Books and Resources

20 minutes for 2019

Happy New Year! And whoosh–another year goes by. The new year always gives us chance to make a fresh start in our lives. It is ...
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Books and Resources

Brenda’s 2018 Book List

Are you tracking your reading yet? Each year what I read and how much I read always surprises me. And, make no mistake—the fact that ...
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Career Change

If you don’t like your current reality—try this

Let’s say you are a school teacher and you are trying to survive (literally and figuratively) in your career. You try to recall why you ...
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Leadership Advice

Three reasons some leaders should hold-off on coaching their team

Coaching is the closest thing to a magic wand a leader can get—if a magic wand takes a ton of time and patience and finesse. ...
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Leadership Advice

Leaders–this is why your team might not love you.

I have a lot of empathy for the leaders in today’s work environment. Work just gets busier and more complex and finding good talent is ...
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Books and Resources

How To Train The Primate In Your Brain To Be More Upbeat And Helpful

Buddhists use a psychological metaphor called the “mind-monkey,” suggesting that our minds are “unsettled; restless; capricious; whimsical; fanciful; inconstant; confused; indecisive; uncontrollable.” Not exactly a ...
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Procrastination

How to get yourself into gear!

This video might surprise and shock you and will hopefully also light a fire for you to get some stuff prioritized and done.
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Books and Resources

3 Books You Will Love

If I were Oprah Winfrey or Bill Gates I would send each and every one of you all three of these books. I will work on ...
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