Sylvia Lafair
Do you go through an internal battle when it’s time for a change? Do others resist your new attitudes and behaviors? Do you just want to go back to the good old days and stay in your zone of comfort? Here is what I received from a colleague who was promoted to a senior leadership…
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I recently worked with a client and the questions he had were around building trustworthy relationships at work which got me thinking… Who do you trust? And more importantly, why do you trust one person and not another? Like love, trust is amorphous. You can’t touch it, smell it or see it. Yet, most of…
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Generosity at work has so many possibilities. You know, doing something nice for people makes them appreciate you and it makes you feel good. Everybody wins. You are happier and they are happier. I received an email that sums up the benefits of being generous that I want to pass on to all of you.…
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Here is what many people have emailed me regarding toxic work environments, and they all sound like they work in the same company. The only difference is the geographic location, the same toxic work environment seems to pop up everywhere. These companies are scattered around the U.S., actually around the world from Pittsburgh to Paris,…
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The Ultimate Guide to Leadership Skills: 5 Skills That Strengthen the Bottom Line Summary: Leadership has taken some nasty hits in the last few years. High-profile leaders are here today and gone tomorrow. Initially holding promise, they disappoint and disappear. Here is what is needed for modern leadership training. Dear Dr. Sylvia, We have gone…
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How do I become the leader of choice? I have received so many e-mails lately from many talented leaders expressing their desire to become “the leader everyone wants to work with,†to become a leader of choice. I have spent so much time researching to find the formula for leaders to really make a huge…
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I am always struck by the battle each of us must go through as we open the door to the next level of development. It’s time to see things with new eyes, yet, there is a lurking sense that if we stray too far from what we know, well, we might fall an shatter. I…
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My advice to those of you dealing with less than ideal personalities at work: Let the jerks at work be your teachers. Here’s an email that I think belongs to all of us as we search for meaning at work, I think we all want more than just a paycheck. We want a place to grow…
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Do you ever just wish that you could have a moratorium on change? That maybe, just for a month you could count on things staying the same? That you could depend on your work colleagues to show up and do their jobs so you could do yours? That sales would percolate and products get shipped…
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How do we learn emotional intelligence? Can we change our basic nature just by willing it to happen? Here is my response to one of my clients who was so sick and tired of feeling like a bully boss and not sure what to do. Let me know your thoughts too. Dear Dr. Sylvia, I…
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