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How to make positive change happen

By Sylvia Lafair | September 18, 2018 | Comments Off on How to make positive change happen

How do we make positive change happen? I want to start by thanking all of you who responded to my post last week about Taking a New View of Leadership where I talked about my personal reaction to the Auschwitz Exhibition in Madrid Spain.   Watching, with renewed anger, the human inhumanity of so many decades ago that still…

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Take a Different View of Leadership: Look at World Events

By Sylvia Lafair | September 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Take a Different View of Leadership: Look at World Events

Today, I’d like to take a different perspective on leadership. It’s about you and you and you and me. It’s about how to bring our voices into the conversation and how we each can play an important role, regardless of our circumstances. My husband Herb and I recently returned from Madrid and Bilbao Spain. This…

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Do You Know The 3 Fatal Flaws of Success?

By Sylvia Lafair | August 28, 2018 | Comments Off on Do You Know The 3 Fatal Flaws of Success?

Summary: The word success, like trust and love, has many definitions. It depends on your family heritage, cultural perspective, and often crises that form you to be who you are. In leadership, most equate money and power as the keys to the kingdom. Here, one man who decided to look deeper for a more robust…

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My Top 4 Secrets for Effective Workplace Communication

By Sylvia Lafair | August 22, 2018 | Comments Off on My Top 4 Secrets for Effective Workplace Communication

Did you know that Gallop reports that 74 percent of employees feel disconnected and missing out on important company information and news? Better yet, did you know most employees are ready to dig in and be amazing employees, at least for the first three months, and then they start to slack off and finally get…

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New…A Carwash for Your Brain

By Sylvia Lafair | August 7, 2018 | Comments Off on New…A Carwash for Your Brain

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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Building Trustworthy Relationships at Work

By Sylvia Lafair | August 1, 2018 | Comments Off on Building Trustworthy Relationships at Work

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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Is your work environment toxic with lots of “staff infections”?

By Sylvia Lafair | July 15, 2018 | Comments Off on Is your work environment toxic with lots of “staff infections”?

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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Leadership Strategies: Getting to the next level of development

By Sylvia Lafair | June 13, 2018 | Comments Off on Leadership Strategies: Getting to the next level of development

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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Here’s How to Avoid the 5 Basic Mistakes That Create Job Stress

By Sylvia Lafair | May 31, 2018 | Comments Off on Here’s How to Avoid the 5 Basic Mistakes That Create Job Stress

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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3 Simple Ways to Stop Your Co-Workers from Driving You Nuts

By Sylvia Lafair | May 28, 2018 | Comments Off on 3 Simple Ways to Stop Your Co-Workers from Driving You Nuts

It’s tough to confront people. Well, at least that’s what 90% of the population says. Is your tendency to avoid or even worse, deny, that difficult issues exist at your office? It’s so much easier to blame others for being impossible to work with. We live in a “he did it, she did it, they…

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