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Leadership Strategies: To Stand Out or to Fit In?

By Sylvia Lafair | October 16, 2018 | Comments Off on Leadership Strategies: To Stand Out or to Fit In?

Here’s an email I received recently that I think applies to all of us regarding making the choice to stand out or to fit in…  Dear Dr. Sylvia, I am having a real struggle with the opposing desires to stand out or to fit in. I’m a millennial working in a big city marketing company…

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What Do Women and Men Want?

By Sylvia Lafair | October 2, 2018 | Comments Off on What Do Women and Men Want?

Here is an excellent response to my question, “What do women want” and “What do men want.” Please read this thoughtful comment and then my answer. We are all living in such interesting times and need to keep talking and getting to the core. That’s where change really happens. Dear Sylvia, Nice one about men…

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Leadership: Being a Change Maker

By Sylvia Lafair | September 25, 2018 | Comments Off on Leadership: Being a Change Maker

If you are interested in being a change maker, read on. If not, well, take a break, get some danish and coffee and chill. You see, I think the world is divided into doers and escapers. Doers will speak up to be heard and find ways to rattle the chains of old behavior patterns till…

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Take a different view of leadership

By Sylvia Lafair | September 12, 2018 | Comments Off on Take a different view of leadership

Today, I’d like to take a different view of 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, no matter what. My husband Herb and I recently returned from Madrid and Bilbao Spain. This trip…

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How to Get Along with Difficult People at Work, at Home, Everywhere

By Sylvia Lafair | September 4, 2018 | Comments Off on How to Get Along with Difficult People at Work, at Home, Everywhere

Dealing with and knowing how to get along with difficult people is an international problem. Every workplace in the world has the same complaint about individuals who are procrastinators, avoiders, drama kings and queens, and the like. Last week in a seminar I was talking about the fact that Work is NOT a Rehab Facility! Three…

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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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How Do I Know I’m Doing Great?

By Sylvia Lafair | August 14, 2018 | Comments Off on How Do I Know I’m Doing Great?

When was the last time you asked yourself…How do I know if I’m doing great? Do you love getting report cards? If the answer is “yes’ I bet, you were a super student from kindergarten straight through your school days. For some who are averse to tracking success, well, it really does need to be…

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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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