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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 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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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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Generosity at Work

By Sylvia Lafair | July 17, 2018 | Comments Off on Generosity at Work

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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The Ultimate Guide: Leadership Skills to Strengthen the Bottom Line and Connect Teams for Success.

By Sylvia Lafair | July 10, 2018 | Comments Off on The Ultimate Guide: Leadership Skills to Strengthen the Bottom Line and Connect Teams for Success.

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 to become the leader of choice

By Sylvia Lafair | June 20, 2018 | Comments Off on How to become the leader of choice

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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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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Leadership Strategies: Can Emotional Intelligence Be Learned?

By Sylvia Lafair | May 30, 2018 | Comments Off on Leadership Strategies: Can Emotional Intelligence Be Learned?

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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3 Habits of Naive Leaders

By Sylvia Lafair | May 24, 2018 | Comments Off on 3 Habits of Naive Leaders

Stupid leaders are a dime a dozen. What they do looks the same through the centuries. Here’s what Cicero, Roman politician and lawyer who served as consul in 63 BC had to say, “Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.†Habit #1: Repetition. You know the saying that if you…

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