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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 persists today,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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,…
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…
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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