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How good are you are telling the truth?
How good are you are telling the truth? Think about it for a minute. Where do you hold back to be polite? Or when do you shrug and say “Whatever†rather than let your underlying feelings out?Telling truth to power is not for wimps. It takes great courage to stay strong and speak out.What do…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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