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***Leadership Keys for Success
Finally, an iPhone app that supports your rise to star performance as a leader. True North Leadership just introduced the FREE Leadership Keys app. Click the link or use your phone to scan this QR code to get your download. It’s usual for leaders not to realize that Leadership is like a performance with few opportunit…
*** White Space Issues
The word intelligence comes from a Latin derivation meaning “entering through the lines.” People are always using their intelligence to enter or read into the lines of what you are saying or not saying. They fill in the white spaces between your words almost automatically, because it gives them a sense of understandin…
*** The Illusion of Self-Awareness: We are more Unaware than Aware
Michael received his 360 degree assessment feedback and looked at the summary page. What quickly jumped out to him on almost every competency was that his own self-scoring for his leadership were higher than his team's scores for him. He embarrassingly laughed and said, “I guess they don’t see all the good things I am…
***Are You Ready to be Exceptional and Fill the Leadership Gap?
40% of organizations say they don’t have enough qualified leaders. Plus, the recent recession has lost thousands of jobs including leadership positions. Add to that the retiring of Baby Boomers and you can see the opportunity awaiting for people like you. Finally the economy is growing again offering people the opport…
*** Diversions and Distractions: Are you TAPPED Out?
We are all on automatic and consequently overwhelmed. How can we tune back in? Daniel Goleman states in his newest book Focus, “our attention and focus are under siege.” We are kidnapped and diverted from being our best in the moment. How are we captured and detained from being our best leaders, truly developing other…
***Six Ways We are Tapped Out and not Tuned In
How to get your energy, focus and performance back when tapped out? This is the second in a series of exploring the main diversions and distractions that keep us from being our best leaders. • How are we captured and detained from being our best leaders, truly developing others and having them grow their focus and lea…
***Five Steps to Improve Your Listening and Empowerment
The Manager Misstep is explained and the VIVID Tool is highlighted. Are you guilty of the Manager Misstep? • When your direct reports or team come to you do you step in too soon without fully hearing what they want? • Do you step in the wrong direction, suggesting something they already tried? • Do you step on their i…
The 10 Reasons Why You Need Emotional Intelligence
What are the top reasons you need to develop and enhance your Emotional Intelligence (EI)? After working with thousands of executives and leaders and focusing on helping them raise their Emotional Intelligence for the last 20 years, both individually and in their organizations, I wanted to summarize some of the key be…
10 Reasons Why Teams Need Emotional Intelligence
Teamwork is very popular and a necessity in organizations, but it is an unnatural act that takes a strategy, discipline and practice. Most organizations talk about teamwork and put a group of workers together and say “you are a team now.\" Duly formed the team is marched out onto the field to succeed or fail. We know…
Five Emotional Intelligence Strategies to Develop Others
Five Emotional Intelligence Strategies with Others: Mastering the Moment In the last blog I started with strategies to raise your emotional intelligence for yourself. In this next in the series we will look at strategies to raise your emotional intelligence with others. Mastering the Moment Your success or underperfor…
***Failed Focus: Crushing Consequences to Your Credibility
How the Shiny Light Destroys Relationship and Our Leadership Credibility What percent of time do you think you operate on automatic from your habits? Research tells us that it is 95% of the time. What are you missing out on when you are doing things on autopilot every day? Often what this failed focus leads to ignorin…
Five Strategies to Raise Emotional Intelligence: For Self
Five Strategies to Raise Emotional Intelligence: Mastering the Moment, Part One Self-Development In the last blog I wrote about why you need Emotional Intelligence. In this multi part series we will look at the main strategies and actions to raise your Emotional Intelligence and propel you to be a top performer. These…