In the Absence of Information, People make it up
Leadership Principle: In the absence of information, people will make it up! Learn how to fix this so you can be an extraordinary leader!
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Crystallize Your Mission
Try this one simple demonstration, this snapshot of your company’s mission statement, to bring your mission to life and become a more extraordinary leader!
5 Ways to Boost Engagement With a New Year
As an extraordinary leader, you can take advantage of this special time of year to boost employee engagement and get things off to a great start! Here are five tips to help you make this year the best one ever in terms of employee engagement!
How Leaders Can Give the Gift Of …
Leadership Giving Challenge-31-day Challenge calendar to build a Mentoring Mindset for Extraordinary Leaders
Laser Focus Moments: Improving Productivity with Mindfulness for Leaders
Laser Focus Moments are your secret weapon as an Extraordinary Leader! Discover what they are, and how powerful they can be to help you lead at your highest and best.
Employee Engagement: THE PARADOX OF Research & Reality
While research identifies the causes of employee burnout, the “fixes” by leaders do not address the main issues. What can you do as a leader?
How to Have an Optimistic Spirit Without Ignoring the Facts
Research proves there are incredible benefits—personally and organizationally—that come from an Optimistic Spirit. 3 strategies for leadership success!
Reframing: A Key Skill for Extraordinary Leaders
As an Extraordinary Leader, use Reframing to move yourself and your team through frustrating, difficult, emotional, or dysfunctional situation and thrive!
How to Turn Not-So-Engaged Employees Into Engaged Advocates-5 Tips
Five tips leaders can take to turn the ‘not-so-engaged’ employee into an ‘actively engaged employee’ and reap huge bottom-line benefits.
How to Handle Sluggish Teams with Surge Capacity
Every leader needs to understand Surge Capacity and its impact on the productivity of the team! Discover the AC-DC Model as a powerful tool to revitalize your team and boost productivity.
How to Develop a Mentoring Mindset as a Leader
A Mentoring Mindset is one of the most valuable core abilities a leader can develop. Discover how to develop a Mentoring Mindset so you see every situation as a learning opportunity; stay in touch with what your people are doing, and casually or intentionally provide guidance, wisdom, skills, recommendations, and resources to grow the professional maturity and ability of all your people.
Laser Focus Moments: A Leader’s Secret Weapon
If you’ve ever regretted something you’ve done or said as a leader, here’s a secret weapon for you! Laser Focus Moments are proven to provide benefits to improve your ability to be extraordinary! Read More.
Sure It WAs Fun, But What Was the point?
It’s great to use activities as part of your presentations and training, but use these tips to debrief the activities to make them relevant!
Working Together apart
Extraordinary Leadership Clinic – Working Together Apart: There are lots of blogs out there right now, championing the best ways to lead while your folks are working from home. But here are three actions Extraordinary Leaders need to take, that are often overlooked.
Employee Engagement: How to Help Employees Be Accountable
How to empower your people and help them be accountable — and engaged.
20-20 Foresight to lead with a mentoring mindset
Use 20-20 Foresight to lead from a mentoring mindset.
Leadership Masks: From Mass Confusion to Mask-Unfusion
What masks are keeping you from being an authentic and effective leader? Use the MASK formula to move from “mass confusion” to Mask-Unfusion!
How a Subject-Matter-Expert Self-Destructed—What You can learn
See how a professional Subject Matter Expert self-destructed, crashed and burned — and learn how you can be an exceptional SME with 5 easy tips that come straight from the rule book of Professional Speakers!
Postive Feedback
Five tips leaders can learn to give positive feedback to employees. Harvard research says employees need 6:1 ratio of positive to negative feedback, but we never teach leaders how to do it effectively. Here are five tips to build the skill of giving feedback to improves productivity and employee engagement.
Five Fatal Facilitation Errors
Learn the five fatal behaviors I recently observed a season pro facilitator make, that nearly destroyed the power of the interaction. See if you might be guilty of any of these Five Fatal Errors, and read the Learning Point for each that can boost your ability to be an Extraordinary Facilitator!
8 Principles to Empower Your People
The best leaders who coach, mentor and empower use these 8 strategies.
My Bad! What Leaders Say Can Hurt Them!
What’s wrong with saying “My Bad?” As a leader, it can sabotage your credibility. Here’s why…
The Power of Finding Joy in your work
We are strong believers in the value of finding joy in your work. Here’s a poster and some questions you might want to use during your next team meeting.
Are You an Engagement-Driven Leader?
Here’s a quick quiz based on research-driven characteristics, that can help you see if you are an “Engagement-Driven Leader.” Check yourself out, then come back and identify the characteristics where you need help. Create a personal action plan to begin developing your leadership skills, so you can truly be extraordinary!
Cognitive Diversity: The Secret Weapon of Successful Teams
Ever wonder how some teams achieve incredible results, while other teams remain stuck in the doldrums of repackaging the same old worn-out ideas? Here’s the secret weapon that every extraordinary leader knows: Cognitive Diversity! Discover 3 powerful tips that extraordinary leaders use to foster cognitive diversity and achieve outstanding results!