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Reigniting a ‘dimmed spark’

As leaders, few challenges rival trying to motivate a disengaged or unmotivated employee. In fact, it’s my belief and experience that you can only create the conditions for people to feel motivated – you cannot control their internal drivers. This is, however, a moment for your leadership influence to shine and it’s vitally important when you do have demotivated people on your team to identify it and act quickly, because the apathy of one individual is capable of dragging on [...]

By |2024-01-24T03:13:58-06:00January 24th, 2024|Leading|0 Comments
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Purpose congruence for next-level performance

I’ve written about purpose before, in fact my book, What’s Your Catalyst?, is an essential guide to uncovering and leveraging our purpose to drive change. I’ve been re-exploring the role of purpose in today’s context and joining the dots between individual employees and the overall organizational purpose is proving to pay dividends.  […]

By |2023-12-07T04:17:15-06:00December 7th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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What’s Emotional Intelligence Got To Do With Leadership?

These are times of heightened emotions.  What we are seeing, hearing and experiencing is through our emotions.  I have studied, written about and applied emotional intelligence throughout my life and career, (sometimes without even realizing it at the time) to the point that it is embedded in my practice. However, it always serves us to take a step back, consider the current context and expand our understanding. To that end, let’s unpack: What has emotional intelligence got to do with [...]

By |2025-05-07T15:13:02-05:00November 1st, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Staying Connected in the Disconnected Workplace

With today's increasingly digital and dispersed teams, it can be challenging for leaders to maintain strong connections with their teams. Yet feeling disconnected at work has been linked to lower engagement, productivity, and retention rates. In my work with executives it is increasingly clear that building rapport and community amidst dispersed teams is a huge leadership challenge.  Whether your organization is implementing a return to the office, hybrid or remote working, teams still need to connect, communicate and collaborate. Yes, [...]

By |2023-10-16T19:00:59-05:00October 16th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Women in Leadership – Gains and Goals

For the first time in the history of the Fortune 500, women are leading 10% of the United States’ largest companies by revenue.  It might not feel like much of a leap, but it is a milestone nonetheless. Seeing women in these roles, achieving success and delivering results at the top of their industries, the more motivated and vindicated the push for gender parity. It is also encouraging to see gains in the traditionally male-dominated industries including financial services, defense [...]

By |2023-09-04T18:47:56-05:00September 4th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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What will your legacy be?

For a long time in my life, I had a hard time looking too far ahead into my future. I lost my mother when I was in High School; she was only 39 years old when she died. This life cut short and my own grief made it hard for me to imagine the future. This realization and the counsel and meditation that helped me move forward opened my eyes to the importance of creating a vision for myself.  [...]

By |2023-08-09T23:53:05-05:00August 9th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Investing in Leadership Development: A Strategic Imperative for Now and the Future

In our rapidly evolving corporate landscape, effective leadership has emerged as the linchpin for sustainable success. But what is effective leadership? It’s leadership that gets results. That is sustainable and strategic. Leadership that is building a better future for the organization and its stakeholders. In simpler terms, it is also well prepared leadership: agile, adaptable and responsive to changing needs.  […]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:09-05:00July 27th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Harnessing the Power of Positive Language in Change Leadership

What’s in a word? I don’t think it can be overstated how important the leadership capability of effective communication is – and even more so when it comes to change leadership. And yet, it’s a skill that is rarely focused or developed which really is a missed opportunity. Or should I say, an opportunity still to be taken. That subtle reframing is what I’m going to focus on as we consider the power of positive language.  […]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:10-05:00July 4th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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Beyond resilience – boosting organizational agility

I spoke recently at an executive summit on the subject of organizational resilience. After I’d shared my insights and experiences I gave the audience key prompts and they worked in groups to discuss their organizational resilience. There was a great buzz about the room as we connected the dots between purpose and performance, weaving in emotional intelligence and the ability to spot and act on opportunities to create a picture of what organizational resilience looks like in action.  [...]

By |2023-08-01T09:18:13-05:00May 24th, 2023|Leading|0 Comments
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