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  • Time to Create a Development Plan!

    Time to Create a Development Plan!

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    As you are thinking about setting personal goals for the year, it is a great time to consider your career and development goals as well. It is easy to get into our routine and focus on the here and now, forgetting that we need to “own” our career. Yet, to really “own” our career, we…

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  • Until Every Child is Reached 

    Until Every Child is Reached 

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  • Going Virtual (Part 1): 4 Common Team Roles

    Going Virtual (Part 1): 4 Common Team Roles

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    By now, your team has likely moved to a completely remote environment. Gone are the days when teams and projects overlapped and bled into each other. You can no longer assume you’ll have the opportunity to discuss the project’s next steps when bumping

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  • Going Virtual (Pt. 1): 4 Common Team Roles

    Going Virtual (Pt. 1): 4 Common Team Roles

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    By now, your team has likely moved to a completely remote environment. Gone are the days when teams and projects overlapped and bled into each other.

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  • Doing What You Love? Loving What You Do?

    Doing What You Love? Loving What You Do?

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    Does your job inspire your passion – or merely occupy your attention? Our culture is wired to view work negatively (TGIF!) while paradoxically defining an individual’s success through his or her job. Here’s the mixed message: You are what you do – but don’t expect to like it!

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  • Gaining 2020 Vision: 4 Keys to Leveraging Self-Awareness

    Gaining 2020 Vision: 4 Keys to Leveraging Self-Awareness

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    This time of the year, attention shifts to making resolutions, taking personal inventories, or charting paths to greater self-awareness. While such contemplation can be healthy and motivating, it can also lead to paralysis, evidenced by inaction and non-productive navel-gazing.

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  • 5 Tips for Mellowing Hyper-Perseverance

    5 Tips for Mellowing Hyper-Perseverance

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    You enjoy powering through projects, obstacles and challenges – persevering is one of your core strengths – and one of the four core Adaptability Quotient (AQ) drivers.

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  • Adaptability Improves Leadership: 4 Tips for Growth

    Adaptability Improves Leadership: 4 Tips for Growth

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    Do you want to demonstrate leadership worth following? Would you like to develop your “ability to guide, direct, or influence people in a way that has great merit, character, and value”? If so, learn to be more adaptable.

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  • Featured DRiV Consultant: Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC

    Featured DRiV Consultant: Ann V. Deaton, PhD, PCC

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    A DRiV workshop at an IT consulting company helped employees explore and embrace their similarities and differences, contributing to increased self-awareness, engagement, and motivation.

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  • 4 Ingredients for Winning Work Teams

    4 Ingredients for Winning Work Teams

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    These 4 ingredients not only help teams ensure they are engaging in behaviors that encourage high performance, but these behaviors also enhance engagement and act as a buffer against burnout.

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  • Taking My Own Medicine

    Taking My Own Medicine

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    For most of us, it’s easy to notice the things that other people could be doing differently, but harder to objectively look at ourselves in the mirror.

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  • Building a Strong Bench: 6 Tips for Leadership Succession Planning

    Building a Strong Bench: 6 Tips for Leadership Succession Planning

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    For sports teams, building a strong bench is a key success factor, so reserve players can assume starting roles when needed. An organization’s long-term success also requires a strong bench. Here are 6 leadership succession planning tips.

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