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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
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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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Ten Commandments of Great Business Coaching
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They’re not carved on stone tablets, but we’ve refined these helpful principles during our 15 years of coaching executives and business leaders.
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The Commitment to Lead: Passion for Results
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Individuals vary in what energizes and motivates them. As leaders, you can engage others and make them want to do well for you by learning to recognize and leverage what motivates members of your team.
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What’s Your Delegation Style? 4 Common Drivers
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Each of us has unique personality traits that can make delegation easier or harder. Knowing yourself makes it easier to share your strengths while managing your downsides. Here are four common drivers that can affect your delegation approach, with a coaching tip for each. Where do you fit?
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The Commitment to Lead: Passion for Results
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Individuals vary in what energizes and motivates them. As leaders, you can engage others and make them want to do well for you by learning to recognize and leverage what motivates members of your team.
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Dale Thompson of LWF on Leadership Podcast
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Dale Thompson, Founder and CEO of LWF, was recently featured in the “Lead Without Losing It” podcast.
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Feeling Lucky? What’s Your Attitude at Work?
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Around St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish get credited with embodying and enjoying an extra measure of luck. Even if you’re not a wee bit Irish, your attitude about luck could influence your career. How can you best leverage it for success?
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8 Leadership Lessons: Stay Strong!
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Winter can be a long, trying season for many – but spring is just around the corner. For leaders, too, each “season of leadership” requires resilience, adaptability, and hope for the future.
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Improving Artificial Intelligence When Coaching Employees
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When coaching employees, even artificial intelligence could benefit from a boost of individualized attention.
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5 Tips for Becoming an Executive Coach to your Team
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At LWF, we work with a wide range of businesspeople and organizations interested in our executive coaching services. One misperception we sometimes hear is the belief that executive coaching should primarily focus on advancing that executive’s own career.
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Leadership Resolutions and Motivations
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The latest (Nov./Dec.) issue of Harvard Business Review features an article about motivating people, specifically related to goal setting (“Why You Should Stop Setting Easy Goals”). It focuses on challenges managers face when motivating a team: balancing goals that are high enough to challenge yet low enough to not cause discouragement.