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Gaining 2020 Vision: 4 Keys to Leveraging Self-Awareness
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
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
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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4 Ingredients for Winning Work Teams
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
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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The Commitment to Lead: Passion for Results
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
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
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
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?
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!
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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5 Tips for Becoming an Executive Coach to your Team
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.