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Going Virtual (Part 1): 4 Common Team Roles
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
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?
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
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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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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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.
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Envisioning the Future: 9 Tips for ‘19
As another year winds down, anticipation builds for the opportunities ahead in 2019. How can you fully engage your team in envisioning and goal-setting for a successful future? Here are 9 tips:
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Three Ways Gratitude Helps You
Around Thanksgiving, it’s natural to reflect on gratitude and its impact in our lives, including our relationships and careers.