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These 6 Essential Steps Must Be Part of Your Action Plan to Connect With Your Employees and Improve Employee Engagement

How engaged are you at work?   As a leader, do you keep employee satisfaction top of mind?  Do you have a plan in place to decrease employee turnover and improve employee engagement?  If you do not, don’t be fooled into thinking that you don’t have a problem. The statistics are startling and the trend is […]

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Dream It, Do It, Inspire Roundup:  Leadership and Personal Development Posts Around the Blogosphere

Grab a Coffee or Tea and take the next few minutes to catch up on some great reads.  There is a lot of great information available on the blogosphere that can help direct you towards your goals.  Let’s hope that these posts get you to Dream It!  Do It! And Inspire! Here are Some Leadership

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Alert:  Call Out to All Executives – Losing your Connection to Your Front Line Employees Will Damage Your Company Culture 

I have heard employees complain about it more times than I can remember.  I’ve seen the disappointment in their faces when reality is far from the image they had on their minds.  When they look forward to meeting the executive only to feel at the end of the encounter as though they no longer understand

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Effective Communication Was Never His Strength – And Now He’s Your Boss

Imagine the following scenario:  There is someone in your work that would benefit greatly from an effective communication course.  He talks mostly to hear himself think.  When you are communicating with him, his eyes wander and you know he is truly not listening to what you are saying.  You find that you have to repeat

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8 New Manager Hacks:  A Cheat Sheet for Starting Your New Leadership Role Right

Throughout my career, I have seen dozens of different New Managers as they try to succeed in their new role.  If you are a new manager, congratulations.  You have exhibited competencies that have given you success and got you to where you are now.  Now that you are here, where do you start? As a

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Effects of MicroManagement (Infographic) – Signs That You Are a MicroManager

Have you ever been micro-managed when you had the competencies to perform the task at hand?  How did it make you feel?  The effects of micromanagement to a company culture can be disastrous.  You have heard it said that people don’t leave bad companies, they leave bad bosses.  There is so much emphasis from executives

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How to Balance a Full-Time Job and Blogging without Losing at Both

How do you balance a full-time job and blog on a consistent basis?  I have been blogging at Lead Grow Develop for only a short time but had a Parenting blog for a while.  Often, it can be challenging and sometimes even discouraging.  There are strategies I use to be able to balance not only

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Presentation Skills From A Ten Year Old– 11 Steps to an Effective Presentation

Are some people just natural-born presenters, or is it a skill that you have to carefully mold with experience?  If my son is any indication, some people just naturally have what it takes.  During my last blog post about personal development, I mentioned that not only am I an introvert but was also extremely socially

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What’s The One Important Key To Being An Effective Leader?- A Leadership Exercise

There is the type of leader that we are, and the type of leader that we would like to be.  How do you bridge the gap?  I have had several conversations with managers and leaders who have tried to convince me that lack of time is the reason why they didn’t have a development conversation

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How Great Leaders Inspire Action – Simon Sinek Ted Talks [Video]

I wrote recently about starting with the Why with personal development when trying to improve on a skill. I wanted to share with you a video from Simon Sinek that masterfully explains Why in more detail. In this video, Simon discusses the pattern that all successful leaders have in inspiring action. According to Simon, all

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