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Recent Features:

Mentorship Matters: How Purposefully Growing Your Network Will Enable You To Thrive

Just as a plant is shaped and nourished by its environment and access to essential nutrients, we are shaped and nourished by the people we are surrounded by in our life, work and communities.

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How Managers Can Stay In Touch With A Rapidly Growing Team

In most small businesses, managers usually meet one-on-one with team members… However, if a business grows rapidly, managers may find themselves juggling too many priorities to meet with each teammate on a regular basis.

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14 Top Tips For Senior Executives Wanting To Start Their Own Companies

It’s not uncommon for senior executives to get an itch to leave the organization they’ve been serving in to start their own company. To improve their chances of finding success with their new endeavor…

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14 Common CEO 'Blind Spots' That Result in Big Leadership Mistakes

Being a CEO comes with immense responsibility and pressure to succeed. Like most of us, if a CEO tries to focus on too many things at once…

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Ready to Reach the Executive Level? Take These 15 Steps as a Manager

Open executive positions can be few and far between. While most executive job openings are due to someone leaving…

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13 Tips For Transitioning to a Permanently Remote Workfore

During the pandemic, many businesses adopted a fully virtual workforce to comply with public health guidelines. While some companies are…

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14 Effective Ways To Ensure More Women Land In Leadership Roles

As companies continue to diversify their workforces, many focus on gender inclusivity, and for good reason: Research has shown that companies with women in leadership positions see higher profits and greater employee satisfaction.

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Women Are Already Empowered; Organizational Systems Need To Catch Up

The rise of women in leadership over the past decade would not have happened without the gritty, strong-minded, trailblazing female luminaries who came before them. Disruptors like Elizabeth Cady …

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Sharpening Soft Skills: Seven Human-Centered Approaches For Leader

Soft skills — often called “people skills” — enhance a leader’s ability to relate well to others. Soft skills enable leaders to show up for their people in a way that nurtures and strengthens relationships while bringing out the best in others

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Women in Leadership: Are You Ready?

Even the most competent men and women in their fields ask themselves, “Am I ready?”​ when faced with a new leadership challengeThe truth is that none of us are ever fully ready to take on our next leadership challenge. Even if you are extraordinarily competent in your field, there will be unknown conditions that come as a surprise, a changing landscape to navigate without a roadmap, and unanticipated complexities that make …

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15 Ways To Keep Company Culture Intact When Key Leaders Depart

In most companies, the leadership team plays a big part in establishing the overall workplace culture. As integral as they were to the development of your culture, when key leaders exit the company,

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Leadership Success Starts with Relating Well

…Often, I begin an executive coaching engagement or leadership development training with this series of questions: When you are operating at your highest and best as a leader, what are you doing?  Who are you being?  What is the impact?  These questions are designed to create awareness about what it means to lead with excellence…

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Five Enduring Themes For Leading Through Crisis

Six months ago, the phrase “leading through crisis” was reserved for times of war, a public relations catastrophe or a natural disaster. Today, organizations of every size, in every sector, all over the world are leading through the crisis brought on by the pandemic.

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It Takes A Village To Implement An Executive Succession Plan

Ensuring that all stakeholders be involved in the selection process, is equally as important as those stakeholders being involved in the onboarding process.

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Are Lakeland's next wave of CEOs prepared?

Recently, I had the privilege to collaborate again with the Lakeland Economic Development Council to survey Lakeland-based CEOs about their outlook on their businesses and the broader economy as we emerge from the pandemic.

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Anchoring Organizational Culture: Why It's More Important Than Ever

The coronavirus pandemic has completely disrupted business as we know it. The response to COVID-19 has created the unexpected need…

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Top Five Reasons Why You Need Coaching More Than Ever Right Now

As we wrap up International Coaching Week 2020, I’m proud to be part of a worldwide community of nearly 35,000 professional coaches. The ways in which we are serving our clients is more important than ever these days.

Here are “Top Five Reasons Why You Need Coaching More Than Ever Right Now”.

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15 Outdated Practices Managers Shouldn't Follow In The Modern Workplace

….everyone has an opinion on how to be better leaders. However, even well-intentioned advice has an expiration date.

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What Horses Can Teach Us About Leadership

As many of you know, I’m a horsewoman following in the footsteps of my mother, grandmother and my mom’s Aunt Fay, a legendary…

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Life Coaching: Goal Digging & Guiding

Life Coaches break big goals into bite-size, doable chunks, and then hold their clients accountable, hopefully to achievement….

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Don't Mistake Strategy for Planning

Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources,…

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Growing With Purpose and Why It Matters

Nearly 10 years ago, I had the privilege of attending a conference where Marc Pritchard, chief brand officer at Procter & Gamble…

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Why Relating Well is Essential to Leadership Success

A differentiating factor between leaders who lead and leaders who lead with excellence is often found…

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Mastering Leadership: The Importance of Feedback

Leadership. It’s a topic that floats around every organization. From the break room to the boardroom…

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Work. Life. Balance. With Emily Rogers

Creating and maintaining a work-life balance is unique for each of us. It requires an ongoing commitment to life-giving choices…

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Creating a Conscience Culture

A differentiating factor between leaders who lead and leaders who lead with excellence is often found…

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Women in Leadership: Are You Ready?

Even the most competent men and women in their fields ask themselves, “Am I ready?”​ when faced with a new leadership challenge

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Is Your Team Buying in to Change or Opting Out?

Seventy-seven percent of human resource practitioners and leaders report that their organization is in a state…

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Legacy Leadership

Your leadership legacy is the impact and influence you have on others over your tenure as a leader and it is formed by the guiding principles you apply most consistently to…

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Free Guide: Creating Intelligent Change

Change can be difficult and people often resist it. If your team is not prepared for change, keeping up with the pace of change, and willing to embrace change, your organization risks becoming irrelevant. This guide is intended to provide a framework for intentionally talking about the change you want to create, ensure the roles that are vital to the change process are clearly understood, and to define the conditions necessary for creating intelligent change. 

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