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On Leadership with Michelle Ledford
I recently facilitated an Advanced Management Training Workshop Series for the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce. As part of the series that covered topics such as communicating for impact and cultivating a strong leadership presence, Michelle Ledford joined us to share...
How to Overcome 3 Common Family Business Roadblocks
Family businesses are all around us—from privately owned neighborhood mom-and-pop stores to publicly held household names such as Wal-Mart, Ford, and Cargill. Family-owned businesses are the backbone of the American economy. According to the US Census Bureau, 90% of...
On Leadership with Shelly Wilkes
At the recent Working Women Annual Conference in Tampa, I had the opportunity to facilitate a fireside chat with Shelly Wilkes, President of the Lakeland Magic, the G league affiliate of the Orlando Magic. Shelly is the first female NBA G league president and is...
Women in Leadership: Are You Ready?
Lately it seems as though every week there is a new “first” headline about women in leadership. GM recently became the first car company to have a female CEO and CFO; more than half of the Philadelphia Eagle’s executive leaders are women – a first for an NFL team and...
How to Realize the Transformative Benefits of Executive Coaching
“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you always knew you could be.” ~Tom Landry Why is it that we rarely think twice about a professional athlete or musician having a coach...
How to Stress Less at Work
Stress happens. It is inevitable – especially when competing priorities, differing personality styles, role confusion, constant change, and the pressure to juggle multiple tasks often defines our workplace environment. Many surveys and studies confirm that job related...
Strategic Planning: Don’t Mistake Strategy for Planning
“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” ~Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources,...
What Horses Have to 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 ranchwoman. Photos I have seen through the years of these women on horseback symbolize to me freedom, connection and partnership. While I...
How to Cultivate and Sustain a Healthy Organizational Culture
“Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game–—it is the game. In the end, an organization is no more than the collective capacity of its people to create value” ~ Lou Gerstner, former chairman of IBM Culture matters. Culture is recognized as such a significant factor in...
Is Your Leadership Bench Ready To Fulfill Your Organization’s Future Potential?
In sports, there are always players ready to fill gaps created by injury, retirement, or poor performance. Baseball has an elaborate farm league system that constantly develops players for the big league, yet in business where the stakes are arguably higher,...
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