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Questions from Mail Bag: Stress, Persuasion, and Blame
Aim Higher: Expert advice on stress, persuasion, and blame. Have you ever had a boss who stresses you out? Do your ideas seem to fall on deaf ears? Or do you feel like you get blamed for things you didn’t do? This week on the “Aim Higher” podcast my...
Questions from Mail Bag: Stress, Persuasion, and Blame
Aim Higher: Expert advice on stress, persuasion, and blame. Have you ever had a boss who stresses you out? Do your ideas seem to fall on deaf ears? Or do you feel like you get blamed for things you didn’t do? This week on the “Aim Higher” podcast my...
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How New-to-Role Executives Can Thrive
Executive coach Emily Bermes is focused on one thing: helping new-to-role executives succeed. This is important because more than 50% of new executives fail within 18 months. Armed with the right information, tactics, and strategies, this number can fall dramatically....
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How to Transform Negative Attitudes at Work
How do you deal with negative people at work? Here are some tips to transform negative attitudes into positive attitudes.
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How to Make Your Team Change-Capable
Change from the Inside Out Most everyone reading these words will recognize that we are in an incredible period of change. Whether we like it or not, we face nearly constant change individually, organizationally, and even societally. In Change...
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8 Behaviors Defensive Leaders Overuse
We often study leadership behaviors and practices we admire. Just as valuable to me is studying bad bosses and behavior that creates distrust. After all, we learn both from successes and mistakes. We can learn from everyone and every situation, whether it is what to...
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What Time Management Looks Like for Successful Leaders
Great leaders have to be very intentional about time management. On the Aim Higher podcast, Skip and his guests share tips on leadership and time management.
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How to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust
Commonsense Leadership Leadership doesn’t have to be complicated. The simplest leadership principles—trusting your people, helping them win, praising progress—are at the root of some of the most successful organizations in the world. Why, then, is commonsense...
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4 Choices Smart Leaders Make
Mark Miller shares four choices smart leaders make to overcome obstacles and achieve success.
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Aim Higher: Read to Lead with Jeff Brown
Reading Changes You One of the all-time great motivational speakers, and a prominent member of the Speaker’s Roundtable, Charlie “Tremendous” Jones, once said, “You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for two things: the people you meet and...
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My Vote for the Biggest Challenge of the Year May Surprise
Skip shares his number one pick for the top leadership challenge of the year. Is it recruiting? Technology? Diversity? Managing change? Or something else?
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4 Steps to Changing Other People
You CAN Change Other People I’m sure you have heard the saying: you can’t change other people; you can only change yourself. Authors Peter Bregman and Howie Jacobson released a provocatively titled book arguing against this truism. In You Can...
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How to Build a Highly Engaged Workforce
How to Drive Engagement Over the past two decades, while leading or overseeing dozens of businesses across three continents, Brian Hartzer has grappled with the question of what it takes to drive workplace engagement. As part of his quest, he read dozens of leadership...
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What Work Looks like in a World Shaped by COVID
What will work look like after the pandemic? How we work has changed in so many ways. What changes are leaders prepared to accept and embrace long-term?
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