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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.
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Graphic Leadership: Give Advice By Asking Questions
As we saw in a previous poster entitled Unsolicited Advice, “Unsolicited advice can be viewed as criticism.” Nevertheless, there are times when we wish to give another peer or even superior advice. What approach does a leader use? If a… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Failure
In 1970 revered Baseball Hall of Famer, Mickey Mantle said, “During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times times and walked about 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Want vs. Need
A leader makes it a discipline to know the difference (and mentally enforce the difference) between a “want” and a “need.” A leader often wants something to happen but doesn’t need something to happen. A leader may want someone in… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Frame Your Future
A tool for goal setting that I’ve tried and found to be quite successful is the hanging of an empty picture frame on a wall. The painting is entitled My Future. I then take a piece of paper and describe… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Boundary Protection
There are people who seem to have no understanding of personal boundaries and respecting the boundaries of others whether those boundaries be physical, emotional, or verbal. They’ll stand in your space, they’ll ask questions about your personal life, and they’ll… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Give Yourself A Raise
As we’ve mentioned before, most leaders know how much they’re paid per hour even if they aren’t paid by the hour (see the poster Your Hourly Wage for more on this subject). When we visited that poster, we said that… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: The Tombstone Test
It’s a simple exercise that can yield profound results. “What do you want written on your tombstone following your death?” Your answer to that question will bring to the surface those values that are most important to you – those… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Think Like A Franchisor
A benefit of my owning a Sandler Sales Training franchise for the past ten years has been the processes that have been tested, proven, and documented by the franchisor for replication throughout the franchise network. As a leader matures s/he… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Planning
I love quotes where I can’t understand the meaning and its application without reading it more than once. Here is certainly one of those. Statistics indicate that 10% of those in America have specific goals they wish to achieve. Even… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Self Employed
Whether the government recognizes them as such or not, leaders view themselves as self employed. They view themselves as CEO’s of their own company named after themselves with themselves in position as CEO. They are responsible for the profitability of… Read More ›
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