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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: Levels Of Competency
A leader understands that there are levels of competency in his or her own life as well as the lives of those whom they lead. There’s the level of Unconscious Incompetence. Some people don’t know what they don’t know. There’s… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Character
As you saw on the Leadership Star poster, one of the points is labeled Character. Why? Take a look at the heart of this poster. Character speaks to a leader being a principled person. In any given situation, you may… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: It’s All Made Up
Much of my time in executive coaching is helping people with their career development plans. They might look around and say, “I don’t see a job here that fits me at all.” “I don’t see a job that stirs any… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Confident
In this poster, you’ll see two people looking from backstage. They so want to go on stage and speak to the group that’s sitting – waiting for their addresses; but they’re both scared. They’re waiting backstage until they feel confident… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Cognitive vs. Behavioral
Psychologists tend to fall into one of two camps. You’ll see a couple standing in the middle of this poster and one group of psychologists are saying to them, “We’ll change the way you behave by changing the way you… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Intimidation
We all know the feeling. As you look at this poster, you’ll see that intimidation can have many roots. You might be intimidated by people of wealth, authority, beauty, height, success, age, knowledge, or something not even on the poster…. Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Room Of Reality
There is a room of reality. As you look at this poster, you’ll see what’s in the room of reality. Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail; sometimes I’m good, sometimes I’m bad; sick, well; make money, lose money — you… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Stress Management
As you look at the stress management poster, you’ll see a downward shot on the person’s head – showing the right brain and the left brain. Those that study this far more than I do tell me that the right… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: What Do I Control?
As we work our way through this section on growing in our leadership confidence, here’s an important exercise. Make a two-column chart. List on the left side what you control. List on the right side what you don’t control. We… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Confidence
Managing your fears. Every leader needs to know how to not ignore fears, but manage their fears. This poster gives us two components to the management of fears, the physiological and psychological. The fear center in the brain is called… Read More ›
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