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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: 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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Graphic Leadership: Discuss Don’t Demonstrate
When it comes to the world of emotions, truly great leaders know how to discuss their emotions rather than demonstrating their emotions; and they encourage their followers to do the same. Demonstrating or displaying emotions causes the emotions to rise… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: The Nature Of Anxiety
Those who suffer from a state of perpetual anxiety (as opposed to those who suffer from periodic bouts of situational anxiety) tend to make two very common thinking mistakes. This poster speaks to them both. First, they ignore the true… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: The Nature Of Faith
When we talk about putting our faith in another person(s), we might feel a little like the couple in the poster waiting to cross the street. They are a very cautious couple and are waiting for 100% proof that a… Read More ›
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