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Leadership Caffeine™—”This Is the Way It Should Be”

Leadership Caffeine™—”This Is the Way It Should Be”

Aug 28, 2022

Teaming and collaboration experiences happen in all walks of our professional and personal lives. Some experiences working with others are draining, others passable, and just a few are energizing and even fun and successful. You can hope these fun, productive experiences emerge by chance. Or you can be deliberate about creating the conditions that improve the possibility of a great collaboration experience. I opt for improving our odds of bringing one of these productive, fun experiences to life. Here are four ideas to help:

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Fall 2022 Leader and Manager Professional Development Programs

Fall 2022 Leader and Manager Professional Development Programs

Aug 15, 2022

It’s Back-to-Professional Development Time and I’m sharing my current Fall, 2022 calendar. If strengthening your skills as a leader or your success as a manager is on your priority list (or is a priority for your team members), please consider one of our uniquely powerful programs that blend training and coaching.

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How Effective Leaders Help Their Teams Turn Ideas Into Actions

How Effective Leaders Help Their Teams Turn Ideas Into Actions

May 30, 2022

Ideas are oxygen for problem-solving. Yet, all the ideas in the world won’t help you solve the challenges in front of you if you don’t have solid ideas-to-actions flow. As leaders, we need to complete the process and make sure there’s a robust Ideas-to-Actions machine operating on our teams and in our organizations. Here are approaches to help strengthen the flow of ideas into actions in your workplace:

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Leaders: Are You Coaching Your Teams for Creativity?

Leaders: Are You Coaching Your Teams for Creativity?

Mar 27, 2022

There’s little doubt creativity is vital in the workplace, and that idea generation is the enabler of creative problem solving and innovation. The better our teams and colleagues are at generating ideas, the better the odds of surviving and thriving in our topsy-turvy world. Yet, idea generation and problem-solving practices are stale and decidedly lacking in creativity in too many organizations. 

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Why You Need to Write the Manifesto for Success with Your Group

Why You Need to Write the Manifesto for Success with Your Group

Jan 30, 2022

Clarifying your group’s values or creating a Manifesto for Success gives substance and meaning to the working environment you want to bring to life with your group members. This activity is essential and impactful whether you are leading a senior management team, a functional group, or a project team.

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