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How to Confront Negative Behaviors When You Hate Confrontation

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“Problems in the workplace are often created not by what we do, but by what we fail to do.” -Aubrey C. Daniels – Bringing Out the Best in People “All problems become smaller if you don’t dodge them, but confront them.” – William F. Halsey And one from me: Failure to confront a negative behavior is a subtle acceptance of it, an encouragement for it to continue in the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, conflict management, Guy Harris

The Power of Incremental Improvement

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Many years ago, when asked what the most powerful force in the universe was, Albert Einstein said, “compound interest.” What I am writing about today, might be, with all due respect to Albert, just as powerful. The reason is that in many ways,  they are the same thing: compound interest allows your money to grow on itself and incremental improvement allows your skills and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Management Tagged With: career advancement, coaching, leadership mindset

New Leaders: Where to Find the Support You Need

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Before you landed your supervisory position, you could seek advice from, vent to and share ideas with just about anyone. As long as you trusted the person and valued his or her insight, any colleague had sounding-board potential. Now your situation is more complicated. On the one hand, you have a lot more on your plate, meaning a lot more you want and need to talk about. On … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Personal & Professional Development Tagged With: Bud to Boss, Bud to Boss workshop, develop yourself, leadership development, training

The Compassion Paradox

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Effective leaders are comfortable with paradox. They can call on skills and work in ways that seem to be contradictory. Dictionary.com defines paradox as “a seemingly contradictory statement that may nonetheless be true.” As I study the field, I find many paradoxes associated with leadership. I see that developing the skills of a great leader requires us to work in apparently … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication, Management Tagged With: Guy Harris, leadership mindset, new leaders

5 Communication Red Flags

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People desperately want to feel connected, especially now when so many are working remotely. Helping employees feel like they’re an integral part of a caring, trusted team is not just a nice thing for companies to do; it’s more like a survival strategy. The highest levels of performance require that people care about and understand each other and feel cared about and understood … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Communication Tagged With: communicating with employees, leadership mindset, new leaders

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