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  • Creating Something New – Getting Past the Fear of Failure
    Encouraging creativity is one thing, but new ideas are not the cure all for finding progress. We have to get past the fear of failure before we can ever get ourselves heading toward success.
  • Finding Mentors in Your Memory
    Traditional mentoring strategies may be limiting in some cases. Contrary to popular belief and practice, we don't have to meet or have a conversation with our mentor in order to benefit from their guidance. In fact, our mentors don't even have to be alive. Some simple questions can help us "mentor ourselves."
  • Turning Your Ideas into Action
    If they are not implemented, ideas are just words on paper - or thoughts drifting through our minds. It takes action to turn creative thoughts into real solutions. The 'six gets' can help you implement the ideas you have created or the tasks that have been delegated to you.
  • A New Way to Look at Your Career
    The demands of today’s fast-paced business-world can get overwhelming. It might be time to step back and take a minute to consider your career, your productivity, your success and your satisfaction in a new – but decidedly old – way. I encourage you to think of yourself as a craftsman – and find new satisfaction – and opportunities – in your work.
  • You are Too Busy to Move That Fast – Why Go Slower May Get You Far Greater Results
    We are all busy and everything may be telling us to move faster and get on with out tasks at hand. But it is important to remind ourselves (and others) the benefit of slowing down.
  • Consensus - What it is and When to Achieve it
    When the stakes of a decision are high, or a high level of commitmentis needed from every involved person, then the time required to reach a concensus is a worthwhile investment.
  • The Most Misused Tool in Meetings
    This article will describe the most effective uses of the issue bin or parking lot – a tool often used incorrectly and counterproductively.
  • A Creative Journey – Using a Magazine to Heighten Creativity and Learning
    Go to your local newsstand and pick up magazines you wouldn’t ever read and read them for ideas, connections and trends. This is an often repeated example of using outside stimulus as a way to jumpstart our creativity. This article is an example of someone following this process to heighten creativity.
  • Creating Your Own Spring Break Without Traveling Anywhere
    This article will give you specific ideas on how to take a vacation – in the spring or any other time of the year – without booking any travel at all.
  • Make a Connection – Seven Secrets to Great Handshakes
    This article reminds us of the importance of a great handshake and provides specific ideas to make your handshakes great.
  • Write to Remember – Seven Keys to Better Note taking
    This article helps you think about the question – to team or not to team… and provides you with some illuminating, and perhaps surprising answers.
  • To Team or Not To Team
    This article helps you think about the question – to team or not to team… and provides you with some illuminating, and perhaps surprising answers.
  • The Three Sources of Coaching and Feedback
    All of us want to improve at something at some time in our life. And all of us find ourselves in the position to help others improve. One of the tools that aids in this improvement is coaching. This article gets to the source of feedback – and source of coaching’s power.
  • Seven Ways to Enhance Organizational Culture
    For a whole variety of reasons, organizational culture is important to the health or viability of any organization. This article will give you some specific things you can do to act on the importance of your organizational culture.
  • Seven Reasons Organizational Culture Matters
    Many of us spend more time with those we work with than we do our families. For us to be content and fulfilled people, that time must be valuable for more than a dollar. . .
  • Five Questions to Ask Before Forming a Team
    A project or challenge comes up and many people, without thinking, immediately form a team to research, solve the problem and implement the solution. Teams can be a very powerful way to solve problems and implement massive improvements. But teams aren’t the right answer to every situation.
  • Top 7 Reasons Why Team Charters Improve Team Success
    The team charter is a document that serves as both guidance and a roadmap for any team’s success. When used most effectively, this tool clarifies the purpose for the team's existence and documents the agreements amongst the team members.
  • Developing the “Both and” Mindset
    Typically people have an “either or” mindset which inevitably leads to suboptimal solutions, and under satisfying compromises. By switching to the “both and” mindset you can become more successful and paradoxically create greater clarity and balance in your life.
  • Creating a New Standard of Excellence – Six Things You Can Do
    Below are six steps that you can take to continue to raise your own standards of excellence. These steps will make it easier than ever to stand out, be noticed, and have greater levels of success and satisfaction.
  • It Takes More than Effort to Get Results
    The truth is, what we really need to do is work smarter not harder. There are many things we can do to work harder, including building our skills, our capacities, our network, and our experience.
  • Fun and Learning – A Deeper Connection
    Training techniques and ideas all focus on the learning process. And while the process is important; when we focus too closely on a process we can lose sight of the result of real learning.
  • Personal and Professional Development – What’s the Difference?
    The bottom line is that we are complete humans, and as such we take our entire work knowledge home, and bring all of our personal knowledge and experience to work. So any form of growth or development will benefit you both personally and professionally.
  • Five Reasons to Make Meetings More Fun
    The average person spends more time in meetings than they’d like to. The average manager spends the majority of their workday in meetings. Given these facts, shouldn’t meetings be more fun?
  • It’s Your Move: The First Step to Accountability
    A lack of accountability is frustrating. Tremendous productivity and efficiencies can be gained when more people are accountable for completing their tasks, commitments and expectations.
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