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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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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