Creating Honest Communication and Reducing Fear
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In working relationships, whether as an employee or a consultant, creating an opportunity for success is key. Everyone wants their employees to succeed and reach critical objectives but often a crucial step in the feedback process is missed. This misstep can sometimes leave the employee unsure about how to adjust their behavior and the employer
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Are there life principles that you used to live by, but now you don’t? Have you ever allowed someone to spook you to such an extent that you change your behavior? It’s natural to let someone’s bad reaction derail us from doing what we know needs to be done. I encounter this reality so often
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In recent weeks, I have been invited to do a number of radio interviews. In my latest interview, which is embedded below, I discuss a variety of topics; from the government shutdown, to how to facilitate more honest communication in the workplace, and what leaders can do to move their organizations forward. Enjoy the interview below: Keep
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The foundation of all relationships is trust. When trust is lost, it functions like a sinkhole – it takes down everything else with it! In today’s environment, it seems that many of our typical ways of doing business and ways things have been done in the past have been lost. Trust is hard to build
Five Essential Keys to Rebuilding Trust in Today’s Political Environment Read More »
It was Abraham Lincoln who famously said “A house divided against itself cannot stand,” during the Lincoln-Douglas debates of 1858. Fast forward 155 years to today only to find that our Congress is once again divided against itself and the American people’s minds are flooded with questions. Join me on Tuesday, October 15 at 1
The DC Follies: Can a Nation Divided be Mended? Read More »
I was jogging back and forth on the hotel’s beach one afternoon in Ixtapa, Mexico, when one of those life insights—an “aha moment”—hit me. Oh, what insights a vacation can bring! As I was running, I noticed some children diligently building an enormous sandcastle with a bit of help from their parents. The children were clearly having great fun.
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When it comes to our career success, we are often not honest with ourselves about reality and what needs to be done to take our career to the next level. After all, we are responsible for our own careers — not our boss, not our co-workers, not the human resources department, and not our significant other. If we are
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Two weeks ago, I published this blog post highlighting four steps one can use to restore broken trust in any relationship. A week later, Jim Blasingame of The Small Business Advocate invited me on his radio show to discuss broken trust. In the two segments embedded at the bottom of this post you can listen to the
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The fundamental building block of any relationship — business or personal — is trust. What do you do if someone has broken your trust or you have broken theirs? You can make a significant difference with some simple steps. If someone has broken your trust, there is usually a fear that the trust will be broken again. Unfortunately, that
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