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Five Leadership How-Tos for Recession Survival
We're in the midst of the worst economic crisis in decades, and many people in leadership positions haven't seen anything like it before. As an executive coach, I know that leaders often make decisions out of fear of what could happen instead of crafting a plan to ensure that everyone stays on track through the bad times. Surviving a recession can feel a bit like sailing without sails, so here are a few tips to help you stop, think and weather the crisis.

Developing High Potential Employees
Every company has rising stars - the select groups of employees with the potential to one day lead the company - and most realize that these "high-potential employees" are critical to their future success. The challenge for managers lies in motivating, retaining and ultimately developing these high potentials into leadership positions. Here are some ways for you to address this challenge.
When Managing Change - Understand The Grief Cycle
In 1969, Elizabeth Kubler-Ross wrote a book, called ‘On Death and Dying’ in which she described a cycle of emotional states experience by people who lose a loved one. She called this the “Grief Cycle”. The Grief Cycle is now recognized as a process that is experienced more generally by people working their way through bad news.
Succession Planning - success through coaching!
Research indicates that effective leaders are instrumental in driving improvements, retaining key talent, attracting new talent, and even in building and sustaining organisational culture...so why do so many organisations fail to maximise on the potential of their leaders given the significant role they play in ensuring business continuity and success?

The Power of an Emotionally Intelligent Leader
Understand and utilize the interconnectedness between emotions, muscles, movement, motivation and performance to your advantage as a Leader.
Working with Ethical Gray Areas
The bottom line in leadership is that ethics cannot be codified or dictated. Ethical behavior is dependent upon the judgment and decision making by the leader. The best leaders are consistent and deliberate in their decisions when ethical gray is present. They communicate the decision, and more importantly, the reasons for their decision. They often collaborate the decision, not to cover their rear ends, but to seek wise counsel and tap into the judgment of others.

Eagle Scout Business
What can we learn about business from an Eagle Scout? Plenty...
Making Leadership Actionable: What We Are Learning and How We Can Use It
Much of the popular and academic literature on leadership has led to advice about what is required for effective leadership. This advice is usually flawed in that it does not provide guidance for how to learn to effectively apply the advice or because the advice is based on the practices of an individual in a specific context, a context that may or may not apply to the learner’s situation. An approach to leadership development based on seeing leadership as an emergent phenomenon, rather than just something that an individual does, is suggested.
Why Develop the Internal Leadership Coach?
The fundamental purpose of this article is to provide insight, concepts and a solid results-driven strategy for implementing a highly effective internal leadership coaching process. Many of the practices explored are also consistent with those employed by an experienced external coach. The information provided will work in virtually any type of organization. My basic intent is to articulate a holistic or integrated approach of organizational leadership development using the skill of an internal coach.
Emotional Intelligence – The Hard Truth About Soft Skills
How are your people skills? Academic research has shown that people with high Emotional Intelligence are more successful in business and in life. Emotional Intelligence refers to how well you know yourself, your ability to effectively manage your emotions, and how well you interact with others. Emotional Intelligence is a critical competency for leaders. It is very common in technical fields for people to be promoted to management because they excelled as technicians without much regard for their people skills. Unlike IQ, Emotional Intelligence can be developed.

The Glass Ceiling Effect In Selling
The "Glass Ceiling" that many women face today in business could give women an edge as sales professionals.

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Managers Helping Themselves
Many people end up in leadership positions without the skills of knowing how to work with others, or how to improve themselves so the job is at least somewhat easier. This article addresses some of those issues, as well as gives recommendations for moving forward.
Doing the Right Thing in Leadership
Many times, doing the right thing has penalties. In leadership, those penalties are magnified because there are less safety nets for team members in leadership positions. People in leadership positions are more visible so when they face issues of ethical penalty, it is more widely known. Although you can never avoid the penalties for doing the right thing, there are a couple of skills that can be embraced to reduce the impact of them.
Passing the Leadership Torch
A corporate mentoring program is an effective part of succession planning: when employees feel good about what they are doing, when they are productive and satisfied with their positions they are in a better position to grow. As staff members are able to grow, they are able to take on more advanced roles, grow into upper level positions and continue passing the leadership torch.
Don't Be Fooled By The Dollar's Rally!
Lately, I’ve been talking about the dollar’s decline...and so far, I’ve been right. However, the last few days in the market has gotten some traders to question their positions and its even scared others out of their positions. Not me! Here’s why...

SEO Friendly, Google Happy Spiders
After doing a lot of searching for top positions on google ads, and top of first page placement in the organic listings, I have found some consistent themes within the source code of the sites that are holding these positions. However, I have also come to find something else of interest as well.
Secrets of Successful Careers - Discover Your Purpose & Strengths
Why are some people promoted to positions that bring out the best in them, while their peers, who are equally talented, get left behind in positions that do not allow them to flourish? Are there secrets to a rewarding and satisfying career in the corporate world? According to Gallup research, only twenty percent of people are working in jobs that provide them the opportunity to excel in what they do best. Since we spend so many of our waking hours working, shouldn't we try to make that time rewarding and fulfilling? Unfortunately, many of us feel trapped in mediocre careers and place the blame on poor company leadership and lack of opportunities. In these situations, daily work becomes a grind when we cannot apply our strengths into our work.
Lonely at the Top
Are you "working through it?" Lately it seems that so many people in leadership positions are taking inventory of what it means to be a leader. Some are fleeing the role.
Are your people better off when they leave than when they got there?
In today’s ever changing and often turbulent economic environment, you are facing challenges that your predecessors would not have been dreamt about. How do you ensure that you have the leadership tools and strategies on hand to ensure you come out on top? Any time two or more people are gathered together for a purpose, an organization exists and there is an opportunity for leadership. There are many thousands in leadership positions today know that they are failing their people and desperately desire help in developing effective leadership skills. Many have long ago recognized that the old ways of leading through command-and-control and barking orders are largely ineffective when working with a diverse workforce.

CFO vs. Controller: Understanding the Differences
There are two primary types of financial leadership within top organizations: the CFO and the Controller. Many growing organizations do not have a clear understanding of the two positions, often overlooking the value that a CFO could bring to their business. To determine what level of financial leadership an organization requires, a Controller and/or CFO, it is first important to decipher the differences between the two roles.
Set a Standard of High Expectations
Advice for Women in Leadership Professional ball teams with a chance of getting to the championship set high performance standards for their team members. It is imperative that professional women in leadership positions do the same in business.
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