If we are a product of our environment, I well recognize that my early life of confusion and certainly my ill-fitting, adopted leadership style stemmed from my early influences. And as I looked back in time to specific moments as ...
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Power Strategies to Enhance Communication, Collaboration and Creativity SpectraComm Power Strategies: See What A Difference A Few Hours Can Make for YOUR Team! Power Strategies Learning Event The Power Strategies Learning Event is an experiential training exercise that can be presented ...
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ALE - Action Learning Events Experiential Action Learning Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me - and I learn. ~ Benjamin Franklin ALE Creator: Marc Schwartz International Speaker, Author and Edu-Train-ment Specialist Cooperative and engaging ...
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NO SUCH THING AS A NATURAL BORN LEADER We are all born with the tendency to manage stress either aggressively or passively (fight or flight). Those two tendencies are managed, if at all, in either healthy or unhealthy ways. Passive-aggression ...
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What could you do both personally and professionally if you were Irresistibly Influential? In our most recent book, Power Shift, we clearly outline the intrinsic motivators that drive behavior.  If you understand these core traits that move all humans, then ...
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Dan Barber is the Chef and co-owner of two high-end restaurants in NYC.  He tells a story of seeking out the tastiest, most healthful fish on the planet.  Ultimately his seeking took him to a fish farm in the southwestern ...
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Imagine your business as a rowing crew with 10 people rowing and one directing the crew. On a rowing team, the director is called the coxswain. In a business setting, the director (coxswain) could be the President, CEO, Managing Partner, ...
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Reasons to Use Employee Assessments Research results published by The Harvard Business Review and the Department of Labor show that …

• Two of three new hires prove to be bad fits within the first year.
• Two of three employees ...
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The World with PEOPLE In It Article by Sherry Buffington, Ph.D. As markets become more sophisticated and the techniques for reaching those markets effectively become ever more complicated, we sometimes lose sight of the two most important aspects of the ...
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21st Century Techniques for Better Management The world of work is evolving faster than anyone could have imagined a generation ago…and probably more dramatically than those of us immersed in it even realize. The amount of knowledge doubles every five ...
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What is Flow? What do Jeff Gordon (race car driver), Bruce Willis (actor) and Terry Bradshaw (sports commentator) have in common? If you said divorce, good try but instead I want to bring your attention to the success each man ...
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New study establishes 529% ROI for executive coaching Case Study on the Return on Investment of Executive Coaching From ASTD online Newsletter Introduction A Fortune 500 firm launched an innovative leadership development effort that was expected to accelerate the development ...
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Inner Development for Career Success 1. Discover your Personal Calling. Until you can answer what kind of work you really find fascinating, what you really want to do, finding the right work is like throwing darts in the dark, you ...
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Importance of Emotional Intelligence (EI) Why do some executives know how to adapt to all types of personalities, and know instinctively how to handle a difficult situation? Research has shown that the greatest predictor of executive success is the development ...
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Checking in with Your Life What do you really want in your life? Do you know? If you do know, have you figured out how to get there? Do you get enough meaning, enjoyment, and fulfillment from your job, family, ...
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You Can't Get These Odds In Vegas! Imagine you're in Las Vegas on business and as you walk through the casino of your hotel you notice a colleague motioning to you. He pulls you to the side and says that ...
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By Marc Schwartz, Executive Coach Several times a year I have the opportunity to be a part of a team of men who come together with the intention of helping other men learn about things like accountability, commitment and leadership ...
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Why Coaching Is Valuable for Executives Coaching is literally exploding onto the national and international scene. Eager for more effective tools to help them and their organizations move beyond the limitations of other organizational development and process improvement programs, executives ...
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Employee Management for the 21st Century The world of work is evolving faster than anyone could have imagined a generation ago…and probably more dramatically than those of us immersed in it even realize. The amount of knowledge doubles every five ...
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