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  • Why People Aren’t Effective  By : David Lesser -
    Effectiveness is the capacity to produce an intended result. When asked, most people say they are not manifesting their full potential. They have more talent than effectiveness. The art of coaching is to see what inhibits effectiveness in each client. I will touch on some of the classic inhibitors I have found and what to do about them.

    Ineffective people are reluctant to specify their intended result. Once intention is specified, of course, the possibility of failure is m...
  • Rite Of Passage  By : David Lesser -
    I am writing from England, where my nephew Sam has just had his barmitzvah. This marks his transition from boy to young man. To assist in his passage, his father and I took Sam on a two-day vision quest in the woods. We agreed not to speak about what occurred. However, the basic elements of what we did are relevant in guiding people and organizations through crucial transitions, and I can speak of that.

    To be effective, change has to be self-evident. I doubt if many of us ...
  • Three Keys To Establish Rapport  By : David Lesser -
    Clients often ask me for tools and techniques to make them more effective in working with people. In a coaching session, whenever we discuss and practice how to handle a particular person or situation, we usually end up recognizing that the connection is the most important thing. Even in the tensest engagement, if we find a way to establish rapport with the other, the rest of the communication will flow from that. Great tools and technique have their place but without rapport...
  • Admitting Mistakes  By : David Lesser -
    Success in any creative endeavor depends on trust. If your colleagues trust you, they will give in ways they didn’t know were possible. If banks and investors trust you, they will finance your projects. In deep personal work, if a client trusts you, he or she will see and release life-long patterns that have held them bound. Without trust nothing much will move.

    Many of the people I have coached feel nervous around earning the trust they need from others. We all seem to st...
  • Show Up As You  By : David Lesser -
    The CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation once acknowledged to me that at his core he didn’t know who he was or what he’s really about. This kind of self-forgetting is surprisingly common. My colleagues and I work with people who have achieved great success by dedicating themselves to giving their employees and customers what they need to flourish. Yet, when asked at the most personal level, they find it difficult to say clearly what they want for themselves.

    We forget...
  • How To Meet Opposition  By : David Lesser -
    My mentor always told me he would rather people were either hot or cold toward him, not lukewarm. You cannot do much with lukewarm response, but you can use challenge and opposition to advantage.

    Some weeks the same topic keeps coming up in a number of different coaching sessions. Last week it was leaders learning, sometimes the hard way, how to meet opposition from a colleague.

    The key word here is “meet.” Most people get into trouble by failing to meet what the person...
  • Intuition And The Unitive Approach  By : Marcus Brooks -
    The majority of life coaching approaches just scratch the surface of our human existence. They try to change the way we think, and hope that this alone will produce lasting results. Experience proves, however, that in common with the other forms of brain-washing and self-hypnosis so prevalent in our modern culture, the illusion doesn’t last. What happens in reality always falls far short of the advertised effects.

    But, as adults responsible for our own lives, there's anoth...
  • Successful Manager - How To Be One  By : Andrew Rondeau -
    How To Be A More Successful Manager

    Would you like to be a more successful manager? Of course you would. I mean, who wouldn't?

    Well listen up, because I'm going to tell you what it takes.

    Let’s face it, being a high performing manager and leader isn’t easy. You have to deal with staff (difficult staff at that!), tough deadlines, demanding customers, tight budgets, training, monthly reports, change, conflict, communication, priorities, delegation, your boss, your time...
  • 4 Steps To Transforming Your Negative Self-Talk Into An Inner Coach.  By : Emmanuel Segui -
    Your thoughts have a powerful effect on you. They affect your attitude, your physiology, and your motivation to act. Your negative thoughts actually control your behavior. They can make you stutter, spill things, forget your lines or breathe shallowly.

    Research indicates that the average person talks to himself or herself about 50,000 times a day. According to psychological researchers, it is 80% negative; things such as shouldn't have said that .... They don't like me... ...
  • 10 steps to electrifying communication skills!  By : Prince Oversol
    There is so much to know about conversation that anyone, even I, could ever realize. You can go though watching talk shows; radio programs; clubs dedicated to public speaking; ordinary conversations; certain rules still apply when it comes to interaction through words.
  • Six Ways To Succeed In Business  By : Carole DeJarnatt -
    How many times have you encountered people in business and the image of the business or the person is so poorly presented it causes you to have a poor opinion of the services offered? It makes no difference if you are the owner or the employee; pride in yourself is evident in your daily dealings with people. Image is very important in business.

    Here are some of my suggestions for success:

    1. Dress for success. No matter what profession you are in, everyone has a dress c...
  • Team Leadership -- The Power of Team Leadership in Business  By : Michael McFadden
    Do you want to get greater results from your team? This article will show you how to strengthen the unity of your team and add positive changes to the bottom line. Improve your position in the market place through increased productivity.
  • Leadership Development- Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way  By : Marenda.Biz
    Leadership is not for fence riders, followers, cowards, or indecisive people.
  • Effective Listening - Be A Good Listener  By : odie01
    To be an effective leadership you must be a good listener
  • Secrets Of Proactive Leadership  By : Gary Crow
    Proactive leaders are cautious without becoming paralyzed by the potential downside of action. They pursue their goals continuously but incrementally, testing/evaluating progress toward the goal. This truth introduces the twelve secrets of Proactive Leadership. This article reveals these secrets and shows you how to incorporate them into your leadership practice.
  • Courageous Leadership – 5 Steps to Survive Uncertain Times  By : Michael McFadden
    In this fast paced market, are you fit to survive? This article gives the 21st Century leader strategies to thrive in a competitive market place. Upgrade your leadership skills for success in a rapidly changing market.
  • All Leadership Begins With Self-Leadership  By : Calvin Ho
    All leadership begin with self-leadership. Why? Because you have to lead yourself first before you can lead other people. If you cannot lead yourself, never lead other people. This is a very important key factor in leadership skill.
  • The Secret of Conversational Hypnosis: the Piggy Back Hypnotic Induction  By : Clifford Mee
    As you learn more and more about the art of Conversational Hypnosis you will begin to file away many different ways of inducing trance in your clients. These are great to keep on hand as skills that will assist and guide you as you need new techniques for new people that you come across and want to help.
  • Leadership Exposed: Things You Thought You Knew About Leadership  By : Tim Maher
    This article is about leadership in its different forms such as formal as in politics and business and informal as in the elder of a family. People who have achieved a lot in their field of endeavour have positions of leadership bestowed upon them. Leadership is a process of becoming and it starts with the individual. It is a shared process with a team of people. Depending on circumstances different styles of leadership are required in practice.
  • Conquering Fear  By : SNG
    The leading cause of people not fulfilling their dreams is NOT the fear of failure - it’s the fear of success! The fear of actually accomplishing what they set out to do. The fear of living life to the fullest may have paralyzed you. This will cause you to never really try in your business, or if you do try, to sabotage your efforts so you never have to face your fear of success.
  • Leadership Crisis in America  By : Raymond Gerson
    Many of the problems in the news point to a leadership crisis. This article addresses the problem and solution.
  • The Secret to Executive Leadership  By : Gregg Thompson
    Gregg Thompson, author of "Unleashed!", offers his perspective on the movie and publishing phenomenon, "The Secret".
  • It's Not The Logo, Stupid!  By : Tim Robertson -
    Branding is a hot topic these days. It’s not only related to products, but to the “brand” of celebrities, political campaigns, and even cities. What is a brand anyway?

    Let’s clear up some misconceptions. Branding is not the logo, or the tagline, or the celebrity face. This would be branding at it’s shallowest.

    The reason that great brands thrive is because of something much more than a huge advertising budget and slick marketing campaigns. People and communities are ...
  • 14 Leadership Quotes to Celebrate Older Americans Month  By :
    From antiquated one-man-rules-all mentality to the democracy of current times, leadership concepts have definitely changed over the years. These 14 leadership quotes are perfect examples of sound wisdom that will transcend generations.
  • Building Emotional Intelligence Builds Leaders  By : Liz Cassidy
    In the mid 1990's Daniel Goleman took the business world by storm claiming the Emotional Intelligence could impact on success more than IQ. (Or that was the populist interpretation).

    However the reality is that in business given a level playing field when two professionals have similar levels of IQ, similar levels of experience and similar personalities - and then the role of emotional intelligence may start to play a part in differentiating levels of success.
  • Reflections and Celebrations of a Bold Entrepreneur  By : Terry Apger
    Did you ever yearn to be or do something and go after it? Have you achieved something you sought, only to find you felt you did not fit in? Have you searched for your passion, thought you found it, then felt it was not quite enough and think there must be more?
  • Leadership’s 11 Principles  By : Dr. Al Coke -
    All functions of business operate on a grounding of principled actions and behaviors. So it is with leadership. These principles define the parameters for the leader's code of conduct. They become a framework through which decisions can be channeled and validated.

    Eleven Principles of Leadership have been coded by management practitioners over decades. These have stood the test of time, survived assorted applications, and produced results. A list of the principles and thei...
  • The 7 habits of highly effective people – Revealed: How You Can Use Your Time Most Effectively  By : Kevin John
    How are you spending your time? Do you feel you are using it as effectively as possible? Are you achieving your life goals? Or are you stuck in a rut? Understanding the principles of time management as explained in “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” will help you to maximise your use of your time.
  • Leadership: Motivation Magic  By : Wally Bock
    Everybody talks about motivation, but hardly anybody tells you how to do it. Here are some things you can do to get the results you want from the people who work for you.
  • Saying No to Demands  By : William Ury
    Below are some specific key words or phrases you can use in saying No to the other's demand in a way that flows naturally from your Yes, your power, and your respect. Remember that your tone and underlying intent need to be congruent with your words if they are to have the right impact.

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