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Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! The ability to be a leader is not the same as being able to do your job. Learning to be a leader takes getting to know yourself on a much different level. If you want to develop yourself as a leader, which truly means developing as a human being, i...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Where there are people, there is conflict. As a leader, you will face conflict - it is inevitable. for this reason, conflict resolution is a must-have skill for leaders.  Why must conflict resolution be so important as a leader you ask? Because we...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! If you are in a leadership role in business, sitting on the fence, or resting on the bench can be a painful and costly decision. Not only to the company but to your career and team as well. Truly great leaders are decisive, active, progressive, and...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! To be great requires an impeccable work ethic, and doing the necessary work is inescapable.  Though each of us has our own journey, the known formula for success seems universal – work hard, stay committed, perfect your craft, sharpen the saw, and...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Hang around in a leadership position long enough and you will find out that leadership is not for wimps. That is putting it mildly. Leadership is not about the perks, title, paycheck, or whatever the assumption is. It takes a tremendous amount of p...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! In coaching, as in medicine, prescription before diagnosis is malpractice.  Why is this statement so true? The answer is simple - before you are set on a path to develop your personal leadership abilities, it is critical to know which path you must...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! The Threes Stooges are arguably the most popular and influential comedy institution in Hollywood history. Michael Jordan is arguably the best Basketball Player that has ever played the game. Wyatt Earp was not the fastest gunslinger that ever lived...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Globally, Baby Boomers, those born between 1946 and 1964, are retiring at a rate of 10,000 a day. Millennials already hold the majority of management positions, and their number rises with each passing year.  So what does this mean for the future o...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Christie McMullen is the CEO of AIM and author of Learning Can Stick: A Guide to Make Every Interaction Safe, Logical, Fun, and Memorable. In the last 24 years, she has trained thousands of people and built an efficient structure for interacting in...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Following up on a previous podcast, we are continuing to talk about toxic bosses. This time we are talking about the Gameplayers.  We have all dealt with these folks, the drama kings and drama queens who love to play games with the people they work...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Fear is a psychological barrier for many business leaders which can prevent them from taking the risks they need to be successful. For many people and organizations, when they step outside of their comfort zone they can become overcome by fear and...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We all know these folks, the self-centered, self-absorbed types. The ones that draw you in with their charisma but can't finish the race due to lack of character. These types of folks in business tend to have poor listening skills, hesitate to...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well!  We tend to assume that leadership takes place under stable circumstances.  In fact, many of our theories of leadership conceptualize leadership under “normal” and stable conditions. However, there is likely no situation where leadership is more im...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Imagine opening up your email and there is a notice from your HR department that it is time for another round of 360-degree feedback, or that they are sending out another cultural assessment survey. Why is it that this single email can create so mu...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We have discussed this topic on previous podcasts, and it is one that we continue to be concerned about. Not only are we concerned, but several of the HR professionals we speak with have expressed some frustration over the fact that the training an...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Integrity in leadership means having strong moral principles, outstanding character, standing by your words, and doing the right thing. It's a highly valued trait since most employees look to their leader for cues on how to act. A leader that...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Meta-competence is the overarching ability under which competence shelters. It embraces the higher-order abilities which have to do with learning, adapting, anticipating, and creating. Therefore, versatility and timing are not just nice to have ski...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Jean F. Durham enlisted into the United States Marine Corps in October 1999. She graduated from MCRD Parris Island, SC in January of 2000 and was assigned as an Aviation Operations Specialist. After a very illustrious career spanning 20 years, that...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Simply put, high leadership turnover in organizations does not foster long-term relationships or cultural success. Not just among the leadership team, but throughout the organization. The churn in leadership positions, especially at the senior leve...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! It is proven that an organization does in fact achieve success or failure through its people. This is especially true if the right leadership is not in place or constantly turning over. With the leadership team constantly in flux, no organization c...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! We have all heard the term, Planned Obsolescence. Planned obsolescence describes the practice of designing products to break quickly or become obsolete in the short to mid-term. But how does this apply to leadership? How often have you started a ne...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! A 2023 Gallup/ Workhuman survey shows that globally, only 1 in 4 employees stated that they had received any praise for doing a good job at work. That is only 25% of the workforce. Today's employees feel more disengaged from their work than in...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! Understanding your organization's current and future operation success is tied directly to the health, vibrancy, and overall maturity of your culture.  Regardless of your unique transformation challenge (innovation, collaboration, global commu...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! There are many industries with organizations that are very similar in their products and services. As a result, we see employees bouncing between organizations in these industries because they have the skills, talents, and background required to pl...

Thank you for all of your support. Please let us know what you think about our podcast and what topic you may want to hear from us. Leaders, Lead Well! What is an organizational silo and how common are they? The fact is that silos are more common than you think. Organizational silos happen in business whenever the company is separated by department, specialization, or location and fails to align t...