Overcoming Fake Talk. How to Have Real Conversations

By Marcia Reynolds

How many conversations do you have that seem to go well but nothing happens as a result?

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Learning While Online, Instead of Wasting Time

By Marcia Reynolds

How much time do you spend each week reading blog posts, scanning articles, and rushing through e-books to get the highlights?

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Do You Know Too Much?

By Marcia Reynolds

Wouldn’t it be great to feel confident about your choices…to know the answers under pressure, to rightly respond to adversity, to choose the better path when the road splits in two

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Did You Mean to Kill that Idea?

By Marcia Reynolds

My partner, Karl, was telling me about how the new guy at work is finally settling in to his surroundings. He used to own a business, so he came into this arrangement asking a lot of questions. He wanted to know if they had ever considered doing things like their office procedures or equipment placement differently. Karl explained to me that everyone else had been working there a long time. What they did worked for them. It took a while but now, the new guy seemed to understand “the way of the world” according to everyone else.

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The #1 Rule for Effective Leadership

By Marcia Reynolds

Beyond the Golden and Platinum Rules, in our crazy busy world the one rule everyone should follow above all is, “Don’t be a jerk.”

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7 Lies Leaders Love to Tell

By Marcia Reynolds

In my 30 years of teaching leadership, the excuses given for doing the wrong thing rarely change. The ingredients for good leadership shift over time. Yet the reasons leaders give for not taking these actions or developing new leadership skills such as coaching stay the same.

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What You Gain with a Future-Focused Brain

By Marcia Reynolds

Do you want to keep growing, keeping your life meaningful, interesting and fun? Is part of your job as a leader or coach to help others see their careers flow instead of stagnate? If you answered yes to one or both of these questions, you need set your brain to focus on the future.

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Do You Have the Courage to Sabotage Your Success?

By Marcia Reynolds

Whether you are an entrepreneur or work for an organization, you can follow two routes to success: 1) exceeding goals and expectations or 2) challenging goals and expectations to create something better.

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Leadership Presence: How to Choose the Impact You Have on Others

By Marcia Reynolds

Just as an observer alters behavior by the fact that the behavior is being observed, whenever you enter or leave a room, your presence affects the thoughts and behaviors of those in the room. Even if no one seemed to notice, their brains selected to ignore you, minimizing your impact.

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7 Ways to Unitask

By Marcia Reynolds

Most heavy multitaskers rate their ability to do many things at once as very high on surveys. When tested, their perception is wrong. This ability rarely proves to exist. Multitasking may speed you through your to-do list, but it also makes you more likely to make mistakes and less likely to retain information.

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