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Great Leaders Manage Perceptions: The Trust Filter
Leadership Communication and the Trust Filter No matter how clear you think you are as a leader, people don't always perceive you the way you intend to be perceived. Great leaders learn to manage perceptions. We view others through three lenses or filters: Trust...
Great Leaders Manage Perceptions: Managing Biases
Leaders Manage Perception Biases How well are you managing perceptions of you as a leader? How do you come across to other people? Is what you say the same as what people hear? No matter how clear you think you are as a leader, people don't always perceive you the...
Great Leaders Manage Perceptions: Leadership Communication
“Statistically speaking, there are only weak correlations between how others see us and how we believe we are seen,” notes social psychologist Heidi Grant Halvorson in No One Understands You and What to Do About It. Without even realizing it, when we communicate as...
Great Leaders Manage Perceptions
How Great Leaders Manage Perceptions As a leader, how adept are you at communicating your true intentions and managing perceptions? Even at the highest levels of government and business, leaders struggle to communicate their intentions. Most of us have some...
Purpose Driven Leadership: The Bridge to What Matters
Many persons have a wrong idea about what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. ~ Helen Keller Great leaders like Martin Luther King Jr. and Walt Disney always communicated their...
Purpose Driven Leadership: How to Inspire
When a mission statement is well written, it serves as a declaration of purpose. But corporate mission statements are often little more than a descriptive sentence about products, aspirations, or desired public perceptions. They’re more powerful when they clearly and...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Finding a Business Purpose
In last week’s blog post we explored the importance of energy and creative flow within the workplace. These things stem from employees having a clear sense of purpose while at work, and is a chief criterion for “flow” - the energy state that occurs when one’s mind,...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Energy and Creative Flow
Having a purpose provides context for all of one’s efforts, and it’s a chief criterion for “flow” - the energy state that occurs when one’s mind, body, and entire being are committed to the task at hand. Flow turns mundane work into completely absorbing experiences,...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Finding Fulfillment
Is Your Work Fulfilling? In a company without purpose, people have only a vague idea of what they’re supposed to do. There’s always activity and busyness, but it’s often frenetic, disorganized, and focused solely on short-term goals. There’s a lack of direction and...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Why Are You Here?
"Knowing why you’re here, and who you want to be, isn’t a part-time job. The challenge is to live out what you stand for, intentionally, in every moment." - Tony Schwartz, Author Far from being touchy-feely concepts touted by motivational speakers, purpose and values...
The Art of Feedback: How to Give Effective Feedback
In our last blog post we looked at the importance of positive feedback – people are more open to receiving and processing negative feedback when they are used to regularly receiving plenty of positive feedback for big and small things. This week we’ll be giving you...
The Art of Feedback: Positive vs. Negative
In our last blog post we explored the critical importance of feedback within any relationship, but particularly within an organization. Feedback is every organization’s lifeblood - the mechanism that lets people know whether they’re doing a good job or if their...
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