Don’t Follow Your Passion Should you follow your passion, wherever it may take you? Should you only do what you love... or learn to love what you do? Talking Points: Just because you’re passionate about something doesn’t mean you won’t stink at it.Your happiness on the job has very little to do with the work […]

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The 3 C’s to Get Your Team on the Bus Having a great vision and staying positive are important for effective leadership, but there’s more to it than that. Talking Points: Communication builds trust – which generates commitment – which fosters teamwork – which creates results. Where there is a void in communication, negativity fills […]

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Bouncing Back When Life Gets You Down Life is full of tests and trials. Emotionally healthy people are ready for anything. Talking Points: Identify your filter: When hard times come, a victim blames others while a victor looks inward. A victim gets defensive while a victor gets motivated.Identify your mindset: A fixed mindset says you […]

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Eliminating Sideways Energy "Sideways energy" is anything that moves you away from your vision. Find out how to eliminate sideways energy in this topic. Talking Points: Sideways energy is anything that directs you away from your vision. Sideways energy manifests itself as daily or weekly habits or behaviors that aren’t in support of your vision.Strategy […]

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Winning the War Within as a Leader The first four principles for winning in business and in life have nothing to do with luck or environment. It's all about who you are on the inside.  Talking Points: Ownership: All responsibility for every failure rests with the leader. Accountability: There are only two types of leaders – […]

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Strategy, Action Steps, and Habits for the Team Once the “boulders” of strategic objectives are in place, it’s time to establish the “pebbles” of action steps. Eventually, the “sand” of everyday habits can be ingrained in everything you do as a team. Talking Points: Start by identifying your strategic objectives, the things you need to […]

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Stop Doing These 3 Things If You Want To Succeed Getting to the next level in your life isn't always about the habits you start doing. Sometimes success waits on what you stop doing. Talking Points: Stop people-pleasing. Constantly working for the approval of others keeps you from telling the truth to anyone – and […]

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Why Talk as a Family? Talking as a family creates connection and an opportunity to talk about topics that really matter in the lives of your teens. Talking Points: Especially in junior high and high school, tweens and teens are experiencing a myriad of new, sometimes confusing, emotions. Parents, this is definitely not the time […]

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How to Spread the Leadership Virus Good leaders communicate mission, vision, and values to their teams. Great leaders communicate in a way that's viral. Talking Points: The preaching method is the leader speaks the message to everyone at once. This is more of a top-down approach.The mentoring model means first-tier leaders mentor and communicate the […]

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