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Executive Coaching, Leadership Training, and Personal Development

The Daily Clean Slate – Establishing a Leadership Habit

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How many of you wake up to a freshly filled Inbox and a daily agenda filled with a range of difficult conversations and challenging work? Tempting to dive right in, right? But, if you’re like me, that trap can ruin a morning and, honestly, not give the work the attention and venue it deserves.

Well, my coach gave me some great advice about a year ago about a better way to start the day and it has made all the difference. But here’s the trick: it takes some serious discipline until a habit is formed. After that? It’s no more difficult than your 5 am sleepwalk to the coffee machine. [Read more…]

Do You Know How to Subtract?

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Less is MoreThis week my family and I are moving. It’s a significant downsize in anticipation of my oldest daughter going off to college in a year. As a family of four, we’re transitioning from a 3BR+Den+Garage house to a 2BR+Den and no garage condo by the beach in Naples, FL. In preparation for the move, we’ve been “subtracting” a significant amount of stuff from our lives over the past few weeks–giving most of it away to Goodwill, or families whom we know can put it to good use.

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Episode 14: Cultivate a Growth Mindset

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Episode 14: Cultivate a Growth Mindset
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David and Janice discuss the work of Carol Dweck how you can cultivate a growth mindset for yourself and your team.

As you listen, reflect on where you and your team might be holding fixed mindsets and how you can shift into growth.

Episode 13: Create Your Winning Pitch

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Episode 13: Create Your Winning Pitch
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Silvia and David discuss the key factors needed to create and deliver a winning pitch. Silvia shares more about her WITA method.

They issue a challenge to help you create an authentic pitch that connects with the audience.

Episode 7: Divide and Prioritize Your Big Challenges

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Episode 7: Divide and Prioritize Your Big Challenges
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If you’re the kind of person who feels overwhelmed when you start a big project, the “divide and prioritize” technique will serve you well.

Silvia and Janice discuss the 7 Tips to Dividing Up Big Challenges into Smaller Parts. They ask three key questions: Which tip is easiest? Which is hardest? What can you do to overcome the hardest one?

7 Tips to Dividing up Big Challenges into Smaller Parts

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This technique will help you overcome feelings of overwhelm to plan what you want while circumventing unforeseen obstacles.

If you’re the kind of person who feels overwhelmed when you start a big project, the “divide and prioritize” technique will serve you well. Dividing up big challenges into smaller parts and prioritizing those parts will enable you to determine the most important tasks to complete. Each step you take will be reason for celebration and continuing to pursue your main objective. [Read more…]

Dealing with Difficult Emotions

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Next week, I meet with the Conscious Leadership Tribe to discuss Commitment #3 from the 15 Commitments of Conscious Leaders: “I commit to feeling my feelings all the way through to completion. They come, and I locate them in my body then move, breathe and vocalize them, so they release all the way.” It’s a topic that this group of leaders comes back to from time-to-time because we assert that conscious leaders are emotionally intelligent.

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Simple Ways to Create Space – Cut It or Change It

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Yesterday I was on a group video call with fellow volunteers from a leadership mentoring program. During our ‘check in’ the topic of the holidays emerged. It was interesting to witness the different reactions and perspectives. Many were excited and enjoying the magic of the season. Some commented that people can seem more rattled during this time of year.  Others were eager to opt out altogether.
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Leadership Starts From Within

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What images come to mind when you think of a leader? Do you imagine a visionary who has attached a large following? Or do you connect the idea of leadership to certain job titles?  Perhaps you only define yourself as a leader if you have people reporting to you. I think it is quite common to see leaders as those out in front or at the top of an organization.
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