How to improve your team’s motivation, responses, and confidence in one easy step
If you want to increase your team’s ingenuity, motivation, and energy, try this simple technique.
How To Spread Ideas So They Succeed
Do you have an innovative idea for or in your business? You’ll need these to succeed. You can call them fans, supporters, or evangelists. If you’re doing something new, if you’re trying something different, you must have them. When you’re an innovator, you’ve got to have people who will not only love what you’re doing…
Overheard young, sassy, snarky women and what they can teach us
What you can learn from young women in this week’s Friday Feature.
Be Their Secret Weapon
Be their secret weapon. If you’re older and you want to be an employee in a company, the key is to change the perceptions of potential employers who often still operate in the “hire them young” paradigm. An older employee will have more maturity, wisdom, and experience. They’ll be an asset to your team if…
How to turn your dreams into actionable projects
You probably have dreams you’d like to pursue. But what if you don’t for some reason? How would you like to be able to take those dreams and turn them into reality? With practical, doable action steps? This episode will help you start.
Lead Your Team Right How Can You Lead When You’re Not Sure Who Your Team Members Are? As a leader, you want to lead your team right. You want to serve your team. But how do you do it if you’re not sure who they are and what they need in order to succeed? Each…
Where do you look for your heroes?
Where Do You Find Your Heroes I’ve always found heroes in the quiet places. They’re people who go about their lives and silently help others. So, any time I need a hero, I look to one of my favorite teachers. I lucked out with the world’s great music and language teachers. They pushed me and…
Overheard this week
In this week’s Friday Feature, I relate life lessons from two short interactions. These two brought me some great knowledge. People drop wisdom in their everyday conversation that they don’t even realize. Today’s lessons come from two frenemies and a six-year-old. Listen to get the shameless eavesdropping scoop.
Work on What Matters – Simone Biles
Simone Biles – How You Make History and Then Move On She is incredible. And here’s what gets me about this history-making dismount? She does a double-double from the beam. She executes perfectly and her only acknowledgment that she’s just made history (again)? A tiny “yeah” with her hands. Watch from 1:22 until 1:29 and…
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The Terminator Wants to Save Them
The True Measure of Success I read an amazing quote today. “We need to do everything we can to preserve these beautiful animals – they are not trophies. If you think they are, you’ve obviously never won a real trophy.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger (The Terminator) on elephants. I didn’t see any elephants when I went…