In your career as a leader, you are dealing with peoples’ perceptions getting in the way of performance.  The challenge is that those perceptions are different for different people.  When people excel in their job, their perceptions are different from those whose perceptions are sabotaging their performance. When you try to deal with performance by dealing with behavior, you aren’t getting to the root of the problem!

For example – as a direct report to someone, my perception could be that my manager’s job is to be critical of what I am doing, to catch me doing something wrong, to criticize …

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“Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn’t have it in the beginning.”
Mahatma Gandhi

Make it up and make it juicy!

You’ve heard the story of that unknown little fish market where the employees laughingly declared they want to be “world famous” and so they started stamping it on the boxes of fish they shipped out!  You’ve heard the story because that little fish market became the “World …

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Life happens and the dreams you had as a teenager or young adult get back-burnered for the demands of “real life”- marriage, kids, job, and the hard work of making it!  Is it now time to dust off that old dream and see whether it still gets your juices flowing!

1. Put aside the question of how you are going to make it happen.  It is in looking at this questions that all of the voices in your head and around you say it can’t be done, it will never happen, Why bother?

2. Put yourself in the picture. What is it …

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In the world of work (as well as in other areas in your life) you create your future in what you think and say right now!  So, instead of saying what you DON’T want where you work, say what you DO want!

Instead of worrying about how long it is taking, talk about accelerating your relationship building activities, uncovering more project possibilities and getting the perfect spot on the perfect team!

Instead of dwelling on how hard finding the right fit is, declare that wherever you are is a great opportunity for exploring and relationship building!  And then experience what you say …

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