Kamy Anderson

Employee satisfaction is a complex arena for most business managers. Finding innovative ways to maximize employee growth and performance can be challenging. While sticking to the traditional strategy of offering financial bonuses might have worked wonders in the past, these incentives are no longer sufficient to generate employee satisfaction. Interestingly,

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Greg Martin

On December 12, ten middle school leadership students and I assisted in a community service event to help those in need over the holidays. The community event was Operation Holiday, which Inter-Faith Ministries, a non-profit organization, sponsors. According to the organization’s web page, “Operation Holiday serves seniors, individuals, and families

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Yousuf Raza

What makes an experienced and frequent traveler someone who can take charge in a conversation and be a great leader? Let’s take a look at a few reasons how frequent traveler’s experiences help them with communication and leadership: 1. Being Adaptive and Having Few Complaints To travel is to adapt

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Florida Starks

Recently, I had an opportunity to observe several scouts prepare for a weekend trip. As the boys gathered camping supplies, water, and cooking tools necessary for the long haul and an exciting weekend, they demonstrated a variety of leadership skills. What was most interesting about observed interactions between the scouts

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Drew Dudley

Fear of public speaking, for better or for worse, is what hinders most leaders …meaning they don’t like it, but they are evaluated by how well they perform when they’re in front of a crowd. It’s why far too many brilliant and valuable leaders shy away from the title –

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James Dorian

What skills does a leader need? If you observe toxic leaders and think of the opposite qualities, you’re on the right track. If a toxic leader is someone who’s not a good mentor, then a great leader needs to be a good mentor. If the toxic leader is a bad

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Dr. Mary Kay

Most companies are run by CEOs who can best be described as the alpha male or alpha female of the organization – they are smart, demanding, not averse to risk-taking, and have little patience for talking about people and their feelings. They’re tough, and that’s how they’ve gotten themselves—and their

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Tim Cummuta

Making a change in culture is something that can take, with or without planning.  If allowed, culture will form on its own, which can be detrimental to the health of the organization. Or culture can be planned and implemented so as to enhance the organization’s goals and strategies toward success.

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Robbie Price

Accountable team leaders are a great example to their teams. Just a quick glance at any of the recent business headlines will make one think that accountability is quickly becoming a rarity within many organizations.  This should be cause for some concern.  Why does holding people accountable seem like such

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Amanda Bouch

Do you want to be the one whose presentation stands out and gets the interest of your client? Do you work hard at your PowerPoint deck but find the presentation falls flat? Or perhaps you send PowerPoint decks out to be read by your client but get no response, and

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