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Start Here for Leadership Resources: Practical Tips and Solutions to Use Now

October 1, 2025
Confidence at Work, Decision Making, Empathy in Leadership, Team Alignment & 1:1s, Trust at Work

Welcome! My blog offers for practical leadership resources to help you build stronger, more productive, and more resilient teams. Leadership is not innate. It’s a set of skills that, practiced daily, promote cooperative, steady focus on what matters most. Anyone can learn these skills with dedication and practice, even if you don’t hire a coach. These skills help good leaders diagnose and tamp down distractions. Using tactics that support these skills, they build a positive team culture where everyone feels…

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Why Every Leader Needs a Signature Leadership Style (and Why Values Are Your North Star)

December 8, 2025
Trust at Work

When things get tough, great leaders lead from values and get results. Skills like managing deadlines, resolving conflict, running meetings, and inspiring teams all matter. But the leaders people remember — the ones who build trust, inspire commitment, and deliver results — anchor those skills in something deeper. They lead with a signature leadership style, shaped by a small set of values that guide their hardest decisions. In unpredictable times, values become a north star. They steady you, strengthen your…

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employee engagement vs employee satisfaction at work

Employee Engagement vs Employee Satisfaction: What’s the Difference and Why It Matters for Your Business

December 5, 2025
Motivation at Work

When comparing employee engagement vs employee satisfaction, which should you measure? If your company is still relying on employee satisfaction surveys, it may be time to shift toward measuring employee engagement — the metric most strongly linked to performance, retention, and profitability. For more than a century, researchers have tried to understand what helps employees thrive and what drives productivity. Today, most organizations focus on employee engagement, not satisfaction, because engagement is what truly predicts effort, innovation, and long-term value.…

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Effective Feedback: How Great Managers Help Their Teams Grow

December 3, 2025
Motivation at Work

If you want to give your team effective feedback that actually helps them grow, focus on making it future-forward, specific, and frequent. Most of us have negative experiences with feedback—criticism that felt harsh, vague, or demotivating. No wonder so many managers hesitate to offer it. But here’s the good news: research shows that when people receive meaningful employee feedback, they learn faster, perform better, and stay more engaged. So, the question becomes: How can we make giving feedback a positive,…

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How to Get Promoted: 5 Traps That Hold High Performers Back | Dec. 1

December 2, 2025
Motivation at Work

Thnking about how to get promoted can bring out the best in us — or the worst. Trying to figure out how to get promoted can bring out the best in us — ambition, motivation, the desire to grow. But it can also trigger habits that quietly work against us. Most people assume promotions come from working harder or talking more. In reality, leaders are promoted for how they make others feel: respected, included, aligned, and empowered. If you’re aiming…

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Empathy for my gratitude project

The Magic of Empathy and Gratitude | My Gratitude Project Day 30

November 30, 2025
Gratitude Project

This is the end of My Gratitude Project for 2025, but of course, there is no end to gratitude and empathy. These are enduring goals, skills—and universal human needs. So this year, consider empathy and gratitude as gifts you can bestow. In this giving season, they can be the most treasured of all. The result is often bonding, community, even love—another universal human need. And in the end, we can all be grateful for the magic of empathy and of…

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Preparing for Empathy: 5 Questions Before You Begin | My Gratitude Project Day 29

November 29, 2025
Gratitude Project

As you would with any other important conversation, take time to prepare for empathy. Preparing for empathy will help you improve your results. If you want to use empathy tactically to influence somone, take time to prepare. Empathy as a skill is not to be taken lightly. Here are 5 questions to prepare yourself before you try to empathize with someone else. 1. What are their motives? Consider what they are doing now and their reasons for doing this. Do…

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