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One Easy Way to Learn From Failure
There is no failure. Only Feedback – Robert Allen When was the last time you asked for feedback? When was the last time you asked for feedback when you failed at something? Clichés aside, you learn from your failures but you learn the most when you ask for feedback....
7 Ways to Become a Better Listener – Lessons from StartUp podcast #12
As a leader you are often pulled in many directions at once, the thoughts in your head are countless, your focus wavering from one thing to the next. These waiting responsibilities and stressors cause many leaders to be poor listeners. In episode #12 of the wildly...
Leaders Know Their Line and When to Quit
What Are You Not Willing To Do To Achieve Your Goals? You may have thought about new goals lately but have you thought about what you are not willing to do to achieve those goals? What’s your provable line in the sand that you will not cross? January is often a time...
Leaders Need to Pick Their Battles
According to many of today’s leaders, there really isn’t much difference between leading adults in a professional environment and kindergarten children. From oil company executives to hospital administrators, just about everyone I have spoke with agrees on this...
If You Have Balance, You Are Not Moving Forward
Leading on the Edge – Getting Paid to Learn In my latest keynote presentation, ‘Leading on the Edge’, I decided to take on the concept of balance. In today’s work culture, teams’ Work-Life Balance is especially a major concern. However, balance is not all that it is...
Leveraging a Crisis to Strengthen Your Team
Over the next week I will be making some major changes to the website so don’t be alarmed if it is a little disjointed when you visit. Happy Holidays! Shawn Overcoming Insurmountable Odds When you look back in time at the biggest events you experienced on a team, I am...
Mentoring Up, Take a Difference Perspective to Learning
As a leader, have you ever thought of setting up a ‘Mentoring Up’ relationship for yourself or your organization? The term ‘Mentoring Up’ refers to a reversal of the traditional mentoring relationship when senior managers take junior employees under their wing to...
Why Teams Truly Succeed or Fail One Relationship at a Time
Have you ever had a conversation with a team leader and came away thinking “I can’t believe she said that to me?” During a performance review I was once told that I should ‘act more like Sara’. I almost choked on my saliva at this statement and hardly remember the...
3 Keys to Effectively Receiving Feedback
One of the ways we learn things in life is when we receive feedback from others. This is why you need to maximize the level of feedback you get so you can absorb more knowledge. However, it is important that when someone is telling you something, you must not be rude...
Why You Need to Stop Waiting and Start Living Today
True, it is important to have dreams, goals and aspirations but it is just as important not to wait for the ideal scenario to come around. Too many of us live our lives waiting for the perfect moment to be happy, satisfied, and content. The problem is we have misled...
