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Category Archives: AccountabilitySome people have a strong distaste for consensus. They say it takes too much time. They describe the painful details of the myriad ways in which group members polarize on issues and then threaten to use their veto power when … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Leadership, Teamwork, Testimonials, work training
Tagged achieving consensus, decision making skills
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Can you believe it — the holidays are here, again. The change of a calendar year can be a wonderful time to acknowledge the investment required to maintain growth and development, including the quality of your relationships at work. One … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Collaboration, Leadership, Management Training, Teamwork, work training
Tagged direction, energy, holidays, team building
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One of my clients for the Managed Leadership Gift Adoption program is generating fun and creative ways to promote the Leadership Gift throughout its organization — and across functional and department lines into other units to spread the word. Here’s a poster … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Leadershift Gift, Responsibility
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Nov. 9 Update -the poll is over, the link is gone. View some of the entries below. See the winner. We’re hosting a contest at 99designs for the badge that will be used by accredited members of the Leadership Gift … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Leadershift Gift, Recommended Resources
Tagged 99designs.com, contest, graphic design
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How often does one of your colleagues let you down? Such situations happen way too often, but you can turn them around. The key is your response (not the other person’s actions). I recently enjoyed the opportunity to decide how … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Collaboration, communication skills
Tagged holding co-worker accountable
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As you saw in the Responsibility Man – Part 1 video, my son Thom is having fun mastering his Leadership Gift by lovingly mocking his dad. Here is the super-hero costume he’s outfitted for me. What do you think? I’m not … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Agile, Leadershift Gift, Responsibility
Tagged Responsibility Man
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The other day I received an interesting e-mail from a mom and IT professional who was inquiring about my ideas for teaching personal responsibility to kids. We felt our exchange could be worth sharing with you: Hi Christopher, I found … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Personal Development, Responsibility
Tagged teaching kids responsibility
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In the first part of this series, 3 Keys to Extraordinary Collaboration – Part 1, we examined three keys to collaboration: Exchange + Expansion + Integrity. Remember, we can’t successfully collaborate until we’re “in exchange.” To be in exchange, each … Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Collaboration, communication skills
Tagged exchange, expansion, integrity, partnering
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Can a 14-year-old give a greater gift than to affectionately mock Dad’s work? I’m proudly thinking “No.” Thom cooked up this video idea in June, while accompanying me to a Houston event. He enjoys developing characters and thinks he may want to … Continue reading I want to dispel the myth that responsibility is an inherent personality characteristic. Responsibility is learnable — my client’s results prove it over and over again. With the advances of the last twenty-five years responsibility is a directly observable, learnable, … Continue reading |