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Leaders: How Fit Is Your Brain?

By chipscholz | Published: March 26, 2013
We’ve known for some time that leaders require higher levels of emotional intelligence as they pursue career advancement. There’s now accumulating evidence that cognitive fitness is becoming a focal area for high-achieving leaders. Until recently, busy executives could find few guidelines for increasing mental fitness on the job. There are thousands of books about leadership [...]
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What Should Leaders Do When Trust Is Broken?

By chipscholz | Published: March 12, 2013
What should you do when trust is broken in your company? Given the rapid and uncertain business climate we’re in,  it’s no wonder leaders can say the wrong thing in haste, or even the right thing but in the wrong way at the wrong time. When that happens, trust is broken. It takes years to [...]
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Leadership Health: Tough Choices

By chipscholz | Published: February 18, 2013
Leaders deal with tough choices all the time. But when it comes to their own health, they are often self-defeating and self-deceiving! I don’t buy the excuse that some of us don’t have time for exercise. Or the excuse that we don’t really need to or can’t reduce our stress levels. Here’s why: It all [...]
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How to Craft a Good Leadership Story

By chipscholz | Published: January 22, 2013
The most effective way to influence people is through telling a good leadership story that creates emotional buy-in. Most executives and managers know this, but few find it easy to craft a business story that works. Daphne A. Jameson, a professor of management communication at Cornell University, has researched how language is used in business [...]
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What to Do When Reality Hits Hard

By chipscholz | Published: December 20, 2012
Reality sucks, especially on TV. If it’s not the traumatic news reports, it’s adversarial competitions that encourage rage. Contestants are regularly voted off the island, fired from apprentice jobs and judged to be lacking in any discernible talent. In “real life,” serious disappointments are likewise bitter pills to swallow. Many of us have endured significant [...]
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How an Executive Coach Helps:
4 Steps to Avoid Self-Sabotage Thinking

By chipscholz | Published: November 15, 2012
When faced with a challenge, you may be tempted to dwell on the barriers that stand in your way and use them as an excuse to defer action. But self-handicapping will prevent you from reaching your career goals. Working with an executive coach is one of the best ways to avoid self-sabotaging. In an October [...]
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Leadership Coaching: Set Clear Business Goals

By chipscholz | Published: June 19, 2012
Business and leadership coaching is well known for bringing bottom line success to both a business and a leader. But sometimes there’s confusion about what business goals should be set from the beginning. Part of the problem may occur during the leadership coaching contracting phase in defining business goals and outcomes for the coaching relationship. [...]
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The Expectation Gap: Set Yourself Up for Success

By chipscholz | Published: June 14, 2012
Recently I’ve come to realize how much disappointment is caused by our own faulty expectations. Without setting realistic expectations for ourselves and our people, we miss out on success. (Image: Freedigitalphotos.net) We’re wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize [...]
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True Grit Makes a Great Leader

By chipscholz | Published: June 7, 2012
Are you a boss with true grit? What does that mean? And how do you get it right? According to Wikipedia, Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait, based on an individual’s passion for a particular long-term goal or endstate coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort [...]
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5 Goal Setting Strategies for Success

By chipscholz | Published: June 5, 2012
I’m following up on the great strategies Heidi Grant Halvorson writes about in her book Nine Things Successful People Do Differently. Most people don’t take goal setting seriously and never get beyond just thinking about them, rather than writing, planning and implementing. (Image: FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Last week, I explained the first four strategies for effective goal [...]
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