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Executive Communication Skills and The #1 Word Leaders Should Avoid
As leaders, our words carry tremendous weight, and sometimes that weight works against us. When we say, “Don’t do this” or “Don’t do that,” we give those prohibited or undesirable actions even greater power simply by telling our teams not to consider them. By enhancing your executive communication skills, you can amplify your effectiveness many times.
DiSC High C Personality Profile Spotlight
Individuals with a High-C style bring the same exacting approach to mathematical calculations, cooking, wiring, and artwork. Characteristic of High-C individuals, these traits, in the right role and environment, are a tremendous asset to an organization. How can managers and leaders harness this conscientious behavior and point it in the right direction? When at their best, High-Cs are…
DiSC High S Personality Profile Spotlight, Michael Whatmore
By a wide margin, High-S is the most common DiSC personality style. Considering that some people —from Gandhi to Mother Theresa to Michael J. Fox to good ol’ Charlie Brown— xhibit strong High-S personalities, one recognizes a wide range of behaviors and tendencies in this group. When a leader takes the time to understand this personality style and puts its strengths to good use, they can achieve terrific results in less time. This is called leveraging your time.
How to Hire Employees; Michael Whatmore’s Guide to the Interview
Hiring is always a challenging process; what steps can you take during the interview to ensure that you get the best candidate for the job? I recommend a minimum of three interviews and, for an executive position, four or five. Here is my strategy for how to hire employees that will give you reliable new talent…
Why Do People Start Businesses? 3 Motivations That Drive People To Become Entrepreneurs
Small businesses, which are an essential part of the U.S. economy, have created more new jobs since the 1970s than their corporate counterparts. Each year, over 500,000 small businesses are created. Today, more and more professionals are taking on the role of entrepreneur. However more businesses fail than succeed in the first 5 years, so why do people start businesses?
DiSC High I Personality Profile Spotlight
DiSC High-I Personality Profile is one of the four dominant personality styles in the DiSC executive assessment, a personality tool I recommend for leaders to administer among their executive teams. While all people exhibit each of the four DiSC personality styles in varying degrees, the model helps managers understand the dominant traits among team members, and mobilize their motivations, decision-making strategies, and responses to stress. Ultimately, implementing DiSC executive assessments among employees enables a leader to tailor their management style to that of others and realize superior results through leveraging the strengths of others.
Strong Leaders Don’t Happen by Chance. Why Leadership Effectiveness Training Matters!
Every leader has a responsibility to expand the knowledge and effectiveness and maximize the performance of their team. Leadership effectiveness training can go a long way to boosting your teams outlook and performance.
I have found that there are two major areas of leadership influence that make or break the performance of every team. The first is “how you show up” and the second is whether you “lead with empathy”.
DiSC Personality Series: Spotlight On High-D
What do Michael Jordan, John McEnroe, Tiger Woods, and Charles Barkley have in common? They are all standout athletes who delivered victory after victory and broke record after record. They have something else in common: Each exhibits characteristics of a DiSC High-D personality profile.