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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Using Reciprocity to Motivate

One point of influence is the law of reciprocity. This has been proven to be very effective time and time again. Even a movie was made about it. Each time you give something of value, expect other people to give you something in return. This has been proven to be true in a lot of cases. Sometimes, when we give something to others, they unknowingly give back or even feel obliged to reciprocate in one way or another. And it also feels so good. More business is won if comes from a place of servitude.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

Renegade Leadership: Being a Trailblazer

Do you ever get the feeling that perhaps you weren’t made for the rules of the “real world?” You have your own ideas about how things need to be done, and you know that people would just listen to you that you could set the world afire. You sometimes get accused of being rebellious or not being a team player or of being “idealistic.” If any of these sound familiar to you, then you'll be comforted to know that there's nothing wrong with you. You’re just a natural born leader,

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

How to Be a Source of Inspiration

The way we look at ourselves has so much to do with how we influence others. In fact, the way we see ourselves is our choice. If we see ourselves in a negative way, then it just follows that we become introverted and therefore ineffective in empowering others. In order to influence others, we have to set a good example and this requires perceiving ourselves in a positive way. If you think that you are incompetent in just about anything, then you certainly will not be effective in everything you do.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

A Basic Technique to Influence Others

It goes without saying that people who are in power are influential. An influential person usually doesn't have a hard time getting other people to do something or listen to his personal views. Basically, an influential person can make things happen with just a snap of the finger. When you are influencing someone, you are changing his behavior in a way. But before you can become a source of influence, you must first have an understanding of the human behavior. Did you know that the word "because" has a profound effect in the way you influence others?

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

How to Be an Empowered Leader in a Challenging Business Environment

Our world is a fearful place to live in nowadays. With the economic uncertainties besetting most companies, an empowered leader is needed who can boldly face the challenges in an unpredictable and sometimes scary business environment. Today's leader must be ruthless in as humane a manner as possible.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

Giving Recognition for Employee Achievement

As a leader in your organization, you’re probably aware of how important recognizing achievement is when it comes to employee motivation and encouraging creative cooperation. So how can you create a specific strategy which will help you to recognize achievement on a consistent basis? How do you cultivate the skill of recognizing achievement in a language which each of your employees can relate with? This article will give you a simple approach for recognizing achievement and

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Put Accountability To Work In Your Organization

Is accountability elusive in your organization? If you're like most leaders, you regularly deal with work force issues that get in the way of your organization's success. Here you have all this talent at your fingertips, yet goals are not being met and your business isn't nearly as successful as you know it could be. It's frustrating! Accountability begins with engagement: a heightened emotional connection to your company that influences your employees to exert greater effort. According to a recent Gallup study, only 29 percent of employees are engaged in their jobs.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

Merging Organizations: Optimizing your Success

Mergers are becoming increasingly popular today for various reasons, including the desire for to share costs and gain a competitive market share. Often there is a great deal of resources spent in planning and implementing the merger itself. Combining processes, technologies, protocols and creating positive public and client communications about the merger tend to be the priority. What can truly optimize the success of the merger is to also utilize this time to design and buil

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Different Influencing Styles

Your behavior as a manager as well as your approach to life in general will greatly affect your success or ultimate failure. That is why it is important to have various styles of behaviors and a wide range of approach. This gives you flexibility and increases your choices in your everyday dealings with other people. It will also help you in the long run in achieving success. For most managers, they usually prefer to use the natural style of influence.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

How Much is Low Trust Costing Your Organization?

Have you ever stopped to consider the economic value of trust when it comes to building your team or organization? If not, you probably have blind spots within your organization and pockets of hidden potential that are costing you a lot of time and money. How much time and money? Well, that’ the tricky thing about the cost of low trust verses the value of high trust…it’s not something you can print on your earnings report or your expense accounts. It’s not immediately quantif

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Influencing the Interviewer to Hire YOU!

Want to learn the 5 key strategies to make you the candidate of choice? Too many professionals are not hired because they either don't articulate their top contributions concisely or in a manner that aligns with the current offering and interviewer or they don't have a large enough vision of themselves and their brilliance to effectively shine. This article will provide you with a 5 step methodology to develop your positioning statement, ways to find the job you most desire and how to master the interview. One, Create your Positioning Statement.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

The Connected Leader: The Key to Understanding Your Employees

How well are you connecting with the people who work for you? Leaders who have strong connections with the people who work with them have a much better chance of motivating them and building a strong organization. The problem is that a formal position of leadership can often create a wall or a “glass ceiling” between you and your team members and make it difficult for you to stay connected and relate with them in a way that will earn their trust and inspire their loyalty. If

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

Growing Under Pressure: Where Leaders Are Bo

Leaders are like precious stones, they are both created by means of the same process: pressure. It’s been said that pressure reveals character. You can tell more about someone by the way that they respond to pressure than almost anything else. Some people focus and maintain their integrity while under pressure…others collapse. This is what makes the difference between leaders and followers. However, pressure does a bit more than just reveal a person’s true character, it also

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

Leadership and the Worm’s Eye View

Being in leadership gives you a unique viewpoint, a “bird’s eye view” of what’s happening in your organization and with your team. It’s this view point that gives you the objectivity and the wisdom to lead your team to places beyond their current position, and that’s a good thing. However, being in this position almost always causes you to lose another valuable perspective: the worm’s eye view. The worm’s eye view is being able to see things from the perspective of those who

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Influencing the Job Offer to Get the Title, Salary and Flexibility You Desire

You're excited you found the job that you want and they are offering it to you. You are ready to shout "yes" from the hills. Don't. I am going to tell you what I tell each of my career clients, wait, delay, pull off the road and call me, immediately. At the time of the offer may be the only time that you have to optimize to sweeten the pot, to not only get the job but to also get the salary, the job title and the flexibility you need to enjoy the lifestyle you desire. Do you know that most job seekers leave money on the table?

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

Serving Up Employee Engagement in the Restaurant Business

There’s an enormous buzz in the restaurant industry these days about the future of managing. What can managers do to promote growth and maximize profitability? How can managers motivate employees to give the highest quality in food preparation and customer service? What qualities do restaurant managers need in order to get promoted and remain relevant? The question becomes even more pertinent when placed in the context of a market where consumer spending remains down and the

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Are you Managing Your Time or Managing Your Life?

I bet you started your morning looking at your daytimer, blackberry, outlook calendar, covey planner or whichever of the many tools and resources we have for managing our time. Did you look at your actions, your "to do" list for today? Actions are tactics, processes to achieve our goals. I have to be honest in saying I've never been one to totally master the use of my time like a fine tuned resource. It is something I work on each and every day.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

The New Rules of Leadership and How to Win in the Information Age

Have you noticed that the rules of leadership are changing as the new economy emerges? Of course, the principles of being a great leader will never change. You still need the character traits of trustworthiness, integrity, the ability to influence others and a strong sense of personal responsibility to succeed as a leader. However, the rules of leadership are changing in such a way that these character traits are going to pave more than just the path to excellence….they’re go

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinDec 7, 20101 topic

How to Raise Up New Leaders: the Power of Self-Duplication

It’s been said that the ability to spot talent is one of the greatest talents a person can have. This is especially true when it comes to being a leader. Your ability to lead a team or organization is always going to be limited to how available you are to each of your team members. So if you hope to expand your influence beyond these limits, you must duplicate yourself by raising up other leaders to help you lead the members of your team or organization. Let’s look at some gu

Primary topic: Leadership

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Do Not Be Afraid to Take the Lead

You can empower yourself if you have the knowledge of who you really are and what your real purpose in life is. But it is also important that we touch the lives of other people in order for our lives to be more meaningful. You should get more out of your life. One way of accomplishing this is extending yourself to others who need help. This way, you are empowering others with your life. But it is also important that you analyze first your self if you are really a source of empowerment to others. Are you noticing the words that you speak to other people?

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

The Bookend Process of Engagement

The Personal Power of Influence means to be influential in identifying our goals and achieving them, being able to influence others to support us in our goals, and to become a force of influence in the world in which we live. Where we most get hung up is in being able to influence others.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Reach your Destination with a New Set of Directions

We all have destinations in mind, getting to work, driving home, going to your usual clients. A destination can even mean reaching someone at a different level, tuning in, being able to influence someone to be more responsive. When was the last time you approached your destination from a different direction? Even a geography change can mix things up a bit. Recently on vacatio I decided to sit on the other side of the boat for our sunset cruise around the lake.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Be Empowered Before Empowering Others

Are you finding your personal fuel tank is always running on empty because you are trying to do it all yourself? In your quest for success, there are things that you will not be able to accomplish by yourself alone or really should simply give to others. It is important that you seek the help of others. If you enlist the help of others, this will help you give back more because you have more time to do other things – things that you do best.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Changing the Way You Think Can Empower You

In order to be influential in meeting your goals, you also need to be empowered to do so. How do we attain empowerment? A lot of people think of empowerment as a desirable state to achieve. But how do we really empower ourselves? The first thing we have to do is find out the real meaning of empowerment. Empowerment can be defined as being able to have control over your life. However, it doesn't necessarily mean having power over the life of other people. To be empowered basically means having control or power over all the aspects of your own life.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Do your words promote or demote?

Are you empowering others each time you speak? Have you noticed that whenever you talk to someone, the energy seems to fade away and the other person seems uninterested? Then after the interaction there is a feeling of sadness and your enthusiasm is simply gone. If these things happen, then it is time to analyze yourself and work on your empowering skills. On the other hand, there are those people that whenever you talk to them, you feel energized and inspired. You suddenly seem to be excited to do something after having a conversation with them.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinRecently published1 topic

Three steps to creating a Pay it Forward Environment

It is true that when you empower other people, you are not only influencing them, but you also empower the people they influence. So when you empower another person, you are actually giving him the power to accomplish something. Thus, you are basically giving others the ability to empower, too. But how will you be able to empower another person? The truth is empowerment is the product of responsibility and authority. When you empower someone, you must also give him the authority to make decisions in order for him to accomplish his responsibilities.

Primary topic: Business Coach and Business Coaching

Business Coach and Business Coaching

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By Debora McLaughlinJan 11, 20121 topic

What if a Renegade Leader Ran the Country?

Leaders today face unprecedented challenges. Economic downtu s, change in workforce demands, an ever increasing competitive market combined with the need to do more with less makes for trying times for the best of leaders. Those leaders that stand out, take a stand, and make a difference are what I define as renegade leaders. A renegade leader is a leader who drives results, instills trust in their organizations, allows innovative thinking and creates a bond with their peopl

Primary topic: Leadership

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