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Debora McLaughlin Articles

Written by: Debora McLaughlin

The New Rules of Leadership and How to Win in the Information Age - Click To Read Article
The rules of leadership are changing as the new economy emerges. Do you know the traits needed to keep up with the changes?

The Connected Leader: The Key to Understanding Your Employees - Click To Read Article
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. How well are you connecting with the people who work for you?

Renegade Leadership: Being a Trailblazer - Click To Read Article
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.

Leadership and the Worm's Eye View - Click To Read Article
When a leader has a clear and empathic understanding of both the bird's eye and the worm's eye view, they earn the respect of their team members and inspire them in a way that transcends their formal title or position as a leader.

How to Raise Up New Leaders: the Power of Self-Duplication - Click To Read Article
Learn why duplicating yourself is an important leadership tool and how to put it into action.

How Much is Low Trust Costing Your Organization? - Click To Read Article
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.

Growing Under Pressure: Where Leaders Are Born - Click To Read Article
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.

Giving Recognition for Employee Achievement - Click To Read Article
As a leader, how can you create a specific strategy which will help you to recognize achievement on a consistent basis?

Encouraging Respect and Diversity in an Organization - Click To Read Article
Encouraging diversity in an organization is one of the most important strategies for building trust, inspiring employee loyalty and creating an all around better experience for everyone in the organization.

Serving Up Employee Engagement in the Restaurant Business - Click To Read Article
With the enormous buzz in the restaurant industry, what can managers do to promote growth and maximize profitability?

Are you Managing Your Time or Managing Your Life? - Click To Read Article
Sometimes all it takes to enable us to better manage our time and accomplish our to-do lists is just adding a little "juice" to the mix.

Do Not Be Afraid to Take the Lead - Click To Read Article
When we think of leaders we have archetypal images of what we perceive a leader to be, but there are subtle ways to lead that empowers both you, as leader, and those with whom you interact.

How to Influence Others to Reach Their Full Potential - Click To Read Article
A position does not make for a leader, having people that follow because they want to follow makes for an influential leader. Activate these six strategies to empower your people and you will find that you are a sought after leader, mentor and guide who not only positively impacts your organization but is influential in expanding the lives, confidence and abilities of the people you serve.

Be Empowered Before Empowering Others - Click To Read Article
We all need to fuel our own tank, to ask for what we need from those around us so that we can feel inspired and empowered and be willing to support others as well.

Influencing the Job Offer to Get the Title, Salary and Flexibility You Desire - Click To Read Article
Three strategies to maximize your job offer.

Put Accountability To Work In Your Organization - Click To Read Article
Accountability begins with engagement: a heightened emotional connection to your company that influences your employees to exert greater effort.

Different Influencing Styles - Click To Read Article
If you're a manager, is it important to develop different styles of behaviours and a wider range of approach? And how can this affect your performance as a manager now... and in the future? And does it matter?

Everything you Want is Waiting in your Warehouse - Click To Read Article
How often do you make this self-sabotaging mistake?

Experience a Sense of Accomplishment While Enjoying Your Career - Click To Read Article
Have you asked yourself why some businesspeople appear to attain their goal more progressively than others do? The road to success and accomplishments seem to come within their grasp so easily. While they are periodically bombarded with several problems and challenges, they never allow themselves to slacken their optimistic outlook.

Magic Happens When you put on a Different Pair of Glasses - Click To Read Article
How we experience life depends on our point of view, our attitude. And our attitude and view is colored by our lenses of past experience, judgment and so on. How differently might we experience our life if we changed our "glasses" more often?

Using Reciprocity to Motivate - Click To Read Article
Give what you'd like to get and use the law of reciprocity to successfully influence your personal and professional life.

Three steps to creating a Pay it Forward Environment - Click To Read Article
Imagine a world where we all empowered each other. Well all great ideas have to start somewhere with someone, and we can all do our part by not only empowering ourselves, but paying it forward and empowering others.

The Art of Influencing and Empowering Others - Click To Read Article
A leader who wants to influence and empower others should inspire them with a great enthusiasm. You may not have been gifted with this kind of personality but you can still move people through your honest conviction.

The Bookend Process of Engagement - Click To Read Article
Winning people over takes more than using our charm; it takes influence... our personal power of influence... which is why I like to use 'book ends'!

Reciprocity to Motivate - Click To Read Article
Give what you'd like to get and use the law of reciprocity to successfully influence your personal and professional life.

Reach your Destination with a New Set of Directions - Click To Read Article
We are all creatures of habit, but how can we expect different results if we keep doing things the same way? Sometimes we need to try a different direction and all it takes is a change of perspective.

Influencing the Interviewer to Hire YOU! - Click To Read Article
Learn 5 key strategies to make you the candidate of choice at your next job interview.

How to Be an Empowered Leader in a Challenging Business Environment - Click To Read Article
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. An outstanding business leader must not only be capable of being in charge of others, he should also learn how to be in charge of himself.

How to Be a Source of Inspiration - Click To Read Article
To be a source of inspiration for others we must reflect a confident and positive image, but how we view ourselves colours the image we project.

Don't Just Sit There - Work Hard! - Click To Read Article
All work and no play might make Jack a dull boy, but if he's trying to build a successful business he's doing what he has to do. If you think wealth and success will just land in your lap simply because you exist and have started a business, you are sadly mistaken. Wealth and success can be yours... but you have to earn it.

Do your words promote or demote? - Click To Read Article
What we say and how we say it can have a powerful effect on other people. If you are a leader, what you say has an even more powerful influence... do your words promote or demote others?

Changing the Way You Think Can Empower You - Click To Read Article
What is the real meaning and purpose of self empowerment and why do you need to have it?

A Basic Technique to Influence Others - Click To Read Article
Did you know that the word "because" has a profound effect in the way you influence others?





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