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Win With What You Have

Win With What You Have

Whether you’re working on developing your leadership or developing your tennis game, you’re faced with the same two competing choices: work on your weakness or work with your strength. A couple of years ago, determined to improve my tennis game, I identified seven...

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Conscious Leadership: My Unexpected Purpose

Conscious Leadership: My Unexpected Purpose

Conscious leadership is not an academic pursuit for me. I’m wholly invested in it for personal reasons. I’ve written before about my 23-year-old son Austin, who is on the autism spectrum. Austin depends on others for all of his daily life activities and he always...

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Giving the Gift of Observational Feedback

Giving the Gift of Observational Feedback

Over the years I’ve worked with many tennis coaches and some still stand out. A skill my favorite tennis coaches share is an ability to provide incisive instruction with minimal words. For example, when I repeatedly try to drive the ball down the line but it sails out...

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Hey leader, what’s your fuel?

Hey leader, what’s your fuel?

Julianna Christie and I are currently attending Evolutionary Playground, a five-week virtual course created and led by Kathlyn (Katie) Hendricks, PhD, founder of the Hendricks Institute. On the first night of the course, Katie posed a question that I’ve been returning...

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Want Team Unity? Try a Weather Report

Want Team Unity? Try a Weather Report

How do you quickly establish team unity? As trainers of teams, Julianna and I engage with this question constantly. We know from research and common sense that groups perform better when a sense of team is in place. A method we sometimes use to foster a team feeling...

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3 Benefits of Leadership Training

3 Benefits of Leadership Training

I’ve read that Warren Buffet writes his annual letter with his sisters in mind. I can relate. When I write about conscious leadership, my imagined audience is my mother and three brothers. If they think an idea doesn’t make good sense, lacks an ethical basis, or...

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3 Steps to Set Yourself Apart as a Leader

3 Steps to Set Yourself Apart as a Leader

Early on, most of my leadership training came on the job through trial and error, with emphasis on the error part. Knowing I needed to do things differently, I spent years studying with prominent psychologists in the field of human behavior, became a board certified...

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