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- Jun 25, 2020
How to Handle Stress During Meetings & Improve Your Performance
How do you handle your stress right in the middle of a meeting? You know those times when: A co-worker snaps at you harshly in front of...
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- Feb 6, 2020
Authentic vs. a Façade in Leadership
Leadership is all about relationships. Most leaders focus on learning tools, tactics, and strategies in how to lead, speak to, and manage...
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- Nov 14, 2019
Fastest Way to Develop Your Leadership
Exponentially Increase Your ROI on Development Today’s corporate and non-profit leaders must set strategy, sustain their performance,...
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- Oct 29, 2019
Why You Should Be Emotional at Work
Business carries a tacit, maybe even explicit, rule that emotions and emotional expression are not okay. People who “get emotional” are...
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- Aug 7, 2019
When This Happens, Your IQ Drops 10 to 15 Points
You React We’ve all done it. You know, those times in the heat of the moment when you react badly? Maybe you make a snide comment, or...
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- Jul 22, 2019
The Sport Of Communication
I, Susan, am a golfer. In Montana, that means I get to golf from April (if the snow is gone) to late September. However, I was so busy...
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- Jul 9, 2019
Lessons I Learned From Rowing
Many people are somewhat surprised to learn that I, CrisMarie, competed at the Olympics. I’m not an especially “outdoorsy” person and I...
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- Jun 12, 2019
What Married Couples Can Teach You About Leading A Team At Work
In our first book, The Beauty of Conflict: Harnessing the Competitive Advantage of Your Team, we dive deep into workplace conflict. We...
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- May 1, 2019
Tense, Stressed & Unproductive? 3 Ways To Turn Your Team Around.
A new client emailed us to describe a common, relatable situation. “I manage a team of smart, wonderful people,” she explained, quickly...
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- Apr 17, 2019
Strategy: Do You Spend Enough Time on It?
For your team or business, do you ever say: “I feel like our team is always dealing with tactical issues or fire-fighting.” “Our weekly...
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- Mar 20, 2019
The Importance of Listening
We believe listening is a very unrated asset and is critical to dealing with differences, getting beyond our own bias and getting...
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- Mar 6, 2019
Respect: Don’t Let It Be the Wet Blanket on Your Team
Often when we introduce our belief that conflict is a critical ingredient to team success and innovation, the first comment we get is,...
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- Feb 20, 2019
Trust is Built Under Fire
Teamwork isn’t rocket science and that is what makes it so challenging! Teamwork is not based on your smarts, but your ability to...
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- Feb 6, 2019
3 Reasons Your Team Doesn’t Speak Up
Often when we are starting with a team, one of the concerns is that people just aren’t speaking up and having the rich debate and...
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- Jan 23, 2019
Burnout: Why You May Have It Being Professional Is Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be
After I got my MBA in 1996 and started working as a business consultant for Arthur Andersen, I adopted the prevailing wisdom that I...
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- Jan 9, 2019
5 Reasons Why You Should Develop Your Leaders?
We have been developing and delivering leadership development programs for the last fifteen years. More recently, we’ve worked several...
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- Dec 19, 2018
Stop the Politicking and Posturing Instead, Trust Your Intuition
If you’ve been following my posts, Susan, you know I have been incredibly engaged in my Equus Coaching work. People often ask me - why...
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- Dec 6, 2018
Don’t Solve a Competence Issue with Confidence or Vice Versa
Recently, I was In Scottsdale, AZ, for eight days of Master Facilitator Equus Training with the Koelle Equus Institute. Many of you...
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- Oct 31, 2018
Struggling with a Change?
Have you ever been through a leadership change and found yourself thinking: I can’t work here. This new guy is taking us in the wrong...