Sara November 23, 2011 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management

Are you confident enough in your team to make this statement? “Ignore me as needed to do your job”!

Have the guts and the confidence in your team, knowing they aren’t always going to do “it” exactly the way you would, and remove the barriers that block the ...

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Sara November 22, 2011 Human Resource Management, Leadership, Management

Is it possible that your smartest people may be impeding the smarts of your organization?

Are you waiting too long to remove the blockers? I can’t even begin to tell you how personal this statement is for me. As a young agency owner I inherited the staff my ...

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Sara November 17, 2011 Leadership, Management, Professional Development

“Nothing grows under the banyan tree.”

It provides shade and is comfortable, but it allows no sun in for growth. Many leaders are banyan trees, they protect their people, but nothing grows under them. As I ponder this ...

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Sara November 16, 2011 Leadership, Management, Professional Development

Talent Magnets are people who attract the best talent, utilize it to its fullest, and ready it for the next stage.

Not only do they deliver results, but create a place for young people to grow, and accelerate other’s careers. “Multipliers” by Liz Wizeman …are you ...

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Sara October 25, 2011 Leadership, Management, Organizational, Professional Development

Empowering is about instilling and encouraging power in those around you.

Empowerment defined – scary stuff, especially for a reformed control freak like me!  Most agencies I work with, including my own, were at some point in time was a ...

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Sara October 19, 2011 Leadership, Management, Organizational, Professional Development, Synerdynamics

Alexander the Great led the battle by charging in front of his troops, not leading from behind.

  Sounds like suicide, but in fact “you can’t lead where you don’t go”, as my Mom says.  Never true words were spoken related to what real leadership has ...

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Sara October 18, 2011 Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development

The biggest failing of an average organization is usually its inability to execute.

  Ready, aim….ready….ready, aim….aim….aim…aim.  Talk about frustrating for everyone involved!  The organization who sees the target, loads the gun but never pulls ...

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Sara October 11, 2011 Leadership, Management, Operations, Organizational, Professional Development, Sales & Sales Management, Synerdynamics

Real, organic change in an organization starts with individuals who change themselves.

Talk about a four-lettered word in many of the organizations I work with –  that’s “Change”.  OK, I haven’t totally lost it, I know ...

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Sara October 6, 2011 Leadership, Management, Professional Development, Synerdynamics

Knowledge is power. How powerful are you?

  When I found out I was going to have twins I threw myself into a massive research mode to learn everything I could about carrying and having twins.  Talk about crazy ...

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Sara October 5, 2011 Leadership, Management, Professional Development, Synerdynamics

Your thinking will dictate your actions which inevitably dictate your results.

  Being resilient has to be one of the most common success mindsets among all the skyrocketing young entrepreneurs I’ve studied over the course of the years.  A lesson ...

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