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Millennials: How to Interview Anyone With Confidence

I challenged myuniversity-aged son to create a plantovisit 10 business leaders andlearn from them. He accepted! This project turned into leadership lessons, including how to interview anyone with confidence.

The idea was forBenjamin (19 years-old) tomake appointments with business leaders and interview them at their offices.Hehad a number of purposes for doing theseinformational interviews:

Increase hisconfidence in the interviewing process. Gain an ability to build rapport with a variety o...

How To Stop Doing And Start Managing Others

I like working. I like making lists, doing the tasks, and checking them off. As my organization grew, I needed to change from doing things myself to managing others to do things. This wasa much harder transition than I expected. Here’s what I learned.

I know that the only way to multiply my results isto manage other to do the work. But, strangely, I hada difficult time not doing the work myself. It isn’t that I’m a perfectionist or control freak. I just like working!

I discovered a number of...

How To Strengthen Relationships After Messing Up

We all mess up from time to time – we say the wrong thing, fail to fulfill a commitment, or make the occasional bad decision. We worry about messing up, but no one expects you to be perfect. It’s how you respond to your failures that builds or breaks trust with those around you. Here’s how to strengthen relationshipsafter messing up.

Compare the responses of thesetwo leaders who messed up:

Vivian had the responsibility to find the location and negotiate the price of the venue where we would h...

So You Want To Be An Undercover Coach

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How To Slow Down To Go Far

I like to gofast. I like a fast-paced schedule with a lot of action and results.Fast has its place, but sometimes you have to slow down to see what you can’t see going fast. I’ve found productivity has more to do with going slow than going fast. Here’s how to slow down to go far.

FastIgnores Tough Questions

For a few years, I was traveling 110 nights a year for work and another 20-30 nights with my family. And I was running my business, managing people, and writing articles, courses, and book...

How To Increase Your Leader UX

What’s your Leader UX? User experience (UX) is now top priority in product ande-commercedesign. Leaders need to prioritizetheir own Leader UX too. Here’s how.

As technology increases and products become more complex, that same complexity willscare away customers unless they can easily figure out how to use it.

User experience is, the process of enhancing user satisfaction by improving the usability, accessibility, and pleasure provided in the interaction between the user and the product, acco...

2x Growth Requires Different, Not Just More Of The Same

If you want to grow your results by 10% or 20%, you can just work harder, be more disciplined and efficient. If you want to double your results, you can’t do more of the same, you have to be different. Here’s how.

In 2015, myorganization had itsbest year ever. We trained more people and made a deeper impact in their lives. Finances were strong. Work-life balance of our team was healthy. Wonderful!

I wanted us to make a even great impact. So, at the beginning of 2016 I set a goal to increase...

3 Reasons Men Like Coaching to Counseling

Society says men should be strong, independent, and unemotional. When it comes to getting help, men are far less likely than women to turn toa counselor. Yet, guys are willing to engage with a coach. Here’s my take on why.

Just 25% of counselors and only 30% of counseling clients are men.That doesn’t mean that women need it more, only that they are more open to counselingthan men are. Keep these number in mind and look at how men relate to coaching.

With coaching the percentage of men involve...

What Are The Best Ways To Practice Coaching?

So you want to become an amazingly effective coach. There’s only one way to get there –practice! The trick is in practicing the right things. I’ll show you the best ways to practice coaching.

Coaching is a skill. Actually, it’s a set of skills all used at the same time. Learning to coach effectively is like learning any skill, you’ve got to practice.

The hard part is you’ve got to practice the right things. If you practice mistakes, those mistakes will become habits. Bad habits. Difficult to...

The #1 Barrier To Nonprofit Effectiveness

The other day I heard Jason Fried, the CEO of project software Basecamp, talk about productivity. He said,“Your company needs to be your best product, because it is the product that makes everything else.” As a result, he isspendingthe majority of his time working on his organization, not it’s products. This challenges me!

The organization, to me, is a tool to create, launch, and manage our products and services (our training and resources). I want to spend as little time and energy as possib...