Beware of This Zone & Reach Your Potential

In 2019, I (Cindy) hurt my back, which put me out of commission for around 2 weeks and months of pain afterward. Along with strengthening exercises, the best thing I could do involved (and still does) daily stretching. I’m not talking about those ā€˜just woke up from a nap’ stretch either.Ā  The stretc...

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The Power of Reflecting on Your Defining Moments

I believe we all know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result.

Our actions can be the very definition of insanity if we’re not taking the time to reflect on the choices we make in our defining moments of leadership.Ā Ā 

Considering man...

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Defining Moments Can Be Chart Breakers

Chart Breakers are those defining moment choices that open doors for you to achieve much higher levels of success.

Chart breaking choices I (Cindy) have watched family, friends, and clients make recently include leaving a toxic culture to gain opportunity in a whole new industry. For one family me...

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Heart Breaking Defining Moments

Unfortunately, we face heartbreaking moments in our lifetime.Ā  It’s a high likelihood you already have, and I (Cindy) don’t know anyone who has made it through life with just one heartbreak.Ā  These are devastating losses and what we do with them defines our future.

A while back, we met a fantastic...

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Ground Breaking Defining Moments

Leaders become better leaders when they experience a defining moment and respond to it correctly. Ā John Maxwell

How often do you think about the defining moments in your life and whether your choices took you in a positive direction?Ā  The more we learn from these moments the better prepared we’ll b...

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Seeing It From Their Perspective…

Some of the benefits of promoting from within are how we show the individual being promoted that we value their contribution, that we’re willing to invest in their career development, and that we see them as part of our business succession plan. But don’t think for a minute that internal promotions ...

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No Good Deed…

Near the end of a recent lesson in our Leading At The Next Level program, I shared something I had found in a Bloomberg.com article that ties right in with what the point we closed with last time; career advancement is not a one-size-fits-all proposition!

Certain jobs attract people with predicta...

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The Pursuit of Happiness…

There’s one important thing we’ll have to do if we want to have any hope of creating a succession plan where the right people are in the right seats on our bus… We’ve got to know our team; I mean really know them! We need to understand how we can communicate with them most effectively, we need to kn...

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The Seats on the Bus Go…

Did you read the subject line and sing the next phrase in your head? I kinda still am… But unlike the wheels on the bus that go round and round, the seats on our organization’s bus absolutely should not! And if we want to get really serious about the business succession planning we looked at last ti...

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Challenging the Status-Quo

Sharing best practices with other business owners and executives, then bouncing around ideas on how to solve current issues, can provide resources few in these roles ever have access to. When this happens within a group that’s been built strategically to ensure there’s no conflict of interest, or ev...

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Overcoming the Timing Gap

A new coaching client asked me (Cindy) recently what my favorite book on leadership was.Ā  Without hesitation I shared the single most impactful book for me other than the Bible is, 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth.Ā  As leaders, we must lead ourselves well before we have any hope of leading others well.Ā ...

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Bridging the Growth Gap

Recently, we provided our Emerging Leader Development training to a group of 15 or so managers and supervisors.Ā  One of my (Cindy) favorite parts we’ll land on next week with this group is on the topic of having a growth plan.Ā  With this, we explain some of the gaps each of us face as we step out to...

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