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Apr 29

Quoted in Forbes: 13 Low-Cost Ways To Hone The Leadership Skills Of Your Executive Team

By David Taylor-Klaus As Seen On

“Learn about Conversational Intelligence: Work together to master your Conversational Intelligence (C-IQ). It’s not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learning effective and powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership and mutual success. Have your executive team all read the book and work with each other on using, tweaking and mastering the content.

You know leadership is what puts the gas in your company’s engine, but what can you do to make sure your executive team keeps building their leadership skills?

Apr 28

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Quoted in Forbes: how can managers balance pushing a team for results while keeping them engaged?

By David Taylor-Klaus As Seen On

“Conduct Data-Driven Assessments: Balance comes from knowing what the team actually needs to focus on. That’s best identified through data-driven assessments rather than intuitive guesses or polling for consensus. The Team Diagnostic™ Assessment is a powerful tool measuring current team conditions so the manager can identify the critical levers to improve team performance so the team can sustain real, meaningful, lasting results. ”

Getting results shouldn’t mean diminished engagement. Setting deadlines for your employees is easy, but keeping them engaged along the way is the real difference between whether they’ll be burned out or hungry for more.

Mar 24

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Money for Lunch Radio with Bert Martinez

By David Taylor-Klaus As Seen On

Bert Martinez is an Marketing Consultant, Author, Entrepreneur. The goal of Money For Lunch is to share inspiring stories from the most brilliant business minds, world class athletes and influential celebrities on the planet; to help you discover tips and strategies to make your business and your life better than ever!

I am on at 30:30 and close out the show…

Dec 15

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Change for Success in the New Year

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Are you racing toward the end of the year, beating yourself up over all that you've done wrong or haven't completed? How's that working out for you? Slow down and take a breath. Focus on what is really important because the more frenetic you are, the harder it is to focus on any one task, let...

Oct 01

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Really?!

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“How different our lives are when
we really know what is deeply
important to us, and keeping that
in mind, we manage ourselves
each day to be and to do what
really matters most.”
– Stephen R. Covey

Sep 11

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YOU Are Your Problem!

By David Taylor-Klaus Blog

Saboteurs are those voices in our head that tell us lies (no, not those kind of voices!), stand in our way and stop our forward progress. We ALL have them. What do your saboteurs say? And what are they doing to slow you down?

Aug 20

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The “Inner-Critic-ectomy”

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In her comic strip “Rhymes With Orange,” Hilary B. Price wields her wit like a scalpel. No surprise she’s one of my favorites.

In 2005, she created a rather poignant strip: “The Surgery” and this one spoke to me …

Aug 03

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What Defines You?

By David Taylor-Klaus Blog

My father passed away a month ago. In his eulogy, I wrote: It's ironic that the man with a beautiful, limitless heart battled a failing heart for three decades. The magical part is that he never let the failing tissue define him. What defined him was his love and his playful, teen-age exuberance. I wonder...

Jul 13

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Build Your Company Culture Consciously

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As leaders, we develop a set of beliefs about how our businesses “should be” run. Sometimes those beliefs are developed consciously. All-too-often they are developed unconsciously.

Jun 29

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