If you’re in business, you have something to offer. You offer an idea, a product, or a service. When that idea, product, or service is rejected, it can stop business leaders in their tracks.
Being stopped may take on the form of:
Overthinking what went wrong
Getting upset or making yourself and/or your team wrong
Stopping communication or action
Let’s face it, nobody likes rejection. However, there is a biological reaction that occurs when you hear the word no.
If your
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Leadership: How to Be Infinitely More Effective in Your Communication
Several years ago, I had just finished my Next Level Networking Keynote at a business conference when a woman approached me. She shook my hand and said four words that left me speechless. For a professional speaker, that’s not an easy thing to do.
“You saved my marriage,” She said. After I registered the magnitude of her words, I mustered up a fumbled response. “What did I say?”
During an experiential exercise, she resonated with being wired as an external thinker. She verbalizes to
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A Highly Effective Way to Enhance Workplace Productivity
If you want to scale your business, you can't ignore the need to enhance employee productivity. Enhancing your team's productivity involves more than adding work disguised as skill development.
And, while it's important to be clear and align your company's foundational aspects of productivity, like the vision, mission, and goals, it's equally important to understand what's underneath productivity. The most effective driver of productivity is often misunderstood.
Old school methods of
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A Fast, Effective Productivity Hack to Finally Get Your Book or Blog Written
Being more productive is something everyone wants to achieve. It can be difficult to sustain your productivity especially if you attempt to use an approach that is not in alignment with how you naturally execute.
One of the hidden reasons you don't get your book written or can’t seem to consistently write your blogs can be related to your natural wiring. The task of writing is a heads-down, internal-thinking activity. Not everyone generates ideas that way.
If you are not naturally wired to
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A Tip for Saying No to a Verbal Thinker
As a leader, you can communicate with effectiveness and grace when you deliver information with a person’s natural wiring in mind. Your natural wiring or hardwiring is something you’re born with, it’s distinct from behaviors, and stays with you your entire lifetime.
As you know if you’ve been part of my community, your wiring determines how much autonomy you innately need, how you process thought, the environment in which you best thrive, and the amount of information you need for effective
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