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Post Pandemic Leadership Challenges

Post Pandemic Leadership Challenges

In my Hiring for Success workshop, one of the exercises is developing your company story, what makes your company different? Applicants need to feel a connection with their potential employer and stories are a good way to connect the story. In this article which talks...

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Three Ways to Make Work a Place of Learning

Three Ways to Make Work a Place of Learning

One of the most neglected aspects of company culture, but one of the most important for innovation and success, is the creation and sustaining of a learning culture. A learning culture isn’t just something that happens by hiring intelligent people; it is a conscious...

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Cultivating Patience When the World Won’t Comply

Cultivating Patience When the World Won’t Comply

Over the past few months we have all had our patience tested to some degree. For some it has been more challenging than others. Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries provides the reader with some great techniques to exercise your “patience muscle”.  I personally have been...

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Hiring in the World of HyperGrowth

Hiring in the World of HyperGrowth

This post was originally published on Great Leadership by Dan, June 4, 2020   Recently, I was working with an executive who shared a job description for a new IT position. He leads a rapidly growing company so there were going to be multiple hires for the same...

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Don’t Rescue Your Victim Employee

Don’t Rescue Your Victim Employee

We all know at least one person who plays the victim. Victims are one of those difficult employee profiles that leaders need to coach not rescue. They are the ones who aren’t accountable for their own actions. I’ve seen many leaders who have fallen into the trap of...

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Grow Your Employees without that Promotion

Grow Your Employees without that Promotion

I can’t count how many times I have been called into coach a leader who has recently been promoted yet was struggling in the new role because they weren’t developed and prepared to take on the position successfully. My friends at GetLight House looked at promotions...

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Beth Armknecht Miller’s passion for learning and dedication to bringing out the best in others are strands woven throughout her career and are found in her work with Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm.