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10 Questions to Powerful Leadership
Leaders can spend more time talking and less time listening to their team members and generally it is because the questions they ask are not uncovering what they need and want to know. Often this is because leaders believe they should have most of the answers or...
Communication Derailers
As a leader, the quality of your communications is critical to your success. A good 80% of the executive coaching work I do involves communications that need to be adjusted. Communication is interactional because there is an exchanging of roles throughout the process....
Hiring For Company Fit
When it comes to hiring for an open position in your organization it is important to look at candidates from multiple vantage points. The correct qualifications need to be there of course, but there are also some soft skills that need to be measured you look for and...
3 Ways to Keep Entitlement Mentality Out of Your Company
The culture of entitlement is rampant in corporate America. Whether someone has been an executive for years and believes they just need to show up to get a bonus or if they are fresh out of college after being never allowed to fail in school. Either way, they’ve been...
Handle Negative Employees with Ease: Do This, Not That
As a leader you should both praise the individual for good work as well as confront the employee who consistently displays behaviors not valued by the team. The “negative employee” can be disruptive and impact a teams productivity. What message are you sending to...
Communication Triangulators- Who They Are and How to Get Rid of Them
Does this sound familiar? You have just left a meeting and are headed back to your office to get some important work completed when one of your team members needs to talk to you. He wants to complain about another employee, one of your team members. He may be a peer...
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.