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Message from Julie: Want to Change Your Team’s Behavior? Change Your Behavior First

As you might guess, when someone reaches out to me for training or coaching it is often because they want someone else to change. They want their team to be more

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Let’s Not Throw The Baby Out With The Bathwater

The light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter. Covid-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths are decreasing in the United States and much of the world. In many states businesses are fully open, workers

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Message from Julie: The Power of Words

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” You may have heard this as a child, I know I did. And while those who told

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Featured Product: The Five Behaviors® for Virtual Teams

Managing virtual teams is a challenge you can overcome? When the coronavirus pandemic struck in February, many effective leaders were forced to lead their teams remotely using video conferencing as

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Leaders Need Agility Now More Than Ever to Succeed

In what ways have you had to be agile this year? Certainly, all of us have had to be agile in navigating the uncertainty of COVID-19. For me, that has

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If You Want Engaged Employees, Develop Your Leaders

I remember as a child playing the game tug-of-war with my friends. Each group was vying to get the other team to change their position by tugging as hard as

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Featured Product: Step One Survey®

Studies show that more than $50 billion is annually lost due to employee fraud and theft. Similarly, negligence and improper hiring practices can also contribute to a business’s financial breakdown.

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Leading is Hard Work

When I facilitate leadership development sessions or coach leaders, I often hear, “That sounds like a lot of work.” My response, “Leading is hard work.  This doesn’t mean that being

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Message from Julie: Navigating a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous World 

Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, Ambiguous (VUCA) – that certainly describes the world we are living in today.   Prior to the shutdown brought about by the pandemic, it sometimes seemed to me that the world was spinning out

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Employee Engagement Takes More Than a Ping Pong Table

Often when I what a company is doing to engage employees, someone inevitably shares something like, “On Friday afternoons we can take an ice cream cart around!” “We’ll have a

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