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50% of the Workforce Cannot Form a Trusting Relationship: What now?

Feb 4

Carolann Jacobs on February 4th, 2009

Last year, I read Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain by Sharon Begley and came across the concept of Attachment Theory and had a Vivid Epiphany about why larger workplaces can be so dysfunctional, about why mistrustful and judments abound once an organization reaches a certain size. Since then, I have amassed materials from several [...]

How to Get Real Performance Out of Your Performance Management

Jan 30

Carolann Jacobs on January 30th, 2009

Yesterday, we talked about the most common way larger organizations set about the performance management and how it demotivates rather than focuses on success. Today we’re going to talk about how you as a leader can be that Calibrator of Accountability and Responsibility™ (by Legacy Leadership), and create meaningful and motivating objectives in your organization. [...]

Is Performance Management Killing Performance?

Jan 29

Carolann Jacobs on January 29th, 2009

“Goals without a vision are just a task list.” ~ Ken Abrams, Top Coach Consulting We set goals to take us somewhere greater, and without that strategic plan, we’re just chasing after to do’s on the road to nowhere. It’s getting to be that time of year when many groups and individuals within groups are [...]

The Biggest Mistake I Made Trying to Reward Peak Performers

Jan 27

Carolann Jacobs on January 27th, 2009

Several years ago, I was sitting in my VP’s office after my team spent a grueling year implementing a doomed-to-failure-from-the-start software project. Over the course of time and two divorces. it had been reduced and re-reduced into something achievable, and we were discussing how to reward the team for less than $100. Unless we stuck [...]

Would Disclosing the Salary Secret Explode Your Organization?

Jan 26

Carolann Jacobs on January 26th, 2009

Do you remember the days when car shopping was fraught with stress because when it all came down to the price you paid for the car came down to how well you negotiated? Back in the day, all the buyer had to work from was the MSRP, which nearly everyone knew was thousands more than [...]

Save The Day With Collaboration

Jan 23

Carolann Jacobs on January 23rd, 2009

Today, I want to take a look at Best Practice Number 2 from the Legacy Leadership® model (this is the model that serves as the foundation for my Inimitable LeadershipTM series of group masterminds). This best practice states that a leader is a “Creator of Collaboration and Innovation.” Generally speaking, great innovation comes from groups [...]

Take a Leadership Role: Build Priceless Business Relationships

Jan 15

Carolann Jacobs on January 15th, 2009

Dean LIndsay came to speak at my Winning the Game Lunch in Plano, TX last Friday. His talk not only gave me a different framework for talking about the importance of relationship networking, but also reminded me how important it is to you and yours to take a leadership role as a networker. In this [...]

Assuming Your Team is Executing Your Plan?

Dec 30

Carolann Jacobs on December 30th, 2008

Most of my prospective clients answer yes to this question. And, when I ask them “Based on what evidence?” or “How do you know?” I usually get a vague answer referring to some quarterly all-hands meeting (or worse yet, the yearly one). Business owners and Executives: If you aren’t keeping your vision and goals at [...]

Transform your Overloaded, Underperforming Brain into an Efficient, Overachieving Machine (Part 3)

Dec 11

Carolann Jacobs on December 11th, 2008

In part 1, we touched on some highlights about what neuroscience has taught us about learning, patterns and their impact on thought. In part 2, we looked at how those thoughts determine emotion and how anger and fear impact the quality of thinking. Over the year, we’ll be examining other forms of overload and providing [...]

Living Leadership That Connects Vision & Values with Passion and Purpose

Nov 14

Carolann Jacobs on November 14th, 2008

Welcome to our community. We founded this place to create a connected community of life leaders: successful people who understand or want to understand how they can bring their best selves to their passion and purpose. We find these leaders everywhere – in the obvious places like corporations, small businesses, in public service and as [...]

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