Posts Tagged ‘Plasticity’
10 Ways to Use Linked In To Find A Job
February 16, 2009 | 
Author Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki wrote a very nice post about some more sophisticated ways to use LinkedIn to help you. Most of my recent postings have focused more on using social media to build relationships. This is about the nuts and bolts of doing research. Small Business Owners, the ideas that Guy talks about in his post could easily be transferred to your research into companies in your target market.
Be Your Best You Today,
Posted in Career Management | 
Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, Business & Relationship Networking, business coach, Career Management, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Marketing, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, Sales | 
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What questions do you have about coaching?
This is your day to get your questions answered. What have you always wanted to know about coaching, but have never had a risk-free way to ask? Leave a post below.
Peace and Prosperity,
Carolann
Top 10 Business Tools You Can Get for FREE
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I came across an excellent article on Entrepreneur.com about some of the best free tools to help small business owners. I had been looking for things like this for my business a few months ago, and I wish I’d found some of these.
Here are my top 10 picks:
- Dimdim.com: Open source web conferencing applicaiton.
Posted in Small Business Success | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Carolann Jacobs, coach, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, Small Business Success | 1 Comment »
What are you doing differently today in your small business?
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A funny thing is happening at some of the networking events I’ve attended recently. Many of the stock brokers and real estate agents are complaining about the market (one realtor even said she was bored). Every time I tell them that I don’t get it, they look at me like I’ve lost my mind.
Posted in Small Business Success | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, customer service, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, Plasticity, small business, strategy, vision | No Comments »
How to Get Real Performance Out of Your Performance Management
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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.
Posted in Leadership | Tags: Action Coach, Brain-based Coaching, business coach, Carolann Jacobs, coach, coaching, Extraordinary Results, facilitation, Increased Productivity, Inimitable Leadership, Inspired Workplace, Leadership, Legacy Leadership, Neuroleadership, neuroscience, performance, performance management, Plasticity | No Comments »
Is Performance Management Killing Performance?
“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.
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The Best Mentor Coach
Ken Abrams, the Best Mentor Coach
One of the things that new coach’s realize in the first months of their training is that we didn’t know what we were talking about when we said that we’d been “coaching all of our lives.” At the beginning, most of us thought that because people seek us out for advice and support that we were coaches, and that was somewhat true for me as I look back over my management career.
The Biggest Mistake I Made Trying to Reward Peak Performers
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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 to the $1 Value menu, the team dinner was definitely out. My VP mentioned T-shirts.
Would Disclosing the Salary Secret Explode Your Organization?
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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 the car would sell for, and would it surprise you to know that pre-internet women and minorities paid on average 2% more than white men?
Save The Day With Collaboration
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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.”
