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According to Kim Stricker, “there are over 500 million LinkedIn users, making it one of the mmost essential tools for every CEO and Executive.” At the Leaders Connect Breakfast on March 15th, Kim, who is the Founder and Strategist of Social Motto, gave Leaders Connect members some practical advice about LinkedIn: Create a buyer-centric profile Share and post effective content Engage and build your network Utilize LinkedIn as a prospecting tool Here are some tips for creating a buyer-centric profile: Profile photo – use a current photo; LinkedIn …

Forget Trying to Control People Leaders worry themselves to death over how to get people to do what they want them to do. My book, Conversations with My Old Dog, is a series of poems about the “talks” I used to have with my aging yellow lab Lucy. The poem “Control” includes these lines: We people spend much of our time on the illusion of control– we order our lives and try to order the lives of others. However, we learn–as with …

When an organization is a “learning organization,” it dedicates itself to a continual process of learning new things, learning from mistakes, and learning from objective data. It’s an ongoing process of sharing and learning in which feedback is crucial. It amounts to a continual practice of reading, learning, evaluating and altering what you do according to the feedback you get. Google is a great example of a company that is constantly churning the waters, trying new things, launching new products, …

Conflict, while unpleasant, can be transformative if the two parties are able to come to a greater understanding after the conflict If you can’t control your self, how can you ask others to listen to what you say Our networks are our most valuable resources Accept your own limits to help somebody who has severe limitations The power of books: a client, from 20 years ago, wrote to tell me that my book, Awakening from the Deep Sleep, saved his marriage Someone asked me to define what it is that …

Rich Sheridan, founder, CEO, and Chief Storyteller at Menlo Innovations has written his second book on leading with joy called Chief Joy Officer. He spoke at the Leaders Connect Breakfast last Friday morning, and shared how he discovered the importance of leading with joy. Click the video above to hear how Rich likens the forces that interact in our lives to the forces that enable an airplane to successfully fly: The Lift of Human Energy – People get energetic about …

My coaching clients have taught me that one of the toughest decision they face is what to do about an employee who is not working up to expectations. Most often, they want to do the right thing and not let someone go before they have given them a fair opportunity to succeed. While they know the termination will be extremely painful, they also recognize that it might be the right thing to do for the company. Even in some cases, it might be …