Author name: Kelly

Leading Change? Get More Buy-in with Less Effort When You Focus Here First

Here we are at the time in the calendar when everything changes. In the early months you were closing the books and focused on wrapping up projects from last year. Then, you got the 2025 initiatives and strategies so you set up your plans to achieve them. By this point, we’re in ‘throw away the […]

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How to Use Employee Engagement to Power UP Productivity

I’m so tired. My brain is foggy, my body is exhausted, but I can’t sleep. I can’t turn it off. Her shrugged shoulders and puffy eyes told me everything, and more, than her words could describe. She had just been promoted, for the 3 time in 7 years, and rather than being energized by the

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How to Share Bad News with Employees (3 things you won’t find in ChatGPT)

No one likes to share bad news. Everyone assumes it will get better with time, and to some extent, it will. If for no other reason than you get used to doing it. Exceptional leaders aren’t willing to settle for getting used to it though. You see the challenge of having these difficult conversations that

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How to Motivate Your Team to Hit the Biggest Goal of 2025

Click here for the YouTube video that brings this to life! I started a 4 hour class on motivation and influence with the words; ‘If you came here to learn how to motivate your team, I’m sorry to say, you won’t. You can’t motivate people.’ After the awkward chuckles and sideways glances, that class learned what

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Aligning Personal & Company Values: The Secret to Clarity, Energy, & Advancement

Your team seems to have hit a wall. Your boss is completely unfocused, throwing out unrelated asks and hitting you from the side with new projects. Meanwhile, you are hanging on by a thread as the go between lifting the team up and trying to anchor your boss. Sound familiar? These three positions are at

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Shielding Your Team is Making You Fail: 3 Things to do Instead

Just this morning I saw another meme stating, ‘Good managers shield their employees.’ This time it was on LinkedIn and the post went on to highlight all of the things ‘toxic’ supervisors allow their staff to deal with. This post, and many others like it, would have you believe that office politics, difficult conversations, and

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