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Feedback as a Competitive Sport
A common roadblock to success is the use of feedback to win, to dominate the person seen as the opponent. Dealing with this can affect your happiness and your sanity. Organizations in which leaders and managers routinely share high-quality feedback are easier to scale and have fewer nagging problems and less operational drag.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, organizational development, implementation, feedback, competitive feedback, collaborative and productive mode, passive aggressive

Five Easy Ways to Spot an Introvert at Work
Now that you know introverts and extraverts can work together, let's walk through ways to identify who's who.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, organizational development, implementation, introverts, extraverts, observe, signals

How to Quickly Warm Up Your Team so You Can Get Them to Tell You the Truth
Have you ever had to take over a team that had reason to not tell you the truth? This can be tough. The article list includes questions that have worked well for me over the years. Multiple wording options are included because - you guessed it - some teams respond better to certain words than others.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, team dynamics, coaching, organizational development, build trust, work together, team effectiveness

The Hidden Secret to Manage Your Workload and Reduce Your Stress -- That Nobody Talks About
Is your career wearing you out? Are you too tired to enjoy your family and friends on the weekends, or what little part of the weekend you have? Well, I have a secret to share.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, organizational development, career, stress, delegation, self-employed, luxury

#1 Reason 75% of Organizational Change Efforts Fail and How YOU Can Be Part of the 25% that Succeed
Have you ever tried to lead a major organizational change that failed? It's something we don't forget very easily. Because of this, I've been an avid student of how to make organizational changes successful. I advise clients on how to avoid all of the mistakes I made and ensure that their changes will be smoother and more successful. Let me share some of what I've learned.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, organizational development, career, success, change

Are You Worried about Throwing Away Money on Executive Coaching?
We have found that the value of executive coaching is exponentially increased when sponsored by the employer, aligned with the employer's goals, and involving the employer at key points in the leader's growth. For employers, executive coaching is a savvy investment.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, organizational development, career, executive coaching, investment, leaders, leadership

Are you Worried About Motivating Top Employees During a Down Economy?
Here are some tips to keep in mind with your current staff that are not costly to implement but they're important for every leader and business owner to do. You should actually be doing them on an ongoing basis, but especially right now.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, challenges, employees, acknowledge, recognition

How to Create Shared Values so You Can Make Your Customers and Employees Happier
The message in this article is so important in this era of cynicism that everyone needs to see it. The scenario is this: you've been tapped to lead the Our Corporate Values project. How bogus. You dread it. Nothing holds less appeal for the typical leader than being assigned a vague internal project.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, challenges, values, mission

Office-Furniture Stores Target Women
With women-owned small businesses growing almost twice as fast as all small business nationwide, retailers are just starting to wake up to the demands of female entrepreneurs. These include office chairs and desks scaled to women's smaller frames, as well as furniture that has more storage to hold purses and other personal items - a top priority for women.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, organizational development, career, women executives,

Do You Want to Calm Your Fears?
We've been on an economic ride lately. There are a lot of things to worry about. Several years ago, a Chinese leader told me that 'change' is not an individual word, but a composition of two words: Wei and Gi. Wei means danger and Gi means opportunity. Danger and opportunity are intertwined, and how we deal with the danger defines how we will see and benefit from the opportunity.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, challenges, change, danger, opportunity

Five Simple Ways to be a Hit at the Company Holiday Party
It's corporate holiday party season. Are you prepared? Here are some tips that will help you ensure that you're remembered for all the right reasons.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, challenges, holiday parties

Develop Trust by Speaking Up During Uncertain Times
Are you being a silent leader? Many times, during troubled times, executives feel they have to go it alone to address the challenges of the business when they should actually open their mouth and let the words come out, over and over and over again. Those leaders that speak up clearly and frequently gain trust and loyalty.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, trust, loyalty, communication, silence

Five Signs You're in Poor Standing with Your Boss
With the economy so tight, people are nervous about their jobs. Are you picking upo n the right signals? Here are some clues that you might want to look for.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, boss, gut feeling

How to Excel at the Ultimate Oxymoron: a Recession-Era Corporate Holiday Party
For those of you having a corporate holiday party, here are some timely tips for leaders the organization.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership,

The Biggest Mistake Flexible People Make When Internal Competition is Tough
Do you pride yourself on how well you 'stay flexible' or 'adapt to whatever the company needs.' Sometimes that's advantageous, but the biggest mistake flexible people make when internal competition is tough is to adopt the strategy of staying so flexible that no decision-maker really knows what you want.
Keywords: Jennifer Selby Long, coaching, executive coaching, organizational development, leadership, flexible, decision

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