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Mind Magic for Internal Conflict – Cool Tools for Personal Effectiveness
If we look closely at ourselves, each of us can identify internal conflicts that we wrestle with; certain behaviors, anxieties, or roadblocks that keep us from accomplishing all we can achieve. In some...
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AJO Team Participates in Annual Bowl-A-Thon Fund Raiser
For the third successive year, AJO fielded a team in the 9th Annual Corporate and Community Challenge Bowl-A-Thon which took place earlier this month. This fund-raising event benefitted more than 800...
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Why Executive Coaching Needs to Be Part of Your Leadership Development Strategy
The need to identify and develop future leaders remains a top priority for organizations today, as noted in numerous 2016 human capital studies. Attracting, retaining and developing talent, including...
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Becoming a Transformative Leader
Amir Ghannad was a recent guest on HR Studio Podcast (See Episode 15: The Transformative Leader). In this post, Amir explains what it means to be a Transformative Leader and offers six steps you can...
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Give the Gift of a Good Read
If you’re anything like me, you have colleagues, friends and family members for whom deciding on a gift for the holidays is a challenge. You really want to celebrate the relationship during this...
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Step Aside Managers! Let Peer-to-Peer Feedback Drive Performance Management
Performance management is a topic that has spurned some radical debates in recent years. The once once-per-year performance appraisal is seen as a necessary evil by many employers and managers, but has...
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The Choice to be a Leader
Often the biggest obstacles to getting what we want in life are the choices we - ourselves – make!Let’s look at a case in point from a client of mine. Diane was a highly skilled middle level manager....
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How Does Team Coaching Deliver Business Results?
Let’s say that you are a leader of your firm’s new strategic initiative. You have worked hard to obtain buy-in from stakeholders for the new direction; you’ve put your tactical plans in place; and...
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The Business Case for Team Development & Team Coaching
“Without knowing what the key drivers or essential and enabling elements for team successes are, or how and when to apply them, business leaders will continue to make costly mistakes in terms of time,...
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Shorten Your Job Search By Leveraging Social Media
Since 1970, the average time to find a new job has steadily risen. Today, it takes 25.1 weeks (although AJO's program participants are landing in 20 weeks on average.) If you just started a job...
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Amp Up Your Job Search Visibility with Social Media
Go Where the Hiring Managers and Recruiters AreHow do recruiters and hiring managers source candidates in today’s market? It's eye opening that 92% of hiring managers and recruiters today have a social...
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Six Steps to Secure Millennial Leadership Talent
The Small and Mid-Sized Company Advantage Millennials Will Dominate the Workplace – SoonBy 2020, an estimated 46% of US workers will be millennials. By 2025, estimates indicate that75% of the global...
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Why Companies Invest in Executive/Leadership Coaching
Conference Board Executive Coaching 2016 Survey Shows a Decade of Growth and a Strong FutureThe Eagles’, “New Kid in Town” rang out as Andy O’Connor introduced new team members and kicked off April's...
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A New Path Forward to Leadership Development Success
In January, 2016, there were two publications on leadership that, when viewed together, offer an historically significant and pivotal opportunity for HR leaders and leadership gurus regarding all...
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Team Building: Don’t Forget Health & Safety
See any successful sports team and you will see exactly that, a team. They work together as a unit day in and day out despite having different roles and jobs. Building a successful team requires people...
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How Can Leaders Restore Eroding Trust?
“CAN WE TRUST YOU?” Leaders, Your Employees and Customers are Asking. How Would You Answer?Trust, that most important of relationship foundations, rises to the top of our collective concern once again....
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Summer Reading: Stretch Your Thinking – Read Outside Your Line
Longing for a break? Yep, it’s nearly the 4th of July. Ready to put the daily grind behind for a week or two? Me, too. This year, I’m tackling a 6-day bike ride through northern Michigan with two of my...
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Developing Leaders and Teams in Small and Mid-sized Businesses
SMBs (small and mid-sized businesses), or SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) as they are also known, contribute more than 99% to the U.S. GDP while accounting for more than two-thirds of all new...
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Can We Really Change? In Other Words, Can Coaching Really Work?
Do you think leaders and their teams can really change? It’s a common question asked when considering a coaching or organizational change intervention. Drawing on forty years of evidenced-based...
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How To Build High-Performing, Collaborative Teams
If there is one question every manager seeks to answer it is, “How can I ensure that my team is performing optimally?” Conventional wisdom would tell you to put the most skilled, hardworking and...
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