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June 9, 2020

017: Taking Risk in Your Career

Send us a text By taking more risk, you improve your chance to advance your career. By only doing your daily duties, you will most likely be seen as a competent, reliable worker, but really never able to show your …

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June 2, 2020

016: Becoming People Focused

Send us a text Adapting to a People Focused Leadership style will create a dynamic environment where you develop and empower your team instead of only trying to complete items off your to-do list. There are three significant ...

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May 26, 2020

015: Encore Episode Building Trust

Send us a text Effective leadership is built on trust . Teams and relationships are built on trust. Once trust is lost, it will be difficult to recover. It takes time, and you may never get it back. In this …

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May 19, 2020

014: Communicating Purpose

Send us a text Purpose gives us the reason for what we do, and why we show up every day. It's our job as leaders to communicate purpose to our team members so they better understand how they contribute to …

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May 12, 2020

013: Earning a Certification

Send us a text Earning a Professional Certification adds great value to your professional foundation and can boost your earnings and career potential. In the episode, I am discussing the reasons to earn a professional certifi...

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May 5, 2020

012: Critical Soft Skills

Send us a text Developing your soft skills will enhance and develop your career. In January 2020, LinkedIn published a list of five soft skills that companies are looking for right now. In this episode, I discuss the followin...

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April 28, 2020

011: Building Resilience

Send us a text Overcoming adversity and building your resilience are the topics on the episode this week. Becoming resilient is the ability to bounce back and overcome an adverse event. In the episode, I list seven items that...

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April 21, 2020

Bonus Episode 5: Organizational Culture

Send us a text How do we overcome our strong Organizational Culture, that normally helps us achieve excellence, when extraordinary circumstances require us to go against it? In this bonus episode, I talk about the strong cult...

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April 14, 2020

Bonus Episode 4: Recession Proof Your Business

Send us a text Going forward, it's time to recession proof your business. After recovering from this very unprecedented economic downturn, I am encouraging business owners to prioritize recession proofing their business by de...

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April 7, 2020

Bonus Episode 3: Doors Will Open

Send us a text We will face change constantly in our careers and our personal lives. Doors will close and doors will open. For this bonus episode, I am discussing a few reasons why a door will close on us …

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March 31, 2020

Bonus Episode 2: Not Business As Usual

Send us a text During this economic downturn, we are anything but "business as usual." This unique time requires creative leadership by business owners to save their businesses. The last few weeks, I have been thinking about ...

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March 24, 2020

Bonus Episode 1: The Challenges Ahead

Send us a text We need leaders right now as we face many challenges. We need leaders of compassion who can provide hope and a vision to overcome what we are facing as a world. In this bonus episode, I …

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March 17, 2020

010: Empower Your Team

Send us a text The goal of empowerment is to develop, grow, and then trust your team members to complete tasks and eventually make decisions on your behalf. This requires you to take risk and have the long-term view of …

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March 10, 2020

009: Lifelong Learning-Invest in Your Development

Send us a text Invest in your personal development. Don't wait on others to invest in you. Commit your plan on paper, set goals, and develop a timeline for completion. Track your progress and re-assess your development needs....

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March 3, 2020

008: Seven Key Leader Values

Send us a text Values make up our personal character. This week's episode is about the seven key leader values that we should strive to improve daily. These values show how we lead, and how we deal with tough decisions. …

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Feb. 22, 2020

007: Success Focused Management Techniques

Send us a text There are tools that can help you lead and manage the team better. This week, we talk about time management, prioritizing, back briefing, backwards planning, and delegating. One of the most important topics I ...

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Feb. 18, 2020

006: Defeating Complacency

Send us a text Complacency helps you lose on opportunities for growth, innovation and seeing necessary change to keep up in your organization and industry. When you get comfortable, you miss out on opportunities. When you don...

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Feb. 11, 2020

005: Impacts of Leadership

Send us a text You can have a great Impact as a Leader in your organization. In this episode, I talk about why I love to lead, and the positive impacts we get to make in our organization. While we …

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Feb. 4, 2020

004: Mindset Determines Your Outcome

Send us a text Your mindset determines your outcome. How you view yourself and how you view the world will affect your career potential. In the episode, we discuss the following: 1) Leadership is the embodiment of making the ...

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Jan. 28, 2020

003: Building Trust

Send us a text Effective leadership is built on trust . Teams and relationships are built on trust. Once trust is lost, it will be difficult to recover. It takes time, and you may never get it back. In this …

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Jan. 21, 2020

002: Four Key Finance Leader Responsibilities

Send us a text Leadership can be your defining characteristic to help advance your career . In this episode, I talk about the four key areas of responsibility that Finance Leaders must be doing every day: 1) influencing, 2) g...

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Jan. 5, 2020

001: Developing Leaders in Finance and Accounting

Send us a text This podcast is for Finance and Accounting professionals to develop and enhance leadership skills. You are working in a complex and critical organizational function with very tight deadlines and most likely a h...

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