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Direct Connect Forum: Servant Leadership In Action
To be a servant leader, you focus on others. By doing this, your entire organizational hierarchy will feel heard, seen, and recognized for their great work.

Strategies To Increase Motivation At Work
Work can become such a drag that it’s hard to remember the jazz hands and excitement that once emanated from your being when you first started the venture.

Five Ways to Make the Most Out of Coaching
Executive and business coaching is now a $11 billion industry, and that figure is growing in Idaho and beyond. I believe that coaching transforms lives and communities. Here are five tips for business leaders considering coaching to make the most of the arrangement.

5 Common Blind Spots That Will Sabotage Your Business Plans
Whether it’s stalling growth or high staff turnover, failing to recognize a blind spot can have significant implications for your business plans.

How to Thrive During the Great Resignation
55% of Americans expect to look for a new job over the next year. What’s caused the shift? What can you do to get these workers back? How can you adapt your business so you can function without as much labor?

What’s the Difference Between a Boss and a Leader?
Many bosses are not leaders, and many leaders don’t have management titles. In this article and infographic, we explore key differences.

Employee Feedback: Workplace Survey Results from Gen Z “Zoomers”
Anna Thiele led a qualitative survey to understand what employees’ work experience is like, and how managers can optimize their experience.

How Being Honest About Your Emotions Improves Work Productivity
We asked leaders in our community how being honest about their emotions improves productivity in their organizations. Here are their answers.

9 Signs You Are in Great Company
Who you surround yourself with can influence your energy, your attitude, how you spend your time, the decisions that you make, your perspective of your life and the world.

101 Motivational Business Leadership and Teamwork Quotes
We recognize that leaders and team members may need some extra motivation at times. That is why we have compiled a list of 101 Motivational Quotes About Business Leadership and Teamwork.

Are You a Multiplier or a Diminisher?
Have you ever worked for someone who drains intelligence and capability from the people around them? Have you worked for someone who does the opposite?

15 Top Leadership Tips from Deliberate Leaders
We compiled a list of the top 15 top leadership tips from expert guests on the Deliberate Leaders podcast.

Thinking About Scaling Your Business?
What should you be thinking about for your business during this economic downturn?

How To Efficiently Allocate Resources To Remote Teams
How do you decide where your company’s resources should go? What business units need resources, and where should resources go within a business unit?

5 Effective Ways To Eliminate Micromanaging From A Business
Micromanaging is consistently a top complaint from employees. Could you be micromanaging and not realize it?

12 Key Benefits of Participating in a Mastermind Group
What do Ben Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and the Pixar Brain Trust have in common? They all participated in mastermind groups!

5 Tips for Giving Radically Candid Feedback to Direct Reports
Learn how to care personally and challenge directly by sharing feedback that is humble, helpful, immediate, and in person.

35 Ways to Become a “Beyond You” Leader
Use this action plan to become a “Beyond You” leader — a leader who fearlessly empowers his or her team to achieve their potential.

Create a Vision Wall
Learn how to create a Vision Wall for your company in the mold of Brian Scudamore’s “Can You Imagine” wall at 1-800-Got-Junk. A bonus worksheet also helps you document the wall.

3-Year Vision Worksheet
Map out a vivid vision for your company using these 30 questions.

Summary of “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”
Here’s our cheat sheet for John Maxwell’s must-read book on leadership.

What Is the Quality of Your Decision-Making Inputs?
5 factors affect the quality of your decisions. Are you optimizing each of them?

7 Tips to Improve Your Listening Skills
Listening is as important as speaking in the communication process. Learn about active listening, minimizing filters and triggers, creating an environment for listening, and more.

8 Leadership Lessons
Get specific strategies and tactics you can implement today to become a more effective leader.

How to Write a Motivating Mission, Vision, and Set of Corporate Values
Your employees crave meaning—purpose, direction, and a moral compass. Learn how to fill this need with an authentic company mission, vision and values.

15 Inspiring Company Missions, Visions, and Values
Need ideas for your company’s mission, vision or values? This collection from famous brands large and small will inspire you today!