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3 Compelling Thoughts to Consider for Your “Crazy” Busy Schedule

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Frequent blogger, Monica Wofford, CSP is the CEO of Contagious Companies, Inc. and author of Contagious Leadership.

If there were a “Busy Badge”, would you be wearing it?

Being “Crazy” busy will make you….well…crazy. Yet, we all spend inordinate amounts of time bragging about how busy we are in a sense. If you’re not bragging about it, you’re likely talking about it or telling others or complaining about being tired. All of that is okay, but what if… just what if… your focus was on something say more helpful? Read the rest of this entry »

3 Ways to Stay Out of the Way of a Star Performer

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Why is that we spend more time with our poor performers than our star performers? Are we operating off the adage “if it ain’t broken, why fix it” or are we forgetting “people do what they get paid attention to for doing”?

Star performers are usually highly internally motivated and complain the most about things like paperwork, administrative follow up and slow systems that get in their way. How can you as the leader, stay out of the way of the star performer and make sure that they continue to get what they need to thrive and grow? Read the rest of this entry »

3 Ways a Leader can Mess Up, Recover, and Make Progress

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Monica Wofford, CSP, teaches leaders who were often managers, promoted, but not prepared, how to more effectively be themselves and lead themselves, before leading others.

Ever goofed? Sure you have, but what did you do after?

Does making a mistake make you difficult? Well, heck I hope not. I make them all the time. What can make you appear difficult is messing up and then covering up, so let’s look at how you can be a leader, make a mistake, recover, and make progress… not to mention save a little face.

With Make Difficult People Disappear coming out soon, it seems we’re awfully focused on this issue of difficult people lately, however, the more I think about it, it’s a rampant problem. There are some who seem to “see difficult people” instead of “dead people” from the movies, all over the place. This might even be the case in your office and if so, some of it may be derived from how you recover from your blunders. Here are a few ways to do it with grace and saving face. Read the rest of this entry »

How DO You Develop Employees?

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Monica Wofford, CSP, is a leadership development strategist who shares the tools and techniques to actually lead so you don’t become a manager who was promoted, but not prepared.

You know you should develop those employees, but do you know how?

We get promoted and then are put in charge of leading other people, yet often the directions on how to actually lead or develop those employees is nebulous at best. In your tenure as a leader, or even in your journey toward successful Contagious Leadership, you may have utilized more trial and error tactics to achieve employee development. If that is the case, Read the rest of this entry »

What Has Happened With Your Contagious Connections?

Monica Wofford, CSP, teaches leaders to understand and improve their own leadership in using practice, skills, and desire as their three areas of focus.

Have you built momentum this week by shifting your focus to making more contagious connections

Usually when you begin to focus on your connections and lead yourself to a place of momentum in which you are consistently connection and looking for opportunities, amazing things happen. What has happened to you this week after focusing on your own Contagious Connections? Read the rest of this entry »

Is Confidence Really Contagious?

What are you good at and are you confident enough to share it and claim it publicly? Remember: Confidence is Contagious!

The short answer here is YOU BET! But don’t believe it just because I said so. Try your own experiment. Have you ever had a bad day? Hehe! Sure you have and how did others treat you when you had a bad day? Did you find they were eager to be around you or ran the other direction? Did that bad day come from a lack of confidence in some area or another – likely so. What about when you had a great day? As a leader, if you walk in the office feeling invincible, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound and able to take everyone in your path with you to success, don’t they pick up on that? Sure they do and yes, some may ask you what caffeinated drink you had for breakfast, but for the most part, the ones who are also confident, will pick up on your unstoppable beliefs and energy and join you for the journey enthusiastically. Want to be an even more effective Contagious Leader, find a way to maintain that sense of internal belief in yourself, your gifts, values, and talents, and your own Contagious Confidence. Read the rest of this entry »

Do Leaders Like Themselves?

Wofford says: “The more confidence a leader has, the better leader they are for others.”

I saw a book cover recently called “The Psychology of Mindset” and it reminded me that success often begins with self-talk. That thought then led to the need for self-evaluation and looking at one’s own Liked Best’s and Next Time’s as a leader, not only of others, but of the voices in one’s own head, if one is going to remain a successful leader.

Have you conducted your own LB/NT analysis on your gifts, skills, traits, talents and 2011 year? If not, what are you waiting for? Read the rest of this entry »