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1. Fast-Track Your Leadership Career
   E-course
   
   Sign up for your free leadership career builder video series and begin today to Fast-Track Your Leadership Career. 11 weeks of punchy tips and tactics sure to fast-track your career.
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2. Gender Diversity & Inclusiveness
   Interview/Audio
   
   Barbara Annis is recognized as one of the world's leading gender specialists. In this interview Barbara offers a fascinating and practical guide to how gender differences at work lead to misunderstandings. Use the information in this interview to positively impact your bottom-line.
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3. Task or People Leadership Styles
   Self Assessment
   Based on the Blake & Mouton model, use this self-assessment to ascertain if you are more task or people focused. Each style has their place in your leadership tool box, the trick is knowing when it is appropriate to be either a task or people focused leader. . . . keep reading
   
   
4. 7 Easy Leadership Acts
   Article
   Your day is already pretty full so here are 7 Easy Leadership Actions that won't take too much time away from all those other pressing issues you are dealing with and will help you connect with your people . . . keep reading
   
   
5. Achieving Peak Performance In The Workplace
   Article
   Achieving peak performance in the workplace is certainly a goal that Toyota, Microsoft, Ericsson, Patagonia all have in common. Do you know something else they all have in common? They have all adopted the principles of 'Flow ... . . . keep reading
   
   
6. Motivating Others
   Article
   Motivating Others isn't that hard. Everyone wants to feel that they make a difference. Take a look at how I might inspire a Pizza Delivery Driver ... so they see how the work they do aligns with the organizational goals and mission. . . . keep reading
   
   
7. Effective Delegation Steps
   Article
   Learning how to delegate effectively is an important leadership and coaching tool. Use these six 'shortcut' steps to ensure anything you delegate gets done well and engages the person who is completing the task. . . . keep reading
   
   
8. Characteristics Of A Good Leader
   Article
   The characteristics of a good leader are challenging to pin to one small list. In this article you will discover the Top 7 characteristics of good leadership that most high performance leaders seem to possess. . . . keep reading
   
   
9. Assessing Team Member Performance Levels Template
   Template
   Use this template to help you distinguish between the high, medium and low performing people in your team. You will use the criteria of Technical Competence, Quality of Work, Performance Effectiveness, Living the Values . . . keep reading
   
   
10. Fast-Track Your Career - Video 2
    In video two of the Fast-Track Your Career video series we go deeper into our strategy of Building Strong Relationships with another two tips . . . keep reading
    
    
11. Creating Blockbuster Success Through Instant Appeal
    Interview with Vicki Kunkel
    Do you know what ET, Oprah and the Cabbage Patch kids have in common and why we find them appealing? In this interview discover the instant appeal secrets that help to win others over easily and quickly. . . . keep reading
    
    
12. Fast-Track Your Career - Video 3
    Fast-Track Your Leadership Career - Video Three Here are the final two tips from our first strategy of Building Strong Relationships. Pick an . . . keep reading
    
    
13. Action Worksheet
    Worksheet
    Learning without action can be fairly meaningless. Use this Action Worksheet to make notes of things you find interesting and want to ponder and also to help you keep track of where you found some information and how you are going to apply your knowledge. . . . keep reading
    
    
14. Is Your Workplace Motivating?
    Self Assessment
    Take this quick 15 question quiz to see if your workplace is set up for retaining and motivating employees.
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15. Life is For Living
    Interview with John Shackleton
    

    John Shackleton is passionate about fitness and leadership. In this interview he discusses why he believes your focus on improving your health and fitness will help you improve all other areas of your life. . . . keep reading
    
    

16. Locus Of Control Quiz
    Self-Assessment
    How much do you believe in your ability to make things happen? This quick self-assessment will give you insight into just how much you really do believe in yourself and how much control you give over to others . . . keep reading
    
    
17. Fast-Track Your Career - Video 4
    Fast-Track Your Leadership Career - Video Four Today we start with the first two tips in the Strategy of Creating A Buzz. These tips are: Eng . . . keep reading
    
    
18. Align Yourself
    Article
    
    This one page is possibly the more important on the site. If you don't understand the importance of alignment you may spend much of your life wondering why your life isn't more successful
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19. Stages of Team Development Self-Assessment
    Self-Assessment
    Test Your Understanding of the Stages of Team Development - either take this self-assessment before reading the article series as a pre-competency check. And/or use it after to assess how well you have integrated the information. . . . keep reading
    
    
20. Developing High Performance Teams in the Workplace Using Team Pillars
    Article
    We seem to self-manage at home, yet when it comes to teams in the workplace it can be challenging to know how to get them to be more self-reliant and self-managing. Here's the tool you've been looking for if you want to help your team development. . . . keep reading
    
    

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