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Maintaining Strong Leadership Through Tough Times

By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies How does the role of leaders change in a down economy? I want to relate an experience I had a couple of ...

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Achieving Results and the Power of Accountability

By Michael Wilkinson Certified Master Facilitator Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Author, The Secrets of Facilitation andThe Secrets to Masterful Meetings How often have you participated in planning efforts that ...

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Keys to Writing Powerful Recommendations

By Michael Wilkinson Whether you are an internal or external consultant, a manager or an individual contributor, most of us have ideas that we would like the client or our ...

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Death by SWOT Analysis

By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Author, The Secrets of Facilitation andThe Secrets to Masterful Meetings So, you are in the midst of your strategic planning process.  ...

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Buying Styles – Simple Lessons in Selling the Way Your Customer Buys

By Michael Wilkinson Managing Director, Leadership Strategies What are the things that sales people do that turn you off? Do you hate it when they don’t know their product, or ...

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The Principles of SMART Facilitation (TM) – An Overview

(Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation) By Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In my first book, The Secrets of Facilitation, I described the facilitation methodology we use at ...

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Thinking About Starting Your Own Business?

A Change Strategy for Budding Entrepreneurs By Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. "I've been thinking about taking the leap and starting my own business. I'm ready to be ...

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Innovation…

By Salim Hemdani Innovation is the buzz word in today's marketplace. Everyone wants to innovate and ideate on new concepts or incremental ones. Pressure from your boss (and your peers) ...

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To Coach or Not To Coach…Is That the Question?

By Kevin Fleming, PH.D. Reprinted with permission by Executive Decision magazine, March-April 2007 It has been said that any strength overused becomes a weakness, and that applies to even the ...

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Give Me a Fulcrum

By Kim Sawyer People are the key to the success of any enterprise. They are the lever by which every other asset is utilized and made valuable toward the success ...

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Do High Performers Really Need a Coach?

By Leigh Ann Rodgers, M.Ed. Some people think that hiring a business coach implies you lack something. Or worse, that you must be doing something wrong. When Tiger Woods won ...

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Executive Coaching Client Success Story

Coaching with a Purpose What comes to mind when you think of coaching? Oftentimes coaching in the business world is an ongoing relationship where over time, transformation slowly takes place. ...