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Who Decides Your Future?

Let's Grow Leaders

. “Professor, I see how these techniques would be important for someone who could accomplish something great, but it’s hard to apply for someone like me…” I gave more examples and stories of how these basic techniques are easily used in motivating frontline teams or to stand out in an interview. Yours is too.

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3 Leadership Values to Encourage in Every Member of Your Team

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For example: “It sounds like you’re really frustrated with the lack of response from marketing and that’s sapping your motivation. In our research for our book, Courageous Cultures, we asked employees to share “their biggest moment of courage at work.” Do I have that right?”. ” Do you know what’s interesting?

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Anchoring Inspiration(s) To Tap Into Motivation and Activate Clients Potential in Coaching

International Coach Academy

We will look at different types of inspirations, what I call unexplored, explored, and mapped-out inspirations, and how they interact with motivation. Motivation is defined as enthusiasm for doing something 5 ; it is action-packed. Therefore we want to create a tangible change or result but cannot sustain the motivation just yet.

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Recognition Power Words: The Phrases that Mean the Most

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The Achievement Matters The most meaningful recognition highlights accomplishments that matter to you. Powerful Phrases to Build Connection: I care about you and what youve accomplished here. What motivates you most when you receive feedback? The Words Matter Powerful words are simple, specific, and sincere.

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Ten Common Mistakes New Managers Make

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Use Fear to Motivate. You are in the role to support your people and accomplish a mission. And download our Free E-Book, 7 Practical Ways to Be a Bit More Daring. Use fear to motivate. Fear motivates effort, but with a single focus: escape the fear. Be a Push Over. Assume People Should Know.

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Creating Transformation Through Positive Psychology

International Coach Academy

In Martin Seligman’s early work on Positive Psychology, as discussed in his book “Learned Optimism,” his studies showed that subjects who were prone to lower scores in optimism assessment, less success, and more problems in health, relationships, and career, had a set of values and perspectives that were “personal, pervasive, and permanent.”

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Finding Flow – Pursuing the Worthwhile Moments

International Coach Academy

The main thesis of Csikszentmihalyi’s most popular book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (1990), is that happiness is not a fixed state. The key to fulfillment is in how we invest our internal energy to accomplish optimal experiences. Being in a Flow-Like State. Optimal experience is thus something we make happen.