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When You’re the Scapegoat: Powerful Phrases to Address Unfair Blame

Let's Grow Leaders

Instead, protect your integrity, steer the conversation toward thoughtful solutions, and focus on what matters most. Walking through the facts together shows you’re not here to play the blame lottery; you’re here to find solutions and move forward. Instead, focus on facts and solutions. Here’s how: 1.

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How to Stop Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers From Destroying Your Team

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Pull her into the solution-building equation. If Steps 1-4 still don’t work (be sure you’ve given them a chance), pay close attention to the side effects and document them. I swear this works. Get them involved in solving the problem, not just talking about it. Watch Your Body Language and Facial Expressions.

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How to Stop Drama Queens and Chronic Complainers From Destroying Your Team

Let's Grow Leaders

Pull her into the solution building equation. If Steps 1-4 still don’t work (be sure you’ve given them a chance), pay close attention to the side effects and document them. I swear this works. Get them involved in solving the problem, not just talking about it. Watch Your Body Language and Facial Expressions.

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How Did Leadership and Culture Improve on the North Pole?

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The North Pole used to be a very different place… Nearly sixty years ago, the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer television show documented the poor leadership and culture at the North Pole. Santa, Donner, and the head elf had created and took part in a toxic culture of ridicule that led to poor performance.

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How to Motivate Employees to Have More Urgency

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The solution? For example, if an employee handles customer contact and needs to document conversations and actions, you could aim for 100% completion by the end of the day every Wednesday and Friday. Focus on long-term solutions that save urgency for when you really need it. Then ask your team for their solutions.

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How Did Leadership and Culture Improve on the North Pole?

Let's Grow Leaders

The North Pole used to be a very different place… Nearly sixty years ago, the Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer television show documented the poor leadership and culture at the North Pole. Santa, Donner, and the head elf had created and took part in a toxic culture of ridicule that led to poor performance.

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Leveraging LLMs in Professional Coaching

International Coach Academy

In [ 7 ] , Coach Thomas, author of the PEARLS coaching framework [ 9 ] discusses his experiments training ChatGPT by providing the entire text of the PEARLS framework documentation to the LLM to set the context and follow it with having a coaching conversation with the bot.