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Stop Competing and Start Differentiating
Competing with others can lead to frustration and reactive choices. In this article, Marcus Straub shares why self-accountability, operational excellence, and innovation are the keys to sustainable differentiation.
Does Your Leadership Stand Out in a Good Way?
True leadership extends beyond titles. Learn how your actions—at work, at home, and in the world—can uplift others and create lasting influence.
Empower Your Team to Think Independently
When team members are encouraged to think for themselves, they become more capable, confident, and committed. This article explores how mentorship and open communication can foster independent thinking.
Delegation Enhances Business Efficiency
When business owners delegate effectively, they empower their teams, improve operations, and create the freedom to lead strategically. Learn why delegation is key to growth and resilience.
Effective Listening: Enhancing Communication in All Relationships
Listening is one of the most powerful—yet underused—tools in both business and life. This article explores how effective listening builds stronger relationships, trust, and results across every area of communication.
Strengthen Your Team with Praise and Recognition
When leaders focus only on what’s wrong, they miss what’s working—and risk losing their best people. This article explores how praise and recognition build stronger, more motivated teams and create a culture of excellence that benefits everyone.
Deal With Negative Team Members Before They Affect Your Business
Negative team members can poison your workplace culture, drain morale, and harm your bottom line. This article outlines proactive leadership strategies for identifying, addressing, and transforming negative behavior—before it impacts your business.
Lead the Way with Exceptional Customer Service
With every interaction and transaction, a business gives its customers a positive, neutral or negative feeling. The last two have no place in a thriving company, while the first is a necessary component to happiness and success. What business can afford the negative impact on its customers, and therefore the bottom line, from the lack of positive experiences?
Give yourself and your business the gift of an honest self-appraisal. If you find that your leadership style, current team, work environment or your customer service could benefit from the support of a qualified coaching professional, then take that next step and invest in your excellence. The success of your company and the happiness of everyone involved is on the line.
The Leadership Divide: Are You a Leader or a Boss?
If you’re like most people, you’ve worked for a variety of business owners and managers throughout your lifetime. Some of them likely stand out in your mind as individuals you enjoyed working for, while others created an unpleasant work environment. It’s also likely that you have a clear preference for the type of person you would prefer to work for.
There is a vast difference between being a leader and being a boss. A leader influences, collaborates, guides, inspires, mentors and supports others to foster movement in a desired direction. Conversely, a boss is someone who exerts control over others, often in a domineering and demeaning manner, utilizing fear and intimidation to extract more effort from those they oversee.