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This Week Recent Posts
1. Reaction Management: How to keep your cool in the heat of the moment. (What can we learn from Navy SEALs?)
Hello, and welcome. My name is Neil Godin and I’m your host here at This Week – a complimentary service that brings you leadership and
24. Are You a Good Listener – Really? Part One: The Skill of Active Listening
This week we explore one of the most challenging skills in leadership: The art and science of effective listening. You can substitute the word ‘active’
23. How to stop ‘grudgery’ in its tracks
“Holding onto a grudge is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.”– Gautama Buddha Welcome back. This week, let’s dive into the
22. Employee Engagement Part 2: “Things we can do”
In last week’s post I set out to address the ‘why’ behind the ‘how’ of fully engaging your team members. This week I want to
21. Employee Engagement: “Is there a magic bullet?”
People in business know the foundation for success is a large, stable and ever-growing base of loyal customers – customers who stay with us no
20. Building a ‘Real’ Team Code of Conduct
If you‘ve read my articles on Action Meetings, you may recall me saying that we had to establish rigid rules of the road in order
19. Action Meetings Revisited: How to fully engage ’The Quiet Ones’
In my posts on Action Meetings (Posts 16 and 17), I spoke of the need to spell out the rules of the road when brainstorming
18.‘How to Overturn Murphy’s Law!’ (Hint: Expect the Unexpected)
This week we look at what can happen when we rigorously plan ahead for problems we could encounter when starting a new project or procedure
17. “Need Action? Hold an Action Meeting” – Part 2: Tips, tricks and how-to’s.
This week we discuss tips, tricks and how-to’s involved in conducting action meetings. The first trick I want to share involves changing our mind about

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