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		<title>5 Professional Development Opportunities Businesses Should Offer</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2016 19:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Offering useful and meaningful professional development opportunities to your staff members is one of the keys to a more effective company. Investing in professional development may help your company avoid costly mistakes and keep your best employees motivated and increase their knowledge. This way, it may be more likely that you’ll retain your best workers [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Offering useful and meaningful professional development opportunities to your staff members is one of the keys to a more effective company. Investing in professional development may help your company avoid costly mistakes and keep your best employees motivated and increase their knowledge. This way, it may be more likely that you’ll retain your best workers [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Leadership Lessons Learned From the Playing Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2016 01:24:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[When I was in college, I played on a women&#8217;s recreational touch football team.&#160; We were known as&#160;the Iron Ovaries, and if you&#8217;re wondering is it safe to play? &#8211; after hearing that name, I&#8217;ll remind you it was touch, haha. Those were the days of women claiming our rightful place in being able to [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I was in college, I played on a women&#8217;s recreational touch football team.&#160; We were known as&#160;the Iron Ovaries, and if you&#8217;re wondering is it safe to play? &#8211; after hearing that name, I&#8217;ll remind you it was touch, haha. Those were the days of women claiming our rightful place in being able to [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Leadership Procrastinationitis</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/09/12/leadership-procrastinationitis/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leadership-procrastinationitis</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Is there a prescription treatment for procrastinationitis? This is the &#8220;disease&#8221; that seemingly permeates people so that every action needs to be delayed until&#8230;. well, &#8230;.. uh,&#8230;. later, I guess? Some Things Never Change&#8230; I knew it would happen this way. When I sat together with my colleague Linda to prepare the quality feedback survey [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Is there a prescription treatment for procrastinationitis? This is the &#8220;disease&#8221; that seemingly permeates people so that every action needs to be delayed until&#8230;. well, &#8230;.. uh,&#8230;. later, I guess? Some Things Never Change&#8230; I knew it would happen this way. When I sat together with my colleague Linda to prepare the quality feedback survey [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Billionaire Birthday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Infographic Courtesy of Frame Your TV]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Infographic Courtesy of Frame Your TV]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>On Leadership and Burning a Few Bridges</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/06/01/on-leadership-and-burning-a-few-bridges/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=on-leadership-and-burning-a-few-bridges</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2016 18:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hopkins</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom tells us to never burn a single bridge in our professional lives because you never know when you might need that relationship again.  I firmly believe that there are going to be circumstances and people that nearly require you to do this: Burn some bridges so that you will never need to work [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Conventional wisdom tells us to never burn a single bridge in our professional lives because you never know when you might need that relationship again.  I firmly believe that there are going to be circumstances and people that nearly require you to do this: Burn some bridges so that you will never need to work [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Equipping Leaders to Battle Fear with Accountability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2016 17:36:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ellis</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Six Leadership Obstacles to Team Success   As leaders, we want the positive elements of success—achievement, notoriety, money, and excellence for clients and customers. But we’re unwilling to do the right things to get there. The missing cultural piece is courageous accountability. What are the six obstacles that can get you off-course? Read Lee’s latest article [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Six Leadership Obstacles to Team Success   As leaders, we want the positive elements of success—achievement, notoriety, money, and excellence for clients and customers. But we’re unwilling to do the right things to get there. The missing cultural piece is courageous accountability. What are the six obstacles that can get you off-course? Read Lee’s latest article [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Mentoring in the Workplace: Spreading the Knowledge</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2016 14:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Linda R. Ranieri</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[We often hear about the need for gaining and sharing organizational knowledge to further our careers, reach our goals (and create new ones), and make connections in various industries. One of the best ways to share knowledge is also a vital part of the leadership toolkit – mentoring. Mentoring in the Workplace Mentoring is an [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We often hear about the need for gaining and sharing organizational knowledge to further our careers, reach our goals (and create new ones), and make connections in various industries. One of the best ways to share knowledge is also a vital part of the leadership toolkit – mentoring. Mentoring in the Workplace Mentoring is an [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Communication Breakdown: Are You Resonating With Your Audience?</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/04/28/communication-breakdown-are-you-resonating-with-your-audience/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=communication-breakdown-are-you-resonating-with-your-audience</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2016 16:43:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Grossman</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating!?!?” Although this can be very frustrating, it certainly does not mean that you should just stop communicating (as I&#8217;ve also heard&#8230;) Knowing Your Audience Problem: Most likely, the failure to communicate effectively an indicator that you need to take [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating!?!?” Although this can be very frustrating, it certainly does not mean that you should just stop communicating (as I&#8217;ve also heard&#8230;) Knowing Your Audience Problem: Most likely, the failure to communicate effectively an indicator that you need to take [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>Leadership and The Ugly Four-Letter Word: Fear</title>
		<link>https://linked2leadership.com/2016/04/19/leadership-and-the-ugly-four-letter-word-fear/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=leadership-and-the-ugly-four-letter-word-fear</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2016 18:19:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[We all have different ideas of what fear looks like.  Some people fear taking risks, others fear conflict or confrontation, and still others fear rejection by peers, just to name a few. So what is fear?   My Fear of Failure Personally, I struggle with fear of failure.  I am a perfectionist by nature, as are [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[We all have different ideas of what fear looks like.  Some people fear taking risks, others fear conflict or confrontation, and still others fear rejection by peers, just to name a few. So what is fear?   My Fear of Failure Personally, I struggle with fear of failure.  I am a perfectionist by nature, as are [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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		<title>On Leadership and Overcoming a Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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				<description><![CDATA[Make no mistake about it, there will be moments when a crisis strikes. Life has a way of making sure that plenty of lemons come our way. And it seem that none of us can escape this truth. Leaders often have to manage through crisis. This can only be done with good information. Because of a [&#8230;]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Make no mistake about it, there will be moments when a crisis strikes. Life has a way of making sure that plenty of lemons come our way. And it seem that none of us can escape this truth. Leaders often have to manage through crisis. This can only be done with good information. Because of a [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>
	

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