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Got a Goal? Get Focused!

By Camille Smith / January 13, 2011

Yogi Berra grins: If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them. Novelist Rosalyn McMillan advises: When you want something in life, you have to focus. Both good points. But what happens when something blocks our progress? Do we focus on the goal and ignore the obstacle? Or, do we focus on removing…

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Mid-Air Diasaster Avoided: Values Win Over Litigation

By Camille Smith / December 20, 2010

Do you know how your values shape your performance? In this story my client gave me permission to share, you’ll hear how his values and his commitment to honor his word guided him. Here’s his story… On an international flight from China, the captain’s voice woke us: “Will the doctors on board please press their…

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Want to make better decisions? Learn to balance.

By Camille Smith / November 16, 2010

Being successful requires making the right decisions at the right time. By “right”, I mean those decisions that effectively move us toward our goals. If you’re like many of us faced with making a critical business decision —who to hire or fire, what product or service to launch or dump, what deal to sign or…

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Boomers & GenYers Share the Same Bed … of Values

By Camille Smith / November 3, 2010

Recently, I was of the opinion that what Millennials (born 1976-87) value is different from what Boomers (born 1946-64) cherish. More recently, I received another intelligence report from HBR (http://harvardbusiness.org, July-Aug 09), entitled “How Gen Y & Boomers Will Reshape Your Agenda”, with the tag line: Your oldest and youngest talent cohorts demand many of…

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Are you a Delegator or a Dropper-off-er?

By Camille Smith / October 5, 2010

del-e-gat, vb, to commit powers, functions to another as a agent to carry out powers and functions; to assign responsibility. Synonym: entrust. Dropping-off.  We ask others to do stuff for us all the time – stuff we don’t want to do, don’t have the time to do, and couldn’t do even if we had the…

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Different conversations, different outcomes

By Camille Smith / September 20, 2010

Scenario: An employee who doesn’t report to you asks that you keep the following in confidence. His performance review is overdue by 4 months. He anticipates a pay raise which is needed due to his spouse’s working hours reduced due to forced furloughs. The employee also wants to know if he is doing OK or…

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Are you measuring the past or the future?

By Camille Smith / September 2, 2010

What you have your attention on gets attended to. Peter Drucker reminds us: “People think they measure what they get. In fact, they get what they measure.” What are your measures getting you?  Are the numbers numbing your staff or inspiring innovation?  Do the measures maintain a comfortable zone or create the possibility for the…

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How to drink the future from a fire hose: Don’t defend. Open wide.

By Camille Smith / August 16, 2010

I admit it. I am a “people-r-great” geek.  Most everything I read, hear and watch filters through my coaching lens: How can this help someone be a strong, creative leader in uncertain times?  How will this have someone see she has a choice and that there’s an alternative to feeling victimized?  How can this shed…

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Get Good at Change: Things To Do (and un-do)

By Camille Smith / July 14, 2010

Regardless of what business you are in, in today’s economic whirlwind, if you aren’t good at change and adapting, you are probably having a tougher time than those people who are. It’s time to get good at change. Here are some beginning steps: 1.    Make a declaration. Say what you are committed to accomplishing. Don’t…

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Onboarding that helps New & Old employees!

By Camille Smith / July 2, 2010

The interview process is complete. Expectations established and promises made by both parties. The contact signed. Next step: Welcome, Aboard! Onboarding is a process to acclimate a new employee into an organization so that the value they were hired to add to the company is successfully realized as rapidly and cost-effectively as possible. The traditional…

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