When you work in a trusting environment, you feel energetic and productive. You know that others are giving you the benefit of the doubt and supportin...
Being Brave is Tough but Essential – in Leading and in Life
“We need braver leaders and more courageous cultures,” author of Dare to Lead, Brene Brown concludes. Brown has amassed an impressive data base of...
Reward and Recognition
In our work and research over the years, Key Associates has developed some best practices for designing and implementing reward and recognition (R&...
A Real Life Wonder Woman
In learning about others in business, it’s not uncommon to come across some outstanding athletes. That being said, I didn’t think I was hearing Su...
It’s All How You Frame It
Probably one of the least used and most effective skills that a leader can employ is the power of conscious framing. A frame is the set of assumptions...
Talk to Me: How to conduct an informal 360
As the year winds down, it’s important to review how you are doing in relation to goals you have set, professionally and personally. A great way to ...
Let’s Talk Turkey – Be More Authentic in Your Conversations at Home and Work
Thanksgiving has long been among my favorite holidays. It’s devoted to being grateful for all we have and considerably less commercial than other ho...
Assessing the Emotional Intelligence Factor – Part 2
Improving your EI is about managing your inner response to things and choosing a new way to handle your inner reaction to people and situations. For e...
Assessing the Emotional Intelligence Factor – Part 1
The biggest reason leaders fail is not intelligence or IQ, but lack of emotional intelligence or EI. Fortunately, EI is developable; IQ isn’t. Resea...
Get a 360 View and Grow
In our peer forums, one of the participants shared that some of the employees reporting to her find her “intimidating.” “How can I get the feedb...
Purge Perfectionism
I was invited to speak at Raymond James’ Women in Capital Markets Conference in January of this year. I was excited to hear that Claire Shipman was ...
It’s not what you say, it’s how you project it
Women are often penalized for asserting themselves verbally. Interestingly, research indicates that women are not penalized for non-verbal assertive b...
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