A Good Leader Learns How To Give Criticism To Her Team    

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Beware of some advice. Many people will tell you to deliver a criticism in Sandwich Style. That’s the: Start with a compliment, give the criticism, end with a compliment. I say, “Wait a minute, that may not be a great idea for many women—especially for a woman who’s dreading delivering a criticism.” She may be so uncomfortable with the situation that she lays on the top slice—the beginning positive comment, so heavy it’s like a piece of bread overslathered with mayo—it grabs your attention.

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A Good Leader Conveys This Idea To Her Employees

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Today’s post was prompted by an article written by Guy Kawasaki, called In Pursuit of Elegance. He talks about how many of the best products are simple and compelling. Too often businesses add all the bells and whistles they can think of. Their idea is that more is better. Look at Google, look at the iPhone, and look at a Sudoku puzzle. Clean, simple, and completely compelling . . . to most people. I’ll go for Google, and the iPhone, but I’ll appreciate and avoid a Sudoku puzzle. Now that I think about it, I’ll substitute Twitter (see NancyFClark) for Sudoku any time. Twitter fits the simple and compelling model as well, if you’re following the right people. Clean, simple, compelling—that’s elegance.

My Tip of the Week is going to get you started on a newly focused, elegant, agenda.

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5 Steps For Motivation

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Sometimes we need help getting motivated. Today I’m giving you 5 easy steps. Step #1 requires you to Imagine you’re on your deathbed – an unpleasant enough visual to catch your attention, as it should. It makes you think about the shortness of life and the importance of doing things that are important to you. If you knew you might die soon, say next year, what things would you want to quickly begin accomplishing? Think about various facets of your life and pinpoint the 3 most important items for each.

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Increasing Your Happiness Level Is Easier Than You Think!

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If you’ve suspected that happy people get better work evaluations and higher pay, then you’re right. A 15-year study in Australia showed this is true. Happiness has wide ranging effects. According to Professor Martin Seligman (author of Authentic Happiness), “…it turns out that adults and children who are put into a good mood select higher goals, perform better, and persist longer on a variety of laboratory tasks, such as solving anagrams.” Ah, that means happiness improves motivation as well. More Good News.

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Let’s Make Sure The Glass Ceiling Stays In The Past   

  Finally, and dramatically, public perception has changed! 

Five years ago, anyone could say, “ A woman or an African American man cannot be elected President,” and it would be assumed to be true. Now, even though Hillary Clinton did not win, we can picture either type of candidate having a viable chance in the future. Imagine the change: Race or gender no longer eliminates you from becoming President of the United States!   

This perception is percolating down into our business world with the outstanding performance of a number of female CEO’s. We have seen that a woman can successfully grow a small company into a major player, such as Meg Whitman did with eBay. She formed a fledgling Internet idea into a company with revenue of 8.46 billion dollars a year. She now has her eye on another arena—politics.   

The Rules are Changing You no longer have to dress like a man or act like a man to reach upper management—the level that was forbidden by the glass ceiling. You can act in a style that’s comfortable to you as long as you show others they can have confidence in you. My Tip of the Week shows you how to do this. 

 

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Consider 8 Aspects In Your Work-Life Balance     

Balancing all aspects of your life is not about running harder and faster. It’s about realizing the following:    

• There’s only a limited amount of time each day when you’re awake and functioning.   

• It’s not good to concentrate on only one thing, such as work–you’d be neglecting family and friends.   

• Perfection is not always good, and is often a waste of time.   

• And, there are a number of areas where your attention is needed.   

  So what are the areas I need to consider when I’m trying to balance my life? It’s a big list. Here are the 8 that are on my list: Family, Friends, Work, Health, Spirituality, Giving Back, Being Selfish, and then there’s Trajectory—which I’ll explain in a minute.      

 

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Organize A Project With Five Easy Steps
 
 
I’m not going to try to guess what type of project you’re wrestling with. Do you have more than one? You probably do. Today, I’ll talk about a way to organize—and simplify—a project that doesn’t involve managing other employees. The Group Project will be covered as another topic.
 
Think of 1 project you want to do. What if I said to you, “Right now, write a list of what needs to be done to perform this project beautifully?”  Would you sit in front of your computer with your fingers paralyzed, perched over the keys? If so, you may have the Perfectionist’s Dilemma—you may be expecting to see a neat, perfectly arranged document appearing on your screen. Don’t worry—in this case, you’re normal.
 
Wouldn’t you feel better if I directed you to type up a very rough draft of what needs to be done? And I’d promise that no one else will be able to look at it. Is the paralysis gone?  And wouldn’t all this be more doable if I gave you Five Easy Steps to follow? Good! Here are the Five Easy Steps.
 
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Take These 5 Steps For A To-Do List That Keeps
Your Priorities In Mind   

If you’re a working woman, chances are you want to be a success in your job and you want to be a success with your family and your friends, and you want some time for yourself as well. Talk about a full bucket!   

Well, there’s only so much time available in that bucket—we aren’t allowed to make it bigger. So the quantity of tasks we put into this bucket each day is limited. You know you could easily fill it tomorrow with any 1 of these categories:    

• Job 
• Family 
• Friends 
• Yourself 

First, you need to know what works best for other working women. Our audience members at www.WomensMedia.com have tested our ideas and have saluted the one I’m about to tell you. Most of these women have agreed with us that they’re near a computer and would like to use it for their lists. We agree. This does make it nice and easy—and it looks good too! Aesthetics are important. Well, actions are too.     

 

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They’re Finally Ready For Us!   

What if you asked 2,250 adults across the U.S. who makes a better political leader, a man or a woman? And what if you divided leadership into 8 character traits?  Luckily for us, the Pew Research Center found the money and the people to fund a well-run survey asking these exact questions. What did they find? They found a paradox in our society.     

 

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