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12.31.2007

Goal Processing: Og Words of Wisdom (Part 3 of 3)

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Our final set of thoughts from Og Mandino as you work on your 2008 resolutions and goals... Og Mandino Quotes (Part 3) 201. This day is ...
12.28.2007

Goal Processing: Og's Words of Wisdom (Part 2 of 3)

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Just a few more thoughts from Og Mandino as you work on your 2008 resolutions and goals... Og Mandino Quotes (Part 2) 101. I will wor...
12.26.2007

Goal Processing: Og's Words of Wisdom (Part 1 of 3)

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Just a few thoughts from Og Mandino as you work on your 2008 resolutions and goals... Og Mandino Quotes (Part 1) 1. Act now. For now is ...
12.20.2007

Goal Processing: Resolution Help...

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As you are working on setting your '08 goals, priorities and resolutions, review the 17 Goal Processing posts from the PLI blog in 2007....
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12.17.2007

General: 200 Words To Lead By

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This is the Personal Leadership Insight's 200th post. So, here are exactly 200 words to lead by. These are the important ones. inhale ...
12.14.2007

Innovative: Get In The Box

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Pick up the January 2008 copy of the magazine Fast Company and flip to Chip and Dan Heath's monthly article (Made to Stick authors). Bas...
12.12.2007

Innovative: Fish Smoking

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Find a creative way to say the same old thing and you are moving closer to earning attention instead of stealing it... Processing Question...
12.08.2007

Goal Processing: Compare Yourself...

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Goal Processing: Compare Yourself... ...to the Last Year You. Are you a healthier person? Are you a wiser person?...
12.07.2007

Masterful Communication: Memorization Station

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I don't often advocate memorizing content for presentations. However, there are times when you do need to memorize a portion of a presen...
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12.04.2007

Fostering Relationships: 25 Cent Fundraising

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Let's say you agree to give $.25 to a friend so they can buy a soda. What can the dynamics of that simple transaction teach us about eff...
11.30.2007

Masterful Communication: Confidence

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Regarding giving presentations, you can't improve confidence by dealing with confidence. You improve your confidence by absolutely knowi...
11.28.2007

Integrity: What Produces Competency and Trust?

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(Download and hang up the PDF...) Processing Questions for PLI Curriculum Teachers/Trainers: Know yourself 1. What is your personal mission...
11.26.2007

Teaching PLI: Breaking Down Personal Leadership Insight

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Personal Leadership Insight is the curriculum we teach to thousands of students, educators and business professionals every year. The defi...
11.21.2007

Skill Assessment: Where is Your Focus?

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Leaders are constantly interested in improvement. Making things better drives their thinking, their value system, and their behavior. Howeve...
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11.20.2007

Integrity: The Final Thoughts on Leadership

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The Final Thoughts by Rhett Laubach (This is from a slide show I use in my keynotes. To view the actual slide show, click here .) Take time ...
11.19.2007

Final Thoughts Slide Show

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Your Next Speaker Final Thoughts From: rhettdean , 3 minutes ago | View | Upload your own This is a slide show we use in our leadership ke...
11.14.2007

General: Student Leader Questions

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At a recent FCCLA event, a few student leaders asked these questions... How do I keep from procrastinating? Chunk down your duties into bit...
11.12.2007

Service Minded: Best 10 Minutes of Your Morning

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This week spend 10 minutes each morning thinking and/or journaling about one and only one thing: how you can repay three to five people who...
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11.10.2007

Goal Processing: Baby-Step It

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When you start telling yourself you can't do something, flip it into a positive and shorten it. Baby-step it. Replace... "I can...
11.07.2007

Goal Processing: Keep Commitments to Yourself

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Keep commitments to yourself first. This isn't a statement advocating selfishness. This simply means we can get too good at breaking com...
11.05.2007

Emotional Maturity: Why Regret is a Double-Whammy

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Regret is so detrimental to our emotional well-being because it is a today feeling about a yesterday action. It is a state that is both chan...
11.02.2007

Skill Assessment: How Do You Do "I Don't Know?"

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Effectively managing what we don't know is an important part of positively influencing others. There are two forces at work here: 1. I d...
10.31.2007

Emotional Maturity: Never Give In...

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"This is the lesson: never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never—in nothing, great or small, large or petty—never give in ...
10.29.2007

Teaching PLI: Take a Deeper Bite of PLI Via Del.icio.us

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If you are a regular reader of the Personal Leadership Insight blog, you are already aware of our Del.icio.us tags. If not, please peruse th...
10.25.2007

Integrity: When Attending Conferences Is a Bad Thing

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During the busiest month for conferences and conventions (October), it is relevant for us to take a quick look at the biggest downside of at...
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10.22.2007

Fostering Relationships: Tips From an Expert Networker

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Business networking tips from Luke Martin, former Personal Assistant to the Governor of Oklahoma and current new business development office...
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10.15.2007

Vision: Just Lucky I Guess

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People who think success is just a matter of luck are less likely to enjoy job and life satisfaction. The reason is because the control has ...
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10.12.2007

Integrity: Leadership is Improvement

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Stan Clark, President of Stan Clark Companies and co-founder of the famous Eskimo Joe's in Stillwater, Oklahoma, passed on to me some s...
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10.11.2007

Goal Processing: One More Benefit of Conferences

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Setting personal and professional goals in a conference environment is different than in a home environment. The reason is because we stretc...
10.09.2007

Masterful Communication: Experts Aren't Always the Best Choice

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When you need to communicate the details of something (a product's benefit, a new project concept, etc.), asking an expert can be the wr...
10.05.2007

Unmade Leader: Some Switches On... Some Switches Off

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The big idea behind our upcoming book The Unmade Leader is "leaders are born and then unmade." For more reading about what this me...
10.02.2007

Innovative: Dr. Burt Smith's Blog

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My fellow NSA-Oklahoma peer, Dr. Burt Smith, is a marketing guru and a brand new owner of a blog! Check out his recent post on how it doesn...
9.30.2007

Innovative: How to Create a Powerful Student Leadership Retreat

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Denise Vaniadis is a master teacher, administrator and Student Council advisor (on the local, state and national levels) in Oklahoma. Her sc...
9.28.2007

Wise Judgment: Have Mercy

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We just presented at a leadership conference for 500 students in southern Oregon. We had eight of our best presenters working with these stu...
9.26.2007

Skill Assessment: The Little Things Make a Huge Difference

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A few of my college buddies and I took a golf weekend trip to Scottsdale, AZ. We golfed 72 holes in 48 hours. We had a great time. Scottsdal...
9.20.2007

Goal Processing: Sacrifice

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As you reach for your personal and professional goals, a powerful question to ask yourself is this, "For what are you willing to sacrif...
9.19.2007

Fostering Relationships: The Chicken Little

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Chicken Little was confused and mistaken. He thought the cartoon acorn that hit him on his cartoon head was the cartoon sky. He thought the ...
9.18.2007

Masterful Communcation: 5 Quick Speaking Tips

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Index your information with keywords Prepare, but don't overprepare Make direct eye contact with the audience Be authentic Have a conver...
9.17.2007

Integrity: The End Result of Authenticity

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Read these words in the context of how others respond to you being yourself as a leader... Authenticity leads to transparency. Transparency ...
9.14.2007

Fostering Relationships: The Coach's Five Conversations

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If you are called to lead or manage employees, add power to your employee evaluation process by including one or all of the following five q...
9.12.2007

Integrity: The Clark Kent Effect

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The corporate and education worlds are full of people who want to be Superman. They want to possess super leadership powers that will allow...
9.11.2007

Emotional Maturity: The Danger of Pushing Back

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Two people are standing, facing each other, hands raised to shoulder-height and palms open. They touch palms and lean towards each other. As...
9.10.2007

Masterful Communication: The Seven Speaking Skills

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The following seven skills are at the core of what we teach to our professional, pageant and student presentation coaching clients... 1. Au...