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To Find The Right Coach, You Must First Understand Your Reasons For Wanting A Coach

When should you hire a qualified coach? This question has been around for years. Professionals, executives, leaders, business owners, managers, emerging leaders and high potentials all want that competitive edge and the opportunity to maximize their excellence. Often leaders realize their success is not solely due to their own making. Great leaders realize their success […]

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Communication Harris Whitesell Consulting Lori Harris

Cognitive Communication: Communicating To Maximize Excellence And Business Results

The ability to effectively communicate, and avoid miscommunications, is a key competency for leadership. We know from recent research and studies that productive communications can positively impact engagement, and the reality in the majority of organizations is that effective and productive communications do not happen often enough. Having intentional and purposeful communications with the right

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Prime the Brain to Recognize Opportunity – How to Maximize Excellence with Vision Journaling and a Vision Board

Everyone, on some level, and at some time or another, dreams, hopes, desires, imagines, and speculates about possibilities, things, and opportunity. It is part of our human nature to want better relationships, a good career, health and well-being, ability to travel, and greater knowledge. Some people may lack motivation, not have the understanding, or do

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Forbes Harris Whitesell Consulting Trust Leadership

16 Ways Senior Leaders Can Build Essential Trust With Each Other

While senior business leaders are required to work closely with their own teams, they also need to be ready to work with other leaders within the organization. Whether it’s communicating with upper management or collaborating with a leader from another department to complete a project, teamwork is a major part of any leader’s role. Before

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Ways to Push Back Forbes

Being Asked To Take On Too Much At Work? 16 Diplomatic Ways To Push Back

When you have a lot on your plate and a manager or peer asks you to do more work, it can be challenging to figure out how to decline or defer the request, especially if you’re worried about facing potential fallout. If you agree to take on the extra work because you feel intimidated, but

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Diversify Professional Network Forbes

How To Truly Diversify A Professional Network (And Why It’s Important)

If you’ve noticed that no matter how hard you try to build diverse professional connections, your network still seems slanted toward others like you, you’re not alone. It’s not uncommon for a person’s professional network to be made up mostly of people close to their own age, demographic, field and level of education even after

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Lori Harris Harris Whitesell Consulting Leading Effective Meetings

Leading Effective Meetings: Essential Skills for Today’s Ambitious Leaders

Lori Harris, Managing Partner, Harris Whitesell Consulting LLC, presents: Leading Effective Meetings – Essential Skills for Today’s Ambitious Leaders. Click to Watch: Leading Effective Meetings: Essential Skills for Today’s Ambitious Leaders

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Executives Harris Whitesell Consulting Forbes

Ready To Reach The Executive Level? Take These 15 Steps As A Manager

Open executive positions can be few and far between. While most executive job openings are due to someone leaving the firm, outsiders with executive experience are often selected to fill them. However, there are ways for a manager within an organization to get a foot in the C-suite door from the inside. If you’re ready

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Communication Harris Whitesell Consulting Forbes

Professionals Need To Stop Making These 14 Communication Faux Pas

Communication is a critically important part of doing business, but not everyone comes equipped with flawless communication skills. In fact, many professionals struggle when it comes to effectively interacting with business leaders, other employees and prospective customers. Unfortunately, the cost of bad communication habits could be the loss of career opportunities, potential clients or business

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12 Ways For Junior Professionals To Build Career Resilience

Cities, companies, C-level executives and senior leaders are often focused on building resilience into their operations. What junior professionals and individual contributors may not realize is that they too can build a level of personal resilience into their careers. Knowing how to adjust to unforeseen obstacles and stay steady and calm through periods of uncertainty

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Priorities Harris Whitesell Consulting Forbes

11 Ways For Business Leaders To Better Establish Priorities

Business leaders have a lot of competing interests vying for their time. When you’re dealing with a million moving parts each day, you learn to become a master of the pivot, constantly adapting as circumstances change. Nonetheless, determining which priorities to focus on at any given moment can still be a huge challenge. One of

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Harris Whitesell Consulting Executive Travel Tips

EXECUTIVE TRAVEL – 5 TIPS FOR HASSEL FREE TRAVEL

Executive travel doesn’t have to be overwhelming or complicated. It does require purpose, planning, coordination, monitoring, and communications. We asked a few of our Executive clients who travel often, and travel well, to share a few tips on making their travels a bit less stressful and more enjoyable – because you never know where you

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