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Dianna Booher works with organizations to improve their productivity through clear communication and with individuals to increase their impact by a stronger executive presence.

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4 Comments Employees Hate to Hear From New Leaders

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Dianna Booher |
Small Business - Self Governance - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management |
Tue, 08/22/2017 - 01:46

Leaders aim to make their mark on business operations, imprint their philosophies on their staff, leave their legacy on the organization. They hope the team will remember their leadership as unique, profitable, and pleasant. Understandable goals.

But all too often, new leaders start out with similar clichés and concepts—lines that set their staff members up for disappointment, if not downright disengagement, rather than the intended productivity boost.

Do these new-leader clichés sound familiar?

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How to Get Your Point Across Persuasively

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Dianna Booher |
Editors - Strategy - Small Business - Self Governance - Finance - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management - Sales - Marketing - Business Ops. |
Fri, 07/21/2017 - 09:56

CEOs typically have their minds made up about most things—social issues, business decisions, social issues. Just ask them. Very few individuals will eagerly invite you to persuade them to take on a new perspective. So if you’re going to get someone to change their behavior, actions, or opinion, you need to do it purposeful. Then ten tips can make the difference between stubborn resistance and open consideration:

10 Ways to Get Your Point Across Persuasively

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Introducing Your Next Speaker--Rough, Ruinous, or Rousing?

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Dianna Booher |
Editors - Strategy - Small Business - Self Governance - Finance - Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management |
Tue, 06/20/2017 - 01:30

As CEO, you’re frequently called on to introduce someone—a celebrity for your big client event of the year, an industry guru for your management meeting, a politician for a community gathering. Whatever the occasion, you never want to be that person who disappoints the speaker, confuses the crowd, and embarrasses yourself.

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Are You A Smart Manager or A Wise Leader?

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Dianna Booher |
Entrepreneurship - Leadership - Management |
Sat, 05/20/2017 - 02:14

Pop quiz here:

Do you sometimes second-guess yourself about decisions until opportunities pass?
Do colleagues and clients frequently seek your opinion on their big decisions?
Do you often get feedback on the quality of your contributions in meetings?
Do those meeting ideas produce the results you intend?

Like artists, wise leaders analyze and focus on a situation or problem. Then they decide and act. And even then, as theologian and author Oswald Chambers put it: “It’s never wise to be cocksure.”

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6 Communication Blunders Leaders Make -- And How to Avoid Them

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Dianna Booher |
Self Governance - Leadership |
Wed, 04/19/2017 - 08:11

The essence of leadership is communication: to cast a vision, to inspire, to collaborate on strategy, and to engage followers in accomplishing a mission. But let’s face it: Many leaders fall flat on their face when it comes to communication.

The only thing that keeps the organization afloat and followers on target are those second-in-command people “picking up the slack” and translating for those leaders who struggle as communicators.