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Training New Managers to Listen

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If only 10% of managers have the talent to be great managers, how does the 90% deficit in skills impact your business?

About Jim Woods

Jim Woods is a successful trainer and President of Woods Kovalova Group, a leading management consultancy serving Board and C-level executives, managers, and individuals by helping them create a culture of leadership. He is an author, a former fifth grade and university teacher with an impressive resume. He is beloved by audiences. To schedule a speaking engagement with Jim please schedule an engagement here. Go>. Connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, and Linkedin. Connect with Jim at jim@woodskovalovagroup.com.

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Making Leadership Communication Effective

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Authentic leadership requires establishing a genuine connection with people. Most certainly not dictatorial stances incumbent of keeping them in their places. A form of hierarchal control prevalent in low achieving ..

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Reimagining Authentic Leadership

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Authentic leadership consists of inherent tensions: You must remain true to who you are and at the same time adapt or conform to a situation all the while thinking about your worker’s needs. You must decide what's special about you that works with others. What core values compels you? How have your life experiences shaped you? What strengths differentiate you? What weaknesses

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How Managers Can Stand Up for Low Performers

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Managers who are personally, high achievers may find it difficult to focus on low performers. The weakness of these A-type managers is that if they can't do something right the first time, they give up or they manufacture a compelling rationale that explains why it is not worth the effort to improve employee satisfaction.

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How To Fix Employee Engagement

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The untold truth about employee engagement is when employees experience a combination of effective and caring leadership appealing to employee development opportunities. One produces a number, the other real results towards business outcomes. Not the company picnic where one marvels at the CEO flipping burgers but real-world engagement i.e. servant leadership reduces attrition saving you millions. 

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Weekend Movie List from Lucy - for Women Retreat and Motivation

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With the assistance of technology, we can connect to more people, to simplify our life, to automate our business and much more. But sometimes we just need to stop and relax... Our Women's Retreat..

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How Leaders Can Remain Calm Under Pressure

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How leaders respond under growing pressures is an indicator of their leadership readiness, maturity and acumen. Their success at building trust is displayed in the slow ebb of diminishing innovation, customer service and disengagement.

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Jim Woods Create Your Work-Life Breakthrough

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Most of us aspire to live a balanced life. We want to spend the appropriate amount of time and energy in each aspect of our lives. Yet, often our lives fall out of balance due to workplace stress or changes, an accident or injury, an unpredicted event, or even a small worry that grows larger with each passing day.

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5 Great Tips on How Servant Leadership Reduces Conflict in Teams

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A truly authentic leader doesn’t make assumptions only to leap to blind conclusions. They confidently give the impression of seeing a challenging situation from many viewpoints They consult with many people for perspective and clarification to arrive at a course of action benefiting the organization and employees involved.  

Making HR a True Business Partner for Competitive Advantage

As the speed of business accelerates and competition intensifies, firms in nearly all industries are braving greater uncertainty and complexity. In the midst of such challenges, human resources have the potential to be an important asset by making certain that their organization has the human capital they need to vie and also the ability to react quickly to ever-changing environments. This is after all the age of speed.

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Why We Should Bid Farewell to HR

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I have spoken with numerous executives who are quietly frustrated in their human resources department.  Faced with business outcomes they would ideally prefer to use their chief human resource officers in precisely the way they use their CFOs; as sounding boards and trusted advisors who understand real-world business

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What Happens When You Have Conflict in Teams

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A helpful discipline for leaders is to create periods of reflection, asking themselves and others, "Is this the only method we can see to solve the situation? What could we be missing? " When faced with deadlines this is critical to achieving successful results of teambuilding.

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How Management Corrupts Customer Service and The Employees That Serve Them

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Yes, it really is the fault of management. Your attrition rate is high. You are losing competitive advantage. In meetings, the only people to speak up are the usuals. You know them. You lose money due to lack of employee engagement that leads to dismal customer service ratios .... but alas, you don't care. Hear that knock?