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Why self-control is the engine of your success

By Bonnie Artman Fox / July 20, 2023
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Do you have a goal you’ve been striving for but haven’t yet reached? Whether it’s finishing a project, addressing team dysfunction, or having a tough conversation, self-control is the engine of your success. It’s the driving force that keeps you focused and persistent, and tools like the If-Then Plan can help you harness that power…

Overcome Conflict Avoidance – Nicole Greer Podcast Episode Highlights

By Bonnie Artman Fox / June 22, 2023
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Recently, I had the privilege of joining Nicole Greer on her Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast.  We discussed the critical role healthy conflict plays in creating supportive work environments. It was a fun, dynamic conversation filled with actionable insights on how to overcome conflict avoidance. We had a great back-and-forth conversation about the crucial role…

5 Keys To Guide Your Abrasive Top-Performing Employees

By Bonnie Artman Fox / March 23, 2023
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As a leader, you play a key role in helping your employees transform abrasive behaviors into emotional intelligence skills. Here are 5 keys to guide your abrasive top-performing employees to positive transformation. By addressing behaviors that distract from a healthy work culture, you serve as a guide for these same employees to become the hero…

How to Stay Non-Reactive and Set Healthy Boundaries in 5 Words or Less

By Bonnie Artman Fox / January 12, 2023
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Learning to stay non-reactive in leadership is often like parenting when it’s necessary to draw lines and the lines aren’t always clear. Sometimes it can seem like steering on ice. Just like a parent, it takes discernment to know when to:       Draw a firm, tight line and demand a lot of your…

Are your dysfunctional family conflict patterns affecting your leadership conflict patterns?

By RDD Support / December 8, 2022
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Great, it’s happened again. An abrasive leader has exploded on one your team members yet again. The team member is embarrassed, afraid to contribute when the leader is around, and becoming disengaged from the organization. The last time this happened you swore to yourself that you’d address it the next time it came up, but…

How a Leader Created Psychological Safety With His Team

By Bonnie Artman Fox / February 16, 2022
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How do you as a leader handle team meetings when one-minute things seem to be going along well, and the next an employee makes a comment that blindsides you? Such was the case during a recent teambuilding training I was facilitating. It was like watching a leader on a hire wire act of balancing the…

3 Ways to Combat the Great Resignation

By Bonnie Artman Fox / January 12, 2022
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As you know, the Great Resignation is one of the greatest challenges facing organizations today.   But do you know why your employees are leaving?   Before assuming they’re moving on for better pay or more flexibility (although that may be part of it), take the time to schedule at least a 30-minute conversation with…

Succeed In Business By Investing In Employee Relationships

By Bonnie Artman Fox / February 23, 2021
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Spending resources on how leaders and employees treat one another is often considered a waste of time and money when there’s so much work to be done, strategy to be executed, and bottom-line results to be achieved. Many leaders think that focusing on healthy behaviors and emotional intelligence skills in the workplace is soft or…

A Boss’s Ripple Effect…on Employee Retention

By Bonnie Artman Fox / September 18, 2018
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I wish you could have been there, sitting in my office as a fly on the wall. You’d hear story after story of courageous people who want to make sense of difficulties in their lives in order to be their best in both their personal and professional lives. Before I coached leaders to strengthen organizational…

Present, But Not There

By Bonnie Artman Fox / July 1, 2014
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Presenteeism.  This one word costs U.S. employers between $150-260 billion a year.  It’s a concept that is identified as a contributing factor to lower productivity and higher costs to employers.  By definition presenteeism is usually associated with employees coming to work who are medically ill, have an injury, or have an underlying anxiety.  In other…