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Leadership: Building A Great Team by Dr. Catrina Pullum

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Over the past few weeks, I have been asked by entrepreneurs and business leaders to provide training on to build a great team. How do leaders create and sustain change? What style of leadership is needed to motivate people to undertake change? A leader provides resources and rewards in exchange for motivation, productivity, effective goals, or task accomplishments. An effective leader can get their team members to change and to lead change. This type of leadership empowers employees to make a difference. As organizations demand more from their work forces, they are finding that the old tried and true methods of staying late and working longer aren’t working. Instead, this is creating an energy drain on the employees, which is being seen as the cause of lower productivity. This is due to the employees being exhausted, disengaged, and stressed out to the point of becoming ill. Employers should develop practices to help employees renew four different aspects of their personal e

How Adopting Mindfulness Can Benefit You and Your Business by Dr. Toya Wilson

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What is mindfulness? A simple definition could be stated as: the basic human ability to be fully present, aware of  where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or overwhelmed by what’s going on  around us. It’s a pretty straightforward word. It suggests that the mind is fully attending to  what’s happening, to what you’re doing, to the space you’re moving through. That might seem  trivial, except for the annoying fact that we so often veer from the matter at hand. Our mind  takes flight, we lose touch with our body, and pretty soon we’re engrossed in obsessive  thoughts about something that just happened or fretting about the future. And that makes us  anxious. Why should business owners care about mindfulness? Top executives are starting to see by decreasing how much they stress out over today's  problems, and decreasing anxiety over tomorrow's potential woes, they pave the way for mental  clarity, creative thinking, higher-level awareness for better dec

#Winning by Dr. Deborah Tillman

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For too many of us, perception has become reality, but perception is not always  the TRUTH. The emergence of social media has afforded people the opportunity  to become professionals at making their lives look like an awesome photo album  of sheer perfection. We are bombarded with images of flawless faces, powerful  positions, remarkable relationships and astounding abundance. All of which is  wonderful and harmless if countless hours weren’t spent comparing and  critiquing our lives based off of the “appearance” of someone else’s. We are not  always the people we pretend to be which serves no purpose of showing the world what #Winning really means. Let me be transparent, it would seem in 2013, I was #Winning. Founder and CEO of three schools serving over 300 children and families, the host of a Lifetime Television show America’s Supernanny, speaking and traveling all over the world and married for over two decades. However, the reality was within three years, I had to give up

BOSS Spotlight Feature: Kelli Fisher & Tana Gilmore "The Matchmaking DUO™"

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Kelli Fisher & Tana Gilmore, The Matchmaking DUO™ , are Certified Life/Relationship Coaches, Certified Matchmakers, national speakers, and authors of the critically acclaimed book, “Relationship DUOvers.”  Together, they own Fisher Gilmore, Inc., an exclusive agency which specializes in helping women of power balance a successful career, personal life, and love. 1.    What were some obstacles that you faced in the beginning process of starting your business or career? In the beginning process of starting our business we faced many obstacles.  Because our business is so unconventional, especially with two of us as principals, there were not many blueprints to follow. We had to clearly define our individual roles, strengths, weaknesses, and strategy both short-term and long-term. 2.    What inspired you to break into your particular industry? As two African American women, it was apparent that there was a need in the marketplace to rebuild, restore and uplift each other