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Featured on Friday: Servant Leadership Journal by @Art_Barter
Changing your behavior is hard -- especially if you've been doing things a particular way for years or even decades. It requires reflecting on your current behaviors, understanding what needs to change, educating yourself and planning how to do things differently, and...
Lessons from the Rice Chefs of Morimoto Asia
When my daughter, her friend, and I dined at Morimoto Asia in Disney Springs recently, we did a few things backwards. As our server, Roberto, prepared to give me the bill, we asked if we could have the warm, wet cloths that the diners adjacent to us had received for...
Featured on Friday: Awakening Compassion at Work by @MonicaWorline
What if there was one thing you could bring to your organization -- be it corporate, ministry, or non-profit -- that would be guaranteed to lower blood pressure, strengthen immune systems, fuel innovation, improve service quality, foster adaptability, and increase...
What It’s Like to Pitch You
Pitching story ideas to reporters is a funny business. It’s part sales, part journalism, and can be super frustrating and super rewarding by turns. That’s why you’ve hired Weaving Influence to do it for you! I’ve sent pitches for clients and employers, received...
Featured on Friday: Leaders Made Here by Mark Miller
It doesn't matter whether you work at a Fortune 500 company, a non-profit, or something in between: one area that is critical to the health of your organization is leadership -- specifically, modeling "good" leadership and training leaders for the future. Creating and...
Stop Giving Employee Empowerment a Bad Name
This post is part of our 2017 Team Buzz Builder Guest Blogger series. Today we are pleased to introduce you to executive coach and leadership expert, Josh Ploch. Employee Empowerment is one of the most popular buzz words of the last few years. We see it thrown around...
Never Stop Learning
I didn’t hate school, but I didn’t love it, either. I was always kind of middle-of-the-road, grade wise. Nothing came naturally to me, so I had to work really hard in order to get decent grades. Consequently, by the time college graduation came around, my 3.2 grade...
Featured on Friday: Lilac Dreams by @BonnieHathcock
Stories are powerful tools. We relate to them. We connect with the characters, their struggles, and sometimes their victories. In them, we find role models to follow, principles to emulate, and pitfalls to avoid. In memoirs, the most personal form of story, we meet...
Is It Time to Re-Design Your Website?
How often do you need to re-design your website? It’s a big decision—one that no business takes lightly. A new website requires significant investment of time, money, and resources. Considering how fast and frequently technology changes, a website rarely stays fresh...
Featured on Friday: Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work by @FowlerSusanN
What motivates you to dream big and work hard? To choose to pursue one goal and ignore another? To schedule time for work and time for rest? We all have particular things that motivate us to do, or not do, whatever comes across our paths -- from deriving a sense of...
When Unsure How to Respond: Observe, Remember, Do
"What do I do here?" is a question I have asked myself many times. Sometimes the choice was minor; other times, larger outcomes were at stake. When I was at my friend Kimmi's bat mitzvah eight years ago, toward the end of the service, baskets full of hard candy were...
Featured on Friday: Pacing for Growth by @DrAlisonEyring
Are you a runner? Even if you're not, odds are good that you have countless friends who are. Long-distance running has grown in popularity over the past decade by leaps and bounds (or should that be "meters and marathons"?). It's moved beyond a simple athletic event...