Debora McLaughlin
PCC, Certified Executive/Bus Coach MA Psychology
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Debora McLaughlin Quick Facts
- Main Areas
- Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching, People Development, Career Coaching
- Career Focus
- Author, Speaker, Coach, Consultant, Mentor, Business Owner
- Affiliation
- International Coach Federation, Employee Engagement Network
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Put Accountability To Work In Your Organization
Is accountability elusive in your organization? If you're like most leaders, you regularly deal with work force issues that get in the way of your organization's success. Here you have all this talent at your fingertips, yet goals are not being met and your business isn't nearly as successful as you know it could be. It's frustrating! Accountability begins with engagement: a heightened emotional connection to your company that influences your employees to exert greater effort. According to a recent Gallup study, only 29 percent of employees are engaged in their jobs.
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Influencing the Interviewer to Hire YOU!
Want to learn the 5 key strategies to make you the candidate of choice? Too many professionals are not hired because they either don't articulate their top contributions concisely or in a manner that aligns with the current offering and interviewer or they don't have a large enough vision of themselves and their brilliance to effectively shine. This article will provide you with a 5 step methodology to develop your positioning statement, ways to find the job you most desire and how to master the interview. One, Create your Positioning Statement.
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Influencing the Job Offer to Get the Title, Salary and Flexibility You Desire
You're excited you found the job that you want and they are offering it to you. You are ready to shout "yes" from the hills. Don't. I am going to tell you what I tell each of my career clients, wait, delay, pull off the road and call me, immediately. At the time of the offer may be the only time that you have to optimize to sweeten the pot, to not only get the job but to also get the salary, the job title and the flexibility you need to enjoy the lifestyle you desire. Do you know that most job seekers leave money on the table?
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How to Be an Empowered Leader in a Challenging Business Environment
Our world is a fearful place to live in nowadays. With the economic uncertainties besetting most companies, an empowered leader is needed who can boldly face the challenges in an unpredictable and sometimes scary business environment. Today's leader must be ruthless in as humane a manner as possible.
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A Basic Technique to Influence Others
It goes without saying that people who are in power are influential. An influential person usually doesn't have a hard time getting other people to do something or listen to his personal views. Basically, an influential person can make things happen with just a snap of the finger. When you are influencing someone, you are changing his behavior in a way. But before you can become a source of influence, you must first have an understanding of the human behavior. Did you know that the word "because" has a profound effect in the way you influence others?
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Using Reciprocity to Motivate
One point of influence is the law of reciprocity. This has been proven to be very effective time and time again. Even a movie was made about it. Each time you give something of value, expect other people to give you something in return. This has been proven to be true in a lot of cases. Sometimes, when we give something to others, they unknowingly give back or even feel obliged to reciprocate in one way or another. And it also feels so good. More business is won if comes from a place of servitude.
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Be Empowered Before Empowering Others
Are you finding your personal fuel tank is always running on empty because you are trying to do it all yourself? In your quest for success, there are things that you will not be able to accomplish by yourself alone or really should simply give to others. It is important that you seek the help of others. If you enlist the help of others, this will help you give back more because you have more time to do other things – things that you do best.
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Changing the Way You Think Can Empower You
In order to be influential in meeting your goals, you also need to be empowered to do so. How do we attain empowerment? A lot of people think of empowerment as a desirable state to achieve. But how do we really empower ourselves? The first thing we have to do is find out the real meaning of empowerment. Empowerment can be defined as being able to have control over your life. However, it doesn't necessarily mean having power over the life of other people. To be empowered basically means having control or power over all the aspects of your own life.
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Different Influencing Styles
Your behavior as a manager as well as your approach to life in general will greatly affect your success or ultimate failure. That is why it is important to have various styles of behaviors and a wide range of approach. This gives you flexibility and increases your choices in your everyday dealings with other people. It will also help you in the long run in achieving success. For most managers, they usually prefer to use the natural style of influence.
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Do Not Be Afraid to Take the Lead
You can empower yourself if you have the knowledge of who you really are and what your real purpose in life is. But it is also important that we touch the lives of other people in order for our lives to be more meaningful. You should get more out of your life. One way of accomplishing this is extending yourself to others who need help. This way, you are empowering others with your life. But it is also important that you analyze first your self if you are really a source of empowerment to others. Are you noticing the words that you speak to other people?
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Three steps to creating a Pay it Forward Environment
It is true that when you empower other people, you are not only influencing them, but you also empower the people they influence. So when you empower another person, you are actually giving him the power to accomplish something. Thus, you are basically giving others the ability to empower, too. But how will you be able to empower another person? The truth is empowerment is the product of responsibility and authority. When you empower someone, you must also give him the authority to make decisions in order for him to accomplish his responsibilities.
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Do your words promote or demote?
Are you empowering others each time you speak? Have you noticed that whenever you talk to someone, the energy seems to fade away and the other person seems uninterested? Then after the interaction there is a feeling of sadness and your enthusiasm is simply gone. If these things happen, then it is time to analyze yourself and work on your empowering skills. On the other hand, there are those people that whenever you talk to them, you feel energized and inspired. You suddenly seem to be excited to do something after having a conversation with them.
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Blueprint For Success
Get your book Blueprint for Success: Proven Strategies for Success and Survival co-authored with Debora McLaughlin, Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard. Get the book and over $1200.00 in bonuses from experts such as Jack Canfield, Wayne Dryer, Self Growth, and many others.
April 7, 2008
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Unlock My Personal Power of Influence
Unlock your Personal Power of Influence for Peak Performance in Work and Life. Achieve your personal and professional goals quickly and easily, learn how to influence others and to become a force of influence. Get your free e-course at www.UnlockMyPersonalPowerofInfluence.com
April 7, 2008
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www.OpenDoorCoaching.com
Activate your Personal Power of Influence, learn how to achieve your goals, influence others and become a force of influence with this free e-course. www.UnlockMyPersonalPowerofInfluence.com
April 7, 2008