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		<title>Throw out what you know</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/05/07/throw-out-what-you-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.&#8221; Georgia O’Keefe I have found – in my own life and work as well as in the lives and work of my clients, colleagues, and friends – that so often it is what I &#8220;know&#8221; that gets in the way of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An easy way to boost morale and keep your best people</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/05/03/an-easy-way-to-boost-morale-and-keep-your-best-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 12:30:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Show gratitude - appreciation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This past weekend I ran a 5K race through the Bronx Zoo – the Run for the Wild to raise funds to save the world&#8217;s lion population. It was a great run traversing up, down, and through the many trails of the zoo. On a cool morning, many of the animals were out. We saw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I could be wrong</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/30/i-could-be-wrong/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 12:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Listening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[being present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perspectives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Of course that&#8217;s just my opinion. I could be wrong.&#8221; Dennis Miller I am convinced that there would be less conflict in life – even in the world – if more of us were willing and able to admit that we might be wrong. Whenever I get most stuck with colleagues, clients, or family members, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is your greatest strength?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/26/what-is-your-greatest-strength/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 12:30:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choosing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To grow as a leader, or in any endeavor, it is essential to build upon your strengths. And in order to do that, you must be aware of your strengths – the specific things that make you you, that make you great, and that make you good at what you do. This awareness is something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where are you limiting your accomplishments?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/23/where-are-you-limiting-your-accomplishments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 10:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;There is no limit to what can be accomplished if it doesn&#8217;t matter who gets the credit.&#8221; Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the ways we start many of our client engagements is with an OEA – our Organizational Effectiveness Assessment. This allows us to gather anonymous input from our clients&#8217; employees as to what&#8217;s working [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/05/do-you-have-what-it-takes-to-be-a-successful-entrepreneur/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 12:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assessments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[behavioral style]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a coach and consultant, research on leadership behaviors are always fascinating to me – and, when it focuses on women leaders, it really piques my interest. One report developed by our friends at Performance Programs, Inc., a research firm specializing in industrial psychology and psychometrics, in conjunction with Wenroth Consulting Group, looked at the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change is a chance to grow</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/02/change-is-a-chance-to-grow/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/02/change-is-a-chance-to-grow/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal growth]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If we don&#8217;t change, we don&#8217;t grow. If we don&#8217;t grow, we aren&#8217;t really living.&#8221; Gail Sheehy I learned in high school physics that an object at rest likes to stay at rest&#8230;and sometimes I think that defines how most of us approach life. While moving and changing can be a wonderful thing, so often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If you don’t ask, you don’t know</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/03/26/if-you-don%e2%80%99t-ask-you-don%e2%80%99t-know/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/03/26/if-you-don%e2%80%99t-ask-you-don%e2%80%99t-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Take action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thoughtful Leaders Minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[apprehension]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[assumptions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2825</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You&#8217;ve got to ask. Asking is, in my opinion, the world&#8217;s most powerful and neglected secret to success and happiness.&#8221; Percy Ross Recently a client was complaining to me about her current job. She felt underutilized, unfulfilled, and less than engaged. Yet she adored the company, and wanted to stay there&#8230;she just was at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What my Nurse Ratched encounter taught me about managing</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/02/23/what-my-nurse-ratched-encounter-taught-me-about-managing/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/02/23/what-my-nurse-ratched-encounter-taught-me-about-managing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change and grow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago a very nervous nurse walked into the examination room to administer my son&#8217;s vaccines. &#8220;Please hold your son in your lap,&#8221; she said anxiously. &#8220;Wrap your legs around his, hold his wrist, and keep his arm very still.&#8221; Jason was always pretty brave about getting shots but, based on what she said to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastering our fear</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/02/20/mastering-our-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Courage faces fear, and thereby masters it.&#8221; Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the greatest gifts that comes from being a coach is the opportunity to stand by my clients as they walk through some of their greatest fears. I&#8217;ve been witness to fears that are rational, irrational, historical, hysterical, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, [...]]]></description>
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