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		<title>Leadership lessons of a stomach bug</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/12/22/leadership-lessons-of-a-stomach-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Care for self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choosing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can a stomach virus possibly be a good thing? How can it yield inspiration for a thoughtful leadership lesson? Am I being too “Pollyanna-ish” – looking for the good in situations and circumstances that truly only stink? With nothing much to do yesterday but recuperate from the stomach bug that knocked me out two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership heresy</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/10/leadership-heresy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heresy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was about college visits. My daughter is a junior in high school, and because of the extremely long list of schools she might be interested in and her intense extracurricular schedule we decided to get a jump on visits and knocked three schools off in one weekend. And I had the greatest leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>That’s how rumors start</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/07/that%e2%80%99s-how-rumors-start/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/07/that%e2%80%99s-how-rumors-start/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communicate/communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manage conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thoughtful Leaders Minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communications]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overcommunication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sharing information]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2207</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you don&#8217;t give people information, they&#8217;ll make something up to fill the void.&#8221; Carla O&#8217;Dell We highly recommend &#8220;overcommunication&#8221; to our clients. We tell our clients, repeatedly, that they should share with others what they know, what they don&#8217;t know, what they can disclose, what they can&#8217;t disclose, why they can&#8217;t disclose something, when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>See it and do it</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/31/see-it-and-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thoughtful Leaders Minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[taking action]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vision]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.&#8221; Japanese proverb When we guide our clients through personal and professional future planning, we share this quote over and over again. As many of us contemplate the future, we often either dream of our castles in the sky and yet do nothing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There is no try, only do.  There is no do, only be.</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/27/there-is-no-try-only-do-there-is-no-do-only-be/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/27/there-is-no-try-only-do-there-is-no-do-only-be/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Oct 2011 12:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughtful leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiring others]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Star Wars]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thoughtful leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yoda]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure where I first heard these two sentences combined. I do know that I repeat them, over and over, to my clients. Many of us grew up to Yoda’s (from Star Wars), “There is no try, only do.” We thought the little “guy” was cute, enjoyed his coaching Luke Skywalker, and maybe, every [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you have the “secret sauce” of top leadership?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/20/do-you-have-the-%e2%80%9csecret-sauce%e2%80%9d-of-top-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communicate/communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[GRPI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interpersonal skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In teaching the elements of high-performing teams, we use a model called GRPI (developed by Noel Tichy and Ram Charam among others) that has as its base – interpersonal relationships. It tells us that no matter how technically skilled a team is and how clear its purpose and goals are, without a foundation of great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A quick tool for your 2012 personal development from Chatsworth Consulting Group</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/18/a-quick-tool-for-your-2012-personal-development-from-chatsworth-consulting-group/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/18/a-quick-tool-for-your-2012-personal-development-from-chatsworth-consulting-group/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 14:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughtful leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accomplishments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This time of year often signals the beginning of the end-of-year flurry of activities. On both personal and professional fronts, there are many things we &#8220;have to do&#8221; as we wrap-up 2011 and prepare for 2012. Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice if there were a quick way to get more focused – more thoughtful and intentional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grit is a leadership competency</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/06/grit-is-a-leadership-competency/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/06/grit-is-a-leadership-competency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Show gratitude - appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Goleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominic Randolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Character Test]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently I read a great article by Paul Tough in the New York Times Magazine entitled, “The Character Test.” The lead-in to the article posed the question: “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?” This question really grabbed me as we often teach the value of “failure” in our leadership programs. How valuable are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four tips for selling your breakthrough ideas</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/09/01/four-tips-for-selling-your-breakthrough-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/09/01/four-tips-for-selling-your-breakthrough-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[building strong relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[increased performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what's in it for me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[WIIFM]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I was leading a group through our Increasing Performance through Strategic Thinking seminar and things were going great…until the end. The participants were all fired up about their new ideas. They were excited to make things happen for themselves and their organization with the innovative problem solving they’d engaged in and the strong [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you a Perpetual Happy-Face or a Permanent Frown-Face?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/06/30/are-you-a-perpetual-happy-face-or-a-permanent-frown-face/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/06/30/are-you-a-perpetual-happy-face-or-a-permanent-frown-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communicate/communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feedback]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[performance management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Performance feedback is a subject that generates a great deal of debate, angst, and even anger. Those receiving feedback quite often feel it is inadequate, vague, overly critical, or overly solicitous. Those giving feedback often feel they don’t have time for meaningful discussion, they did not deliver the message they had hoped to, or the [...]]]></description>
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