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High Impact Leaders
Welcome to High Impact Leaders! Your shortcut to personal growth and career success. Join Doug Staneart for leadership development training that will bring out your inner entrepreneur and make you a fearless leader in today's chaotic business world.
Episodes
238 episodes
What is Strategic Thinking?
I remember going on an important job interview decades ago. The person interviewing me asked, “In this company, we like to hire strategic thinkers. How much time per week do you spend on strategic thinking?” I had been on a number of different ...
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Experience is (NOT) the Best Teacher
Who said that experience is the best teacher? Well, just about everyone who has ever taken a class on a subject and who later struggled to apply the content. In fact, one of the reasons why we attract so many people to our leadership classes is...
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The 5 Steps to Group Problem Solving
Looking for a way to get a group to solve challenging problems without coming to blows? In this session, I’m going to cover a few effective group problem solving techniques. One of the more challenging leadership skills is getting a...
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How to Start Holding More Effective Meetings
Want to create more a more effective team meeting for your group? Well first, let’s assess where your team meetings are right now.How would you describe meetings you have attended in the past? Better yet… How would your team describe you...
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The 5 Best Tips for Management
This week, we will focus on Management Skills. Managers have a slightly different skill set than leaders. Once the path is already created, the manager makes the movement along that path more efficient and effective. So the leader creates...
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25:39
How to Keep Your Team Positive in Negative Times
Want a few tips about how to build team spirit when you hear words like “slow down,” recession, and uncertainty? You are not alone.In this episode, we go over several ways to keep heads up when times look low!Show Notes...
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The Five C’s of Management
Being a great manager does not mean you are a great leader. There is crossover and making yourself better at either will benefit both, but being able to lead a team and manage an operation is totally different. If you are a manager looking to g...
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The Absolute Best Leadership Book (And a Few that Don't Really Hit the Mark)
For the last few weeks, I've been going through my list of the 25 absolute best Business Books of all time. And today, I finish up the list with a few of my favorite marketing books. Then, finally, I give you the best leadership book of all tim...
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Best Communication and Sales Books
A couple of weeks ago, I explained how experience is NOT the best teacher. Someone else's experience is really the best teacher. When you can learn form someone else who has already done what you want to do, you shorten your learning curve. You...
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The Best Business Mindset Books
A couple of weeks ago, I explained how experience is NOT the best teacher. Someone else's experience is really the best teacher. When you can learn form someone else who has already done what you want to do, you shorten your learning curve. You...
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The Best Business Books
In today's digital world with AI at our fingertips and the answer to every question just a Google away, it's easy to feel like there is really no need to read, or attend seminars, or take a class. But the one, major constant that I have seen in...
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Bridging The Invisible Communication Gap in the Workplace
Last week, I covered the different generations in the workplace. On that episode, we talked about how the different communication channels that each generation prefers depends a lot on the technology that was trendy during their formative years...
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Generations in the Workplace
A client recently asked me to do some research on the differences between the generations in the workplace. Specifically, she wanted to know about the different styles of communication between different ages. I like to think of myself as a comm...
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Improve Your Conversation Skills and Become a Better Problem Solver
Business leaders who learn how to improve their conversation skills have a dramatic (no pun intended) advantage in their professional lives. These good conversation skills enable them to communicate their needs more effectively and also brainst...
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Improve Listening Skills in the Workplace
On this week's episode I'm going to be talking about listening skills. Now, hold up, I'm sure when you read that the first thing you think is "welp, guess I'm skipping this week's episode, I already have excellent listening skills, I know sever...
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Top 5 Ways to Stay Organized as a Leader
Merry Christmas, everyone. Happy Hannukah, and Happy New Year. I hope your new year gets started off with a lot of growth in your business and happiness for you and your team members.In order to help, I wanted to start the new year off w...
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What Do You Say When You Talk to Yourself?
Last week, we talked about how to motivate your team. This week, I want to back up a little, and talk about how to stay self-motivated as well.The self-talk -- what we say to ourselves as the day goes on -- can either help you get ahead or ensu...
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5 Steps on How To Motivate Your Team As a Leader
Leadership and management skills are not coded into our DNA. Even the best leaders must hone their skills over time with hard work. You can do this through study, research, experimentation, and sometimes... trial and error.Even during th...
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The Difference Between Constructive and Destructive Criticism
I have to admit that I am uncomfortable when given constructive criticism. You know why? Because I’m human. Guess what… You are too. (You are also human.) So, if most people are uncomfortable receiving constructive feedback, is it really constr...
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Set Clear Goals to Move You Toward Your Vision
You’ll hear people tell you that you need to create “SMART Goals” or that “You have to make your professional goals line up with your personal goals.” Or, “The best way to develop your future self is to create an action plan of smaller goals mo...
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Closing the Sale: The 3 Mistakes That Are Losing You Deals
For the entire month of November we have focused on increasing revenue for your company, and the steps you need to take to do so. A few weeks ago, we started off by telling you about networking and how increasing your sphere of influence is the...
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The Secret to Improving Your Lead Conversion Strategy
Many small businesses pay thousands of dollars for pay-per-click ads and content marketing for lead generation, only to lose their qualified leads because they wait way too long to follow up. The truth is, timing can make or break your lead con...
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Small Business Lead Generation Techniques That Actually Work
So, last week, I showed you how to network more effectively in those business networking events. And, when we got to the Business-to-Business networking, I mentioned that you want to focus your business networking on the problems you solve for ...
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How to Network at Business Networking Meetings
I hope you had a fun and scary Halloween. Happy November to everyone. For the month of November, we'll be covering a series of episodes about how to find customers for your business and/or how to increase revenue through sales.Most compa...
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5 Tips for Climbing the Corporate Ladder as a Woman (Feat. Amy Maybury & Roma Webb)
Hey everyone, I'm Roma, filling in for Doug this week to talk about a few of the most successful ways I've found useful in climbing the corporate ladder as a woman. There are a lot of things working against us both societally and cu...
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