Are you a Leader? 5 Tips to Develop Leadership
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Authentic Leadership” by Kelly Townsend. Effective leadership doesn’t come from knowing what leaders do, or the characteristics or styles of noteworthy leaders. Leadership doesn’t come from trying to remember and follow techniques from books on the subject, either. And it certainly doesn’t come from being in a position of
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Makeover Your Meetings in 2019
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Meeting Makeover” by Kelly Townsend. One of the biggest complaints I deal with when working with companies is people’s relationships to meetings. In the corporate world, managers consistently complain they can’t get anything done because they spend hours in unproductive meetings. No doubt, we’ve all been in meetings where
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How to Create Happy Employees at Work and Boost Productivity
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Are We Having Fun Yet” by Kelly Townsend. Are you interested in boosting employee productivity over 20%? I’ll share with you how to brand your workplace with a hint of fun and humor to boost morale and help engage your employees. In a recent global workforce study performed by
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Balancing Your Personal and Business Life
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Terrorized by your To Do List?” by Kelly Townsend. How many times have you agreed to do something and then forgotten all about it? Do items from your to-do list pop back to mind as you drive down the road? How often do you feel like you’re forgetting something,
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What it Takes to Lead
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “What it Takes to Lead” by Kelly Townsend. When one thinks of a trailblazer or a great leader, doesn’t it seem like there must be something really extraordinary about that person that makes him or her a leader? How do I lead? What does it take to be a
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Turning Turnover into Opportunity | Business Tools that Work
Are you prepared to hire the right person for your open position? This content was originally in eBella Magazine and was written by Kelly Townsend To help business owners with this critical step of what to do with turnover, I asked Maggie Alvarez, HR director of the Ibarra-America team at Arthrex, to share her over
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Stress and the Bottom Line | How Stress Can Affect Profits
This content was created for eBella Magazine by Kelly Townsend Stress is alive and well in most workplaces. A decades-old study of 28,000 workers commissioned by St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance showed that poor teamwork and ineffective supervisors were the two most important contributors to employee stress, leading to poor performance, job burnout and
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Partner Up
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Partner Up” by Kelly Townsend Our lives are filled with partnerships. We collaborate with co-workers, employees we supervise, business associates and vendors. Then there are more personal partnerships with our family, spouse, children and even your child’s teacher or coach. It’s an exhaustive list. When you think about it,
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Time’s Ticking
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Time’s Ticking” by Kelly Townsend. In the fast paced work and life environment of today, we often hear a business associate say, “I am just buried” or “I’m swamped.” Working and living in the 21st century is tough. We’re deluged with information, troubled by impossible deadlines and overwhelmed by
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Family Values
Content originally taken from eBella Magazine, “Family Values” by Kelly Townsend. One of my biggest pleasures as a business coach is having the opportunity to work with family businesses. If you’ve been employed by a family business, you’ve probably experienced the rewards, and perhaps the pitfalls. Whether you’re part of the family by birth or
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