Diane Kubes
Business & Leadership ConsultantDeveloping Empowered Business & Leadership Skills!
Leadership Starts with You - Challenge
This self-assessment challenge helps supervisors assess their existing skills and mindset, and offers an introductory framework to build their personal and leadership skills. It is the first step in the leadership development journey. This challenge offers an opportunity for leaders to take a pause and create space for self-analysis and improvement, both of which are key for growth.
Leadership Starts with You - Course
This is the next step in the leadership journey. This course is comprehensive and builds upon the framework introduced within the Challenge. Topics covered include Personal Development, Confidence and Mindset, Emotional Intelligence, Communication, Leadership Dos and Don'ts, Performance Appraisals, Performance Goals, Constructive Feedback, Avoidance of Micro-Management and the value of Empowerment, Professional Presence and Integrity, and So Much MORE!
Leading with Confident Influence
This is a high-touch guided program lasting 6 months that provides personal coaching & guided practice implementing the new skills you are learning, so that when you are interacting with your team members, you can do so with confidence and skill. Skills implementation will vary based on individual needs, and will be tailored to what is requested and needed. In addition, the Leadership Starts with You! Course is included within this mentoring experience.
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Use Mindfulness and Intentional Living to Improve Time Management
Time Management Time. This one word holds multiple definitions, depending on the person and the circumstance. Time management, similarly, makes some of us giddy, while others view it as constraining; unnecessary rigidity & quite frankly, a waste of time! Which...
Complaint: How To Voice A Legitimate Complaint
We've talked last month about choosing contentment over complaints. It was titled, How to Stop Complaining and Why it Will Change Your Life. It's true that complaining can become a bad habit that's hard to kick, overshadowing all the good things in your life and...
How to Stop Complaining and Why it Will Change Your Life
Impact of Complaining *We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. You may read my full affiliate disclosure here....
Gratitude – Liebster Award Nomination
Feeling Thankful for Support, Encouragement & Recognition! This article is devoted to encouraging others with a vision or goal to pursue and persevere! No doubt, life is filled with challenges, and these stressors often derail those inspired moments when we dare...
High Emotional Intelligence: 6 Ways Leaders Demonstrate Their IQ
7 Step Delivery of Constructive Feedback
7 Tips to Avoid Micro-Managing Your Team
How many times have you been frustrated and said to yourself, “If I want this done right, I will have to do it myself!” Or, does this sound familiar? “I know they are going to _______” Insert [screw it up, be late, do it wrong, not care, etc.] Red alert, you may be...
3 Common-Sense Ways to Build Teamwork
Teamwork is based on a foundation of respect. A mutual connection that anchors and drives. Without this foundation, teamwork flounders. With a reducing workforce, teamwork is critical for the success of businesses. This workforce shortage is prompted, partially, by...