So you REALLY want to be a better people leader—or want to grow more effective people leaders across your organization—but it all feels so darn complicated these days, right? Hybrid workforces. Increased demands on pay and time off. Turnover turbulence. Economic headwinds. Fill in your company's crisis du jour here. 😱 I help leaders create fresh solutions to people problems, especially when it comes to retaining and motivating their best people. In a nutshell, I help you help people stay—and grow, and thrive. And when your people grow, you do, too. **Please know you're not alone. I see you, and I can help. One way to start is to sign up for my weekly Insider strategies and stories—ideas I only share with my private clients and with you directly in email. **
Mo's secret to biz & career growth
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If there's one thing I've learned, Reader, is that there are two sure-fire investments you can make in life that will always pay off. 💰💰💰 The first investment is in your own brain. Understanding it, adding to it, using it—definitely fund that account any day of the week and you'll always see positive returns. 💹 The second investment is in relationships. Because everything else you need happens through people. Yup, there's no getting around that. So how do we build—and maintain—good relationships with all the various people who travel through our personal and professional lives? My friend Mo Bunnell has the answer in his new book, "Give to Grow: Invest in Relationships to Build Your Business and Your Career." Mo should know a thing or two about relationships, since we've kept ours for over 20 years. We first met while working for the same human resources consulting firm. After he'd first ventured out on his own, he was one of the first folks I consulted when I considered doing the same. And when I wrote my first book, he offered his new fancy training space in downtown Atlanta for the launch party. 🥂 In Give to Grow, Mo shares the simple but practical ways anyone can build their career through relationships. His strategy is simple: it's always your turn to give. Watch (or listen, or read) our chat here: Get the book on Amazon here, or at any popular bookseller. How about you, Reader? What's one relationship you'd like to grow deeper in your life at work? Maybe it's your manager, or a peer, or an influential leader? Hit REPLY and tell me about it. What's getting in the way? I always love hearing from you and share tools and strategies if I can help. Mo believes "it's always your move," meaning that if you want to reach out, start the conversation, end the dispute, whatever--you should. It's what's in your control (which, if you've been here a bit, is the foundation of what I teach). Now it's your move--go out and build the relationships that build your career.
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Darcy Eikenberg, PCC
So you REALLY want to be a better people leader—or want to grow more effective people leaders across your organization—but it all feels so darn complicated these days, right? Hybrid workforces. Increased demands on pay and time off. Turnover turbulence. Economic headwinds. Fill in your company's crisis du jour here. 😱 I help leaders create fresh solutions to people problems, especially when it comes to retaining and motivating their best people. In a nutshell, I help you help people stay—and grow, and thrive. And when your people grow, you do, too. **Please know you're not alone. I see you, and I can help. One way to start is to sign up for my weekly Insider strategies and stories—ideas I only share with my private clients and with you directly in email. **
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