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Align4Profit Leadership Development Blog

Helanie ScottLeadership development may be the most important activity in any organization. In my quest to helping men and women become more and more effective leaders, I share weekly articles that are a quick read with a promise to give your leaders actionable tips they can implement immediately.

It’s my goal to share my experience together with candid and pragmatic advice founded on deep research.

Read and enjoy! To make sure you don’t miss any updates, let me send you a weekly article to your email.

February 11, 2019
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The Three Questions

Adapted from the story by Leo Tolstoy A certain king proclaimed throughout his kingdom that he would give a great reward to anyone who would teach him what was the […]
February 4, 2019
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The ROI of Better Conversations

Managers make the most difference when it comes to inspiring employee engagement. It’s their job to keep their employees engaged. Could your leaders do a better job of engaging their […]
January 28, 2019
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Doing more with less: The right limitations can boost team performance

Doing more with less seems to be a daily mantra in organizations operating at high speed these days. This is often viewed by my clients as a negative experience and […]
January 21, 2019

Are your leaders building come-as-you-are teams?

When we hear the term inclusion, I often find people’s eyes glaze over a little. There seem to be many different interpretations of the word. Some managers tend to think […]
January 14, 2019
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The top topic on the leadership agenda – team effectiveness!

It’s been said, that you are the sum total of the five people you hang around with. Who do you spend most of your time with at work? Do they […]
January 7, 2019

Who are you, when you’re at your BEST?

Are you more creative, more productive, or a better teammate when you are at your best? Imagine operating at your level best for the best part of this year. Let’s […]
December 10, 2018
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How Happiness Works Wonders in Your Workplace

“When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you,” goes the old song. Those lyrics may exaggerate the effects of happiness, but we all know that happiness is contagious. Scientific […]
December 3, 2018
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Cycle your way into the only sustainable coaching style

What’s missing from the way your leaders coach? Let me repeat the question. What’s missing from the way your leaders coach? The answer is iteration — the CoachQuest Cycle of […]
November 12, 2018

Intimate coaching is the way forward for managers

In our CoachQuest program for developing leaders as coaches, we teach managers the process of coaching to: Be intimate and better understand themselves and others, adapting their style to influence […]
November 5, 2018
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What’s the Why of How Your Leaders Lead?

What gives leaders authority? What makes people want to follow leaders? Certainly it’s not their title. Plenty of leaders with lofty titles fail to gain the respect from others that […]
July 13, 2018
Collaborative Decision Analysis

How Teams Can Make Better Decisions — Collaboratively

When making significantly more valuable decisions, leaders need to harness the collective wisdom of a team. But that’s just the beginning. They must also consider more options than initially envisioned, […]
July 11, 2018
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Make Better Decisions — Learn from the Science

Before your managers harness the collective wisdom of a team to make good collaborative team decisions, help them reflect on their own decision-making. Every leader makes about 35,000 decisions daily […]
July 9, 2018
Doing Business Globally

Communication Mastery in a Multicultural World

To be effective influencers, leaders must take stock of the subtle messages being passed around the globally diverse team table. In international teams with diverse perspectives and unique views, your […]
July 6, 2018
Doing Business Globally

What will it take to be a great leader in the future?

Heck, what does it take to lead today? The timeless core aspects of leadership, such as setting direction, engaging employees, and holding them accountable while influencing others remain. More and […]
July 2, 2018
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Train Your Brain on Happiness and Become 31% More Productive

Raising Emotional Intelligence is about developing the human side of your professional life. We all strive for success and every time our brains experience success, we change the image of […]
July 8, 2013

Don’t Cut Yourself with Your Double-Edged Sword

Your greatest strength can also be your greatest weakness. This should not strike you as earth-shaking news. It’s the stuff of great stories and legends as well as real history. […]
June 24, 2013

Use Environmental Reminders to Lead More Effectively

I’m not going to tell you my password, but I’ll give you a clue. It’s a reminder to me, from me, to work on one of my leadership development challenges—a […]
June 17, 2013

Your Big Five Leadership Priorities

So much to do and so little time to do it! That’s one of the most familiar complaints I hear from the leaders I coach. Too many get lured into […]
June 10, 2013

Leadership Presence: How to perfect your Touch Points

Leadership Presence is important, because how you are perceived affects your ability to lead. But if you Google “Leadership Presence,” I’m certain you will end up confused about what it […]
June 3, 2013

Improve Performance with Call and Response Redirection

In my previous blog post, How to add FORCE to your Positive Reinforcement, I pointed out that in every CoachQuest Leader-as-Coach Workshop, we practice two kinds of Call and Response […]
May 27, 2013

How to add FORCE to your Positive Reinforcement

Everybody appreciates a genuine, sincerely delivered pat on the back. But that truism can get a leader into trouble. Sincere as it might be, genuine positive reinforcement can actually work […]