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The gift we give our children by loving them fully and unconditionally is the greatest gift anyone can give.
– Will Glennon

  Today’s quote comes to you from 200 Ways to Raise a Girl’s Self-Esteem: An Indispensable Guide for Parents, Teachers & Other Concerned Caregivers

Here is a simple but powerful rule: Always give people more than what they expect to get.
– Nelson Boswell

Today’s quote comes to you from Serve Right: Everyone’s Straight-Talk Guide to Customer Service Success

The gift we give our children by loving them fully and unconditionally is the greatest gift anyone can give.
– Will Glennon

Today’s quote comes to you from 200 Ways to Raise a Girl’s Self-Esteem:

An Indispensable Guide for Parents, Teachers & Other Concerned Caregivers

Earning Employee Trust

It’s no secret that being trusted by team members is critical to any leader’s success. And that fact leads to an all important question: How can you earn your people’s trust … what can you do protect and maintain that most important leadership characteristic? The answer: By exhibiting the following four behaviors …

1. Keep your promises. You don’t have to promise things just to make employees feel good. They’re more interested in being able to depend on what you promise than in feeling good. Just keep the promises you do make and your team will trust what you say.
2. Speak out for what you think is important. Employees can’t read your mind. They don’t know how you feel. If they have to guess about what’s important to you, they may guess wrong. Save them the trouble. Tell them how you feel and why. They’ll respect you so much more.
   
   
3. Err on the side of fairness. Be fair to everyone. Employees really do know that things are not always clearly right or wrong. Sometimes you have to make difficult decisions that affect many people. Sometimes those decisions include having to dismiss team members. All your team can really ask for is that you be fair at all times – regardless of the type of decision you have to make.
   
   
4. Do what you say you are going to do. Just let your “yes” be yes and your “no” mean no. When you tell people you are going to do something, they should be able to “consider it done.

Today’s lesson is from Listen Up, Leader!
By David Cottrell

The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
– Henry David Thoreau

Today’s quote comes to you from The Nature of Success

Managers are people who do things right; leaders are people who do the right thing.
– Warren Bennis

Today’s quote comes to you from 180 Ways to Walk the Leadership Talk

Coaching sets the pace to get the best out of others while giving the best of yourself.
– David Cottrell

  Today’s quote comes to you from Nuts’nBolts Leadership: How To Strategies and Practical Tips for Leaders at All Levels

Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.
– Margaret Cousins

Today’s quote comes to you from Giving Thanks: The Gifts of Gratitude

As The Month of Love comes to a close, I thought it would be a nice time to share with you a story near and dear to my heart, which shows how great the power of love can be. Focusing on the actions of one brave little girl, this story, taken from The Power of 10%, encourages us to get involved, to support one another, and to make a difference. Pass this on to friends so that they, too, will be inspired to reach out more often and take action while they still can.

The Power of 10%

By  Eric Harvey and Michelle Sedas

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
– Samuel Ullman

Today’s quote comes to you from The Power of Attitude