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	<title>Growth at Work</title>
	<link>http://www.growthatwork.com</link>
	<description>Leadership and Career Transition Coaching in Long Beach, New York</description>
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		<title>Happy Employees Mean Happy Customers</title>
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Southwest Airlines is known as the company that loves its employees – and their customers. But, how is this achieved? How can they have such happy people working for them and flying with them? It starts with their mission statement
Mission:
The mission of Southwest Airlines is dedication to the highest quality of Customer Service delivered with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2010/04/happy-employees-means-happy-customers/</link>
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		<title>LinkedIn to Find Your Next Paycheck</title>
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In 2007, Guy Kawasaki did a great article on the top 10 reasons why you need to be on LinkedIn, Here are two of the reasons he stated why you need to care (and remember, this was way back in 2007, but the reasons are even stronger now!):
-        People with more than twenty connections are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2010/04/linkedin-to-find-your-next-paycheck/</link>
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		<title>Waiter, Waiter!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most of us go to a restaurant for a transcendental experience. That is transcendental with a small “t”. We want a pleasant experience.  Yes, good food is an essential ingredient of the experience. However, the chemistry between the waiter and the customer determines if the experience will be transactional or transcendental.
I believe that by [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2010/04/waiter/</link>
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		<title>Job Seeker: Show Me the Money</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The salary discussion for a job seeker can be nerve racking, but if you wait until the employer offers, you may be feel the hurt in your wallet. The interviewer may know the starting rate of a person in your industry and doesn&#8217;t know the current salaries for someone with your experience or expertise. Once [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2010/03/job-seeker-salary-interview/</link>
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		<title>Leaders that Listen</title>
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What behaviors define leaders that listen?
They do not cut off people in the middle of sentences.
They do not look at their blackberry or computer when someone is talking to them.
They do not ridicule people in public or private. This action almost insures that people will assume that you are not a good listener.

These are just [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2010/02/leaders-that-listen/</link>
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		<title>Hiring a Coach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hiring a coach is a difficult decision. Many people spend time and anxious energy in deciding whether what they are hiring a coach for can be done themselves. For example, recently I thought of hiring a marketing coach. I know all the essentials that I need to accomplish to market my business. Yet, I had [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/10/hiring-a-coach/</link>
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		<title>Trusting The Coach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, a potential client asked me a great question. How do I know I can trust you? The client works for a financial institution that is extremely particular about what information it shares with the public. I answered the question intuitively. I told him that legally, all we can do is sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/10/trusting-the-coach/</link>
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		<title>The Goal Alignment Matrix</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I created a tool called the Goal Alignment Matrix (GAM). It is a listing of company goals aligned with departmental goals aligned with a roadmap to achieve each department goal. In using the GAM with a current client, I realized that most of the managers that used the tool put down lofty goals. When [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/09/the-goal-alignment-matrix/</link>
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		<title>The Sweetspot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In my career as a consultant, I have come across  people who are so good at what they do that I could not imagine them doing anything else. All the variables of the &#8220;sweetspot&#8221; are apparent with these types of people.  The content of the work is interesting to them. The people that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/09/the-sweetspot/</link>
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		<title>Chess Not Checkers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have heard that managing people is more like playing chess than checkers. This is because each person that you manage comes with a distinct background, experience and motivation. However, there are many forces that push us in the direction of standardizing our approach to the people that we manage. As an organization grows larger, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.growthatwork.com/2009/09/chess-not-checkers/</link>
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