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Building Leadership Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry – PS92

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A conversation that will awaken your heart and mind and have you wanting to adopt practices to build your resilience. Building resilience increases the ability to weather storms and come out stronger in formal and informal leadership roles. This conversation addresses specifically appreciative resilience and leadership and how to traverse the ever-changing landscapes of hope, despair, and forgiveness which overlap to build appreciative resilience.

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How to Reach your Target Audience with your Higher Purpose – PS89

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This episode offers positivity strategies of a highly commercial and very different kind.  I'm focusing on strategies for marketing and increasing visibility on the web. In this episode, my personal digital strategist shares high-level strategies about how to do just that.

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Positive Education 2018 – an Appreciative Inquiry Summit – PS 85

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Molly McGuigan's special talents and background enable her to be the project lead for a truly significant global undertaking on the topic of positive education 2018 that will extend way into the future.  The World Positive Education Accelerator  (WPEA) is a four-day conference including a three-day Appreciative Inquiry Summit.  It's a massive collaboration of global players who've been actively bringing positive education into school systems all over the world.  There are many, success stories to be shared and many, many more to co-create.

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Strengthening Gratitude Brings an Abundance of Benefits – PS 81

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Showing gratefulness is right up there when it comes to boosting your positivity, because when you experience gratefulness from the heart, it comes out of genuine appreciation.  You feel you have been given a gift or recognition of some kind.  And you respond with gratefulness. A great start is to just reflect on the small stuff.  What are you grateful for?  Stop to smell the roses, as they say.

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A Genuine Smile Will Help Strengthen Positivity In Your Life – PS80

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I’m offering you ways to strengthen positivity. You’ll learn to be more positive even if your life is in chaos. You’ll be able to apply these simple practices whenever you feel the need to lift your spirits and your energy.

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How Generative Questions Can Transform Young Lives – PS77

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Conversations worth having are filled with many generative questions that engage people's curiosity and interests.  Generative questions build on experiences and open up possibilities for further inquiry. Dr Jackie Stavos, creator of SOAR shares her story.

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What are the New Literacies for living well in the 21st century? -PS76

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New literacies for life – a set of skills, tools and principles that will guide us in the 21st century. Some think that these literacies are most appropriate for leaders of organizations, but they will work in any set of circumstances in our complex world.

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Personal Reflections on Appreciative Voice – PS 72

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Appreciative Inquiry  Principles offer us a framework to practice our appreciative voice so we can bring more of it to the world. The guiding principles that help us connect with others in ways that serve not only ourselves but others, too.

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What is an Appreciative Voice in Your World?

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An appreciative voice provides safety for others to speak their truths. It is invitational and watchful. An appreciative voice is unhurried and patient. It can reframe situations to be helpful and resourceful. It is flexible. The appreciative voice is inclusive. It acknowledges diversity and identifies opportunities to offer possibilities to hold the space for transformational shifts to emerge.

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When is the Best Time to Improve Presentation Skills? – PS67

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Guest Dustin Mathews, CEO, author, marketing, brand response innovator offers insights into how we can improve our presentation skills by adopting a marketing mindset to invite people to take action, thereby helping transform themselves and the lives of others.

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