Kemi Sorinmade
Improving Team Engagement and Buy-In: It's not about your Position or Message
How to get buy in into your vision, Lead your team to greatness, Improve team performance
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Jan 9, 2017
- 2 min
My Tedx Talk and the Power of Others
I look back over the last three years since I launched out to start the Growth Studio and I don't believe that being a Tedx speaker would be one of my accomplishments for 2016. I set goals for 2016, I built my vision board but being a Tedx speaker wasn't one of my goals. It happened though because I had other goals; goals to speak and train at conferences, at events and at organizations. While pursuing that goal I came across a request for speakers for Tedxerie through Speake
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Nov 12, 2016
- 1 min
How Can I Effectively Lead my Remote Team?
On a few occasions, I've been asked the following question: "How can I lead and manage my remote team? Here are a few pointers and ideas to help effectively lead your team members who work from other locations. To your Success! Kemi Sorinmade Leadership Success Coach, Trainer, Facilitator The Growth Studio #leadership #relationships #Teamwork #success #PerformanceImprovement #manager
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Oct 18, 2016
- 2 min
The Collision of Purpose and Passion
One of the things I will be talking about at this upcoming Tedx talk will be about my journey of personal growth and development, and how I overcame a life long struggle.
This is the theme for the event: "Don't Give up the Ship - Everyday challenges make us question who we are. The stories of struggle, diligence, and perseverance get us through. What is your story?" The crux of my message is this: when purpose and passion collide, there is no telling what you can achieve a
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Sep 22, 2016
- 2 min
Flying Fish
Welcome to a new fall season. I hope your summer was great and that you're gearing up for a great fourth quarter. One of the books I read over the summer is "Fish" which I mentioned in a previous blog post: Your Summer Reading List
The book tells the story of a manager who had been assigned the task to lead a disengaged, unmotivated and under performing team. She ended up learning what to do by seeking advice from an unlikely source; the employees at a fish Market place in
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Aug 24, 2016
- 3 min
Why Does Everyone Look the Same in Your Organization?
There has been a lot of talk about diversity in the workplace. A lot of money has been poured into countless diversity programs and yet a lot of organizations still fail to achieve their quest for a diverse workforce. One question to ask is why does diversity matter? If organizations don't understand why diversity is important to them, the battle is already lost. According to an article in the Center for American Progress, a diverse workforce combines workers from different b
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Aug 3, 2016
- 2 min
Your Summer Reading List
I hope your summer is going great. Someone had asked me earlier this year to recommend a few books he could read to help him with his performance and productivity. In this Harvard Business Review article, it is stated that the leadership benefits of reading are wide-ranging. Evidence suggests reading can improve intelligence and lead to innovation and insight. Reading makes you smarter through a larger vocabulary, more world knowledge and abstract reasoning skills. Reading is
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Jun 28, 2016
- 2 min
Are you Living by Default or Design?
Updated January 9, 2017 What is it that sets successful people apart from unsuccessful people? Why is it that we struggle to achieve our goals, change our habits or reach our full potential? It is because we are not intentional about growth...personal growth. Personal development is the key to being successful. Ask any successful CEO, leader or professional and they will tell you that they have taken time to work on themselves, in addition to hard work and strategy. Goethe, t
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Jun 10, 2016
- 3 min
What to do in your First 90 Days as a New Manager or Team leader
In your organization, a management position has opened up. You've been assigned the task of leading a project or you've just being promoted to lead a team or department. You're very smart and great at what you do, but you realize you're playing a different game now because your job description now includes dealing with people; people you are responsible for. You have to think in terms of leading your team from a place of influence and not authority, force, manipulation or pos
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Apr 28, 2016
- 3 min
What to do When you are Frustrated with your Leader
In most of the leadership classes I teach, at least one person is frustrated about their boss. What can you do when those leading you and not good leaders themselves? Everyone, no matter what position they have or what role they play has some sort of leader above them. Even if you are the CEO of your company, you have a board and investors you report to. As a top person in a non-profit organization, you may have mentors above you. So how do you lead up? If you've been to some
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Apr 5, 2016
- 1 min
Are you that Dreaded Female Boss?
A lot of employees and team members are frustrated today because of their bosses....their female bosses. You've heard so many times that people quit people and not the organization. Is the way you're leading your team a contributing factor to the lack of engagement, lack of performance, and high turnover rates at your organization? Here's my take on one of the reasons why female bosses have a hard time truly leading and a simple tip to help solve that problem. "Everything Ris
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Mar 16, 2016
- 2 min
How to Succeed in your Current Role
Many of us are talented and skilled in our professions but our effectiveness only goes so far if we cannot influence others. Developing and raising your influence results in a multiplying effect on your success, helps you stand out amongst the rest and enhances your ability to have a greater impact. Here are three simple things you can do to raise your influence: 1. Become a person of Integrity - when you don't have integrity you have nothing. This goes beyond being honest an
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Feb 11, 2016
- 2 min
Motivating and Engaging Your Team for Results
I had the privilege of speaking at a local organization last week on the 10 Strategies to Motivate and Engage your Team for Results. A lot of organizations and teams are experiencing lack of employee engagement, productivity and initiative, resulting in high turnover rates and loss of profits. The fault is not solely on the team members but more on the leadership of the organization. What can you do as a leader to influence your team better? What can you do as an individual c
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Jan 26, 2016
- 1 min
Raising Your Awareness, Discovering Your Blind Spots
Are your lack of awareness and blind spots keeping you from achiveing results? In our Leadership Gold program, Lesson #12 says: "Your Biggest Mistake is Not Asking What Mistakes You're Making" As leaders, in order to achieve exceptional results and succeed, so many things come into play and ones we often overlook are our level of awareness and blindspots. Our blindpots are those things we don't see that are affecting our results and our lack of awareness keeps us in the same
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Jan 13, 2016
- 4 min
Four Things You Need to Stop Doing in 2016
Happy New Year and welcome to a new year of possibilities. During my planning for the year, I took a look back at the previous year to reflect on what I was grateful for, what worked, what didn't work and what needed to stop. As you continue on your journey of growth and success, some things have to go and some things have to stop. You cannot attain new heights and achieve new goals with certain things that are still in the way. As I worked with clients and talked to prospect
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Jan 6, 2016
- 3 min
The Power of Being Intentional
One day while on my lunch break, I left my phone in plain view on the passenger seat of my car and got out of the car to grab my lunch. As I was walking away a thought popped into my head: "What if someone woke up this morning thinking that they wanted to steal a phone?" I quickly went back to my car and grabbed my phone. Yes, a lot of people would have walk by my car and probably not notice the phone but that one person whose intention was to steal a phone that day would not
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Dec 9, 2015
- 2 min
How to Maximixe your Impact by Adding Value to Others
Happy Wednesday! Today, I want to share with you one of the ways you can raise your influence and maximize your impact. In our different roles, we want to be able to influence others. You may be a professional, a boss, a parent, or business owner; you are a leader and you need to make an impact and become more effective. One of the ways to do this is to add value to others. True Leadership is success and leaders add value to others.
What does it mean to add value? It's simpl
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Oct 29, 2015
- 3 min
The Power of Writing it Down
I had the privilege of being a business mentor during a speed mentoring session at the Center for Women and Enterprise Leadership Conference which took place last week. I mentored a few women who had great visions for their businesses. One of the women I spoke with had some issues with her organization and some ideas, but she was stuck because she didn't know how to move forward. I asked her if she had written down what her ideas were and she said no. That was a problem righ
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Kemi Sorinmade
- Sep 4, 2015
- 4 min
How to Set Goals Properly So That You Can Achieve Them
As we enter into a new season, you might be looking back and asking yourself why you are not reaching your goals or why things are not happening for you yet. Did you set SMART goals at the beginning of the year and you haven't achieved them yet? It's one thing to set a goal, but when not properly done, it will be hard to achieve. There are some things that you need to consider before the "S" and beyond the "T" in SMART goals to achieve them. Follow this seven step process and
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Kemi Sorinmade
- May 28, 2015
- 3 min
10 Reasons Why Your Employees are not Motivated
Can't get people to do what you want them to do? Do you have a team that's not perfoming as they ought to or an employee who is just not happy? Here are ten reasons why. Even if you don't have employees or a team, these could also apply to your clients, children and followers. 1. You are not clear about your vision, or what you want them to do. Lack of vision hinders initiative, motivation and follow through. People will only follow you if they see the picture and they know w
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