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Barbara Schindler

Picture of Barbara Schindler

Barbara Schindler

Self-Leadership Assessment Quiz Quadrant: Squad Leader,Trail Blazer, Professor, Ship Captain - Leading Edge Teams

Know Your Leadership Style: Grow And Influence

April 11, 2024

Leadership Styles: Which personality feels most authentically like you? You are unique! As a business leader, acknowledging your innate gifts and abilities helps you to make the most of them. Always, at Leading Edge Teams, we encourage diving deep into the importance of cultivating a leader's mindset, no matter your role in the company. Identifying […]

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Sound Business Decisions Today Shape Future Success

March 22, 2024

When you make decisions, do you take time to consider their impact on next month or next year? Decisions should contribute to actions that lead to strong results in your strategic business plan. In turn, your strategic plan should materialize your mission and vision.  Do you consider the pros and cons each decision has on […]

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Unlock Your Leadership Potential: The 4 Levels of Self-Leadership

March 14, 2024

How do you feel about your own leadership performance within your company?  How effectively do you lead your team to help them achieve strong business results?  I encourage you to pay attention, because your immediate response is likely an honest one. It’s evidence about how you really see yourself in your leadership role—you know whether […]

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How to Put Mindful Leadership into Action - Leading Edge Teams

How to Put Mindful Leadership into Action

February 29, 2024

Right now, you might be asking… Just how do I put mindful leadership into action?Let’s take a look at how mindfulness fits into your life, and into your work. First understand, mindfulness is a personal practice of quiet centering, it is for you and about you. With that in mind, I encourage you to identify […]

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How Mindfulness Strengthens You As A Business Leader - Leading Edge Teams

How Mindfulness Strengthens You As A Business Leader

February 16, 2024

Why is Mindfulness Essential to You as an Entrepreneur?  How Does Mindfulness Strengthen You as a Business Leader? Welcome! As a business coach, I have the privilege of working with people who seek to fulfill their passion, provide teaching or training, or meet a need in service to others through their entrepreneurial companies. Entrepreneurs are […]

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Communicate Well… Stop Talking, Start Hearing! Leading Edge Teams

Stop Talking, Start Hearing: Unlock Better Communication

January 26, 2024

To “Stop Talking and Start Hearing” is an important message for all of us, not just for others. Do you sometimes feel that you need to improve your communication skills at work (verbal and nonverbal)? Or… are you a person who feels improving communication skills is just for the other person?   Let’s talk! Communication is […]

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Break Free from the Ordinary: Harness Your Team’s Creative Power

January 16, 2024

WELCOME! I have a question for you: Do you see the importance of meeting with your team for creative breakout sessions on a regular basis? If not, I want you to know that generating new business opportunities and solutions to problems are right in front of you—and easier to bring to light than you may […]

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Business Cultures Thrive on Appreciation

December 11, 2023

Do you desire a productive team that's engaged, shows up enthusiastic, and challenges itself? Of course you do. We want it for you, too. The way to get this from your team might be simpler than you think. We know the ideal scenario for every entrepreneur and business owner is to have a team of […]

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Your Business Needs a Functional Organizational Chart

November 3, 2023

Hi everyone! … from Barbara at Leading Edge Teams!   Building a strong team that achieves your business goals together requires a Functional Organizational Chart. This foundation is needed to support your long term success! This is based on your company vision and strategic business plan. It defines the infrastructure, systems and processes. and optimal […]

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High Performance Teams need Role Clarity - Cartoon fitting people into shapes - Leading Edge Teams

High Performance Teams Need Role Clarity

October 30, 2023

You, and everyone in your company, need to have role clarity. It matters! Your team needs to function in alignment to the stage of business you are operating in, and the business outcomes you are going for.  Functional organizational structure that defines role clarity is imperative to attract and retain good talent for optimal business […]

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Healthy Vulnerability in the Workplace

October 2, 2023

I definitely love this topic! We know achieving success in business requires people to communicate and collaborate. And when people work in a company culture of healthy vulnerability they do both more effectively. This needs to be openly talked about. Why? For several reasons, and to begin with, being vulnerable as a business leader often […]

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Learn To Pace Yourself: Perform At Your Best With Pacing - Woman meditating among a pile of papers -Leading Edge Teams

Learn To Pace Yourself: Perform At Your Best With Pacing

August 15, 2023

Learn to PACE YOURSELF to empower success. Show up as your BEST SELF each day. These are two nice catch phrases, right? You want to do both, but how do I suggest that you learn to pace yourself with a work schedule that is demanding and with responsibilities that are a hinge to your company’s […]

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Supportive Listening - Leading Edge Teams

Supportive Listening: A Key Leadership Skill to Uplevel Your Business Today

February 7, 2023

Are your plans and goals being disrupted with unexpected results? In today’s economic environment you need your team’s best Supportive Listening for finding the opportunities within the current challenges to keep your business stable and forward moving. What Your Business Most Needs From You Be a Supportive Listener! Uplevel your team communication for the best […]

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Become Aware of Your Own Self-Protection

October 22, 2022

Have you ever witnessed someone who was totally unaware of the impact of their behavior or that they are in self-protection? I’m sure you have—we all have. It isn’t pretty and can look gnarly, but it is helpful to know that we all have stealth, hidden blind spots that happen when we are reacting from […]

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True Collaboration: The Best Results Are Team Driven

September 7, 2022

As a business begins to grow beyond stage 1 where it was mostly driven by the founder / CEO and maybe one other right hand person who helped get all the things done that the CEO wanted, you’ll likely begin to hire more team. What actually happens when you hire and begin to onboard can […]

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