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Samantha Tassone, GrowthFuel President. Brain-based Leadership, Influence and Communication Coach. Read Article:  Published on Forbes.com You’ve likely already started looking back and reflecting on your past year. How many times have you been asked if you have a New Year’s resolution? Many of us are not sure where to start and desire something more than committing to […]

Samantha Tassone, GrowthFuel President. Brain-based Leadership, Influence and Communication Coach. Read Article:  Published on Forbes.com Ever posed a question and realized you failed to uncover needed details? Like you’re at a dead end, and it didn’t lead to better understanding? Not all questions are created equal. We make choices every day, consciously or unconsciously, about how we

I’m truly humbled by CEO Lauren Dixon’s generous recognition of GrowthFuel in the Rochester Business Journal. As someone who typically operates behind the curtain through confidential coaching and consulting, it’s a powerful affirmation to see this work acknowledged so publicly. “At DS+CO, we use brain-based conversation skills and techniques taught to us by Samantha Tassone.

Accountability with Grace or Control? Leveraging Conversational Intelligence to Influence without Power My boss berated me in front of the whole team about a tactical operation every-day-type function that went terribly sideways. In this team session, he digs into every last detail with enthusiasm for drilling down to discover these new facts for himself. This

17 Coaches On How To Address Leadership Blind Spots Even the most accomplished leaders can have habits, assumptions or behaviors that limit their effectiveness without them even realizing it. As a leader, your ability to identify and address these blind spots can be the key to unlocking your next level of growth. But what exactly

Employees Wired for Self-Interest: You Go First and Get Me Right Did you realize everyone, including your employees, is wired for self-interest? Okay, consider the perspective of your employee, who’s thinking: “I need you to go first, ‘get me right,’ then I will happily focus on my teammate’s welfare. This feeling of connection comes from

The Science of Smart Decisions: How Decision Science Transforms Leadership Development Most of the time, others yield to the highest-ranking person in the room to make the safest decision and play it safe themselves, too. Making the right decision based solely on past experiences could be a mistake. It could be heavily biased thinking, or

Mastering Conversational Intelligence for Strategic Leadership Have you ever felt like you were required to collaborate with the enemy who happens to be your peer or internal customer, and you are both cross-functionally dependent on each other? You feel that you’re working hard to make connections, learn the business, or get through your to-do list,

Discernment: A Critical Leadership Power for Upgrading Decision-Making I always tell my child that being a parent does not come with a how-to user manual, even though it would have been nice to reference standard operating procedures (SOPs) just once—more specifically, as my son ascended into adolescence, where the stakes were higher. Much like parenting

Vital Business Practice: Closed-Loop Communication Have you heard of two-way radio communication protocol in the military where certain etiquette must be followed in the dialogue exchange? Team members follow tight closed-loop communications to ensure messages are receieved when stakes are high and stress is heavy, just like on the battlefield. Utilizing this protocol improves the