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Three Best Practices to Help You Thrive in a Remote Work Environment
The aftermath of Covid-19 highlighted an undeniable truth: remote work is here to stay. When I think back to the moments right before the world went into lockdown, I remember facing a tough choice. I decided to leave my job to pursue my PhD. A wave of anxiety washed over me the day I quit…
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Three Ways to Embrace Agile Leadership
Have you ever found yourself working with someone who, for whatever reason, didn’t quite “get it”?
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Three Strategies to Deeply Understanding Your Team
Have you ever found yourself working with someone who, for whatever reason, didn’t quite “get it”? Even small breakdowns in communication or understanding can quickly lead to frustration with your team.
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Keep Your People & Discovering Your Brand Webinar
Learn how to maintain a productive and satisfied workplace. The best organizations understand their employee’s strengths, weaknesses, wants and needs. Robin Baker from Fairfax County and Hile Rutledge of OKA discuss how to leverage the DRiV assessment to discover these drivers in their teams.
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Self-Awareness, Mental Health and Career Satisfaction
Mental health involves self-awareness and understanding yourself. What are your needs and wants?
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Creating High-Performing Teams
A few years ago, Google was interested in understanding what could predict an effective team. If they could figure that out, they would improve the likelihood of creating high-performing teams. Using team and manager evaluations, Google identified 180 teams to study, including a mix of previously identified high- and low-performing teams. Factors reviewed included personality…
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What Really Matters When Providing Effective Feedback?
There is no dispute that feedback can be a great tool for activating development or improvements across the board
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Doing What You Love? Loving What You Do?
Does your job inspire your passion – or merely occupy your attention? Our culture is wired to view work negatively (TGIF!) while paradoxically defining an individual’s success through his or her job. Here’s the mixed message: You are what you do – but don’t expect to like it!
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Gaining 2020 Vision: 4 Keys to Leveraging Self-Awareness
This time of the year, attention shifts to making resolutions, taking personal inventories, or charting paths to greater self-awareness. While such contemplation can be healthy and motivating, it can also lead to paralysis, evidenced by inaction and non-productive navel-gazing.
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5 Tips for Mellowing Hyper-Perseverance
You enjoy powering through projects, obstacles and challenges – persevering is one of your core strengths – and one of the four core Adaptability Quotient (AQ) drivers.
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Adaptability Improves Leadership: 4 Tips for Growth
Do you want to demonstrate leadership worth following? Would you like to develop your “ability to guide, direct, or influence people in a way that has great merit, character, and value”? If so, learn to be more adaptable.
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4 Ingredients for Winning Work Teams
These 4 ingredients not only help teams ensure they are engaging in behaviors that encourage high performance, but these behaviors also enhance engagement and act as a buffer against burnout.