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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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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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Time to Create a Development Plan!
As you are thinking about setting personal goals for the year, it is a great time to consider your career and development goals as well. It is easy to get into our routine and focus on the here and now, forgetting that we need to “own” our career. Yet, to really “own” our career, we…
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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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The Commitment to Lead: Passion for Results
Individuals vary in what energizes and motivates them. As leaders, you can engage others and make them want to do well for you by learning to recognize and leverage what motivates members of your team.
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Feeling Lucky? What’s Your Attitude at Work?
Around St. Patrick’s Day, the Irish get credited with embodying and enjoying an extra measure of luck. Even if you’re not a wee bit Irish, your attitude about luck could influence your career. How can you best leverage it for success?
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Fostering Curiosity: 6 Tips to Buffer against Burnout
“Curiosity” is in the spotlight in the latest issue of Harvard Business Review (HBR) (September/October 2018), with several articles exploring aspects of this theme related to managing people, psychology, and leadership development.
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See Work as an Adventure: 7 Tips
Our attitude about work and our preparedness can make a huge difference. Here are 7 tips to help develop a healthier, more productive and more adventuresome attitude.
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Honing Your Presentation Skills: 9 Tips
Effective leadership often requires impactful presentations. Here are 9 tips to consider to help enhance your presentations.
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Focusing Your Creatives’ Energy (Part 2 of 2)
While we all have our strengths and weaknesses, creative people present a unique challenge for many leaders. Case in point: type leading creatives into Google and you’ll see over 13.5 million results.
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Identifying 3 Paradoxical Creative Types & Their Risks (Part 1 of 2)
Innovation is essential for staying competitive in the marketplace, so business leaders and researchers are increasingly interested in optimizing their organization’s creative talent. However, there are challenging paradoxes that arise as creatives and organizations seek to move from generating ideas to implementing and commercializing them.