If you want to grow in your career and as a leader you must learn to communicate your success. This is a skill and art that will move you in any direction you want to go exponentially faster than just doing good work. Bragging about all you’ve achieved will lose you friends, sure. However, strategically […]
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When you’re having tough conversations it’s critical to be honest, kind, and sets standards for the future. It not only sets you apart as a leader on the team but it helps people work more effectively. It also sets the team up for success. I actually have 6 great reasons why you want to have
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I’ve never met a single person who was trying to communicate poorly and yet we make communication mistakes all the time. We communicate every single day so, with good intentions, and practice we should be good at it, right? Wrong. Studies of American’s show that each generation feels they are less effective communicators than the
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While it might seem like your boss is out to get you sometimes, most often they are just doing the best they can with what the tools they were given. They are just people and we know, because we see it every day, that they are not perfect. What if you could better equip them?
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Do you know what style leader you are? There are a variety of different styles. From your traditional autocratic manager (think, they say jump you say how high) to a coaching style leader (they ask questions to help you discover if jumping is the best next step). Close to the coaching side of the spectrum
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If you’re a people leader you likely know the disconnect between the vision of the company and what your team is actually working on. At the end of the day, its likely aligned to a degree but if we don’t communicate the vision with our teams it will certainly feel disconnected. When you don’t communicate
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If you walked into a room with managers, leaders, and even CEOs and asked, how can we build trust as an organization? You’d likely get a lot of team building ideas. There would be retreats, trust exercises with consultants, maybe a survey followed by a very long and loving email from top leaders in the
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The pace of change in the past decade has just increased year over year. New companies and even industries are emerging. The way we do work has been completely overhauled. Add to that the addition of AI in the workplace! Change is constant. That means that as leaders, we’re being asked to work through change
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I don’t care what stage in your career you are, how many years of experience you have, or what your title is, everyone needs to be held accountable at work. (We’re starting off a little bold today, I know.) Holding someone accountable for their work means that you care about the result that you’re all
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Professional growth and professional development have really evolved over the years. It used to be enough to just say you were going on vacation for a few days, er, I mean, to a conference. You would show your boss the brochure and the promotional materials and that was proof that you learned and grew. Then,
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