Have you ever felt like that one coworker of yours is just trying to make life hard? They don’t respond to your emails. They don’t get their share of the work done on time. When it’s all hands-on deck they somehow seem to have other things to do. While you’re trying to come up with […]
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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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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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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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Years ago, I went for a walk with a co-worker because she needed to decompress. She was a friend and was unbelievably stressed. You see, she was about a year into her role and did not have a good relationship with her boss. They’re time together was purely transactional, and they didn’t trust one another
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Self-advocacy is taking initiative to communicate what you need and want. All too often people don’t take the time or initiative to simply ask for what they want and need. This is true for both men and women, but it seems to be more so women in the workplace who don’t advocate for themselves. We
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How much do you dread walking into your boss’ office, or opening up that Zoom invite, to join your one-on-one meeting? I have heard words like fear, dread, frustration, concern, anxiety, all to describe what should be a meeting that you should be the leader of. Take control of that 1:1 and focus it on
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