As you spend weeks, months, and even years working side by side with an amazing team, you develop relationships. And that’s good right?! You want those office besties to help you through the projects, problems, and venting sessions. You want to do the same for them. According to Gallup, the global analytics and advice firm, […]
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I’ve learned enough in my years to know that I can never judge a book by its cover. I sat across from Jared. He was well dressed, articulate, and had titles from prior positions that many would be envious of. You would expect him to be the full package, accomplished, confident, and, of course, a
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You’ll get all sorts of advice before you start your first supervisor role. People will encourage you to know your leadership style, understand your strengths and weaknesses as a leader. I will encourage you to do that too. Infact, if you don’t yet know your leadership strengths, check out Strengths Based Leadership from Gallup. This
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If you’ve ever tried to teach someone something, you know it takes way more effort than to just tell them what to do or how to do it. Even something as simple as tying your shoe. You could tell someone how to tie their shoe in a matter of seconds, but teaching, that could take
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So many people want to drive change but hold back, feeling helpless, because they aren’t responsible for decisions in the group. You can tailor your efforts to impact the decisions and direction of group regardless of your position within it. Today I’m sharing the psychological tips to drive the changes you want to see when
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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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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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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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