Different people are destined to different career paths. But ideally, over time, you will take on bigger assignments and more responsibilities that will help you get to where you want. As a CEO of more than 15 years, I’ve helped hundreds of people navigate their professional journey. My best advice is to seek out jobs and opportunities that will help
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If you manage other people, the first thing you need to understand is that your success depends on their success. The more you empower your employees, the more they will grow and thrive. Here are ten specific ways to do this: Give employees generous boundaries. Contrary to conventional wisdom, boundaries don’t restrict team members; they empower them. Define the boundaries within
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Leaders should be approachable and not overbearing, or they’ll risk limiting creativity and motivation. If you want to keep good employees, you need to have strong managers. Not everyone is cut out for a leadership role, particularly people who show narcissistic tendencies. Leaders should be approachable, not overbearing, and eager to praise their direct reports’ success. As an executive coach,
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Can you identify a time when you were energized at work? In other words, you gave more effort than you would’ve expected to, doing something that you wouldn’t have thought was particularly exciting — because someone infused the task with energy and spurred your enthusiasm. Why did you feel that way? Chances are it was less about the work and more about
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There is no greater privilege than being trusted to lead a business. Its employees and customers — and even sometimes shareholders — depend on the ability to serve its purpose in an efficient, sustainable fashion. Because of those responsibilities, business leadership is a fine line. As executives work to guide their teams in the correct direction, they are often in
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As leaders, it’s up to us to share our ideas and insights with our teams and our networks. I frequently hear that one of the biggest challenges in sharing thought leadership is creating consistent, quality content in the midst of an over-scheduled calendar and multiple work priorities. Of course writing your own content, or producing your own videos, is a
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5 Steps to Hold Employees Accountable for Getting the Right Things Done Employers and business consultants talk a lot about employee engagement these days. It would be hard to argue that engagement is not important but engagement is really a proxy for something that employers are actually far more interested in—productivity. Clearly employees can be engaged, but not productive. Consider
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No matter the career path you may find yourself on, some strategies and skills are universal to our success. Regardless of whether you are a few years into your career or are a seasoned professional, these following seven strategies can help create or recreate a solid foundation to help boost your success. 1)Master the basics. Build your career on a
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Leaders and owners have heard this advice play out like a broken record: you must master your communication skills. It simply can’t be overlooked if we are to grow ourselves as leaders and our businesses. And while that’s all fine and dandy, few leaders truly understand or know what the practice of effective leadership communication actually looks like. As part of my servant leadership
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The coronavirus pandemic has taken our stress and anxiety to the next level. Frustration, worry and anger are all emotions that have spiked since March 2020. While it’s easy to neglect negative emotions in the moment, they can deeply impact how we go about our daily personal and professional lives. Studies show that merelywitnessing rudenessinhibits our working memory and decreases
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