How Should a Budding Leader Prepare to Communicate Effectively

Effective communication. In management and leadership, there are few other skills that people engage in so regularly, yet fail in so consistently and with so much gusto. The preponderance of leaders who are brilliant, effective managers but who can’t communicate effectively is stunning. I don’t need to cite stats ad nauseam, since anyone who works…

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Strategies for Managing Change

Change is a constant in our lives, and as a result we’re always looking for strategies for managing change. Do you know how you actually process change on a personal level? We all inherently have a way to work through trying or fast-shifting times – it is our own change management process. However, I’m not…

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Creating a Great Place to Work

Recently, a friend sent me a Harvard Business Review blog that helped me think about how I can make my office a truly great place to come to work. The opening paragraph of the blog was particularly striking: More than 100 studies have now found that the most engaged employees — those who report they’re…

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The Happiness Index

Well, this blog isn’t exactly about a specific index, but wouldn’t it be nice to know just how happy we are? Just googling “Happiness Scale” threw up online tests such as the “Subjective Happiness Scale” developed by Dr. Sonja Lyubomirsky, author of The How of Happiness. But what has this got to do with anything?…

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Managing Relationships

One of the things I love talking about – both in a personal and work capacity – is relationships. I would like to say it is a topic close to my heart, but I know now that it is actually in my brain. Relationships are everywhere. We can talk seriously about relationships between business partners…

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Goal Setting with Impact

Goals and objectives can be like an exercise routine or a gym membership. For those of us who are committed regulars, the process can be a bit routine and rote, but at least we are checking in regularly. Then there are those of us who start with the best intentions, set a great plan, but…

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Making Your Employees Idea Generators

How does your organization get at ideation? Does your organization even know what ideation truly is? Ideation (according to Wikipedia) is the process of generating ideas, communicating those ideas, and developing the ideas to fruition. So what does that really mean? Well, firstly, it means something different than innovation—that business buzzword catchall for creativity, idea…

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