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How to Enhance the Perception of Your Organization’s Reputation

  Reputation management has become increasingly important in the social media age. This pertains to the reputation of individual leaders as well as corporations. What…

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Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

  We’re all familiar with the adage: “Can’t teach an old job new tricks?” Well, I beg to differ for this reason:  If we don’t…

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Business and Cognitive Bias

Imagine a workplace where managers and coworkers viewed one another through a purely objective lens. Or where customer concerns were resolved without blame, judgment, or…

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Setting Vision

Setting the Vision when Leading Organizations

  SHRM identify that one of the competencies that we need to have as leaders is the ability to set the vision. They identify this…

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Why are Interpersonal Skills important for Leaders

  So, what are interpersonal skills, and why are they important as a leader? When I think about the times that I have had individuals…

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Autocratic Leaders

The Autocratic Leadership Style

  Some might say that an autocratic leader is out of style. I beg to differ. When could you need an autocratic style of leader?…

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Leadership and Taking Risks

Key Leadership Traits: The ability to Take Risks

SHRM defined one of the most important competencies in leading organizations as taking risk. The ability to risk. Without question, we want to be conscious…

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Celebrating the Opportunity of Change (Part 5)

As leaders, you already know the importance of not only managing change, but embracing it as well. I want you to consider how you can…

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Change Management Ep.4 Change and Disruption

It’s interesting how people will often use the term disruption, and the term change interchangeably. I do believe however that there are some subtle differences….

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Change Management Ep.3 Get Buy-In to Change Initiatives

One of the biggest issues that leaders constantly ask me about is, how do I get my team to buy into change? And this is…

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