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How Attending To The 5 Elements Of Wellbeing Will Make You More Productive At Work

Co-authored by Shawn Overcast The events of the past 8 months have only added to the complexities of life and the stress of the work environment. Employers and employees across the globe met the transition from in-person to remote work with mixed emotions. Our collective recent experiences have changed the way we work and live. […]

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How Do I Give Feedback to My People?

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You’ve made it into a leadership position. You are finally a manager! You take the new job seriously, knowing that the responsibilities include meeting strategic goals, managing budgets, and making presentations to senior management. Those challenges are daunting, but you feel well prepared, due to your background, education, and business experience. And yet there is

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Recognizing A Toxic Work Culture Before You Get In Too Deep

Blog / Chris Cancialosi

Maybe I’m the one wearing rose-colored glasses, but I refuse to believe that most leaders wake up every morning intentionally trying to create a toxic work culture. Why is it then that there seems to be a constant flow of breaking news stories of employees sharing claims of workplace toxicity stretching from The Ellen Degeneres

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Pivoting For Pandemic Success

Blog / Chris Cancialosi

Times are tough for a lot of people, entrepreneurs included. COVID-19 and the safety requirements associated with minimizing its spread have wreaked continuing havoc on businesses of all shapes and sizes. Despite government stimulus programs, well over 11 million Americans remain unemployed. While a great many American businesses have struggled during these times and while

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How Do I Find Hope?

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by Dave Bushy “Always Have Hope.” This philosophy informs the simplest and most profound outlook humans can hold in their hearts. It is a quote from one of the men I admired most in the world. I often ask those around me how they feel about the times in which we live. Many point to

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High-Potential Programs Can Help Some Employees And Hurt Others. Here’s How We Can Design A Fairer System

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By Natasha Ouslis and Zad El-Makkaoui Companies invest in high potential programs with the goal of developing their star employees into future leaders. As exciting as these programs seem, poorly designed versions of them might cause more harm than good. While there is no secret recipe for a high potential program, here are three ideas to keep in

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Attend to Others – Give Them the Gift of Yourself

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I learn from every client. One lesson in particular that comes to mind came from a young leader with whom I recently worked. My client was extremely curious about how others saw her. She worked hard at becoming aware of her own well-developed sides and those she discerned might be less developed. She was a

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The Leader as a “Heat Sink”

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In everything from soldering circuit boards to dissipating the thermal energy created by computer server farms, the technological world appreciates the value of a “heat sink.” Without heat sinks, we would have far more component hiccups or even outright failures. Heat sinks serve a vital purpose in dissipating energy and allowing a device to function.

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The Two Best Bosses You’ll Ever Have – Continuing Lessons From My First Sergeant

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It seems like a lifetime ago that I was sitting with another G.I., commenting about my commander in the military. The animated discussion I was engaged in was with a non-commissioned officer – a “NCO” – commiserating about actions my commander had taken and how I wish he could somehow be different. The NCO, a

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Going Slow To Go Fast

Blog / Chris Cancialosi

In a recent discussion with one of my colleagues, she compared the work she is doing with teams to rebooting her computer. Every once in a while, we realize that we have opened so many files, folders, web pages, and software programs in the course of our work and life that things just aren’t operating

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How Attending To The 5 Elements Of Wellbeing Will Make You More Productive At Work

How Do I Give Feedback to My People?

Recognizing A Toxic Work Culture Before You Get In Too Deep

Pivoting For Pandemic Success

How Do I Find Hope?

High-Potential Programs Can Help Some Employees And Hurt Others. Here’s How We Can Design A Fairer System

Attend to Others – Give Them the Gift of Yourself

The Leader as a “Heat Sink”

The Two Best Bosses You’ll Ever Have – Continuing Lessons From My First Sergeant

Going Slow To Go Fast

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