As soon as you realize you’re wrong, make sure that the next words you utter aim to rebuild your identity, your reputation, and your relationships.
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Category: Leadership
Emotionally Intelligent Strategies for Dealing with Difficult People
Here are three perspectives about working with difficult people that just might help you get unstuck.
read more...To Improve Your Team, First Work on Yourself
Teams are complex systems of individuals with different preferences, skills, experiences, perspectives, and habits. The odds of improving that complex system are higher if every team member learns to master these three foundational capabilities.
read more...How Leaders Can Get Honest, Productive Feedback
When delivered thoughtfully, feedback can provide leaders with the actionable data they need to become more effective. Here are a few steps you can take to get the feedback that is necessary to improve your leadership.
read more...Why the Most Successful Leaders Don’t Care About Being Liked
Staying Calm Isn’t Always the Best Approach for Leaders
Being and staying calm can be a gift, until it undermines your ability to set firm boundaries, make a clear call to action, and inspire others. Here are five times to (temporarily) put your moderate demeanor behind you.
read more...The Biggest Mistake You’re Making When Generating Ideas
“Going by the book” when it comes to defining innovation isn’t, in fact, innovative at all. Considering the widest range of possibilities for how innovation can be described, recognized, and rewarded is.
read more...Before You Talk to a Difficult Person, Give Yourself One of These Pep Talks
Here are three “pep talks” to get yourself into a mindset that will make dealing with a difficult person more productive, or at the very least, less destructive.
read more...10 Reasons You’re Talking Too Much, and What to do About It
Talking too much costs us time, productivity and energy. It also costs us our credibility and our relationships. Use these three strategies to talk less and have more impact.
read more...How to Solicit Negative Feedback When Your Manager Doesn’t Want to Give It
What do you do if you know that negative feedback is what you need to succeed — and nobody’s talking? Stop asking for negative feedback and try one of these creative approaches instead.
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