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Leadership

Below are the articles in the Leadership category. Each article title is followed by a short introduction of the content. You may click "Read excerpt" for a more comprehensive introduction or click the "Purchase" link to buy the article.

The “Active” Leader: Harnessing Willpower to Move from Ideas to Action
We know what we should be doing, now how can we get it done?
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Becoming a Trusted Leader
Trusted leaders inspire the best performances from their teams, but how do leaders gain that trust?
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Bridging the Gap: Improving the Emotional Connection to Work
Overwork, anxiety and lack of challenge and recognition have colored the overall emotional connection of workers to their jobs. This article explores pointers on how to bridge the gap between how workers feel and how managers perceive them to feel—and how to help workers plug into a more positive emotional connection to their jobs.
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Disconnect: Exploring the Emotional Connection to Work
What do workers feel about their work? How can managers redirect their employees’ emotional energy from the negative to the positive side of the ledger.
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Effective Listening for Leaders
With organizations and individuals so focused on the bottom line, it’s easy to ignore “softer” goals, such as listening well. But those goals are essential for success.
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Everyday Leadership: It’s An Inside Job
What are the inner qualities that remain constant among all types of effective leaders? Leadership is a way of life, an expression of our fullest and best nature and it starts on the inside.
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Full Speed Ahead with “Yes, and” Thinking
What common phrase can destroy desire, stall great ideas, and endanger enterprise? A hint: most of us say it many times every day.
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Getting Things Done—On Time!
If planning is the key to getting things done on time, why is it sometimes regarded as an impossible luxury? Here are some ways to help keep those projects on track.
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The “Hat Trick”: How to Wear the Right “Hat” for the Task
The days of wearing a single hat for a career are long gone. And that can be a very good thing for business.
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How Well Do You Delegate?
Whether a person work with others, or alone, he or she may still suffer from the “Lone Ranger Syndrome”—that managerial malaise that causes folks to work excessively long, hard hours because only THEY know how to do something right. Whoa, Silver! There is a cure.
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How Well Do You Motivate Others?
As the quiz reveals, there is more to motivation than the three Ps.
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How Well Do You Practice Empathy at Work?
As the quiz reveals, empathy is an extremely important skill in the workplace.
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How Well Do You Present?
What does it take to be a great speaker? Take this quiz and see.
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How Well Do You Recognize Those Who Work With You?
What’s wrong with employee-of-the-month, coffee mugs, and length-of-service awards? This quiz will show more effective ways to express a job well done.
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Job Transition: Why the First Few Months Are Critical
He got the job; the hard work is over. Right? Wrong. Getting hired is just the first step.
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Parenting as a Management Tool
Parents and managers have many tasks and skills in common.
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Perspectives at Work
It is usually our perspective, the way we think about a situation—rather than the actual situation itself—that leads to joy or pain.
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Playing Around: The Role of Games in Creating World-Class Workplace Teams
Great teams don’t happen overnight, and working in teams is not always easy. That’s why businesses are turning to team building games to foster cohesion and understanding.
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Putting the Value Back in Performance Evaluations
Looks at the common problems with performance evaluations, explores the elements of a valuable appraisal and offers five recommendations for how to write one.
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“Shhhh. Quiet Leadership: The High-Performance Secret”
“Shhhh. Quiet Leadership: The High-Performance Secret”
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Standing Out as Outstanding
How can a business stand out from the din of modern life? These ideas can help.
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Stronger Performances Through Mentoring
With books, consultants, the Internet, there’s no dearth of sources for information and expertise. But where does one go for ongoing wisdom, for experienced advice? Increasingly in business, the answer is: mentors.
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Ten Questions to Ask Yourself Before Taking a Leadership Role
How well do I know myself? How do I handle failure? These questions and more can help clarify if a person is ready to move into a position of leadership.
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Thinking Like an Entrepreneur within the Corporate Walls
Explore “intrapreneurship,” including the value and benefits of such an approach for both the individual and the organization.
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Top 10 Ways to Set Clear Expectations
Too often, managers seem to lead through mental telepathy. Rather than set and communicate clear expectations, they assume their employees know what to do and how to do it. The results are hesitation, indecision, and uncertainty while teamwork, initiative and productivity go out the window.
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Top 10—Team Support
A leader’s job is to ensure that the highest level goals of the organization are realized. Here are ten ways to accomplish that.
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