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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

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What she rightfully had a problem with was a paternalistic management approach that assumed that the top people had all the information and answers to be shared as they saw fit. The “worker bees” should be given what management thought they needed when they needed it. What do you agree with? What do you take issue with?

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How to Prepare for Performance Management Conversations

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Whether they’re part of an annual cycle, or much more useful, a timely pull-up on recent performance, performance management conversations are a fact of corporate life. As is usually the case, some of those are easy and fun, and others are hard and stress-inducing.

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Three Tips for Managing an Olbermann - Next Level Blog

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If you’ve got someone on your team who is clearly a star but regularly disrupts the chi and makes life difficult for others on the team, you’ve got a tough problem as a manager. So, how do you manage the superstar that has a penchant for stirring things up? What have you learned about managing difficult superstars?

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Simple Physical Routines for Successful Stress Management

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This week, I want to start with three basic physical routines that are essential to stress management – eating, moving and sleeping. So, there you have it – some best practices for eating, moving and sleeping that will help you manage your allostatic load during these unusually stressful times. No screens in bed.

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Four Ways to Be More Proactive and Less Reactive in Your Time Management

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They’ve been following through on advice they’ve been given by colleagues that can be summed up as being more proactive and less reactive in their approach to time management. Here’s what they’ve been doing to reap the benefits of managing their time more proactively (and, in the interest of you doing the same, I’ll keep this brief!)

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Leadership Lessons from Yoga - Next Level Blog

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Anyone reading this blog doing yoga? Love your blog. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game.   It just felt like the thing to do. 

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Seven Simple Rules to Create a Fear Based - Next Level Blog

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That isn't leadership it is management. Subscribe to Blog Updates via Email or RSS Chart Your Course in 2011 with a Life GPS® Interactive Program Details Here Join me for the. The Next Level Blog is where he shares "news you can use" to raise your leadership game. Poor at that.

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