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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

An empathetic approach to organizational culture has been proven to have positive business outcomes. Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees.

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Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. As I looked back, I realized that most, if not all, of the 45 Performance-based Skills are utilized in some way during visionary thinking. This is why social interaction skills and boldness are so important to visionaries.

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Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Chaos happens, but we need to become a creator of positive chaos. That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. There is so much to gain from this outstanding book.

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Fuel Your Career: 17 Critical Skills When You’re a Young Leader Hungry for Success

Let's Grow Leaders

Are there additional skills or experiences they recommend you gain? Then, as you work together, you can both look for opportunities to learn those skills or get the experience. If so, you’ll be able to deal with the challenges that happen with every management and leadership position. What do they see or know that you don’t?

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Three Skills Managers Need in a Post-Pandemic World

Leading Blog

It’s time to prepare for the skills managers need to develop in order to support both their teams and their business. Here are the three skills managers need to focus on and develop right now: #1. Virtual Presentation Skills. Some of them could even overcome their lack of skill with humor. Leading in a Virtual World.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2021

Leading Blog

Many of the books listed below help us to do just that. The books listed below help us to build the right foundation from which we can lead others. These foundational leadership skills will make all aspiring executives more effective in their roles today and lift the trajectory of their careers. Leaders are dealers in hope.

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First Look: Leadership Books for February 2021

Leading Blog

Here's a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in February 2021. Intelligence is usually seen as the ability to think and learn, but in a rapidly changing world, there's another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.

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