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Take Down Your Corporate Ladder and Support Career Disruption

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Traditionally, career paths have been based on the idea of “moving up the ladder.” Success is measured by how high you get. A lateral move is usually not seen as a smart career move. The post Take Down Your Corporate Ladder and Support Career Disruption appeared first on Seapoint Center for Collaborative Leadership.

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The 7 Damaging Power Gaps Women Face and How Leaders Can Help

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Guest post by Kathy Caprino Several years ago, I began to notice some very common, repetitive patterns emerging in terms of what professional women were dealing with in their careers and jobs that were blocking them from the success, reward and impact they were longing for. I decided to pull back the lens to identify […].

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How To Answer a Wake Up Call

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Bright, ambitious and well-educated, Susan had a clear career path in the company. If your wake up call is about a career change, it’s difficult to think about options if all of your time is filled. The results on her 360 feedback were troubling… for her boss… but apparently not for her. This is a time to ask lots of questions.

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What I Wish I Knew as a CEO That I Learned Later in HR

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People who, because of a lack of dual career path options, had moved into a management role just to be able to get more influence, more status, greater compensation or have more say in how they spent their time, rather than actually wanting to lead a team. I was surprised at the number of reluctant managers I came across.

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Introverts: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Natural Strengths

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Jennifer is recognized world-wide as the “go-to” expert on the power of introverts following the success of her first book The Introverted Leader. Jennifer is a workplace and career expert, international speaker and executive coach whose clients include General Electric Co., Who gets their voice heard in the office?

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Simplify Leadership and Focus on What’s Essential

Jesse Lyn Stoner Blog

Know Them Until You Care: Get to know the career desires, goals, and aspirations of each of your people. Be Grateful: Your job is to help your people be eminently successful. Motivate with Opportunity: People will move mountains, if in exchange for doing so, they grow and develop. When you know them, you’ll care about them.

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How The Six Goal Genres Resolve the Conflict of Goals vs Goallessness

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What I am trying to do is feel comfortable being in the moment of my life, my career, my health…I know all too well that none of those important ‘issues’ are unchanging. So…is it a problem to feel goal-less in my life and career? Tomorrow I may lose my job, my health or even my life. Am I being less productive than I could be?

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