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Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023

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This makes you feel hostile and hopeless about improving things and leaves little room for constructive communication.’ Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” ‘You see them as totally bad,’ David Burns writes.

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LeadershipNow 140: November 2023 Compilation

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Leading Those Who Rationalize Poor Performance via @AdmiredLeaders 8 Qualities Of The Smartest Person In The Room by @BrianKDodd “The goal isn’t to be the smartest person in the room; it’s to make the entire room smarter.” by @davidabrock What should we be doing differently? Whatever is inside you will come out.”

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LeadershipNow 140: June 2023 Compilation

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It's Time to Get Rid of S.M.A.R.T. Here's Why & How by @artpetty Are you ready investigate some of life's important questions? You're not alone.

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Automatic Influence: How Your Perception Influences Everything You Do

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Widen our perception through constructive feedback. Another way is to abandon happiness as a goal in our life. By asking questions, we may guide them through their perceptions and outcomes, as they see it , we can connect them to shared goals. What do we do? We need to carefully manage our attention. We don’t see everything.

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

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You asked for a sample goal. Some coaching clients receive recipes to try to help them give more resonant praise, apply more skillful delegation, or approach a conflict constructively. We all have different growth needs. We’ll always have growth needs.

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Scenario Planning vs. Forecasting: 6 Questions to Ask to Prepare for a Post-Pandemic Future

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Forecasts , on the other hand, are constructed on the assumption that the world in the future looks much like it does today. As Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley, said, “ the goal of forecasting is not to predict the future, but to tell you what you need to know to take meaningful action in the present.”

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Creating the Conversations That Help Them Grow

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Helping people look back and inward also provides a reservoir of information that allows employees to move forward and toward their career goals in intentional ways that will produce satisfying results.”. Encourage employees to get feedback from those they work with. Foresight Conversations. Harness the power of your crowd.

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