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Better Stakeholder Management: How to Turn Stress into Success

Let's Grow Leaders

This article gives you some practical tips for better influence and less stress. If Distracted Donna is feeling stressed and slowing you down by asking for information you’ve already shared, then the way you’ve been communicating isn’t working. Sound familiar? You glance at your phone, and your heart does a mini samba.

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Starting A Construction Business: Everything You Should Know

Strategy Driven

You’ve been working in the construction industry for a number of years, allowing you to build up a strong knowledge of every aspect of running a construction company. Now you have decided that the time has come to take a leap of faith and attempt to break out on your own and launch your own construction company.

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Seasonal Stress Stretches Resiliency

Lead Change Blog

Even as I write this, the wood floor in the kitchen, dining room, and den is being splintered and thrown into the jaws of a construction bin. The post Seasonal Stress Stretches Resiliency appeared first on Lead Change. Maybe it was the hot water pipe that burst in the foundation that started the meltdown.

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The Role Stress Plays in Stupidity

thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Prolonged, chronic stress often causes relative stupidity. Learn more about the connection between stress and cognitive performance. The day I started chapter 3, a chapter about stress, my neighbor started construction on her house. Read the rest of this post at thoughtLEADERS, LLC: Leadership Training for the Real World.

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Top Tips For Construction Project Managers

Strategy Driven

Construction projects are famously difficult to manage, and this is because there are often so many moving parts. A small issue that can arise in construction can end up having huge consequences, and this is why so many projects often end up over budget and/or past the deadline. Using signage around the construction site.

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Upshift: How to Turn Pressure into Performance and Crisis into Creativity

Leading Blog

And too little of the associated stress is not good. But with too much stress we become overloaded, and we just feel like shutting down. We start to move toward this sweet spot when we switch from perceiving a stressful situation as a challenge rather than a threat. We have all formed over time how we deal with stress. “A

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Lower Your Stress, Think With Clarity, and Lead with Ease

Skip Prichard

Many capable leaders have resigned themselves to pervasive stress and being overwhelmed. In her new book Leading Lightly: Lower Your Stress, Think With Clarity, and Lead With Ease , Jody boldly asserts that each person CREATES the majority of their problematic feelings and energy depletion. . Stress … Anxiety… Exhaustion.

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