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

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The appeal of empathic leadership extends beyond conventional office environments. Researchers found that empathic companies are the most profitable and are associated with increased employee earnings and gratification as well as customer satisfaction. Empathic leadership is not only for supersensitive types.

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How Leaders Can Build an Autonomous Work Environment

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Being displaced from their physical work environments, missing their colleagues socially and collaboratively, and losing much of their managers’ usual support, they became increasingly disengaged. Leaders Must Rise to the Occasion, Too As a leader, your role in creating an autonomous work environment cannot be overstated.

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Align Your Organization to Succeed in Today’s and Tomorrow’s Changing Environment

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T HE PANDEMIC threw all strategies into the junkyard. We now have the opportunity to deal with new realities, but that calls for an entirely new approach to half-century-old strategic processes. Conduct your “forensic implementation analysis” to examine these five dynamic forces : 1.

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End Game First

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Phase 3 is a steady state of being, but it is not a sustainable environment. Or rather, it can’t be a self-sustainable environment. You can still make decisions and take actions that move you toward your end goals.” Steady state is marked by reestablishing some semblance of routine that allows some degree of reset.

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Leading Thoughts for December 28, 2023

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When a non-threatening environment for questions is a daily reality, people become ever more comfortable with themselves, know their strengths better, and are more self-assured.” Source: Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog.

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Leading Thoughts for March 9, 2023

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To have such feelings in a continually changing environment, we must continually realign ourselves with our environment.” When we are continually growing, we have an internal sense of meaning and impact. We are full of energy and radiate a successful demeanor.

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When a Success Formula Hardens

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Managers often equate inertia with inaction—a passive phenomenon in which organizations change more slowly than their environment or fail to change altogether, like the deer in the headlights. When the world changes, in other words, they respond with more of what worked before. But that rarely happens.

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