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How to Journal

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Guest post from Michaela Renee Johnson: I have always loved writing, especially as a way to process the depth of my emotions through difficult times. I still have my first journal, which I got in the third grade. It was included in a gift bag at a birthday party I attended.

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How to Cultivate Leadership Presence in a Remote Working World

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How to become more present With the intensity of working online, it is particularly important to find ways of consciously managing your attention. No one wants to work for a leader who ‘throws their toys out of the pram’ or withdraws into a sulky silence.

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How to Solve Your Most Difficult Leadership and Talent Challenges

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When everyone in your organization learns how to powerfully reframe business problems, you will get better results, faster, with lower risk. Or to paraphrase a quote that is attributed to Albert Einstein, “If I had an hour to save the world, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute finding solutions.”

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How to Lead On Purpose

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They may not have had training or mentoring on how to lead purpose, lack the necessary resources or not have the right mind-set to activate purpose in themselves and others. Some try to fake it until they make it because they aren’t sure how to define authentic purpose. But no matter how hard you try, you can’t fake purpose.

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How to Harness the Power of Empathy for Effective Leadership

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They are visionaries who know how to clearly communicate their vision to others. Imagine: a leader who knows how to gain efficiencies, decrease costs, increase employee retention, and inspire customer loyalty based on taking another’s point of view? Successful leaders have persistence, tenacity, confidence, enthusiasm.

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How to Address Sticky Workplace Office Etiquette Issues

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If just an individual employee, the issue can be handled with a little coaching on how to dress appropriately at work. See How to Discuss an Employee Performance Problem to learn how. Some employees just don’t seem to know the difference between dressing for work and dressing for a night out clubbing.

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How to Build Trust with Your Employees

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Guest post by Jennifer Rock and Michael Voss: “I didn’t tell the complete truth, and our relationship hasn’t been the same since.” This may sound like the confession of a person with marital issues, or the breakdown in a long-term friendship. But it’s a quote from a CEO client of ours.

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