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How to Be a Human-Centered Leader when You’re Stressed, Anxious, or Freaked-Out

Let's Grow Leaders

But when you’re stressed and anxious, it’s easy to snap at your team, lose your temper, and undermine the culture you’ve worked so hard to build. Stress and anxiety are unavoidable, but you can lead through these times to build a stronger and more productive team. 5 Steps to be a Human-Centered Leader When You’re Stressed.

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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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How to Make Wise Decisions

Leading Blog

We easily create narratives to fit our interpretation of reality, cherry-picking the information that gets us what we want. We must guard against corrupted input by reflectively analyzing and scrutinizing all information before letting it in to our control center. Stress, of course, has an impact on our ability to make sound decisions.

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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

Next Level Blog

What she rightfully had a problem with was a paternalistic management approach that assumed that the top people had all the information and answers to be shared as they saw fit. That can be stressful. Sometimes when we’re under stress we regress and try to hold on to the way things used to be even if they no longer work.

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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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The Best Leadership Articles of 2022 (according to you)

Let's Grow Leaders

Your Favorite Leadership Articles of the Year. Every year, we count down the best leadership articles of the year, according to your reading and sharing. Thanks so much for being a part of our human-centered leadership development community and for all you do to encourage courage! Click here for more information. .

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Is Leadership for You?

Lead Change Blog

You can learn a lot about leadership by observing good leaders and watching what they do. You can spend time thinking about how you would handle leadership issues. You can read books and blog posts and articles about leadership. Leadership Isn’t for Everyone. It’s a recipe for stress, poor performance, and unhappiness.