Tanveer Naseer

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A Personal Lesson Of Leadership Failure And Becoming A Better Listener

Tanveer Naseer

Without question, being an effective listener is definitely a critical skill for leaders to demonstrate, especially as workplaces continue to become more demographically diverse. It's one of the reasons why in so many of my leadership keynotes and workshops I touch on what leaders need to do to become better listeners.

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Are You Helping Employees Find Purpose In What They Do?

Tanveer Naseer

Among these various leadership topics and issues was the subject of finding a sense of purpose in what we do, a topic which also served as the focus of the TEDx talk I gave this past September here in Montreal. In terms of leadership, what this means is that we don’t have to be spending our time creating purpose for our employees.

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Stop Aspiring To Lead And Start Leading By Giving Support

Tanveer Naseer

Media don’t show this bread-and-butter but not dramatic part of leadership. In my book, “ Leadership Step by Step “, I treat support as the culmination of the leadership skills that you reach after mastering everything else. In particular, I structure Leadership Step by Step in four units: 1.

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Bringing Water-Cooler Honesty to the Act of Giving and Receiving Feedback

Tanveer Naseer

Next Monday, he will be presenting a workshop at G5 Leadership called “ Listen Up, Speak Up – How to tackle tough topics ”, where he’ll discuss, among other things, the challenges in giving and receiving feedback, which is the subject of his guest piece here on my blog.

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How To Promote Continuous Learning In Your Organization

Tanveer Naseer

.” – William Arthur Ward When it comes to effectively leading teams and organizations in today’s fast-paced, 24/7 global economy, it’s becoming more and more evident that the days of command-and-control leadership are well behind us. Consequently, we expend less energy to perform these very tasks.

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Stop Unwanted Beliefs From Sabotaging Your Self-Improvement

Tanveer Naseer

After reading my book, “ Leadership Step by Step ”, Tanveer noted how New Year’s Day leads people to think about self-improvement and suggested relating it to my chapters on unwanted beliefs and changing them. The more you practice, the more you improve your skills. The exercises above build the skills resolutions leave out.

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Winners Are Born In Difficult Times

Tanveer Naseer

At best, leadership development is a fun day out, at worst it is a gut wrenching, annoying exercise that leaves you cringing as someone teaches you to suck eggs. And it is managers’ ability to innovate, collaborate and adapt to a constantly changing environment that are the leadership skills we most need to develop.