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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

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Embrace the Problem Jacobs’ mentor told him early on in his twenties as he unloaded on him with his problems, “Look, Brad, if you want to make money in the business world, You need to get used to problems, because that’s what business is. Leave Judgment at the Door “The path to radical acceptance begins with non-judgmental concentration.”

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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

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Sometimes that feedback comes from a mentor or in a formal coaching relationship, and other times it’s family, friends, or co-workers who can shine a light on a path forward if we make them feel safe to do so. I mentor many adults who didn’t have a role model in their youth and many who did.

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The Leader's Greatest Return

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Equipping Leaders: Train them to be great at their job. They position them and mentor them.” Mentoring Leaders: Coach them to the next level. Leaders have a responsibility to mentor others. For mentoring to work, it becomes a two-way street. As mentors, we should both teach and learn.

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Key Tips for Bridging the Generational Divide in the Workplace

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In the multi-generational workplace, a useful approach for capitalizing on Millennials’ skills is to employ “reverse mentoring.” Instead of the usual older-to-younger employee mentoring, the junior employee mentors the senior employee.

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How to Be an Engaging Leader in a World of Robotics, AI, and Digitization

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Value Two-Way Mentoring. “I Two-way mentoring means that we seek not only to teach and train our emerging leaders, but also to learn from them. These core strategies propel her clients’ businesses to the next level through consulting, training, coaching, and recruiting.

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5 Leadership Lessons: Richard Branson on Leadership

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The exact same principle applies to positive attitudes in people – you don’t train attitudes, you have to hire them. (We So please, take it from me: no matter how incredibly smart you think you are, or how brilliant, disruptive or plain off-the-wall your new concept might be, every start-up team needs at least one good mentor.

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5 Leadership Lessons from Herb Greenburg

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When you see someone who has those qualities and the drive to continuously improve, then, with recognition, mentoring, training, and experience, they might evolve from managing to leading. Leadership is about the willingness of individuals to step up, take responsibility, become accountable, accept risk, and move forward.