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The Big Shift: Demand for Future Work Skills in 2021

HR Digest

The battle of the world against the pandemic shook up the workplace, requiring swift accommodation and responses to skills gaps and skill shifts. Updated skills are the currency for future-proofing your career. The Skills Dilemma. And what skills will matter to you and your organization in the future? . “If

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Author Interview: “The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and.

Persuasive Powerhouse

So with that out of the way, I am pleased to tell you that The 8 Essential Skills for Supervisors and Managers is a book that belongs in the hands of all leaders – whether they have direct reports or not. What are the 8 skills? Who are the audiences that will most benefit from The 8 Essential Skills? and skill 8 was born.

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Shut-up & Listen | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. When you reach that point in your life where the light bulb goes off, and you begin to understand that knowledge is not gained by flapping your lips, but by removing your ear wax, you have taken the first step to becoming a skilled communicator.

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Leadership & Initiative Overload | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

This is the definition of presence, and it is only when we operate in the present that real creativity, growth and innovation occur. Operating in excess of that threshold will cause increased stress, lack of attention to detail and errant decisioning. Is your rubber-band stretched so tight that it’s about to snap?

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Leadership and Opportunity | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

The reality is that great leaders all seem to possess an innate sense of timing such that most executives have a very clear understanding of the critical role timing plays as a survival skill at the C-suite level. So much so, that if you don’t think timing is everything - think again. .&#

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Lessons in Leadership to Last a Lifetime

Leading Blog

Make it a point to keep the lines of communication open, so that team members feel free to speak to you about day-to-day operations. It’s been about 20 years since I returned to MIT from Akamai, and businesses now routinely spend billions of dollars per year teaching employees “soft” leadership skills like the ones I just listed.

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Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? They often don’t possess the skill sets to add value to the initiatives they want to control. Which hat, or hats do you wear?