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How Do I Encourage My Coworker to Take Initative? (without coming across as a jerk)

Let's Grow Leaders

Today’s “Asking for a Friend” features Glain Roberts-McCabe, PCC, CTDP ( she/her) with expert advice for showing up curious and getting clear on your request. Appreciate Different Styles Understand that we all have different motivational energies. Work is more stressful than it needs to be. Let’s fix that.

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What Experts are Saying About Career Advice: May Frontline Festival

Let's Grow Leaders

For May’s Frontline Festival, I asked experts around the world to share their best career advice. Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership brings us a timeless list of great advice in his post 15 Timeless Work Habits For Career Success. They ask you for your best advice on how to get ahead. Allow time and energy to explore.

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Really Important Interviewing Advice

Let's Grow Leaders

Perhaps he really was as good as he said, and all the “me, me, me” stuff was just nervous energy. He told us 5 times he was the most qualified candidate, and why we shouldn’t waste a second more on our job search. But we couldn’t get there past the cocky decorum. I’ll never know.

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Generating Keen Energy That Electrifies a Powerful Culture

The Practical Leader

He ignored or shut down any advice that what he was forcing on the shipbuilders wasn’t feasible. Review your strategies for understanding what common causes your organization may have for draining energy and/or losing good people. ” The test “produced more energy from fusion than the laser energy used to drive it.”

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6 Ways Your Business Is Wasting Energy

Strategy Driven

By limiting the energy that you waste, you can help the planet, as well as save money and boost your image. Here are six ways your business is wasting energy. By doing this, you limit how much extra energy you use and save yourself from paying off-peak energy costs. Don’t let high energy bills get you down.

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7 Words of Advice For Young Pastors

Ron Edmondson

It’s given me advice I like to share with young pastors. Of course, in full disclosure, I consistently try to convince them I’m not the guy to listen to but they keep asking for advice, so I keep sharing. 7 pieces of advice I give to young pastors: Don’t try to have all the answers. Shouldn’t we do likewise?

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4 Words of Advice for a New Leader

Ron Edmondson

Someone once messaged me on Twitter to ask, “What words of advice do you have for a new leader? 4 words of advice for the new leader: Learn the people first, before making major changes. Spread some of your enthusiasm and energy over the first year or more. Of course, my best advice – Go with God!

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