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Five Meaningful Ways to Keep Your Team Engaged

Next Level Blog

When you think about the best leaders you’ve worked with in your career, they’re likely the ones that coached you in ways that made you a better professional and maybe even a better person. The very best leaders are known as stellar talent developers who create the kinds of opportunities that build careers and change lives.

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This is Why People Really Quit Their Jobs

Lead from Within

Workplaces that retain top people give them access to meaningful learning opportunities—they enable people to be energized by their projects, to perform at their best, and to advance their skills and move forward professionally. There’s no room for advancement. There’s no room for advancement. They’re exposed to dysfunction.

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It’s called human resources for a reason

ReImagine Work

About 7 years into my IT career I realized I didn’t love the technology enough to excel over the long haul. Projects could be more successful and deliver more quickly if we treated people like human beings. Projects could be more successful and deliver more quickly if we treated people like human beings.

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My 2020 Story and a Few Lessons Along the Way

QAspire

I began 2020 with a firm plan to execute a significant mid-career transition that involved voluntary movement out of a rewarding senior leadership role, relocating family, reuniting with my parents and (hopefully) start new assignments. We don’t need material stuff around us to be happy. Reinventing Career in Disruptive Times.

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Setting Expectations On Behaviors You Value: 5 Pointers

QAspire

Whether you are a project manager or a business leader, here are a few actions you can take to set the right expectations on behaviors you value. “Strategic Reward&# as referred here is not just “carrot and stick&# - but the idea was to map the intrinsic human need to be validated/appreciated with managing expectation.

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5 Ways To Build Trust (Lessons from a Conversation)

QAspire

‘Being trusted’ is one of the basic human need, and leaders who fulfill this need early build great relationships with their people. The simplest way to project yourself the way you are is to open up and remain integral. Best, Tanmay By Tanmay , July 21, 2010 @ 10:09 am @Megha - Thanks for encouraging Megha.

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Rejection Is Critical for Success

Harvard Business Review

Our basic human need to belong causes these incidents to stick with us through the years. Even as adults, at various times in our careers we're not selected for jobs , promotions, or projects; or even less significant benefits such as parking spaces, preferred offices, or new computer equipment.