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Don’t Blow Past Your Strengths

Next Level Blog

I hope they encourage you to think about your own strengths and not blow past them: Deploy Them Elsewhere : Early in my coaching career, I coached a senior executive who was his company’s primary representative to a key customer. Over the years, I’ve seen that as an opportunity for leaders in both tactical and strategic ways.

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Does Your Email Inbox Dictate Your Day — And Should It?

Great Leadership By Dan

As I shared stats from my organization’s recent survey, the reporter passed along comments from a CEO he’d just interviewed: “Email interrupts me all day long. My organization, Booher Research Institute, recently commissioned a survey of email habits and productivity from the Social Research Lab at the University of Northern Colorado.

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5 Strategies, Tactics and Traits to Support Diversity in the Modern Workplace

Strategy Driven

Perhaps they could only climb the career ladder in a new country. Whether through anonymous email surveys, engagement surveys (think: a employee net promoter score) or a digital suggestion box, you’d be surprised at what you can by asking the right questions. Consider leaving a comment! All rights reserved.

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How to (or NOT to) Stand Out With Your Resume

Women on Business

I recently came across an article on MSN careers, titled 20 Unusual Resume Tactics to Avoid. In it, the author, Autumn McReynolds, shared what she believed to be tactics to avoid with your resume, based on the annual CareerBuilder survey. These 20 tactics were: Candidate said the more you paid him, the harder he worked.

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Be Different! The Key to Business and Career Success

Skip Prichard

The Key to Business and Career Success. A climate survey of employees is one of the best ways to gauge whether the tone at the top and culture are problematic. You share some tactics for dealing with a toxic boss. It’s through differentiation that you or your business become successful. ” -Stan Silverman.

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Development Is Shortsighted: Interpersonal Skills #1 Reason Frontline Leaders Fail

Great Leadership By Dan

Year after year, surveys are released sharing the plight of the frontline leaders. In the summer of 2012, DDI and HR.com partnered to survey 291 HR executives in the United States and Canada to find out just how well frontline leaders are handling these challenges, and how well organizations are preparing them to do so.

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Listen Up! 5 Ways To Improve Your Leadership Listening Skills

Tanveer Naseer

It could be harming your reputation and career. A survey of 200 US adults published on CNN found that being too preoccupied with smartphones in the office damages workplace relationships and productivity. The following is a guest piece by Jackie Edwards.

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