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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The interference could come externally but often comes internally in an athlete — freezing up or choking on the spot. The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). People also tend to give up too early or to not try because of an assumption that may not be valid. Low awareness.

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Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

An empathetic approach to organizational culture has been proven to have positive business outcomes. Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees.

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Leadership Support: How Do I Get More Executive Attention?

Let's Grow Leaders

To get better executive leadership support, ask for what you need. You have lots of great reasons to want better leadership support for your team. And of course, if your executive is closer to the day-to-day challenges you face, they’re better positioned to share, solicit and respond to ideas and remove roadblocks.

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Boost Your Business and Life with Follow Up

Mark Sanborn

Instead of giving up, Sarah decided to follow up with potential customers who had visited her website but had not made a purchase. Through this follow-up strategy, Sarah was able to convert many of these leads into paying customers. Following up after a meeting or a sales call often seems like a lost art.

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Society Needs a Leadership Paradigm Shift

Leading Blog

Building on the shoulders of such philosophical giants and the subsequent research over millennia, science has further defined, assessed, and developed the concept of character to apply findings to organizational leadership. How likely are employees going to speak up under these conditions?

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Leadership Growth – Are You Coachable?

Let's Grow Leaders

Leadership growth requires feedback and continual learning. And your influence will grow too if you invest in your leadership growth. Another time, we were working with an organization’s managers and having them rate the leadership behavior where they felt the most need to improve. Invest in Your Leadership Growth.

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How Our Current Office Shock Can Lead to a Climate-Positive “Officeverse”

Leading Blog

But overall, climate impacts improved during the shake-up with the promise of much more to come. Offices and officing could be an important catalyst for positive climate choices. Hybrid work and flexibility are now normalized, but the future of work is up for grabs. And that can be an opportunity for climate-positive officing.