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10 Leadership Traits Positive Leaders Focus On

Joseph Lalonde

What makes a positive leader go further and farther? They focus on the leadership traits that make them the most effective, positive, and outgoing leaders that they can be. These are all leadership traits that you can work on. If you don’t already have them. Don’t fret.

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Improve Your Positive Influence: Eliminate Common Obstacles

Leading Blog

The equation also applies to our individual capacity for positive influence (+influence). Insufficient awareness, especially of pressures that impinge on the key people who need to think, feel, and act in order for the positive outcome to be achieved, can lead to ineffective or counterproductive influence attempts. Low awareness.

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How To Stay Positive

Joseph Lalonde

In studying leadership, one of the most effective traits of a leader that I’ve seen repeated again and again is the ability to stay positive. We’re not talking Poylanna positivity or pie in the sky. We’re talking honest-to-goodness positivity that’s rooted in reality. It may take […].

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15 Attributes of Positively Energizing Leaders

Leading Blog

W HEN YOU HEAR the term positive leadership , it is easy to get cynical and think it is all happy-talk and disconnected from reality. The kind of positive energy that most accounts for flourishing in individuals and in organizations is called relational energy.” Positive energizing is not transactional. “A But it isn’t.

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How to Promote Leaders Who Build a Positive Culture

Let's Grow Leaders

Promote leaders who show their commitment to relationships and results One of the most important leadership decisions you’ll ever make is the choice to promote someone into a leadership role. Who you promote into leadership sends a powerful message of what matters […].

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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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How to Tell When It’s Time to Resign From Your Leadership Position

Lead from Within

However, effective leadership also involves knowing when it is time to step down and make room for new leadership. While it can be difficult to let go of a leadership position, it’s sometimes necessary in order to allow the organization to evolve and grow. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.