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6 of the Most In-Demand Skills for the Future Workplace

Career Advancement

Having a high level of specialized knowledge in a niche area will help you stay valuable and marketable. Take classes, and read books and articles by leading experts. Here are a few ways to do that: Use open body language, make eye contact, and smile. Develop techniques for managing your own emotions, too.

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Leadership is a Process!

Lead Change Blog

Leaders are open, curious, and motivated to get a full understanding of the current situation. Organizations and markets are complex and constantly changing. Change is stressful, messy, and full of surprises. Open up and share what you are thinking and feeling. Diagnose the Situation. What’s going on?

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Only Learning Leaders Can Transform the Extreme Rate of Transformation Failures

The Practical Leader

” Five years earlier, we’d conducted introductory service/quality improvement workshops for senior management and head office staff of a large company. The senior management team declined. Managers needed to take more leadership and empower people. As Yogi Berra would say, “It was Deja vu all over again.”

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4 Keys For Bringing Out The Best From Introverts

Tanveer Naseer

One of the hottest themes in management and leadership today is the importance of understanding the introvert at work. The research I’ve done shows that about 25 to 30 percent of CEOs are introverts,” explains Karl Moore, associate professor of strategy and organization at Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University.

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How To Start A Coffee Shop Business

Strategy Driven

Your worries, your stress and even your failure. Do things by the book and get legal proceedings in order. Opening a café or restaurant is complex – a real monster project. The period includes the four to six months before the opening, the opening day and, depending on the concept, several months after the opening.

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December 2015 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

For our December edition, we took a page out of last December’s Carnival of HR post and asked about books you have read which have made a difference in your leadership journey. Chris Edmonds of the Purposeful Culture Group contributed Don’t Manage Time, Manage Your Values, Priorities, & Habits. Let’s Get Started.

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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

And, on BBC 5 Live's Wake up to Money programme (from 37:50; available until end of May), she stressed the importance of essential leadership behaviours such as transparency, humility and active listening in rebuilding trust within an organisation. Being an ethical and inclusive leader is a central pillar of CMI's Professional Standard.

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