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Year-in-Review: 7 Questions to Help Your Team Reflect on Success and Key Learnings

Let's Grow Leaders

Taking a moment for a team year-in-review fosters curiosity and connection I don’t know about you, but we love a good “year-in-review” list. ” What are your year-in-review highlights? How would your highlight reel compare to the year-in-review highlights from your team? That WAS a big deal.”

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

Leading Blog

Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson said, “Understanding empathy, as well as the experiences of people from different areas of life, is a key skill for business leaders.”

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Growing Leaders Who are Confident, Skilled and Human-Centered (Mistakes to Avoid)

Let's Grow Leaders

Review our I.N.S.P.I.R.E. So break down your observation into specific behaviors and actions they can employ to improve their skills. When you delegated the tasks out among the team the timing was off and important parts of the project weren’t done when they needed to be. Why do you think this happened?

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Executive Hiring For a P.E. Portfolio Company – Soft Skills

N2Growth Blog

In the second part of this series, we will continue this theme on executive hiring for a private equity portfolio company by examining parallel soft skill essentials and core, soft credential constituents. The most complex of all to manage is people, which entails heavy lifting from a soft skill standpoint. The Soft Skills.

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Striking the Right Tone: Things to Say in a Performance Review

HR Digest

among many others, published a list of performance review horror stories from unhappy employees and it is hard not to wince at these experiences. Finding the right things to say in a performance review can be difficult, both for the reviewer and the employee, but it is undeniably important for everyone to try and get it right.

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Listening Skills: The Unseen Pillar of Effective Leadership

CO2

However, one essential skill frequently overlooked is leadership communications. As an executive coach, I’ve observed the remarkable impact of listening skills and specifically active listening on leadership effectiveness. This post delves into why listening is pivotal for leaders and how to hone this skill.

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Study Shows That Board Games Improve Numerical Skills In Children

The Horizons Tracker

It’s widely believed that numerical board games, such as Monopoly and Othello, help young children develop their maths skills. This was proven by a recent study from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago, Chile, which found that such games enhance the numerical skills of 3-9-year-olds. ”

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