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Riddle Me This

Lead Change Blog

When questions arise in a confrontational or hostile manner, they don’t … instead contributing to an “ Me vs You ” or “ Us vs Them ” experience, which usually does not involve effective learning, positive leadership, or a very enjoyable atmosphere. What will set me off like a skyrocket? SETTING THE TONE.

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How Leaders Use Small Habits for Big Results

Let's Grow Leaders

A Riddle and a Dream Let’s kick things off with a quick riddle: What tips the scales at over a hundred million tons, floats, and can inspire daydreams or cause destruction? A Small Answer to a Big Riddle This brings me back to the riddle. Keep thinking about it as we travel back to 1845. Feel overwhelmed.

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Curiosity at Work: 5 Opportunities to Show Up a Bit More Curious

Let's Grow Leaders

And then, Fred stopped and looked at me through the Zoom window with an intensity so deep, I held my breath as I waited for what he would say next which went something like this… “It IS all so good. But sometimes I just put so much pressure on myself to keep stretching to the next thing, that I get riddled with anxiety.

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What This Pandemic is Begging Leaders to Look At

Lead Change Blog

I know, we’re not supposed to use the “S-word” but a lot of leaders – including me – need this blunt reminder right now. And, no one wants to live in a world filled with a super-contagious global virus and government leaders who quietly hope it will just go away. On the other hand…. If you had frustrated team members, that’s likely worse now.

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High Conviction Levels Prevent Us From Updating Our Beliefs

The Horizons Tracker

The study aims to highlight the neural processes that underpin the confirmation bias that riddles so many of our thought processes. “We were interested in the cognitive and neural mechanisms causing people to ignore information that contradicts their beliefs, a phenomenon known as confirmation bias. ” Polarized views. .

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Why You Should Go There

Let's Grow Leaders

I’ve been looking to try it, but was reluctant in an environment riddled with trust issues, particularly with a mixed group of reps, supervisors and managers. Nods of understanding, words of encouragement, and knowing looks of “Me, too” quickly warmed the room. I tipped my hand. So I asked the obvious question.

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25 Monday Motivation Ideas to Keep Employees Connected!

HR Digest

“I don’t always dread going into work on Mondays,” an ex-colleague of mine once explained to me when I asked her about a Monday blues Instagram story. Solve a riddle. However, I do get anxiety when I think about the work load brought on by my seemingly endless to-do list.”. Increase productivity. Chess tournament. Mismatched socks day.