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Before You Lead the Room, Read the Room

Your title may get you a seat at the table. It doesn’t guarantee you influence at the table. I’m hearing more and more leaders ask how to influence people they don’t have authority over. And increasingly, that includes the person above them. They want to know how to challenge a boss without sounding insubordinate, how to get an executive to reconsider a decision, how to raise a concern that isn’t going to be particularly welcome, or how to advocate for an idea when the person sitting across from them has considerably more power. That’s not a junior-leader problem. It’s a leadership problem. I…
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empathy tax

The Work No One Sees. The Cost Everyone Pays.

Imagine this. You have two people on your team. Both consistently deliver excellent work. They hit deadlines, produce quality results, and clients love working with them. One…
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What If Your Perspective Is the Problem?

What If Your Perspective Is the Problem?

I’ve spent much of my life believing I was a pretty good judge of people. Growing up on the south side of Chicago, reading people wasn’t…
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negativity

How Worried Are You Right Now?

As a professional eavesdropper, I recently overhead two people discuss everything that is going wrong in the world today (including being late to board our…
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Vavada зеркало игр и привлекательные бонусы для игроков

Vavada зеркало игр и привлекательные бонусы для игроков Vavada зеркало игр и привлекательные бонусы для игроков Нужно знать, как воспользоваться величайшими предложениями на азартной платформе? Загляните на…
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5 Keys to Get Growing in Your Career

5 Keys to Get Growing in Your Career

Spring is a time of new growth and, I believe, a time of infinite possibility and personal development. However, just as you can’t expect a…
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AI Artificial Intelligence

“I Know Just How You Feel” “You Do?”

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at…
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healthy workplace

4 Keys to a Healthy Workplace

It’s January, and we all know what that means: a friend will announce that she’s promising to cut all carbs from her diet or she…
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inspiration

Are You Truly Celebrating the Season?

2022 brought uncertainty, inflation, supply-chain shortages, bigotry, uncomfortable change and all too often, vitriol. The demands on everyone’s time only seemed to increase causing many…
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Rituals

Do Your Rituals Serve or Sabotage You?

Whether your caregivers read you a nightly bedtime story or your work team regularly meditates before a meeting, you experienced the power of rituals. These…
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Connections

5 Strategies to Leverage Your Professional, Digital Connections

When was it that people first started to chat about their digital connections? I’m sure Reid Hoffman, the founder of LinkedIn would know. LinkedIn was…
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