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How to Build Trust and Loyalty as a Leader
The high rate of employees leaving their jobs due to poor management underscores a crucial truth: building trust and loyalty is a leader’s most critical task. Highly motivated and enthusiastic people, or people who want to make a change, give up because they don’t feel their leadership sees the future in the best possible manner.…
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How to Establish and Solidify the Technical Leadership in Your Company
I receive a good chunk of emails and messages from people in my network asking for general technical advice (infrastructure, architecture, picking the right platform or vendor, etc.) And many of them openly disclose they have spoken with 5–10 people and brainstormed over the different answers they get. Asking for a hundred different opinions may…
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Critical Thinking Strategies for Business Leaders
Critical thinking is a powerful skill that’s applicable in both daily life and running a business. It’s the cornerstone of making sound decisions and navigating complex situations. Unlike simply reacting to circumstances, critical thinking empowers you to: However, managers and executives are in charge of large budgets and diverse teams. Irresponsible business decisions and ignoring…
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16 Most Important Soft Skills For Success
From the time we wake up to the time we sleep, we’re surrounded by people. Whether you’re an extrovert or an introvert, whether you like it or not, you have to interact with people. That’s when soft skills come into the picture. Soft skills are personal attributes that enable a person to interact effectively with…
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Developing Discipline: 8 Integral Traits and Tips for Practical Application
While other self-development areas such as motivation, productivity, focus have been thoroughly explored and analyzed, discipline studies are less accessible. And anyone looking for tips for building self-discipline at work, breaking bad habits, or developing discipline for studying would need additional guidance on sifting through online resources not backed by data. The Dunedin Study, which…
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22 Self-Improvement Areas for Leadership Development
An HRPA study from 2016 reports that 63% of millennials complain that employers aren’t fully developing their leadership skills, with 72% of those surveyed last year insisting on feedback, coaching and leadership development to remain in an organization. I have previously covered the 11 key traits that define great managers, compiled after 17 years in…
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Ten Leadership Skills to Develop in 2024
The past few years been a great learning opportunity for us. The COVID-19 situation has changed a lot of our working habits and the entire concept of onsite work has transitioned to remote across most of the universe. This has also led to more opportunities and new ways of living; however, it’s not necessarily permanent…