Tag: Development
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What Self-Help Books Do Not Tell You
Self-help books try to help you succeed at pursuing goals. But there is something they leave out.
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Holding People Accountable and Creating Good Citizens
Being a good citizen means being a contributor, a person who contributes to the collective, this means acting with the intent to give.
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Look How Far You Have Come
Go on, look how far you’ve already come and look how far you still have to go. Take the time to appreciate your progress and enjoy the journey.
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What Defines a Great Leader?
In light of these initiatives I too the opportunity to reflect on the different characteristics that define a great leader.
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Leadership and Care
The very backbone of any effective leadership approach must be care. A good leader needs to care for his/her charges.
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Engagement
If employees truly are a company’s best asset, then their care and support should be a priority. Is “engagement” the way to do the caring and growing?
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Coaching and the Balance between Reflection and Action
In its most simplistic form, growth is a process that oscillates between reflection and action.
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Developing Effective Coaching Conversations
While it would probably be agreed that coaching conversations are eyeball to eyeball leadership, there are very many opinions as to what those coaching conversations might actually be about.
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How to Communicate During a Disagreement
Generally the more aggressively we pursue a disagreement, the more resistant we find the other to be. When the other is not receptive then our insistence on our point of view is experienced as a badgering by them.
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Get the Gift of Struggle
But, all I know is that I don’t embrace the struggle. If I don’t start realising that every worthwhile goal is hard and messy. Then I’ll always be lost, entitled and enslaved.