Congratulations. You are now a supervisor. Now you’re a leader. I had the chance to work with lots of people in that situation. And the question that they ask is, what do I do first? Where do I start? How do I get on the off on the right foot to be successful? Well, today I have for you three pieces of advice to help you with that.

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Optics. The word has morphed from a scientific one (the study of sight and the behavior of light) to something more. Starting in the political realm, and through media, it has now taken on a new meaning relating to how people see an event or decision. As the word has morphed and become more important,

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The toughest – and perhaps most important – transition of our career is the transition to being a leader. Whether we are doing it for the first time or are now leading a new team. After the congratulations end and you look at the work ahead, you might be thinking “now what?” We’ve learned that

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by Kevin Eikenberry Because the pandemic, and all the changes it brought to our world have been so pervasive and caused so many emotions among us, it is easy to see why people would want to go back to “normal,” to the “good old days” of pre-pandemic work and life. That desire is understandable, probably

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As a new front-line supervisor, you can use these six secrets to help your own confidence level, as well as those you lead. 

Confidence is an important foundation for productivity and achievement. Take these steps and proactively create better results for yourself and the world around you.

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Change is hard. It doesn’t usually come naturally. And at the end of the day, when we change we have made a choice. And as leaders, when we are trying to lead change at work, we are asking our team to be “all in” – to make a choice to change. Unfortunately, most change leadership

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Can we learn from short video? How short is short? Does the platform matter? These are just a few of the questions we might ask today that we never even considered 5 or 10 years ago. It used to be that we thought of eLearning as short video content. In fact, that is about the

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Who knew that a pandemic would quickly and drastically shift our focus and priorities? Depending on your industry, the nature of the changes brought on by the pandemic might have been different. But every organization and industry shifted to new priorities in that new world. One of the constant organizational needs that dropped off the

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By Kevin Eikenberry As a leader and coach, giving feedback is an important part of our job.  And while we know that, sometimes we find it hard to give feedback because it doesn’t seem like people accept it. While there are many tactics and specific approaches you can use to give feedback, they will be

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