Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) We all ask questions every day, so many that we seldom stop to think about how to ask them more effectively. And if we do decide to work on our question-asking skills, we often focus on the words

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Hybrid work is here, but it doesn’t seem to get any more efficient. It doesn’t seem to actually address problems of engagement, morale or productivity. We ask: what’s optimum? Two days at home? Full time in the office? No matter what data you draw from, it seems that there’s a challenge few companies seem to

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) You may remember the quick and informal way people refer to the three core skills we learn in school as the “three R’s” of reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic. I propose that there are three foundational leadership habits that

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We’ve heard of “cross-functional teams,” and most of us have been part of one. But too many people have a different challenge. They’re on cross-DYSfunctional teams.One of the most common reasons for “Return to Office,”  (RTO) policies is the fear that the team won’t work together as a unit if they are not physically together

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) The Pandemic taught (those willing to learn) that flexibility in work is possible and desired. And while the news and some senior leadership teams tell us that more of the work needs to take place in the office,

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) The ball rolls down the hill and gains speed – that’s momentum driven by gravity. You see it in sports and a hundred other places – including on teams – and like that ball rolling down the hill

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Are you a snowplow manager? How do you know? There are an awful lot of cute names for bad leadership out there. You know about micro-managers, seagull managers, and fireman managers. Now the adorable list of bad ways to lead people has a new entrant. A snowplow manager is one who spends too much time moving

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Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player…Listen to this article. (Voice is AI-generated. Inconsistencies may occur.) They say that the only things that are certain are death and taxes. How about we add uncertainty to that list? While life is full of uncertainties, large and small, in the world of work, there seem to

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