Navigating changes in your professional relationships is a big part of successfully transitioning from bud to boss. The change in your role and your responsibilities demands that your relationships change as well. You will experience changes in the type, scope, and sensitivity of relationship issues you face. The relative power dynamic or imbalance between you, your team, and people who were formally senior to you will change. All of these changes will create other changes in your professional, and possibly, personal relationships.

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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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Remember back before we got sent home for having cooties? Two or three years ago, when the workplace was as it had always been, we hated meetings. We complained constantly about them:  A waste of time. Productivity killer. Boring. Remember? Now, when we ask people what the biggest reason for returning to the office is,

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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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Recently, I have been hearing my mom and dad in my ear. There are things my parents told me a kid that have become a part of my belief system. But when I thought about them as a leader, I gained a whole other level of insight. Because of this mental exercise, I decided to

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We are all used to change – it comes at us every day. Chances are you have read that we experience more change than previous generations. While I don’t know if that is factual, it sure seemed right. But now? In 2022? The events of the past two years have accelerated changes in ways we

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I grew up on a farm, and so I have plenty of agricultural phrases in my vernacular, but actually all of us have some of those phrases. For example: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Yep, that’s a farm phrase. And hint, I’m going to talk about it next week. But for now

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Benchmarking can create new perspectives and a competitive edge in business. That why so many organizations look for benchmarks to compare performance, understand gaps, and measure success. Those objectives sound valuable for an individual as well, don’t they? That’s why I want to suggest to you the idea and value of personal benchmarks, and help

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