As you continue your journey in leadership, you will face many issues that challenge your ability to remain calm and collected while you make decisions and solve problems. Learning to address these issues draws from your emotional intelligence. Growing your emotional intelligence plays an important role in developing healthy relationships, communicating clearly and effectively, and

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I want to address a question that has been frequently asked: How can one become a more confident leader? Confidence is a vital attribute that not only propels our own growth but also influences those around us. Join me as we explore the significance of confidence in leadership and discover practical strategies to enhance it.Building

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As individuals grow together to become a team, they move from a group of people who happen to be in the same place to a team of people working together towards a common goal. During this process, all teams go through common and predictable stages of development. In From Bud to Boss, we reference the

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As a leader, one of the most challenging situations you can face is being asked a question for which you don’t have the answer. It’s natural to feel pressure to know everything and be the expert in your field. However, the truth is, none of us can know everything, and it’s okay not to have

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I’ve been working with, observing, and coaching leaders for many years. I‘ve thought about it, and if I could only dispense one piece of advice to every leader I encountered from now on, based on my experience and observation, it might be this: You’re talking too much. While this affliction doesn’t include every leader, it includes most,

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As you move into or consider moving into a leadership role, you have likely noticed that it can be both rewarding and difficult. Rewarding in that you get to make a difference for people and get things done. Difficult in that it is a never-ending problem-solving effort. As soon as you resolve one problem, another

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We often talk about the transitions that happen when people get promoted to a leadership role. We most commonly talk about the transitions of needed skills, and the transitions of the relationships with those around us. These transitions are real, important and challenging.  There are other transitions new leaders face, and some realities they aren’t

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While I have both heard and said the basic idea behind the title of this post in the past, I cannot take credit for the exact phrasing. It came to me in an email from a customer. The phrase is so good that it basically conveys the full idea of this post in a single

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Guest article by Shaara Roman As humans, we live for connection. In a world where it can be easy to feel alone, having friends gives us an uplifting sense of belonging… which is quite literally necessary for our survival and our ability to contribute meaningfully to society. Loneliness is widely considered as one of the

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