So you want to take on a leadership position as your next step. As a top-contributor, it’s something you’ve long eyed as a goal but aren’t quite sure the best way to make sure you’re equipped when the time comes. More than a quarter of managers said they weren’t ready to lead others when they stepped into their role, according to CareerBuilder
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If I had a nickel for every time I heard someone say that good leadership requires empathy, I’d be a rich man. As a buzzword, it’s easy to throw around. However, I find it can be difficult to really understand and even harder to put into practice.
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Sociologist and researcher Brene Brown maintains that “Leaders must either invest a reasonable amount of time attending to fears and feelings or squander an unreasonable amount of time trying to manage ineffective and unproductive behavior” (brenebrown.com). Never is that been more true than in times of crisis.
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To feel a sense of purpose and a sense of progress in life is key to feeling happy, connected and productive. But in a time when physical distancing is expected and many have either lost their job or are attempting to maintain productivity working from home, how can we achieve that all important sense of progress? By contributing to the solution!
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Taking responsibility for your actions’ – something most of us heard at one time or another from our parents. Whether we were avoiding our homework, skipping class or fabricating some story about where we were, the lesson to learn was always, take responsibility for our actions. What our parents did not say was – take responsibility for your emotions – and that is where the real communication growth is.
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Though this may come as a shock – men and women respond to stress very differently. Okay, likely that is absolutely no shock at all, but what does it mean in this unprecedented time where stress levels are increased and so is the amount of time we spend together as families. It means Quarantine Quarrels are inevitable.
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Statistically the odds are good that there is not a single person reading this (or any of their friends) who has not tried at one time or another to change their partner. Whether you are still with the partner you tried to change is not relevant – that you tried to change them is. Human beings like to be right, it validates everything from our intelligence to our sense of self-worth; pretty powerful stuff. But what if you being right means your partner has to be wrong? Where does that leave them?
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There is no shortage of written work on the difference between the introverted and extroverted personality style. From their tendencies in work, play and relationships to which is a ‘better’ way to be there are many theories. Interestingly, despite this abundance of information, most people are still getting it wrong.
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Words have the power to heal, the power to motivate and uplift and words have the power to influence and change. Though we all know this to be true, most of us think of great speeches of history, moving monologues in movies or rousing oratory as something that others who are far more skilled with words have written. We allow ourselves to be moved and shaped by the words of others, yet do not often consider that the words we off-handedly use can be equally as powerful.
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Perhaps for many people in their ‘normal life’ there isn’t really a need to consider the difference. However, there are few in this time of pandemic who would likely consider their life to be even close to what was once normal. Most people’s lives ebb and flow to some degree – there are some stressful times or occasions, some events that make us feel anxious, but generally, we move through them or that stressful or anxiety causing time passes. But what happens when there is prolonged stress or the anxiety is caused by something that has no foreseeable ‘end date’?
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