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Practice Mindful Communication

Today, many of our conversations take place in written form, via email or an instant message. But the pressure to respond instantly means we often have a tendency to skim and search instead of ...

Leadership Tips: Manage Your Schedule, Not Your Time

Time management is meant to help you become more efficient and boost your productivity. However, it may also end up increasing the stress you face instead of reducing it if you simply turn around and ...

Leadership Tips: Interacting With Animals Can Help Lessen Stress, Anxiety

Feeling particularly stressed or anxious lately? You should try spending some time around pets or other animals. Interacting with animals for just 10 minutes can help calm your nervous system and ...

Managers Who Listen Attract Top Internal Talent: University Study

Managers who are open to employee input are more likely to attract workers from other units in their organizations, according to a new Cornell University study. In the paper, "How Managerial Openness ...

Managing Your Team: 5 Tips to Help Employees Flourish

Managing too much can make your team feel untrusted, hinder their growth and cause them to disengage. Managing too little can leave them floundering, unsure of what's expected of them, and could make ...

Business Leadership as Usual, or More Authentically?

Can you believe it? We're into year two of the most surreal, pandemonius experience of our lives. At least now there's anticipation that we are almost out of the woods—and understanding that ...

Leadership Tips: De-Stress and Recharge

Don't let a stressful interaction ruin the rest of your day. Here are some strategies to help you recharge and recover. Focus on your breathing. Just taking 10 seconds to focus on the rise and fall ...

Use Design Thinking to Enhance Employee Experience: Leadership Tips

Want to deliver an optimal employee experience? Practice design thinking by ensuring you provide your team the four F's: form, flow, feeling and function. Form: Clarify your expectations. Employees ...

Dealing With Disengaged Employees

What should you do when a team member mentally checks out, missing deadlines and dropping the ball on critical projects? Whether the employee is acting out because they've been passed over for a ...

Don’t Cheat Your Team by Managing Too Much (or Too Little)

On your path to leadership, you likely developed a reputation as a problem-solver. That ability doubtless helped you get promoted—and you probably still enjoy helping your team members solve ...