Leadership Skills
You can learn from the best but there's a lot to be learned from the worst as well. Here are a few suggestions to make sure your company will never succeed.
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Overcome procrastination with three proven strategies: find your passion, build accountability, and take small steps. Boost productivity and motivation today!
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Managers recognize that their teams need feedback to improve and be successful. However, many provide feedback without having a clearly defined way of doing so effectively. Feedback ends up as a one-way conversation delivered from the manager to the performer.
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Learn how to deliver bad news effectively in the workplace with clarity, empathy, and professionalism. Maintain trust, morale, and engagement with these key strategies.
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Promotions are useful tools for recognizing, rewarding and motivating hard-working employees. Read the following tips to help you decide whether the promotion will be effective and deserving.
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When something goes wrong, the first instinct is often to assign blame. Many people equate blame with demanding ownership or responsibility for a particular issue, and use blame as a form of accountability. But blame is negative by nature, and there are three weaknesses that are immediately evident.
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One of the more difficult challenges of being a manager arises when an employee experiences a loss in his or her life. This could be the death of a loved one or even the end of a significant relationship.
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Learn how technology impacts work-life balance, the risks of being always connected, and strategies for setting boundaries to improve well-being and productivity.
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Discover how scientific conferences—both in-person and virtual—boost collaboration, foster networking, and enhance interdisciplinary research opportunities.
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We spend too much of our day trying to cram more into it. We adopted the computer term multi-tasking and tried to apply it to our own daily activities as another step in our quest to get more done. The problem is that multi-tasking doesn't work.
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Before you hold your next meeting, be sure you and the others at the meeting know why it's being held. Meetings can drag on and feel like a waste of time if the goals are not clear to all in attendance.
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Improve lab onboarding with a structured new employee orientation. Reduce stress, boost retention, and enhance productivity with these best practices.
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