Active Listening and Beyond: 3 Steps toward Effective Communication
Active listening skills aren’t just a nice-to-have. They improve communication, strengthen relationships, boost team performance, spur personal and professional growth, and play a huge role in leadership excellence. Taken further, active listening is not just functional. It’s effective. How so? Anyone who has experienced good listening can understand its power. When someone listens to you well,…
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Should I Retire or Not? 3 Questions to Ask During the Next Retirement Ad
Should I retire or not? This is an increasingly common and important question—one that challenges a broken paradigm and points to some intrinsic truths about your career goals and personal life vision. In this post, we’ll look at “traditional” retirement, nonretirement, and unretirement, specifically discussing: The status quo of assumed retirement A brief history of retirement (hint: it’s sociological,…
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The Ripening of a Problem: When to Choose Patience in Leadership
While the importance of patience in leadership is evident to many who manage people, it’s a topic that doesn’t get as much attention as others. Today, we’re changing that by digging into why and how leaders should allow certain challenges to “ripen” before tackling them. It’s a relatively easy approach to implement, but this specific…
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