Leadership tips, tricks and advice

10 Steps To Becoming The Leader You Want To Be, While Living The Life You Want To Live

4 minutes of reading / June 21, 2016 June 21, 2016

It’s no secret that leaders perform best when they are at their best, personally as well as professionally. The practices of personal leadership comprise ten ways leaders can learn who they want to be, and how they can reach their true potential, whether that means leading a company, leading a team, or leading a life – all without sacrificing …

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Want To Be A Great Leader? These 5 Things Will Get You There

3 minutes of reading / May 23, 2016 May 23, 2016

As HR professionals, we study leadership every day. In spite of the number of different personalities and leadership styles, it’s not difficult to narrow down what makes effective leaders stand apart. Research from The Leadership Challenge to Multipliers tells us what a great manager looks like. In fact, if you ask a room full of …

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5 Practical Ways To Overcome Your Leadership Fear

3 minutes of reading / May 11, 2016 May 11, 2016

Apparently, leadership is a very critical concept, which needs special attention for prosperity and positive achievement. Leadership is for the brave, and every manager is always faced with a challenge of overcoming his or her fears. Well, you might be one of the best leaders, but with fear everything will seem like it’s not working. …

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5 Steps to Become The Go-To Expert in Your Industry Within 9 Months

5 minutes of reading / May 10, 2016 May 10, 2016

What a load of hocus-pocus, how can someone become a go-to expert in just 9 months right? That’s what I thought at first. But, everything changed when I tried to do it myself. Today you’re going to learn how you can become an expert in record time, so that people will have no choice but …

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9 Steps To Becoming A Leader Not A Follower

7 minutes of reading / May 6, 2016 May 6, 2016

You’re either a leader or a follower. Leaders are made not born. Leaders come in all shapes and sizes. To say leaders are born prepared would be an understatement to those who made themselves into leaders. Not all leaders get a clear signal, telling them to step up and take action. Everyone feels it in …

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The Real Value In Giving A TED Talk

3 minutes of reading / April 23, 2016 April 25, 2016

When I stepped off the stage at Rush University in May of 2014, I stepped off having accomplished a major life goal. I had just delivered a TED Talk (or TEDx if we want to split hairs); something I had wanted to accomplish before turning 30 (I had done it at 25). It was this …

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Top 20 Motivational Influencers In The World

5 minutes of reading / April 16, 2016 January 11, 2022

Some say success happens to those that work hardest, which is true. But almost all of those who have reached their dreams have had mentors who influenced them every step of the way — influencers who make motivation their life’s work. These elite motivational influencers have created not only entrepreneurial success, but huge social media followings from their …

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How To Find Your Secret Leadership Traits in 3 Easy Steps

5 minutes of reading / April 1, 2016 April 1, 2016

I spoke with a friend recently whose at a strange and frustrating career crossroads. She’s at a company she likes, and she has hopes of climbing the ranks. There’s someone in her way though: Herself. She wants to move vertically, and be the one who’s leading projects, not just being assigned one-off tasks. The problem …

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How to Manage Employees That Are Older Than You

4 minutes of reading / March 31, 2016 March 31, 2016

Managing a team of professionals in the workplace can be challenging at the best of times, but it’s particularly difficult when there’s a dramatic, or even a modest age difference in play. If you’re younger than the team you’ve been hired to manage, you may find your reputation, and your very identity, is under constant …

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4 Easy Ways to Increase Your Influence

7 minutes of reading / March 21, 2016 March 21, 2016

The sun and the wind decided to have a contest. They wanted to see who could get a man to take off his coat. The wind, of course, thought he would be able to blow it off if he blew strongly enough. So he blew with all of his force. As his force increased, the …

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How to Create a Powerful Vision for Change

How to Create a Powerful Vision And Change Your Life

6 minutes of reading / March 12, 2016 March 12, 2016

Great visionaries change the world – people like Henry Ford with the Model T, Mother Teresa helping the poor, and Steve Jobs with the iPhone. You may feel that you want to do something great in the world, but don’t really know where to start. What makes great people different? People who accomplish great things …

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Why Self-Control Creates Even More Success Than Self Confidence

7 minutes of reading / February 23, 2016 February 23, 2016

Here are the main reasons why you should cultivate self-control in order to become successful. While confidence is important for effective leadership and communication, sometimes people rely too much on confidence and skimp on the hours they need to put in to develop what is called tacit knowledge. Self-Control Generates Tacit Knowledge Tacit knowledge …

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4 Essential Keys for Entrepreneurial Leadership

9 minutes of reading / February 17, 2016 February 17, 2016

The legendary pioneer of innovative research on entrepreneurship, Gregory Dees, once wisely proclaimed that, “Starting a business is not the essence of entrepreneurship.” The essence of entrepreneurship is a passionate engine of radical transformation that drives the entrepreneur to unknown territories and limitless aspirations all requiring authentic leadership for real results. Economist Joseph Schumpeter, précised …

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(Video) How Great Leaders Think and Act

1 minute of reading / February 16, 2016 February 16, 2016

“Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.” John C. Maxwell How Great Leaders Think and Act https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5mjnVd2V0M People have very different opinions about what a leader is. Some people think that the leader is the boss or that the leader is the person that everybody else …

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6 Leadership Lessons from Mark Zuckerberg

5 minutes of reading / February 15, 2016 April 18, 2022

We all know who Mark Zuckerberg is, he is the man behind Facebook. Zuckerberg’s goal to ‘connect people’ has changed the very nature of the modern world, allowing hundreds of millions of people around the world to digitally communicate with more or less anybody who’s got a Wi-Fi connection, stating that “By giving people the …

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