by Dan Pontefract Look around. What do you see? If you’re like me, you see a world desperately in need of your help. It matters not if it’s at work, home, on holiday or at
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Unlock the Potential in Your Employees
Employees have ideas and want to be heard. Leadership wants to hear them. Too often, however, employees and leaders both feel that no one cares about making things better. The disconnect typically only widens over
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Expert Communication and Persuasion Tactics
Book Review by Taylor Berrett While Trey Gowdy isn’t the first author to connect courtroom strategies to improved communication in business and everyday life, he might be one of the most engaging. His book, Doesn’t
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Advice for Navigating the Pitfalls of Launching & Running a Small Business
by Sarah Y. Tse The phrase “small business” inherently conveys that a business may not have huge capital or enough staffing to operate its different facilities. The numerous facets of a company are all part
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The Interview is the Cornerstone of the Hiring Process
Research shows you have a 50 percent chance of hiring the right employee––and a 50 percent chance of hiring the wrong one. Hiring the wrong person siphons your energy and erodes team culture. Replacing that
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Using Facts to See Positivity in the World
Book Review by Kristen Cudd In 2005, Hans Rosling, his son Ola Rosling, and his daughter in law Anna Rosling Rönnlund founded the Gapminder Foundation whose mission is “to fight devastating ignorance with a fact-based
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The First Rule of Crushing Your Career
by Dee Ann Turner Mallory started the Zoom call with her coach talking about how frustrated she was to be assigned as an on-boarding mentor to a brand new team member. It sounded like an
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Leadership Development Advice from an Expert
What is the greatest return on a leader’s time? After leaders have invested in their own leadership growth, what is the best way to accomplish their vision and grow their organizations? Develop leaders! The more
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Personal Transformation Is at Your Fingertips
Book Review by Kristen Cudd Most of us view our personality as the “real and authentic” version of ourselves. We believe that personality is something that we are born with and it cannot be changed.
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Common Ingredients of Crisis Situations – Victim Management is Paramount
by James E. Lukaszewski, America’s Crisis Guru®, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, BEPS Emeritus Victims are the most important ingredients of crisis. There are new versions of crisis definitions proposed each year, but after more than
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Identify the Right Talent 90% of the Time
Congratulations go out to author, Chaka Booker! His book, Mastering the Hire: 12 Strategies to Improve Your Odds of Finding the Best Hire was Soundview’s most-downloaded book summary during the month of September 2020. Our
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Today’s Urgent Need to Manage Emotional Health with Connection
by Michael Stallard Tapping into the energizing and protective power of human connection is an urgent matter today—for you and for your organization. Stress and loneliness were already high in the U.S. and the COVID-19
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Lift Your Leadership to New Heights
In 1984, Doug Conant was fired without warning and with barely an explanation. He felt hopeless and stuck, but surprisingly, this defeating turn of events turned out to be the best thing that ever happened
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