The secret to a strong advocate is choice, compassion, creativity, curiosity and credibility says Heather Hansen, founder and CEO of Advocate to Win and author of the new book Advocate to Win: 10 Tools to Ask for What You Want and Get It. Find out why advocating for yourself is about changing people's choices in a genuine and authentic way and how asking questions is magic and reading body language and tone of voice can help get people on your side.
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We need to double down on fewer, but more authentic, more battle tested relationships, says David Nour, podcast host, executive coach, and author of more than 10 books, including his most recent: Curve Benders. The most influential and successful leaders are the most self-aware, he says. They are people who stop letting things happen to them and instead plan ahead and take ownership of their emotions, actions and how they're coming across to those around them.
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The best leaders are relatable, equitable, aware and loyal, says LaTonya Wilkins, founder of The Change Coaches, LLC and author of Leading Below the Surface: How to Build Real and Psychologically Safe Relationships with People Who Are Different from You. Learn why one of the easiest ways to making people feel safe is by listening and how true cultural change needs to happen below the surface.
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Once you realize you’re wrong don’t let your ego get in the way, says Valerie Patrick, president of Fulcrum Connection LLC and author of the new book When Bad Teams Happen to Good People. The biggest problem with teams is not enough planning and too much focus on content, she said. Teams need address leadership problems and create an environment where all team members can be productive.
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Organizations need to create higher trust and measure impact if they want to maintain and create a thriving culture, says Erik Fogg, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at ProdPerfect and interluding political author and business book ghost-writer. Find out why making hard decisions and ensuring each employee has a clearly articulated answer to the question, why am I here and why am I doing this, is key to creating a thriving company.
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Human beings were only wired to deal with a certain amount of change, says Jake Jacobs, CEO and founder of Real Time Strategic Change and author of the new book Leverage Change: 8 Ways To Achieve Faster, Easier, Better Results. Too much change can leads to anxiety, stress, decreased performance, decreased energy and can have enormous consequences for people, he says. The secret to combatting change fatigue is focusing on the things that will stay the same, he says.
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When you get anything from the outside you don’t trust yourself, says Carol Sanford, CEO and author of numerous books including: No More Feedback: Cultivate Consciousness at Work.
Find out why Carol says feedback should be abolished in exchange for self-observation. When we don’t learn self observationm we can’t see that we’re projecting onto other people. People wake up and become alive when they’re in charge of their own growth.
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There is half a trillion dollars of lost productivity because of people calling in sick to work because they don't want to work with someone, says Peter Economy, Wall Street Journal best-selling author. Known for his wildly successful book, Managing for Dummies, Peter's launched his newest book: Wait, I’m Working With Who?!? because he realized how pervasive toxic workplaces, toxic colleagues and toxic bosses were. People need to have the courage to confront to take on toxicity, not just tolerate it, he says.
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Self proclaimed, creative troublemaker, Josh Linkner, says we have to challenge assumptions and never stay still for too long if we want to be successful. A business leader and New York Times bestselling author of, Big Little Breakthroughs, Josh started his career as a jazz guitarist and then went on to become the founder and CEO of five tech companies, which sold for a combined value of over $200 million. Find out why Josh says we underestimate the risk of standing still and why we should focus on micro innovations that can lead to big breakthroughs.
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There are unwritten rules that people adopt without realizing them and these can kill a culture, says Tom DeMarco, world-renowned software engineer, consultant, and author of more than 15 books including his newest Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work. Tom says we need to constantly be creating new social capital and the best way to do that is to maximize the moments that aren't focused on work. Find out what that looks like in a post-Covid world where more people are working remotely, and what companies need to do to create thriving cultures where people feel connected to the purpose.
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People prefer to be in an external situation where they can focus on the work but if you want to build a career you love you have to have the target first, says Sean Sessel, the head of the Oculus Institute and author of the upcoming book Science of Career Freedom. Take a scientific look at how to do career and personal invetory to find out if you're on the right trajectory, or if it's time to change course.
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Once you know what you want to do it’s important to stay grounded and envision where you want to go and how you want to get there, says Rebekah Louisa Smith, founder of The Film Festival Doctor and author of the new book, Born to Do It: Becoming the Leader of a Business Niche Using Powerful Spiritual Techniques. Find out how Rebekah uses manifestation, cosmic boards and cosmic ordering to guide people into following their purpose and launching succesful businesses.
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Co-author of The Ever-Loving Essence of You, Jamie Lerner, explains how to make the best of bad situations and how the power of self-love and acceptance can help your life and career.
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The future of recruiting is that we’re going to have to go a lot faster than what we’re doing, said Mike Seidle, co-founder and chief technology officer at Pivot CX , a company that helps screen unqualified and unengaged job candidates. The pool for talent is shrinking, says Mike. Find out how candidates can leverage it and what recruiters can do to make sure they get the best people for the job.
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Back with his second book, From Suck to Success: A Guide for Extraordinary Entrepreneurship, Todd Palmer CEO of Extraordinary Advisors, says that we need to change our internal language from a fixed, victim mindset, to a growth mindset and anchor ourselves into the purpose of what we want.
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David Ibarra, author of Stop Drifting and founder of eLeaderTech, has spent his life helping people be happy, combat uncertainty and bounce back from adversity. Find out what it takes to overcome a lack of passion and learn that it's never too late to define your purpose.
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We spend one third of our lives at work, approximately 80,000 hours, and we can choose how to spend that time, said Michal Šrajer co-founder and Chief Happiness Officer at Happiness@Work and host of the Happiness@Work podcast. Find out why Michal switched careers from a software engineering to taking care of people, and what he says are the four main ingredients for companies to foster happiness at work.
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We spend one third of our lives at work, approximately 80,000 hours, and we can choose how to spend that time, said Michal Šrajer co-founder and Chief Happiness Officer at Happiness@Work and host of the Happiness@Work podcast. Find out why Michal switched careers from a software engineering to taking care of people, and what he says are the four main ingredients for companies to foster happiness at work.
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The pandemic has highlighted the need for companies to focus on well-being at work, says Jill Kane, a workplace well-being consultant who partners with and implements multi-dimensional well-being strategies. Find out why Jill says in the near future we're going to see a teams dedicated to well-being, which will become part of the culture and overall values, rather than an afterthought.
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Leaders need to be thinking about how they can promote growth and not worry about having answers to everything, says Mario Moussa, co-author of Committed Teams and The Culture Puzzle. Find out why his biggest concern post-COVID, is company culture and connection and why people feel more engaged when they feel like they're building history together.
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Is it better to build on your weaknesses or build on your strengths, asks Eric Shepherd, executive director or talent transformation guild and co-author of Talent Transformation: Develop Today’s Team for Tomorrow’s World of Work. Eric says today it's best to build on strength and find a job that suits your skills and personality. The more we can use our natural behaviors at work the more successful and happier we'll be.
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So many people choose careers because of the pay check, but we need to start looking at professional growth differently, says Todd Miller, author of ENRICH: Create Wealth in Time, Money, and Meaning; a book about owning your life, dreams, and finances. Years ago Tom was flabbergasted at how business people made short term and foolish career decisions based on the size of the signing bonus, find out why he says that has to change and how the pandemic has helped us see things differently.
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One of the biggest mistakes managers make for self-managing teams is to step away, says Jef Cumps. Co-founder of iLean and author of Sociocracy 3.0, Jef says managers need to hold the space for teams, and provide guidance and psychological safety. Jef will also be speaking at our upcoming Forward Webinar where he'll be talking about self-managing teams in a post-pandemic world.
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The key to successful companies with thriving cultures, is to remove HRs obligation to the company. Rebecca Weaver, the founder and CEO of HR Uprise, a company that connects people with HR coaches to help grow, develop, and navigate tough workplace challenges, says employee advocacy is on the rise. It took a second wave of the #MeToo movement for Rebecca to realize that years earlier she'd experienced pregnancy discrimination at work. That realization, coupled with personal challenges, has helped her focus her energies and teach others that how we spend our time needs to count.
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