Do you say yes to EVERY new, exciting initiative or project that comes your way? And then do you find yourself completely overwhelmed by the many things that you are juggling? If yes, here’s a little trick for you to prevent this from happening. Whenever there is a new project or an idea that comes […]
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If you are always tired, stressed and on the brink of burnout you CANNOT be an effective leader. You may choose to overlook your self-care needs. You may even choose to believe that your team won’t notice. But the fact is your emotional and mental state shows up in a million different ways in your
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Research says that a leader’s behaviour has a 70% impact on the feelings of inclusion of team members, which in turn leads to a 17% increase in team performance. But organizations hiring for diversity don’t always see the results that they expect. And this is because leaders simply haven’t been trained to harness the diversity
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We hereby declare you a “Team” This is literally how most teams are put together in an organisation. 🟡We hire people for their skills 🟡And then hope that they perform well together The new team and team leader are expected to ” figure out” how to work well as a team. Sometimes we throw in
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It is sometimes one of the hardest things to do, isn’t it? Especially when you are in the middle of exciting and interesting things. And it’s even harder for high achievers. Not because of external circumstances but their internal conditioning. There is almost a feeling of guilt in taking time off when there is so
What should your job description look like six months from now? Because if you’re doing the same work and using the same skills 6 months later as you are now it means you haven’t grown as a professional. And if you want to stay relevant in your work AND find fulfillment in what you do growth
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I hereby declare you “leader”!! 👑 This is literally how a large number of leadership promotions happen in organizations 🟡 An internal job posting is released. The application criteria largely include performance and achievements in the current role AND tenure in the organization. 🟡 The eligible applicants are evaluated on a few hypothetical situations. 🟡 And the person
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In most organizations, we are part of two teams. Team A: The one where we are the leader Team B: And the one our manager leads. As a leader, both the team you lead and the team you are part of are important BUT for most of us, our loyalties are inclined more towards one
What is harder for leaders to achieve? Getting people to agree with them OR to get people to disagree with them? I believe it is the latter. I can almost hear some of you asking, “But why would a leader what their team to disagree? Don’t we want our teams to agree with what we
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So, have you ever found yourself endlessly refining a task because you want it to be perfect? Or completely avoiding an important task because you want to do a good job and don’t know how? I know I have!! Sometimes when we want to do a really good job of something we
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