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April 5, 2021

Episode 28: Controlling The Disease of Distractions

Details: There are many things competing for your attention every minute of the day. Human attention is the ultimate scarce resource. One of the

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April 2, 2021

3 Ways To Cure The Disease Of Distractions

In my research with Zenger Folkman I’ve found that one of the characteristics that organizations value most in a leader is the ability to

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March 29, 2021

Are You Giving Your Colleagues The Silent Treatment?

Guest Article by Andrew Dyckhoff and Chris Adcock, Strengths Unleashed For 30+ years Joe Folkman of Zenger Folkman has been researching the leadership behaviors

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February 18, 2021

Individual Contributors Aren’t Leaders? The Impact of Ignoring Soft Skills

Are the individual contributors in your organization leaders? Are their “hard” skills the only type of useful skills they possess at that level? When

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February 12, 2021

You Can Take It! How To Accept Negative Feedback With Ease

Most people assume that given a choice between receiving positive or negative feedback, the majority would choose positive. To test that assumption, my colleague

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February 3, 2021

Losing Trust: The Impact of One Team Member on Employee Engagement

How Losing Trust Affects Employee Engagement I have spent the last couple of years gathering data about the effect that trust has on leaders,

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January 20, 2021

Five Ways To Impress Your Boss In 2021

We are all looking forward to the end of the pandemic. It cannot come soon enough. Right now, many individual contributors want to impress

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January 7, 2021

Why Are You Still Working? How To Find Purpose In Your Career

How can you once again find the passion and purpose in your career? This has been an extremely challenging year. My colleagues and I

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January 5, 2021

Episode 16: 3 Steps To Make Your Job More Meaningful and Indispensable

With a full-time job, adults spend a third of their life asleep, a third at home, and the last third of their life at

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December 29, 2020

Bonus Episode- Doing Great Work with David Sturt

David Sturt is an executive vice president at the O.C. Tanner Company and author of “Great Work: How To Make A Difference People Love.”

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December 1, 2020

Episode 13: If Your Boss Thinks You’re Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome

Do you think your boss is judging you fairly? What effect does their opinion have on your performance? Today we are diving deep into

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November 30, 2020

If Your Boss Thinks You’re Awesome, You Will Become More Awesome

(This article first appeared in Harvard Business Review.) If your boss thinks you’re awesome, will that make you more awesome? This question came to

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